'Pregnant man' shows off newborn

The first photo of transgender male Thomas Beatie - who became widely known as the world's first "pregnant man" - and his newborn baby has been unveiled.

Beatie, 34, gave birth to a baby girl called Susan Juliette three weeks ago and he shows off the newborn in a photo published in People magazine.

"She's so precious, I just can't stop staring at her," he told People. "Just holding her is the best feeling in the world."

Beatie said he had no problems losing his pregnancy weight.

"I weigh two pounds less than I did before I got pregnant ... and I don't have a single stretch mark!"

Beatie is legally male but was born female and underwent gender reassignment surgery and hormone treatment.

He kept his female reproductive organs so when he and his wife Nancy decided to have a child, he conceived through articial insemination with donor sperm.

Nancy is breastfeeding the baby though a process called induced lactation.

*Check out the photo here.

-With Reuters