May Witman welcomes her first baby a boy and his name shares a sweet Parenthood connection May Whitman is a mom on Wednesday August 28th the actress 36 announced she welcomed her first baby a boy sharing a sweet photo on her Instagram in the picture the newborn's little foot can be seen gripping Whitman's finger as she snapped a photo outside Whitman also took a moment to share more about her son in her caption revealing that she chosen the name miles the name of the actor who plays her brother Drew Holt in Parenthood not to be a Bieber about it but I too just gave birth to our son miles from the moment we heard the first tiny sound out of his tiny piggy mouth we were besided Whitman wrote in her caption he is the kindest gentlest smartest funniest little BB and he's our best friend pretty much exactly like his namesake Uncle miles at y goth Whitman's best friend miles Heiser co-starred with her on Parenthood for six seasons we are infinitely grateful he chose us as his parents thank you to at Kaiser bent and at Karen field sand everyone at at Moxy birth and at hunting to hospital for guiding our little family through all the unexpected twists and turns safely and with love and grace and to everyone in our Circle who has shown us such radical generosity and support we love you we're so happy in May Whitman revealed that she was expecting her first baby on Instagram posting a carousel of photos from her time on the hit NBC drama Parenthood Whitman's character Amber Holt was pregnant in the sixth and final season of the show the actress post featured photos with her onscreen mother Lauren Graham and onscreen brother Heiser from the time her character was pregnant not to make a Parenthood episode out of it or anything but Mother's Day looking a little different this year pregnant woman medium lights skone Whitman captioned the carousel can't wait to meet you huge baby kicking my insides to filth # rivial