Josie Bates, Whitney and Zach Bates Courtesy of Josie Bates/Instagram; Courtesy of Whitney Bates/Instagram
Bringing Up Bates star Josie Bates and husband Kelton Balka predict their third child.
“Balka, Occasion of 5!! 🫶,” Bates, 24, captioned current Instagram reel which confirmed her and Balka, 28, sharing ultrasound pictures with their daughters, Willow, 4, and Hazel, 2. In a subsequent submit, Bates introduced that she is due in March 2024.
The Up TV persona, who appeared on Bringing Up Bates for 10 seasons alongside together with her 18 siblings and fogeys Gil Bates and Kelly Jo Bates, has confronted hardships throughout her motherhood journey. In September 2020, Josie revealed that she’d suffered a miscarriage throughout her second being pregnant.
“This has been a really troublesome time for our little household,” she wrote through Instagram on the time, including that she and Kelton’s “hearts have been utterly damaged.”
Josie Bates and Kelton Balka Courtesy of Josie Bates/Instagram
Josie continued: “I’ve by no means skilled the kind of ache and loss that I’ve had these previous weeks. There may be an empty spot in our hearts and in our residence. Despite the fact that we by no means received to see our child nose to nose or maintain its tiny hand, we all know God has a function for its brief life. Despite our grieving, we’ve peace in figuring out that our little child is in heaven with Kelton’s candy mother.”
The next June, Josie gave beginning to Hazel, who frolicked within the NICU as a new child.
“Routine bloodwork within the first trimester revealed that Hazel’s being pregnant was difficult by an exceedingly uncommon blood situation, in contrast to something the medical doctors had seen earlier than,” Josie wrote through Instagram two days after Hazel was born. “She developed a sort of jaundice distinctive to her scenario, and we transported [her] to the Kids’s Hospital NICU within the early hours of the morning, the place she is being monitored by groups of extremely expert medical doctors and nurses.”
Zach and Whitney Bates Courtesy of Whitney Bates/Instagram
Later that month, Josie shared that her daughter was wholesome sufficient to go away the hospital and go residence.
“We’re praising Jesus for thus many answered prayers, and we’re so grateful to be taking a wholesome child residence right this moment!” she wrote through Instagram on the time. “We’ll eternally be indebted to the unimaginable workforce of medical doctors who cared for our child and the dear nurses who grew to become mates. They really are angels.”
Previous to beginning a household, Josie and Balka started courting in 2017 after assembly a number of years prior. Their courtship performed out on season 7 of Bringing Up Bates, which aired in 2018. The pair received engaged in June of that yr and tied the knot lower than 4 months later. Their marriage ceremony was featured throughout a season 8 episode of the fact collection in February 2019.
Josie isn’t the one member of the Bates clan who’s increasing her brood; her brother Zach Bates welcomed child No. 5 with spouse Whitney Bates on Tuesday, August 15.
“Lily Jo Bates 💫,” Whitney, 29, wrote through Instagram on Wednesday, August 16, alongside pictures of her toddler. “We’re so in love 💕.”
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Zach, 34, and Whitney additionally share daughters Khloé, 3, and Kaci, 6, and sons Jadon, 2, and Bradley, 8.
