YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – The office of U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan, D-13 Ohio, announced late Friday morning that his wife, Andrea, has delivered the couple’s first child.
Brady Zetts Ryan was born at 8:24 p.m. last night, weighing 6 pounds, 12 ounces, and measuring 19 ¾ inches, according to the news release.
“We are thankful that Brady and Andrea are both doing very well. Mason and Bella [Ryan's stepchildren] are very excited to have a new little brother,” Ryan said. “We would like to thank our midwife, as well as all the doctors and nurses for their excellent care and kind words. We look forward to Brady’s arrival at home very soon as we all enter a new and exciting phase in our lives.”
Profiled as one of 2013’s Most Intriguing People by The Business Journal, Ryan married the former Andrea Zetts, a fourth-grade teacher at Seaborn Elementary School in Mineral Ridge, in April 2013 (READ MORE).
“The context of my work, I can see, is already changing,” Ryan said in the profile, which was published in the January 2014 edition of The Business Journal. “What kind of environment do I want my child to grow up in? What kind of schools do I want him to go to? What kind of pressures is he going to have to deal with? And is there anything I can do to prepare him for that world?” he asks.
“It’s exciting to be with a group of people who you care about more than anything else in the world,” he continued. “Then to have a profession that helps shape the external world these kids are growing up in is really exciting to me – and to have that balance that I’ve never really had in my life.”
The congressman, who was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2003, also said he couldn’t describe his new life since getting married last year. “The person you love the most having a baby is indescribable. I love my stepkids like they’re my own. Now to think we’re a family and we have a new member of the family coming,” he said.
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