Bachelor in Paradise stars Ashley Iaconetti and Jared Haibon welcome their first child together
BACHELOR in Paradise stars Ashley Iaconetti and Jared Haibon welcomed baby number one!
The couple wed in August 2019 and announced the news in July 2021.
On January 31, 2022, Bachelor stars Ashley Iaconetti and Jared Haibon, both 33, welcomed their first child - a son.
Jared shared the happy news to his and gushed over their new addition, Dawson, in a front-facing video.
“Baby Dawson is here and healthy!” Jared said.
“Ashley is recovering and doing well! It really couldn’t have gone much smoother.
He’s so sweet and beautiful and has been sleeping all day. Unlike his Mom and Dad who are on no sleep right now but it’s totally worth it!”
In 2015, Jared and Ashley met when they both competed in Season 2 of Bachelor in Paradise.
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The now-family of three - who welcomed son Dawson two years after their 2019 marriage - announced their pregnancy in July 2021 on Instagram.
Jared first a picture of a positive pregnancy test to his page.
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The Rhode Island native then wrote in an additional post: “Now that you know Ashley is pregnant, I can start posting all the fantastic photos I’ve taken of Ashley over the past month while she’s been sick."
"Even though it’s been a rough first trimester so far, she is as beautiful today as she was in this picture."
"Last night, she threw up five times throughout the night. It’s been a very sick month for her," adding, "I feel terrible because there’s not much I can do except the occasional runs to the store for chocolate cake or to 7/11 for Slurpees."
"I love her very much, she’s a strong woman and I know Ashley is going to be an incredible mother.”
ASHLEY & JARED'S BABY BUILDUP
In August, one month after their July 2021 announcement, Jared and Ashley announced the gender of their baby on with a video and a subsequent photo posing with a big blue balloon.
"He's going to have so many Tom Brady jerseys," Jared said in the gender reveal video.
The couple picked out the name Dawson that month as well - as Jared said in an August 26 Amazon Live video that wanted to use the name for "20 years now."
Virginia native Ashley joked on the Amazon Live that, no, the name was “not Tom Brady" - playing off of Jared's Patriot-ism for his favorite football team.
As Jared mentioned, Ashley had a rough first trimester. Ashley earlier told , she was "very sick" from morning sickness.
"I mean, really sick," she said, adding to the outlet that she hadn't "done anything but sit on the couch literally day after day" and ate a meal "every two hours."
FINDING 'PARADISE' IN EACH OTHER
When they first met during Season 2 of BiP in 2015, Ashley admitted she liked Jared but he wasn't feeling the same - yet.
However, they later reconnected when she had a boyfriend and he felt like he had lost his chance.
"I never felt like it was over between us after Paradise," Jared admitted in 2018 in a YouTube video titled .
"I’m not gonna lie and say that I was in love with Ashley during BiP. It was a slow build for me."
When they returned to BiP in 2016 for Season 3, they fought a lot, but then became close friends.
Jared opened up on Bachelor in Paradise Australia about his true feelings.
"I was just sitting there and thinking, ‘God, I wish Ashley were here,'" he revealed. "I just wanna hang out with Ashley."
They went public with their relationship in 2018.
Jared and Ashley got married just one year later surrounded by plenty of Bachelor Nation alumni.
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"Our wedding day was the greatest day of my life," Jared recently wrote to looking back at the event.
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