Henley Graceis getting a little brother!
“During our ‘gender reveal’ she was loving cracking the eggs on our heads, but the one that ends up being the [sex] she handed to me and said, ‘I don’t want to smash it, Mommy.’ We have a lot of work to get her excited for her little brother,” jokes Otis.
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Jamie Otis, Doug Hehner and daughter Henley Grace.Zoe Vella
“With our last boy pregnancy I was planning the ‘gender reveal’ around this time and then literally a week and a half later I delivered him. Far too early to survive. And it was the most excruciating experience of our lives,” continues Otis.
“Our last two pregnancies ended in loss before the second trimester and we have been trying to conceive for 18 months so it’s not lost on us how fortunate we are to have the gift of being able to get pregnant and carry a healthy pregnancy. We are just so thankful for this.”
The two previouslylost their son Johnathan Edwardat 17 weeks gestation before welcoming their daughter (whom they affectionately call Gracie) in August 2017, while Otis experienceda chemical pregnancylast year and amiscarriage at 10 weeksalong this past January.
Otis also shared that they “just did these wacky gender prediction tests” and she thought they were having a girl based on the results,while her husband thought boy, “Which just goes to show we can never agree on anything!🤣”
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Even as their second little one is on the way, the spouses are already looking forward to conceiving their next child!
Earlier this month, Otis addressed her followers viaher Instagram Story, sharing that the couple’s sex life was temporarily inactive, but that they couldn’t wait to change that.
“Henley just started crying the minute we talk about being intimate,” Otis laughed. “Do you hear that? Our daughter cries. It’s like she knows — it’s crazy.”
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