Actress Ally Maki Welcomes Her First Baby with Fiancé Travis Atreo: 'Forever Changed Our Lives'

'The Big Door Prize' actress welcomed her first baby, a daughter

Ally Maki is officially a mom!

The Big Door Prize actress, 37, has welcomed her first baby, daughter Charlie Rei, with fiancé Travis Atreo. She shared the exciting news in an Instagram post on Thursday, August 1.

"Charlie Rei ?? Our sweetest baby girl has forever changed our lives," the proud new mom wrote under a photo of the couple holding onto their daughter's tiny finger.

"She was born to her daddy’s music with the gentlest little personality and a full head of hair," she continued in the caption. "There’s not enough words to capture our love for her. Our beautiful little baby owl, we love you beyond the stars."

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The couple first announced their pregnancy in April, when the actress spoke to PEOPLE about being in her second trimester.

"There's no hiding it anymore," the actress told PEOPLE with a laugh. "I'm showing a lot, so it's time to announce it. Plus, I don't want to hide it anymore. I'm at the point where I want my bump to be out and proud!"

"I'm 26 weeks," she said at the time, adding that pregnancy was already so different from how she thought it would be.

"It's been so beautiful in really unexpected ways," she shared. "But it's also been preparing me for parenthood in that you have the ultimate stress of doing all these tests after tests. That was just something I wasn't expecting — just how many tests you do!"

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"But as someone who likes to control a lot of the pieces of my life, it's been almost freeing," she continued. "Like, you know what? Whatever's going to happen will happen. We're just going to love this child so much. We already love her."

Maki, who also starred in Marvel's Cloak & Dagger and voiced Giggle McDimples in Toy Story 4, said she and Atreo first began talking about the idea of trying for a baby during the pandemic, but a surprising health issue got in the way.

"I went in for a routine physical and I tested positive for Grave's disease," she said, noting that she now encourages all women to get their thyroid tested.

"That was devastating because I'm in my 30s and we'd wanted to start trying but then we had to wait a full year and a half to go through everything, and get the all-clear from my endocrinologist to start trying."

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