The Bachelor alum Lauren Bushnell has revealed she is pregnant again.
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Lauren, 32, took to Instagram on Monday to announce she and husband, 37-year-old country singer Chris Lane, are expecting their second child together.
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"Party of 4, coming October 2022," Lauren captioned two photos, one featuring Lauren's immediate family and a solo shot of the couple's cute son Dutton Walker. "I cannot wait to see you as a big brother, Dutty!"
Dutton, who turns 12 months old on June 8, was wearing a "brother" shirt for the photo shoot.
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Chris shared the same family photo on his own Instagram account and captioned it, "I guess it's no secret to what's been goin on in the Lane household. Dutty is gonna be a brother!"
Lauren commented on Chris' post, "He can't keep his hands off her," which led fans to believe the couple is having a baby girl and Lauren accidentally spilled the beans.
Later that night, Lauren conducted a Q&A session on Instagram Stories with her followers, revealing that she's "20 weeks" pregnant and she and Chris will be doing a gender reveal "soon."
Dutton and his little sister or brother will be about 17 months apart.
When asked if the second pregnancy was a surprise, Lauren shared, "Very much so. I went out on the road baby less ONE time and that's when it happened. We were planning on waiting a little longer but excited about what God has in store for our family."
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As for how the new baby will change her living arrangement, Lauren said Dutton will be getting "a big boy room" and she will be updating the nursery for Baby No. 2.
Lauren also posted a photo of herself in the hospital, admitting this second pregnancy has been "much harder" on her body.
Lauren shared a little bit about Dutton's personality this past weekend, writing on social media, "Current obsessions: Daddy, cars or anything with wheels and his stuffed animals, especially his turtle."
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And Chris told Us Weekly of his son in January, "He's got a lot of personality that's starting to show. The first five months, they don't do much of anything. They're just lying around. But he's.... starting to make loud screams and laughs and all kinds of stuff. He's getting into a fun age. I feel like every day is something new that we're seeing."
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Chris admitted at the time that he and Lauren were "not trying" for a second baby and he was trying to get his "dad bod" back into shape.
"Every time I'm eating something I shouldn't, Lauren's like, 'Oh, let's make better choices,'" he explained earlier this year. "But having a 7-month-old, I've definitely not been able to stay in the kind of shape that I have been in for quite some time, but I'm getting back."
Lauren, however, said in March she had "developed a pretty thick skin" in regards to people shaming her post-baby body.
"It doesn't really bother me a whole lot, but it definitely stings more when [comments are made about] my child," Lauren explained. "I've noticed that anyone can say anything about me, and it doesn't really bother me too much."
Lauren competed on The Bachelor's 20th season starring Ben Higgins, which aired in 2016. Lauren accepted a marriage proposal from Ben during the show's finale but they split and called off their engagement over a year later in May 2017.
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Lauren previously said how she felt a lot of stress after The Bachelor ended in 2016.
Not only did she choose to move away from her family in Los Angeles, CA, to join Ben in Denver, CO, but she was also dealing with headlines about Ben's love for runner-up JoJo Fletcher and the pair quickly jumped into filming a The Bachelor spinoff, Ben & Lauren: Happily Ever After?, which aired on ABC's Freeform sister network.
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Lauren acknowledged to Us that being engaged when her fiance had just been in love with another woman was "a really hard place" to start off a relationship in the real world. She eventually hit rock bottom during her relationship with Ben.
After a year-long romance with real estate investor Devin Antin ended in Summer 2018, Lauren and Chris sparked dating rumors in November of that year when The Bachelor alum accompanied the country crooner to the 66th Annual BMI Country Music Awards in Nashville.
Not only did Chris and Lauren arrive at the event together, but they also looked like a couple.
Lauren got engaged to Chris in June 2019 and then they got married just four months later in Nashville, TN.
Following their October 2019 wedding, Lauren and Chris welcomed Dutton in June 2021.
Chris admitted to Entertainment Tonight in February 2022 that he never really envisioned himself getting married or having kids but meeting Lauren changed his "mindset" on the matter.
"The day [Dutton] was born, and I haven't told anybody this, but I cried my eyes out, because I felt like I was praying, just, 'Lord, thank you so much for not listening to me for all those years that I said I never wanted that,'" Chris said.
"I wouldn't have known what I was missing out on and it's truly the best thing in the world."
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Meanwhile, Ben also fell in love with a woman outside of Bachelor Nation, Jessica Clarke.
Ben and Jess went Instagram official in January 2019, got engaged in March 2020, and then got married in November 2021. They have a dog together and plan to expand their family, but not in the near future.
Lauren and Chris still watch The Bachelor franchise together while Ben has admitted it's not healthy and causing problems for his marriage to bring up those memories.
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