Congrats are to ensure that a fan-favorite Love Is Blind couple!
Practically 5 years after they first captured the hearts of tens of millions as one of the vital enduring {couples} from Love Is Blind, Lauren Velocity-Hamilton and Cameron Hamilton have introduced that they’re anticipating their first youngster!
The couple, who met and married throughout season one among Netflix’s social experiment-turned-cultural phenomenon, confirmed the information to PEOPLE alongside a movie-trailer model Instagram video. In it, the couple embarks on “Operation Child,” and Lauren self-administers VF pictures earlier than confirming the large information.
“After years of hope, love finds a brand new type,” a narrator stated within the video. “This fall, a brand new chapter begins,” they added because the couple showcased their constructive being pregnant check and a child Hamilton onesie.
Lauren & Cameron Are Anticipating After Attempting For 4 Years
The blissful couple who’ve been legally married since 2018 instructed PEOPLE about their being pregnant journey, revealing that they tried for 4 years earlier than getting their child blessing.
“We had been counting down the day until we may check as a result of we did IVF [in vitro fertilization],” Cameron instructed PEOPLE, reflecting on the long-awaited milestone. “We knew, okay, that is the day that we’re going to do the check. After all, we’re getting in for a blood check later that day, however we couldn’t wait any longer.”
What adopted was a second years within the making — and one neither will overlook.
“We did the basic check and we each went into the toilet to take a look at the Clearblue check and it was face down,” Cameron continued. “We flipped it over. We noticed the phrase pregnant, and that was simply an enormous second to really see the phrase pregnant on the check. It was a…”
“A aid,” added Lauren. “As a result of, nicely, we’ve taken a couple of being pregnant assessments and once you use those with the traces, it may very well be nervousness pushed as a result of it’s like, ‘Is that what I believe?’ So seeing the phrase pregnant, it was wonderful. We simply checked out one another. I fell to my knees and cried.”
Lauren additionally famous that the timing was bittersweet, contemplating that she misplaced her father in December.
“I misplaced my father [at] Christmas of final yr,” she shared. “And so we took this check the tip of January, starting of February, so this was actually gentle within the darkness. This was like, wow. The spark that my complete household wanted. We’ve been attempting for a very long time.”
“It was just a little bittersweet as a result of my dad’s not right here bodily to be with us, however we all know that he’s watching over us,” she added. “So it was identical to, ‘Wow, I can’t imagine this.’ We simply felt so blessed, so grateful and blissful, excited. Then it hit like, ‘We’re going to be mother and father. Oh my God.’”
Previous to the announcement, Lauren and Cameron opened up on their The Love Seat podcast about their tough IVF journey, noting that they fielded numerous feedback from individuals questioning once they’d develop their household, not realizing that they had been struggling to conceive.
Cameron additionally grew to become emotional when reflecting on Lauren going via the IVF course of.
“Once I noticed what you had been going via when it comes to of taking the drugs, doing the day by day pictures, realizing that IVF and all these things wasn’t actually one thing that you just naturally needed to do however you probably did it for me — you confirmed me a brand new stage of affection that I’d by no means seen earlier than,” he stated.
