Doug Hehner and Jamie Otis. Taylor Hill/Getty Pictures
Jamie Otis was “shocked” to understand the intercourse of 1 of her twins when shooting a reveal online video.
Otis, 37, and her husband, Doug Hehner, who satisfied on year 1 of Married at 1st Sight, shared they’re expecting a child boy in a YouTube online video unveiled on Monday, April 8. The pair utilized a activity of seaside tic tac toe to expose the minimal one’s sex, unveiling a few blue circles with the aid of their son, Hendrix Douglas, 3, and daughter Henley Grace, 6.
Blue confetti was blasted in the air by the pair, who will have to hold out for an ultrasound or blood test to locate out the sex of their other twin.
“I was truly Stunned,” Otis wrote in an accompanying Instagram article. “I really do not know why bc it’s 50/50!🤪😆 I just genuinely considered it was going to be distinctive.”
She extra, “I unquestionably like becoming shocked and this was one particular of the ideal retained tricks.”
Otis and Hehner, 40, broke the news that they’re anticipating twins in a vlog introduced on March 4. Fans were invited alongside as Otis headed to get an ultrasound, where the technician shared that there had been “possibly” two infants.
“I do not even believe it. I’m terrified though,” Otis admitted in the clip. “I’m terrified that a shoe is going to fall. I come to feel like I’m going to test mainly because this has literally — twins have been a dream of mine.”
The Bachelor alum has knowledgeable 3 miscarriages above the years, the to start with in July 2016, just above a person year ahead of Henley’s start in August 2017. Her second pregnancy decline transpired in September 2018.
“Three decades ago currently I sat on a medical center stretcher pushing and screaming in excruciating pain. I was offering my toddler boy at just 17 months, 1 day expecting,” Otis recalled in a July 2019 Instagram write-up. “I bear in mind this day vividly. The soreness was an out of overall body knowledge. It was a ache my SOUL felt.”
Otis has been candid about the couple’s pregnancy journey, emphasizing the great importance of normalizing discussions all around miscarriages although speaking to Us.
“So lots of people have had to mourn in private due to the fact it’s so taboo to discuss about,” the “Hot Relationship, Interesting Parents” podcast host mentioned in 2019. “Why is that our tradition, not to inform everyone about your being pregnant in advance of it’s ‘safe?’ You’re meant to stroll that street alone? To have to just go to get the job done and no one particular can know, and you have to stroll all over possessing just dropped your toddler?”
