Comedian Kat Timpf welcomes first child 15 hours after breast cancer diagnosis

Comic and new mom Kat Timpf has been diagnosed with breast cancer, news she received just hours before giving birth to her first child last week. Advising her followers not to worry, Timpf said her cancer is considered Stage 0 and her doctor is “confident that it almost certainly hasn’t spread.” “As I’ve explained to the few people I’ve managed to tell about it so far: Don’t freak out. “I mean to say the least!” Timpf, who announced her pregnancy in July, said she woke up the morning before she gave birth more than a week past her due date and was “consumed” by doing everything she could to “get the baby out.” By that afternoon, she was instead “waddling around from appointment to appointment, talking about how to get the cancer out.” In the middle of the night she went into spontaneous labor. “Just minutes after my son was born, I was talking with the nurses about what a birth announcement in my situation might look like.” Some options: “Mom and baby are doing well, except maybe for mom’s cancer” or “The baby after breastfeeding is stunted by her double mastectomy.” The “You Can’t Joke About That” and “I Used to Like You Until.” author said the next three months of maternity leave would be different from what she anticipated as she’s “still getting used to my new reality.” “As I navigate new motherhood I’m learning to celebrate everything I can. The “Sincerely, Kat” host thanked her fans and followers for their support as she embraces “this wildly unexpected chapter.” “Here’s to resilience, to miracles in the midst of chaos, and to finding humor and hope even on the toughest days.” In a July piece for Fox News announcing her pregnancy and declaring that she was neither a Republican or Democrat, the libertarian performer wrote that she never wanted to have kids until she met her husband.