congratulations are in order for english singer ed sheeran and wife cherry seaborn who have welcomed a baby girl the perfect singer announced on tuesday that he and his wife welcomed a baby girl last week after keeping the pregnancy news out of the spotlight the singer also broke his social media silence by posting an adorable picture of his daughters socks on a knitted blanket besides assuring fans that both mother and daughter are doing well he introduced his baby girl as lyra antarctica seaborn sheeran read alsoed sheeran and wife cherry seaborn expecting their first child togethermulti grammyaward winning singer ed sheeran is reportedly getting ready to welcome his first child with wife cherry seaborn ed noted in the caption ello a quick message from me as i have some personal news that i wanted to share with you last week with the help of an amazing delivery team cherry gave birth to our beautiful and healthy daughter lyra antarctica seaborn sheeran we are completely in love with her both mum and baby are doing amazing and we are on cloud nine over here we hope that you can respect our privacy at this time lots of love and ill see you when its time to come back ed x he added earlier in august the sun reported that sheeran and his wife cherry seaborn are expecting their first child the 28yearold singer sheeran announced in december that he was taking a break from both touring and social media saying he would return with new music when the time is right and ive lived a little more to actually have something to write abouthe did however break that hiatus to pop in on a zoom lesson for a class of uk schoolchildren in may page six reported that sheeran and seaborn were highschool sweethearts he revealed in his december video for the song put it all on me that a few years ago they reconnected and there were fireworks the video put the date of their nuptials as january 2019