Andrea Canning Recalls 'Chaotic' Birth of Her Sixth Child After Her Placenta Wouldn't Detach

“It was a dramatic birth,” Canning, 46, tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue, out Friday. “He wasn’t crying when he came out and I kept saying, ‘Is he okay? Is he breathing?’ Everything was so chaotic.” As Canning waited to hear sonGeorge “Tripp” Anthony‘s first cry — a moment she recalls as “the greatest feeling” — a team of doctors and nurses worked to stop her excessive blood loss. “They had to get the placenta out and there was a lot of bleeding,” she says of her adherent placenta, which doctors said was a result of Canning having multiple children.

Andrea Canning Shares How Her Five Daughters Reacted to Baby Tripp: 'They're All Little Mommies'

No one is more excited about the latest addition toAndrea Canning‘s family than her newborn son’s five big sisters. “They are all little mommies,” she adds of her “adorable” girls. “Every chance they get, they want to be around him. They want to feed him, they want to change his diaper.” Andrea Canning with her husband and six children. Canning’s oldest daughter, Anna, is especially maternal toward her new sibling, considering “she’s the one that really can hold him the most and she’s the biggest.

Andrea Canning, 46, Opens Up About Welcoming Her First Son After Five Daughters with Help of IVF

“It was so against the grain for us because we had five natural pregnancies,” Canning tells PEOPLE for this week’s issue of struggling to conceive beforeturning to in vitro fertilization. A round of IVF resulted in two embryos, and the couple agreed they would choose the healthiest one to transfer — boyorgirl. “We were like, ‘We’ll probablyjust get all girls.’ If it was a girl, it would be a girl, that was fine,” says Canning.

Andrea Canning, 46, Talks Expecting First Son After Five Daughters: 'We Wanted a Boy So Badly'

Andrea Canningand her husband waited for years to welcome a son into their life, and the moment is finally happening. Days after theDatelinecorrespondent, 46, shared the happy news that she’spregnant with the couple’s sixth childand first son, Canning opened up about how much the news meant to her and husband Tony Bancroft. “It was eating away at us that we wanted a boy so badly. We always have,” she said on Friday’s episode of theTodayshow, sitting among the couple’s five daughters —Elle Corbin, 3, Georgia Rapalje, 4½, Christina Margaret, 6, Charlotte Brewster, 8½, and Anna Katherine, 9½.

Andrea Constand Came Forward About Bill Cosby's Sex Assault After She 'Woke up Crying' a Year Later

“It was Dr. Huxtable,” she said, in an interview excerpt that aired Thursday onNBC Nightly News. “I thought I was the only person that he did this to. Who’s gonna believe me?” Mark Makela/Getty Constand’s mother, Gianna Constand, recalled the conversation forDateline. He and his attorneys declined to speak toDateline. It was the scandal that rocked America’s most storied political family and changed the course of presidential history.PEOPLE‘s first-ever podcast,Cover-Up, dives into the Chappaquiddick scandal and attempts to piece together what happened in the hours after Ted Kennedy’s car went over a narrow wooden bridge, killing his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne.