Raven Gates and Adam Gottschalk. Courtesy of Raven Gates/Instagram
Bachelor in Paradise alums Raven Gates and Adam Gottschalk welcomed their second child on Sunday, July 23.
“Simply completed watching my first C-section. Truthfully not as dangerous as I believed it might be,” Gottschalk, 32, wrote through Instagram Story on Sunday, sharing a photograph of his toddler’s footprints. “Mother & child are doing VERY good.”
The pair’s second child — whose identify or intercourse they didn’t instantly reveal — arrived on Gates’ thirty second birthday.
The Bachelor star took to social media in January to announce her second pregnancy, one 12 months after giving birth to son Gates Zev.
“Child #2 in July! Any recommendations on two below 2? 👶🏼👶🏼Pray for us!… particularly Adam 🤣🤣,” the then-expectant star shared through Instagram alongside a number of images of the couple and their son, then 12 months.
The couple met whereas filming season 4 of BiP, which aired in the summertime of 2017, however they determined to not get engaged throughout the finale.
“He promised me a very large ring!” Gates joked shortly after the season got here to an finish, clarifying that she didn’t really feel “any strain” from producers on the time.
After two years of relationship, Gottschalk popped the question in June 2019.
“I’m maintaining you eternally and all the time,” the Arkansas native captioned a sequence of eight Instagram photos, quoting the track “Perpetually and At all times” by Shania Twain. “We will likely be collectively all of our days Wanna get up each morning to your candy face…At all times.”
The highway to saying “I do” wasn’t simple, nevertheless, because the pair needed to postpone their wedding several times because of the coronavirus pandemic.
“I’ve replanned the marriage thrice now,” the bride solely instructed Us Weekly in August 2020. “I instructed Adam by December of this 12 months, if there isn’t any finish in sight, we’re simply going to elope and get married by ourselves. In our home. And if there’s a mild on the finish of the tunnel by December, then we’ll schedule this wedding ceremony for the fourth time.”
In April 2021, the twosome formally tied the knot in Dallas. Three months later, the style boutique proprietor and the true property agent revealed that that they had a little one on the way. Gates gave beginning in January 2022.
“Little synthetic it,” Gottschalk wrote through his Instagram Tales on the time. “Had an emergency C-section after pushing for about an hour and a half. Mother and child are doing very nicely. Born at 3:33 a.m.”
After their son’s beginning, Gates admitted that she couldn’t think about life earlier than him.
“So a lot of you instructed me ‘seeing your youngster for the primary time, it’s a sense you’ll be able to’t clarify,’” she wrote through Instagram three days after giving beginning. “You have been all so proper! … Essentially the most comforting a part of all was wanting into Adam’s inexperienced eyes realizing we have been on this collectively. Many issues might [have] went flawed however God heard my prayers. My candy child is wholesome. I’m very blessed! We’re formally dwelling as a household!”
Earlier than child No. 2’s arrival, the Bachelor Nation alums have been candid about their desire to raise a big family.
“I feel we agreed [that] we’d like two or three,” Gates solely shared with Us in June 2021. “However Adam has mentioned, ‘, we’ll see how I do with two after which go from there.’”
Followers first met Gates throughout Nick Viall’s season 21 of The Bachelor in 2017, which she completed because the runner-up. Earlier than connecting along with her now-husband on season 4 of BiP, the College of Arkansas graduate briefly dated Robby Hayes.
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Gottschalk, for his half, was a contestant on Rachel Lindsay’s season 13 of The Bachelorette, which additionally aired in 2017. Lindsay, 37, went on to simply accept a proposal from Bryan Abasolo.
