Overview
- Parker announced the birth on Instagram on Sunday with a photo of the newborn and the caption, “Welcome to the world, River. Our little bit of hope.”
- She described River as a “rainbow baby,” a term for an infant born after a pregnancy loss, after revealing the pregnancy in May.
- The arrival follows the 2025 stillbirth of her son Phoenix, who was born at home at term, and the subsequent police apology after officers treated the scene as a ‘crime scene’.
- River will join Parker’s two older children, Aurelia and Bodhi, from her marriage to the late singer Tom Parker, and friends and celebrities flooded her post with congratulations.
- Parker has publicly spoken about ongoing grief for Tom and the trauma of losing Phoenix, and she has defended discussing that grief while building a new life with partner Will Lindsay.