AceShowbiz - Congratulations were in order for Anderson Cooper after he surprised everyone with news that he has become a father on April 30. The 52-year-old journalist welcomed his first child, a baby boy named Wyatt Morgan Cooper, on April 26 through a surrogate. Along with pics of him holding his bundle of joy, the silver fox shared a touching post in which he expressed how he wanted to share this moment with his loved ones who already passed away.

"I do wish my mom and dad and my brother, Carter, were alive to meet Wyatt, but I like to believe they can see him," Anderson wrote in the lengthy caption. "I imagine them all together, arms around each other, smiling and laughing, happy to know that their love is alive in me and in Wyatt, and that our family continues."