Congratulations to Hairspray alum Sarah Francis Jones and The Neighborhood star Marcel Spears! While attending Beyoncé‘s birthday concert in Los Angeles on Monday, Jones went into labor and gave birth to a healthy baby girl.
According to the Daily Mail, Jones and Spears went to the concert and she started feeling labor pains during the concert, which she originally thought were Braxton Hicks contractions, or false labor, that prepare the body for birth. In a video Jones shared on social media, the couple is partying it up at the show, cutting to her on a hospital bed, delivering her baby.
“We thought it was just Braxton Hicks or gas, turns out we were having a whole baby at @beyonce bday show,” she wrote in the clip.
@cali.aka.sarah I swear I thought they were braxton hicks 🫣 clearly I was delusional 😂 #beyonceconcert #labor #laborday #momsoftiktok #pregnant
Jones and Spears’ baby girl, Nola, was born one day after Beyoncé’s birthday concert on Sept. 5. In another clip Jones shared, the proud parents gush over their newborn.
Jones reflected on her birth experience with KTLA.
“I think it was right after the mute challenge,” she told the news outlet. “Everybody went mute. L.A. did very well…and then I started having contractions.”
Jones, who’s also appeared in Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief and Honey, told KTLA that after feeling contractions, she decided to take a breather.
“I said, ‘Something’s happening,'” she remembered. “Usually I like to dance at the concert, and I was like, ‘OK, I need to sit down for a second.”
While Jones started to panic, Spears, who plays Marty Butler on The Neighborhood, did everything he could to keep her calm.
“I also thought it was Braxton Hicks, and she was like, ‘I’m feeling something,’ and I said, ‘No, no no, it’s early; it’ll pass, we’re okay,'” he told KTLA.
He started timing Jones’ contraction and discovered they were 20 to 30 minutes apart.
“As the concert went on we were like, ‘I don’t know about this.’ By the time we got to the car, into the parking lot, it was full-on intense,” Spears explained to KTLA, adding that the “biggest contractions happened during ‘Virgo’s Groove.'”
Hours later, Nola was born.
“If we didn’t record it, I don’t think anybody would believe it,” Spears said of their eventful evening. “It’s just one of those things that it’s so convenient you’re like, ‘Nah that’s not happening,’ but the baby definitely pulled through.”
Spears’ hometown of New Orleans inspires Nola’s name. Her middle name, however, is still under consideration. The new parents are thinking of making it something “Beyoncé-like.”
