“How I Met Your Mother” star Josh Radnor (known to so many as Ted Mosby) just shared pictures of his newborn (or rather, new-ish born?) son for the first time on Instagram, and they’re beyond adorable.
“So my wife and I had a baby a few months ago,” the Jewish “Hunters” and “Fleishman Is In Trouble” actor revealed, along with a carousel of three pictures: one of Radnor looking adoringly at his newborn in what appears to be a hospital room, one of his son perched somewhat precariously on Radnor’s guitar, and one of his wife, Dr. Jordana Jacobs, a clinical psychologist, in the hospital, doing skin to skin with the little one, whose name they did not share. (We’re sure it’s a very pretty one! Perhaps a Jewish “J” name like his parents?)
They’re all wonderful, as are Radnor’s observations about early parenthood: “Here’s what we know so far: His smile lights up the room. He’s super observant and thoughtful. He gets hypnotized when I play him songs on the guitar. He thinks the word ‘baba ghanoush’ is hysterical. He’s a total delight, and Jordana and I are thrilled he’s here.”
He ended the post by sending love to all fellow parents of newborns out there. “What a wild, beautiful, exhausting, heart-opening initiation. So grateful,” he wrote.
The post was met with a stream of congratulations in the comments from the likes of musician Ben Lee, actress Ione Skye and even Monika Lewinsky, who wished her fellow Jewish celeb a hearty “mazel tov.”
“How I Met Your Mother” co-creator Craig Thomas, with whom Radnor is co-hosting the excellent and quite illuminating podcast “How We Made Your Mother,” couldn’t help but use an iconic quote from the show in his comment: “Love is the best thing we do,” he wrote, adding a “congrats to you all and the pure love in these pics!”
Thomas was well aware of Radnor’s freshly minted status as a Jewish dad. As the Instagram post reveals, Radnor first publicly shared the news in an episode of their podcast recorded in late 2025, which premiered on Jan. 19 of this year.
“My wife and I had a son. We had a baby, we had a baby human,” Radnor says happily on the podcast. “It’ll be a month in a couple of days. We’re just delighted and exhausted.” He also revealed that that was the reason Jordana’s season one segment in the podcast was missing. “That segment is feeding a small child,” he says.
“It’s the best reason possible,” Thomas concurs.
That podcast also reveals why Radnor’s child may find such delight in the word “baba ghanoush.” Apparently, “How I Met Your Mother” writer Rob Greenberg firmly believes it’s one of the funniest words in existence, along with “falafel,” which Cobie Smulders’ Robin uses instead of saying “I love you” to Ted in the second season episode “First Time in New York.”
Of course, Radnor will now get to tell his own child how he met his mother one day, a story that lives delightfully rent-free in my mind since I read Radnor and Jacobs’s vows column back in 2024, which also featured pictures of their ceremony under a snow-laden chuppah.
The two met at a New York meditation retreat, where they were both trying to mend a broken heart — so very much like “Fleishman Is In Trouble,” except it sounds like their experience involved more psychedelics and fewer mental breakdowns.
“No strangers to extraordinary circumstances, the couple fell for each other while tripping on mushrooms,” the column detailed, adding the two “slid into the DM of each other’s consciousness” through the “the psilocybin-infused metaverse.”
I personally think Radnor has Ted Mosby beat with that story.
A hearty mazel tov to Jordana and Josh! We wish you as much sleep as you can get while setting off on your adventure into one of life’s most consciousness-expanding experiences.
