Carrie and Boris Johnson expecting second child in December

LONDON — Carrie Johnson and her husband, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, are expecting a second child at the end of the year.

In an Instagram post announcing the news on Saturday, Carrie Johnson also said she’d had a miscarriage at the start of the year that left her “heartbroken.”

“Hoping for our rainbow baby this Christmas,” she said. A “rainbow baby” is one born after a miscarriage, stillbirth or the death of an infant from natural causes.

“I feel incredibly blessed to be pregnant again but I’ve also felt like a bag of nerves,” Carrie Johnson said.

“I found it a real comfort to hear from people who had also experienced loss so I hope that in some very small way sharing this might help others too,” she said.

“Fertility issues can be really hard for many people, particularly when on platforms like Instagram it can look like everything is only ever going well.”

The couple’s first child, Wilfred, was born in April 2020.