Overview
- Samantha McAfee underwent an emergency C-section on May 22 after doctors determined she had severe preeclampsia, Pat McAfee wrote in a social post.
- The couple’s son, Midas Robert McAfee, was born at 10:42 p.m. weighing 6 lb 6 oz and at about 36 weeks’ gestation.
- Midas needed respiratory and feeding support in the neonatal intensive care unit — including a CPAP, a feeding tube and a heated pod — for roughly 36 hours before returning to the family room.
- The birth follows the McAfees’ public IVF and fertility struggles, Pat McAfee said the middle name Robert honors Samantha’s late father, and the family expects to bring Midas home within days so his 3‑year‑old sister can meet him.
- Pat McAfee posted the detailed account on May 25, drawing wide congratulations from NFL figures and media colleagues as the couple recover and plan to leave the hospital.