Hilary Duff welcomes her fourth child! Star, 36, shows off newborn baby girl as she shares emotional snaps from her water birth and reveals name

Hilary Duff has announced the arrival of her fourth child, a daughter named Townes Meadow Bair.

The Disney Channel alum, 36, and her husband Matthew Koma welcomed Townes on May 3. Townes is their third child together and Hilary’s fourth overall.

Duff announced Townes’ arrival on Instagram, sharing snaps from her emotional water birth along with precious photos of her bundle of joy.

‘Townes Meadow Bair (teddy bear emoji), now we know why she made us wait so long…She was perfecting those Cheeks!’ Duff captioned the Instagram post.

‘I Have been dreaming of holding you in my arms for months and the past 5 days of getting to know you, stare at you and smell you has been pure moments of magic. We all love you like you’ve been here all along beauty.’

Matthew shared the same snaps to his Instagram account as he announced Townes’ arrival, writing in the caption: ‘My literal warrior goddess of a wife gave birth to our beautiful Townes Meadow Bair at home on 5/3/24.

He jokingly added: ‘She’s happy, healthy, chunky and looks like nobody in our genetic pool so if anyone knows of @hilaryduff’s whereabouts roughly 9 months ago to date, please reach out for a cash reward.’

Duff and her husband of five years already share two children together: daughters Banks Violet, five, and Mae James, three.

The Lizzie McGuire vet also has son Luca Cruz, 12, from her previous marriage to Mike Comrie.

The emotional photos Hilary posted captured the actress meeting the newest addition of her family after giving birth in a pool of water.

Duff tenderly kissed her baby on the forehead and also shared a smooch with her husband as she held the child in her arms.

Koma held his newborn daughter as she lay wrapped up in a soft towel.

Hilary announced her pregnancy with Townes back in December with a hilarious Christmas card featuring her family.

Showing off her bump in Sleeper pajamas, the star playfully screamed in the card captioned: ‘So much for Silent Nights.’

She also wrote on the post: ‘Surprise surprise!’ and ‘Buckle up Buttercups, we’re adding one more to this crazy bunch’ alongside photos of her children.

Koma also shared the snap with the location hilariously tagged as ‘vasectomy clinic’.

In March, Koma did end up undergoing a vasectomy.

Duff wed Koma, 36, in 2019 after first striking up a romance in 2016.

She was previously wed to Mike Comrie, 43, from 2010-2016.

Last June, Hilary spoke with Shape about raising three children.

‘I’ve had to get really good at being disappointed in myself,’ she told the publication.

She added, ‘I think that when you have a baby, you’re just wired to think that you are loaded with all the answers and all of the capability, and we’re still just human beings.’

The proud parent also noted that motherhood is ‘endlessly rewarding’ and shared, ‘I just love watching my kids form into their own individual unique selves.

‘I love [parenting] with my husband. I love feeling like hugs and cuddles can make everything better. I love the pressure of being like, “How the f**k are we going to make it through this day?”

‘And making it through the day and being like, “I don’t know how everyone is tucked in and fed and happy after all the things we’ve had to do today.”‘