New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

Heather’s baby joy ‘MOTHERHOOD BLOWS ME AWAY!’

It’s been six weeks since wee baby Iggy was born and he’s just done his first interview with his mother, broadcaster Heather du Plessis-Allan.

As she talks on the phone, Iggy can be heard gurgling and fussing, as six-week-old babies do, and occasionally Heather, 37, will talk to him and settle him expertly.

“He’s been a really good baby,” she says in the voice she uses to talk to him – soft, gentle and smooth. She is obviously very in love.

“When I looked at him after he was born, I thought, ‘Of course you look like that because that is what you are supposed to look like! You’re just beautiful,’” she recalls.

“When you look at your baby and he looks like you and the person you love the most, you just can’t imagine that he should look like anything else.”

The person Heather loves most in the world is her husband, political journalist Barry Soper. He has five adult children, but

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