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Jenna Johnson and Val Chmerkovskiy’s child boy is right here!
The Dancing with the Stars couple, who tied the knot in 2019, welcomed their son on Tuesday.
The couple introduced their baby’s arrival Wednesday by concurrently sharing a black-and-white picture of the new child holding on to his mother’s thumb as Chmerkovskiy, 36, cradled each their fingers in his personal.
“𝕆𝕦𝕣 𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕝𝕕 𝕚𝕤 𝕗𝕠𝕣𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕣 𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕖𝕕 🤍 1.10.2023,” the dancers captioned the primary picture of their child boy.
The couple didn’t share any additional particulars about their new addition together with his identify.
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Johnson, 28, talked to PEOPLE solely about child names in July, as they shared their being pregnant information with followers. The Dancing with the Stars couple chosen names for his or her youngsters lengthy earlier than the skilled dancer was pregnant with their first child.
“We actually have had a boy and a girl name picked out for three years now,” the anticipating mother shared. “Val actually picked out the name for our boy, so we have it.”
However, Johnson admitted that she could have a change of coronary heart when her child boy arrives in January.
“I’m a visual person for sure,” she defined. “And so I have this weird thing where I don’t want to be 100 percent set on it, even though we both love it.”
“I really want to see him first before we make that decision,” she added. “So far we have one that I’m pretty set on, so who knows, it might switch the day of.”
In July, Johnson opened up about her journey towards motherhood in a candid Instagram publish.
“We had actually stopped trying to conceive for about 6 months to mentally/emotionally give ourselves a break,” Johnson wrote alongside a video of her response to her optimistic being pregnant take a look at. “So the shock, disbelief, and sheer joy in this moment is a memory I will never forget 🤍”
She defined additional in her caption that “our journey getting to this point wasn’t an easy one,” opening up in regards to the ache of experiencing months of detrimental outcomes.
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“I remember watching people share these videos and aching because I wished so badly I could experience that joy,” Johnson wrote. “After two years of infertility, and hundreds of negative tests after negative tests, it was heart-wrenching at times to stay optimistic and made me question whether I would ever have this opportunity.”
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She inspired anybody battling being pregnant to not “lose hope.”
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