Ella Baig shares C-section scar and opens up on son’s pronouns days after welcoming baby with Nicola Adams

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Nicola Adams.The couple announced the birth of their baby on July 11, with former Strictly Come Dancing star Nicola sharing that she was ‘overwhelmed with love and proud of Ella’.Model Ella, 24, and her boxer girlfriend, 39, have had plenty of ups and downs on their pregnancy journey, with Ella suffering a miscarriage following IVF treatment.But now, they’re living in a love bubble and says their first week as parents has been ‘incredible’.Ella – who started dating Nicola in 2018 – got candid about her birth experience and C-section on social media, admitting that the procedure ‘went even smoother than I expected’.‘It was calm, the staff, were amazing and I recovered quickly,’ she wrote in an Instagram Q&A alongside a picture of the scar across her stomach.Offering reassurance to her followers, Ella added: ‘I think the problem is we’re told birth is just hard and painful and long, which it can be, but it doesn’t always have to be and you should listen to your gut if you think something is wrong.’Nicola – who was a guest editor for Metro.co.uk’s Pride takeover – and Ella are keeping their baby’s name private for the time being, but have shared his pronouns, prompting curiosity from fans after the couple set up an Instagram account for their newborn with the pronouns ‘he/they’.‘Why is there many different pronouns for your baby?’, a follower asked, to which Ella replied: ‘Just he and they until he decides otherwise’, accompanied by a sweet snap of their baby’s finger wrapped around her’s.Elsewhere in her Q&A session, Ella – who is breastfeeding and pumping so both mums can do feeds – spoke about her recovery, sharing that she’s felt ‘great’ after the operation and she’s ‘shocked at how fast I’m recovering’.‘I wasn’t in a.