Mark Zuckerberg shared a sweet moment with his 17-month-old daughter, Aurelia, reading her a bedtime story in a rare new photo

Mark Zuckerberg and his 38-year-old wife Priscilla have welcomed their third child together.

The Meta founder announced the happy news on his very own Instagram platform on Friday morning.

The 38-year-old shared that their third child is a daughter that they have named Aurelia Chan Zuckerberg.

‘Welcome to the world, Aurelia Chan Zuckerberg! You’re such a little blessing,’ the New York native captioned the post.

Mark – who laid off 10,000 Meta employees earlier this month – is seen beaming at the swaddled baby and his wife is seen in a second image holding Aurelia on her chest while still in her hospital bed.

They already have daughters Maxima, seven, born in December 2015, and August, five, born in August 2017.

Good news! Mark Zuckerberg and his 38-year-old wife Priscilla have welcomed their third child together. The Meta founder announced the happy news on his very own Instagram platform on Friday morning. Here he beams at the child

Good news! Mark Zuckerberg and his 38-year-old wife Priscilla have welcomed their third child together. The Meta founder announced the happy news on his very own Instagram platform on Friday morning. Here he beams at the child

Happy mama: His wife is seen in a second image holding Aurelia on her chest while still in her hospital bed

Happy mama: His wife is seen in a second image holding Aurelia on her chest while still in her hospital bed

Family of 5: The 38-year-old shared that their third child is a daughter that they have named Aurelia Chan Zuckerberg. 'Welcome to the world, Aurelia Chan Zuckerberg! You're such a little blessing,' the New York native captioned the post

Family of 5: The 38-year-old shared that their third child is a daughter that they have named Aurelia Chan Zuckerberg. ‘Welcome to the world, Aurelia Chan Zuckerberg! You’re such a little blessing,’ the New York native captioned the post

With child: Here Priscilla is seen last year with her bump in a New Year's post

 

With child: Here Priscilla is seen last year with her bump in a New Year’s post

The first two: This is their third child as they already have daughters Maxima, seven, born in December 2015, and August, five, born in August 2017

 

The first two: This is their third child as they already have daughters Maxima, seven, born in December 2015, and August, five, born in August 2017

After the birth of their first daughter, the couple announced in a public letter that most of their money would be given to charity as opposed to their children.

Zuckerberg and Chan started the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative together, an organization dedicated to ‘personalized learning, curing disease, connecting people and building strong communities,’ and said that ’99 percent of their Facebook shares’ would go towards that cause.

During a 2019 interview with Gayle King, Zuckerberg spoke about keeping his children humble despite the family’s fortune.

‘How do you raise children when you can really give them anything, materially, to be grounded?’ King asked, to which the Facebook founder replied, ‘Well I think, first of all, we don’t give them everything.

'Lots of love. Happy to share that Max and August are getting a new baby sister next year,' he wrote when announcing his third child in September

 

‘Lots of love. Happy to share that Max and August are getting a new baby sister next year,’ he wrote when announcing his third child in September

The billionaire (seen with his wife after the birth of their daughter, Max) has seen his fortune steadily slip away since he launched Meta, Facebook's parent company, in October 2021

 

The billionaire (seen with his wife after the birth of their daughter, Max) has seen his fortune steadily slip away since he launched Meta, Facebook’s parent company, in October 2021