Facebook
founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife are expecting a baby girl.
Zuckerberg
announced the news on his Facebook (FB, Tech30) page on Friday afternoon, tagging his
wife Priscilla Chan in the post.
He said the couple had been trying for a
few years, and had already suffered three miscarriages.
"You feel so
hopeful when you learn you're going to have a child," Zuckerberg said.
"You start imagining who they'll become and dreaming of hopes for their
future. You start making plans, and then they're gone. It's a lonely
experience."
He did not say
when the baby would be born.
"Our good
news is that our pregnancy is now far enough along that the risk of loss is
very low and we are very hopeful," said Zuckerberg.
Zuckerberg married
Chan in 2012. "Cilla" recently finished her medical residency this
summer.
They posed with
their dog Beast in a photo that accompanied the announcement.
"Cilla and
our child are both healthy, I'm extremely excited to meet her, and our dog
Beast has no idea what's coming." Zuckerberg said. " In our
ultrasound, she even gave me a thumbs up 'like' with her hand, so I'm already
convinced she takes after me."
The post generated
over 200,000 likes of its own within a half hour, as well as 18,000 comments
congratulating the Zuckerberg clan on the news.
Many people
thanked the couple for being open about their experience of trying to conceive.
They also shared many personal and hopeful anecdotes about the difficulties of
pregnancy.
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