Champion skier Bode Miller lost temporary custody of his 9-month-old son Monday — but he’s still hoping a judge will allow him to take the baby to Russia in February when he competes in the Winter Olympics.
“It’s such a unique, once-in-a-lifetime experience,” the five-time Olympic medalist told The Post after a Manhattan custody hearing.
Miller handed over a squirming Samuel Bode Miller McKenna to his ex-girlfriend, Sara McKenna, in front of a Family Court referee.
The couple, who dated last year for a few months in California where Miller lives, can’t even agree on what to name their son. Miller calls him Nathaniel.
McKenna, a former Marine who is studying at Columbia University on the GI Bill, had an emotional reunion Monday with her baby, whom she had not seen in almost a month after a California court initially gave custody to Miller.
“I missed you!” McKenna, 27, cooed to Samuel, who grasped her blond locks and said, “Ma, ma.”
McKenna lost custody in September after a lower-court referee ruled that she shouldn’t have left California while she was pregnant, even though the couple had only a short-lived romance.
A New York appeals court reversed the decision earlier this month.
“I’m happy to have him back now,” McKenna told The Post. “He’s got a tooth and he can crawl. I didn’t know.”
The court referee allowed McKenna to keep her son in New York until the next hearing, on Dec. 9.