Jenna Paulette has welcomed Baby No. 1.
The country singer-songwriter shared a photo on her Instagram story on Thursday morning (October 3) to announce her daughter’s arrival. “She’s here,” Paulette confirmed, adding that her baby was born “yesterday [Wednesday, October 2] at 9:20 a.m.” The announcement arrives nearly one week after Paulette shared her “last bump update” on Instagram, and confirmed her daughter was “coming any time! …Now the countdown begins.”
Paulette debuted her baby bump for the first time when she walked the red carpet at the 59th ACM Awards earlier this year. Reba McEntire hosted the show when it returned to Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas, the world headquarters of the Dallas Cowboys. Paulette eloped with husband Ross — who “shock(ed) the daylights out of me with his acting abilities” in a recent music video — the previous year. She spoke with iHeartCountry on the red carpet, and predicted at that time that becoming a mother would “be a whole new level of love, I think.
“I wrote a song last year on a retreat because I knew how special it was going to be — probably not to the full extent, but in my mind — how special it would be to have a baby, and to do it with somebody that I love so much,” the CMT Next Women of Country alumna said of the song that might have manifested the new stage of her life. She added later, “I’m so thankful because I didn’t even know if it was possible for me. …So wild. So cool.”
Congrats to the growing family!