Chuck Wicks is officially a father! The country singer and his wife, Kasi, welcomed baby Tucker Elliot Wicks, into the world on Friday, December 4.
Leading up to the baby's arrival, Wicks kept fans updated on Instagram, sharing a video of himself and Kasi in the hospital. "Things are getting real around here," he said in the clip. "The water has broke."
On Saturday, Wicks returned with a picture of himself and Kasi smiling alongside their sleeping baby boy. "Well.... he’s HERE!!!!! Meet Tucker Elliott Wicks!!!," he wrote in the caption. "@kasirosa and I are beside ourselves with so much joy and love for our baby boy!!! Thank you for giving us a minute to get a picture out to ya. He was born at 2:30pm yesterday on December 4th and he’s as healthy as an Ox!!"
"The feelings that are going through me having a son and holding him for the first time skin to skin yesterday... well.... I just lost it," the singer continued. "Thank you so much for all your messages and support. Specially through our IVF journey if you’ve followed. We won’t be stingy with pics and videos of Little Tucker!!! Lol. It was pretty nice having about 16 hours with Tucker alone just me and mama! We just got home 🏡 and the family is meeting him for the first time!"
Wicks and Kasi, who got married in July of 2019, announced they had a baby on the way in June of 2020 after months of trying to get pregnant. After several months of negative pregnancy tests, they found out that Wicks suffered from male infertility.
"As a man, the last thing you want someone to tell you is you can’t do this," Wicks told People at the time. "It makes you feel small. It makes you feel like you’re not a man."
At that point, the couple decided to turn to in vitro fertilization (IVF) to conceive. "We started hearing a lot of very similar stories that had successful outcomes, so I think it gave us that hope that, okay, maybe this can work for us, too," Kasi shared.
One of two egg/sperm combinations was fertilized successfully. The embryo was frozen and Kasi went on to receive hormone shots to prepare her body for pregnancy. Two months later, on March 25, Kasi underwent the embryo transfer and days later, they received a positive pregnancy test.
"I see this incubator come in, and I just start sobbing because I knew inside that incubator was my little boy," Wicks recalls.
"It's just such a miracle, such a blessing," he adds. "I'm thankful for amazing doctors, thankful for science."
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