{"id":284702,"date":"2019-12-07T15:00:39","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T22:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1100539"},"modified":"2019-12-07T15:00:39","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T22:00:39","slug":"why-bekah-martinez-feels-more-joyful-during-her-second-pregnancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/why-bekah-martinez-feels-more-joyful-during-her-second-pregnancy\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Bekah Martinez Feels More &#8221;Joyful&#8221; During Her Second Pregnancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"43.257013574661\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20191028\/rs_802x1024-191128104215-634-bekah-martinez-thanksgiving.cl.112819.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Bekah Martinez, Pregnancy Announcement, Celebs on Thanksgiving\" alt=\"Bekah Martinez, Pregnancy Announcement, Celebs on Thanksgiving\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Instagram<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"31.267579908676\">\n<p><strong>Bekah Martinez<\/strong> has a lot to&nbsp;celebrate before 2019 ends.<\/p>\n<p>On Thanksgiving,<em> The Bachelor<\/em> alum&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1097990\/the-bachelor-alum-bekah-martinez-is-pregnant-with-her-second-child?query=bekah\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced her second pregnancy<\/a>&nbsp;in a heartwarming Instagram post, where she&nbsp;proudly showed her&nbsp;sonogram and posed alongside her boyfriend, <strong>Grayston Leonard<\/strong>, and their 9-month-old daughter,&nbsp;<strong>Ruth Ray De La Luz Leonard<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the reality TV personality&#8217;s first pregnancy, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1027774\/bekah-martinez-gets-candid-about-her-unplanned-pregnancy-with-boyfriend-she-barely-knew\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">she&nbsp;explained wasn&#8217;t the easiest experience<\/a>, she recently shared how completely different things are the second time around.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;12 weeks. I can&#8217;t believe how fast this pregnancy is moving,&#8221; she began her detailed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B5tVpqQJRW_\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram post<\/a>, alongside a photo of her holding her growing baby bump. &#8220;I feel guilty talking about this, but this pregnancy is already night and day compared to our first.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I felt embarrassed and ashamed, and I imagined everyone around me whispering about how &#8220;irresponsible&#8221; we were.,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;Gray and I had met for the first time February 25th, 2018, and I became pregnant in May. Going through such a life-altering shift with someone you barely know is stressful, scary, and often filled with doubt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"59\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><em>The Bachelor<\/em> alum explained that after she had her baby girl,&nbsp;her relationship&nbsp;began to shift for the better. &#8220;All that changed the moment Ruth was born,&#8221; she shared. &#8220;Truly. I know it&#8217;s a cliche, but love blossomed so deeply between us the moment she took her first breath. That very night we danced together in the living room while she slept.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"38\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"16\">\n<p>While her first pregnancy offered many challenges, Bekah shared that she&#8217;s experiencing things a lot easier with her second child.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now, with this baby, we can give ourselves permission to be joyful. We&#8217;re not fearful. We&#8217;re delighted,&#8221; she expressed. &#8220;I can see it on Gray&#8217;s face when he touches my belly and tell the baby he loves it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Maybe that&#8217;s why this pregnancy is already zooming by,&#8221; she said, before closing her message. &#8220;Time really does fly when you&#8217;re having fun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"51.294776119403\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"6.955223880597\">\n<p>While the reality TV personality is still in the early stages of her pregnancy, she recently shared that her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1097990\/the-bachelor-alum-bekah-martinez-is-pregnant-with-her-second-child?query=bekah\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">possible due date is around June 18<\/a>. Moreover, she plans to do a home-birth if her pregnancy continues to be normal.<\/p>\n<p>Congrats to Martinez on this exciting time!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1100539\/why-bekah-martinez-feels-more-joyful-during-her-second-pregnancy?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram Bekah Martinez has a lot to&nbsp;celebrate before 2019 ends. On Thanksgiving, The Bachelor alum&nbsp;announced her second pregnancy&nbsp;in a heartwarming Instagram post, where she&nbsp;proudly showed her&nbsp;sonogram and posed alongside her boyfriend, Grayston Leonard, and their 9-month-old daughter,&nbsp;Ruth Ray De La Luz Leonard. Unlike the reality TV personality&#8217;s first pregnancy, which she&nbsp;explained wasn&#8217;t the easiest experience, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-09 16:48:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}