Mandy Moore explains newborn son’s name as she shares photo of baby blanket made from wedding dress

She’s just given birth to her first child with husband Taylor Goldsmith.

And on Wednesday, Mandy Moore shared more news about her baby boy with her fans via Instagram.

She shared a sweet snap of the infant sleeping under a gray blanket emblazoned with his name August sewn out of pieces of different cloth.

On Tuesday, the This Is Us star had introduced August Harrison to the world.

‘Gus is here,’ Mandy shared. ‘We were prepared to fall in love in all sorts of brand new ways, but it goes beyond anything we could have ever imagined.’ 

And in her latest post, she explained the meaning behind the couple’s choice of name as well as the sweet history of the baby’s blanket.

Couple: The actress and singer, 36, explained that husband Taylor Goldsmith had gifted her with the baby blanket in November as a wedding anniversary gift. They wed in 2018

‘Gus is here’: Mandy, who has been documenting her pregnancy journey on Instagram, introduced August Harrison to the world on Tuesday after giving birth in Los Angeles 

The This Is Us star, 36, wrote: ‘It was last August when @taylordawesgoldsmith and I found out we were having a boy (it’s also Taylor’s birth month) and we always loved the name… so it was settled very early on in our book. 

She went on: ‘Then for our anniversary in November, T gifted me with this blanket with the “A” (for Amanda) made from extra material from my wedding dress and “T” (for Taylor) from his wedding shirt. Felt like a very fitting amalgamation of our whole story. 

‘I can’t wait to pass this on to our sweet August one day,’ she said.

Mandy and Taylor tied the knot in November 2018 after three years together. 

Journey: Mandy announced her happy baby news in September. Last month, she revealed she’d feared she might never be able to get pregnant naturally and consulted a fertility expert

New mom: She shared this snap of her lentil soup meal as she rested near to her baby boy

In January, the actress and singer had spoken about her fears that she might never be able to become a mom in an interview with Romper magazine.

Mandy revealed she had consulted a fertility specialist and even considered having surgery to help her conceive.

Last week, Moore spoke to Romper about her fear she couldn’t get pregnant naturally and how she’d consulted a fertility expert after failing to conceive.  

But then she suddenly found herself pregnant.   

‘Because of this issue with my uterus, I was very hesitant to believe it and put any stock in it,’ Moore shared in the interview. ‘I sort of was holding my breath until 12 weeks.’

And three weeks ago, she faced another challenge when her routine blood test showed her platelet count ad dropped ‘exponentially’.

The condition meant she had to ‘alter’ her birth plans, although she didn’t go into detail about what had to be changed.

Mandy is best known these days for starring as Rebecca Pearson on the NBC hit drama This Is Us which premiered in 2016 and is now in its fifth season.   

Famous TV role: Mandy is best known these days for starring as Rebecca Pearson on the NBC hit drama This Is Us which premiered in 2016 and is now in its fifth season