Mira Sorvino delivers 'miracle baby'

Actress Mira Sorvino gave birth to her third child recently, bringing a happy end to a pregnancy that she says was potentially life-threatening.

Sorvino and her husband, Christopher Backus, welcomed Holden Paul Terry Backus into their family on June 22. The baby's birth came after more than two months of bed rest and other complications for Sorvino.

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"He is my miracle baby," the Oscar winner tells People. "With everything that threatened this pregnancy and both of our lives, he came out of it completely unscathed: perfectly healthy, beautiful and wonderful."

Sorvino had a condition called placenta previa that forced her on bed rest for the final nine weeks of her pregnancy, and she says the lack of activity then caused a blood clot, for which she was put on medication. Her labor was also rather prolonged.

Eventually, though, "the situation turned around and the end of the birth was very easy," she tells the magazine.

Sorvino and Holden are now at home, where he's getting to know his sister Mattea, 4, and brother Johnny, 3.

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