Overview
- Vice President JD Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance announced the birth of their son, Alec Neel Vance, saying Usha and the baby are happy and healthy after Alec was born on Sunday, July 19, at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
- Usha Vance posted the first family photographs on Friday, July 24, showing the couple with their four children and captioning the images about settling into life as a family of six.
- The Vances publicly thanked the doctors and staff at Walter Reed and the White House Medical Unit for care during the delivery.
- The birth is the first known instance in more than 150 years of a U.S. second lady giving birth while in office, a comparison reporters trace to an 1870 Colfax-era birth.
- The couple says they will keep the Naval Observatory as their official residence but will spend additional time at a leased property in Middleburg, Virginia, to give the children more normalcy and privacy.