Nearlytwo months into motherhood,Jordin Sparksis still getting used to her new moniker.
“I’m amom. That’s so nuts,” theAmerican Idolwinner, 28, tells PEOPLE exclusively in its latest issue aboutwelcoming son Dana Isaiah Jr.on May 2. “I have moments where it just hits me.”
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The entertainer “handled [the birth] like a champ,” her husband Dana Isaiah, 26, adds about his wife.
“I finished out the contractions on the bed and then we went to the tub. When it was time to push, Dana received him,” says Sparks.
Adds Isaiah, a model: “People have told me ‘Once you see your wife like that you can never change the image in your head,’ but I wasso excited about him actually comingthat I was just like ‘All right, come on! Come on!'”
During the first few minutes after Sparks gave birth, both new parents “cried like little babies,” says Isaiah. “It was just that realizing moment, that everything you had been preparing for was here in your hands. Every emotion that you feltthroughout the entire pregnancyfrom start to beginning just ‘Bam,’ and it hits you.”
Now settled back in their L.A. home with 8-week-old DJ, the couple — whowed last July after a whirlwind romance— are savoring all of their son’s latest milestones.
“He’s starting to develop his own personality and holding his head up already,” says Isaiah. Adds Sparks: “He’s just the sweetest little thing.”
For more on Jordin Sparks’ first months as a mom and how DJ has strengthened her marriage to Dana Isaiah, pick up the latest issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday.
source: people.com
