Emily Maynard is now a mother of three!
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The eighth-season The Bachelorette star announced Saturday on Instagram she gave birth to a baby boy.
"...oh heavenly day... God is good! {Ricki and I are officially outnumbered!}" Maynard captioned an adorable photo featuring the family of five, including her 11-year-old daughter Ricki from a previous relationship and 14-month-old son Jennings Tyler with husband Tyler Johnson.
In the photo, Maynard, 30, was holding her newest bundle of joy while sitting in a hospital bed surrounded by her family. This is Maynard's second child with Johnson.
The baby was welcomed into the world weighing eight pounds and nine ounces, according to People, and he measured 21 inches long.
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Maynard and Johnson wed in June 2014 and welcomed Jennings in July of the following year. Maynard had her only daughter with Ricky Hendrick, a NASCAR driver who tragically died at age 24 in a 2004 plane crash when the jewelry designer was pregnant for the first time.
Maynard previously told E! News she wanted to keep the sex of her third child a surprise since she was already mom to one boy and one girl.
"As an adult, there are few surprises that you truly get and I just thought it would be fun and it's been really exciting," the former reality TV star said during her final days of pregnancy. "I haven't gone to my doctor and begged him to tell me yet."
Maynard added, "I feel like as long as it's healthy, we'll be happy and we'll take [whichever sex]."
Years after Hendrick passed away, Maynard appeared on Season 15 of The Bachelor starring Brad Womack. Womack proposed during the March 2011 finale but they split that same year.
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Maynard then became The Bachelorette star the following year, when winner Jef Holm popped the question. The pair broke up in October 2012, a few months after the finale aired on ABC.
Maynard experienced heartbreak three times before falling in love with Johnson, but she apparently has no regrets.
"I would just be scared that, like, if I didn't do [the ABC shows], maybe I wouldn't have met Tyler and I wouldn't be here. So I wouldn't have changed anything," Maynard wrote in a March 2016 post for her People blog when announcing her third pregnancy.
Maynard's memoir I Said Yes: My Story of Heartbreak, Redemption and True Love was released that same month.
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