Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds welcome their first child

Blake and Ryan have welcomed their first child together. Photo: Getty Images

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds welcomed their first child together just before the new year it has been confirmed.

Page Six first reported that the 27-year-old actress had given birth, revealing that Blake went into labour earlier than expected, gibing birth near their home in Bedford, New York.

A sources has confirmed the news, telling US Weekly: "The baby came early but everyone is happy and healthy."

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"The Bedford house is all prepared. They're going to stay up there for the baby's first days," they added.

No name or sex has been released however mother and baby are said to be doing well.

The couple announced that they were expecting back in October on Blake's lifestyle website Preserve.

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“With family on our mind, we looked to the origin of it all, to the women in our lives who are right there, at that special moment; at the creation of the family,” she wrote alongside a snap of her cradling her baby bump.

Congratulations to the happy couple!

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