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Mira Sorvino suffered for weeks with life-threatening complications before giving birth to baby boy Holden Paul Terry on June 22, her rep announced.

“He is my miracle baby,” Sorvino says of her third child. “With everything that threatened this pregnancy and both of our lives, he came out of it unscathed.”

The Oscar winner was stricken for almost two months with placenta previa – a condition that can require bed rest and hospitalization – a long with a blood clot.

The child’s dad is Mira Sorvino’s hubby Christopher Backus.

He arrived two weeks early and weighed in at 8 lbs., 12 oz. He joins their three-year-old Johnny Christopher King and four-year-old Mattea Angel.

“It is fantastic for us to be reunited and bring our bundle of joy home for Mattea and Johnny to adore,” Sorvino said. “It’s is also wonderful to be able to tell the kids that Mommy is not sick anymore and I am not going to the hospital.”