Ali and husband, Dr. Vaughn Rasberry, welcomed their first child, Edward Aszard Rasberry, on Sept. 16.

"We're completely swooning over this kid," Ali writes. "When I kiss him in his sleep, soundly in REM, dreaming his baby dreams, he smiles and my heart explodes out of my body and into all of the space surrounding us."

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The 37-year-old actress goes on to detail how strenuous her labor was. "After a long labor -- 24 hours -- I heard my baby before I saw him," she writes. "By the time he was in my arms, I had just enough energy, with my husband and our doula's help, to have him latch. I fell asleep knowing that he had safely arrived." Ali and Rasberry wed during an intimate ceremony on July 17 after a four-month engagement. Entertainment tonight cullage.