Brian Austin Green: How Reese Kept My Baby News Quiet

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Brian Austin Green and Megan Fox are counting their lucky stars or at least one particular starlet.

Confirming they had welcomed their first child together, son Noah Shannon, three weeks after his birth, the actor attributes the couples ability to keep the news under wraps to one woman: Reese Witherspoon.

Ive been wanting to send Reese Witherspoon flowers for, like, a month and a half now, cause she actually gave birth [the same day as] us in Santa Monica, Green told Ryan Seacrest onhis radio show Tuesday.

We were lucky enough to go in at 2:30 in the morning to the hospital and nobody knew.After spending two days there, the proud parents learned that Witherspoon had welcomed a son. The media was too entangled in the actresss breaking news to notice the Fox-Greens had also added a brand new baby boy to their family.

We got out of the hospital and nobody knew. We got home and thought, This is unbelievable. We werent expecting to be able to get away with it. We were expecting all the [paparazzi] guys in the hallways and the parking structure, theWedding Band star shares.

So we just figured we would go with it as long as we could. Until [E! News] found out first and we thought, Okay, lets put something on Facebook then.

Already dad to 10-year-old son Kassius Lijah, Green didnt think much of becoming a father again a decade later. The arrival of Noah, however, quickly snapped the actor back to reality.

I really felt young for my age until my new son was born. Ive never felt so 40 in my life, he jokes. Hes really good he sleeps but its only in three hour increments.

And its those late-night wake-up calls that has the doting dad beat. You get about three hours and then hell fuss about something, he explains. First you spend 10 minutes ! figuring ! out where you are, then you realize, Im home and its my child. Then you figure out whats wrong a diaper or hungry.

Anya Leon