{"id":24466,"date":"2019-05-29T16:29:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T22:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1033546"},"modified":"2019-05-29T16:29:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T22:29:05","slug":"the-bachelors-arie-and-lauren-luyendyk-welcome-their-first-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/the-bachelors-arie-and-lauren-luyendyk-welcome-their-first-child\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bachelor&#8217;s Arie and Lauren Luyendyk Welcome Their First Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"41.8798828125\">\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\/2019429\/rs_634x1024-190529153507-634-arie-lauren-b-baby-announcement.cl.052919.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Arie Luyendyk Jr., Lauren Bushnell, Baby Announcement\" alt=\"Arie Luyendyk Jr., Lauren Bushnell, Baby Announcement\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Instagram<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"27.899408284024\">\n<p><em>The Bachelor<\/em> family is growing once again!<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/arie_luyendyk_jr\">Arie Luyendyk Jr.<\/a><\/strong> and his wife <strong>Lauren Luyendyk<\/strong>&nbsp;are officially parents after welcoming a baby girl into the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a healthy, BEAUTIFUL baby girl,&#8221; the former <em>Bachelor<\/em> star&#8217;s Instagram Story read about the exciting news. &#8220;Mommy and baby are doing great, we are so incredibly happy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While the couple&nbsp;didn&#8217;t reveal their little nugget&#8217;s name, the reality TV personality shared some details of their newborn.&nbsp;&#8220;6 lbs, 13 oz,&#8221; Arie captioned his social media post. &#8220;20 cm long.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This special announcement comes as no surprise to fans, who had a feeling the&nbsp;baby was on the way, after the season 22 stars&nbsp;snapped pictures from the hospital on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;IT&#8217;S HAPPENING!&#8221; Arie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/ByCQ8qBg3GA\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">captioned a previous post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the&nbsp;couple has documented&nbsp;most of their journey to parenthood on social media. Whether enjoying a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1033958\/arie-and-lauren-luyendyk-s-babymoon-may-be-better-than-any-bachelor-getaway\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">babymoon in Bermuda<\/a> or sharing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BuPWecfgaxq\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ultrasound<\/a>&nbsp;images of their little one, the pair couldn&#8217;t hide their excitement about the new addition to their family.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"53.151260504202\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"4.6218487394958\">\n<p>The famous duo even created an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/babyluyendyk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a>&nbsp;account for their baby girl, which has&nbsp;already garnered&nbsp;272,000 followers.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"40.189473684211\">\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\/2019429\/rs_634x1024-190529033141-634-arie-emd-052819.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Arie Luyendyk\" alt=\"Arie Luyendyk\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Instagram<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"22.265088757396\">\n<p>&#8220;Nothing compares, absolutely nothing compares to the moment you find out you&#8217;re going to be a dad!&#8221; Arie shared on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BqKhc6BH94x\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a>&nbsp;when first announcing his wife&#8217;s pregnancy. &#8220;We cried, we laughed and it really was such a special moment for us, we&#8217;re so freakin&#8217; happy!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lauren <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BqKfTaEArLC\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">continued<\/a>, &#8220;Our greatest adventure begins June 2019!&#8221; Although, it seems their baby girl&nbsp;arrived a bit sooner than expected.<\/p>\n<p>Back in November, the reality TV couple opened up about what they envision their lives to&nbsp;be with a newborn around the house. Arie predicted to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-moms\/pictures\/arie-luyendyk-jr-lauren-burnham-are-pregnant-with-first-child\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Us Weekly<\/em><\/a> that he&#8217;ll be &#8220;such a softie&#8221; with their little bundle of joy while &#8220;Lauren is a little bit more of the disciplinarian.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re kind of basing it off of how we parent our dogs,&#8221; Lauren added.<\/p>\n<p>But as parents know, you don&#8217;t really know how things will turn out until the little one arrives.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"57.794585987261\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"8.7420382165605\">\n<p>&#8220;A year ago today I got engaged to the love of my life while the world watched. Our story is pretty unconventional, but it&#8217;s ours,&#8221; Lauren shared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Buq8Iwxg5uq\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a>. &#8220;Grateful for @bachelorabc bringing us together, because he&#8217;s the best thing that ever happened to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to the couple on their&nbsp;baby girl!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1033546\/the-bachelor-s-arie-and-lauren-luyendyk-welcome-their-first-child?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 The Bachelor family is growing once again! Arie Luyendyk Jr. and his wife Lauren Luyendyk&nbsp;are officially parents after welcoming a baby girl into the world. &#8220;We have a healthy, BEAUTIFUL baby girl,&#8221; the former Bachelor star&#8217;s Instagram Story read about the exciting news. &#8220;Mommy and baby are doing great, we are so incredibly happy.&#8221; [&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":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24466","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 00:54:37","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":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}