Ashley Iaconetti and Jared Haibon have welcomed their second child, a son named Hayden Cruise Haibon.
The Bachelor In Paradise veterans shared the happy news with People on Tuesday.
‘Say hello to Hayden Cruise Haibon,’ the stars told the site.
The first name is taken from Star Wars actor Hayden Christensen. The second name is a nod to Tom Cruise as both parents are fans.
‘He was born at 2:29 p.m. on July 22, 2024, and weighed 8 lbs., 7 oz. at INOVA Fairfax Hospital,’ the couple added to the site.
‘Baby is healthy and so is Mama! Seeing Dawson meet his little brother for the first time was as precious as we always imagined the moment would be. Dawson is full of love and kept petting Hayden,’ it was also shared.
Ashley Iaconetti and Jared Haibon have welcomed their second child, a son named Hayden Cruise Haibon. Seen with first son Dawson in 2023
The Bachelor In Paradise veterans shared the happy news with People on Tuesday. ‘Say hello to Hayden Cruise Haibon,’ the stars told the site. Seen in the spring
Ashley and her husband tied the knot in 2019 before welcoming their first child together, son Dawson, in January 2022.
Dawson is named after Leonardo DiCaprio’s character Jack Dawson in Titanic.
The first name of their second child was heavily discussed.
‘We joked about naming him Anakin as I’m a big Star Wars fan and Ashley fan girl-ed over Hayden Christensen as a teen,’ he said.
‘That sparked the idea for the name Hayden,’ it was added. Hayden played Anakin in the prequels.
‘It took a while to firmly decide on because of the alliteration with our last name, but ultimately we felt it fit!’
Then it was added that finding a boy name they both loved was much harder the second time around.
‘We always knew the middle name would be Cruise because we bonded over being Tom Cruise fans while first meeting on Bachelor in Paradise 2.
‘We’ve always loved the passion, determination, and charisma of his characters. We met the man himself last year at the Mission Impossible premiere and his warmth and caring reception for the stories we shared with him further convinced us to use the name.
‘We’re so lucky to have Hayden and Dawson in our lives. They both have already given us so much more love in our hearts and as parents, we’re so grateful they are both happy and healthy!’ they also said.
The first name is from Hayden Christensen (seen as a ghost in Ahsoka) and the second name is a nod to Tom Cruise (right on July 13 in London)
Ashley and her husband tied the knot in 2019 before welcoming their first child together, son Dawson, in January 2022
In February, they revealed the gender of their soon-to-arrive second child during an Amazon Live session.
In the clip, the Bachelor vet and husband bit into a pair of cupcakes and revealed that they were expecting to welcome a second baby boy.
Iaconetti predicted that she was going to have another son just before the gender reveal, and she quipped: ‘I thought it was going to be a boy before I was pregnant.’
Haibon then stated that he was excited about the prospect of starting a family-of-four, and he remarked that the ‘idea that we’re gonna have two boys is gonna be a lot of fun.’
The announced the joyous pregnancy news on Amazon Live in January
The cast member of The Bachelor Winter Games went on to speak about how she had originally wanted a girl during her first pregnancy.
‘It’s funny because when it comes to gender disappointment, I had it so much worse with Dawson. We found out, and I was upset for a day or two,’ she said.
Iaconetti added: ‘I really actually do not even care what the combo is now, I just want them to be close.’
The couple announced that Ashley was pregnant with their second child during an Amazon Live session that took place this past January.
Their son Dawson wore an adorable ‘Big Brother’ T-shirt as his parents shared the joyous news.
‘He’s going to be a big brother!’ Ashley gushed.
‘You’re going to be a big brother!’ Jared exclaiming before sharing, ‘Ashley’s pregnant!’
In February they revealed that they were expecting a second baby boy
‘I’m pregnant!’ Ashley chimed in, later adding she was 13 weeks into her pregnancy.
‘We are a little concerned that he will be having some jealousy issues,’ Ashley said during the live stream. ‘He’s been incredibly clingy lately.’
Speaking with People, Ashley said she has been ‘overwhelmed as hell’ amid her second pregnancy.
‘We want Dawson to have a sibling,’ her husband told the outlet. ‘That’s very important. Both of us come from families with two kids. So we wanted to give that to Dawson.’
Their firstborn attended his parent’s first doctors appointment, where his mother’s sonogram was shown.
‘I try to teach him, ‘Where’s the baby? It’s in the belly!” Ashley explained. ‘Sometimes I’m like, ‘Where’s the baby?’ And he’ll point to his belly. So he doesn’t get that it’s my belly. He has been extremely, even more so of a mommy’s boy since this child has been in my belly.’
‘So he is already getting jealous,’ Jared added.
Ashley’s pregnancy was smoother than when she was expecting Dawson.
‘I had hyperemesis gravidarum last time, so that meant that basically I threw up almost every, well, I threw up multiple times a day up to about 30 weeks. And the first 16 to 18 weeks were just absolutely debilitating,’ she said.
‘So I’m just so freaking grateful that I’m not experiencing that,’ she added. ‘I haven’t been great. I don’t like the feeling of being pregnant. I never want to feel this again. Just don’t like it.’
Ashley also revealed she suffered a chemical pregnancy in the fall before becoming pregnant again with their upcoming addition.
‘It’s a week five miscarriage where basically the day that you think that you’re going to get your period, you end up bleeding. But I had already had a positive pregnancy test. So for three days, I thought I was pregnant,’ she explained to Us Weekly.
But just a month later Ashley became pregnant again: ‘We got so lucky that she got pregnant literally the next month,’ her husband told The Messenger.
Ashley and her husband first crossed paths on the second season of Bachelor In Paradise and later became engaged in June 2018.
The following year, the pair said ‘I do’ during a romantic wedding ceremony held in Newport, Rhode Island. In summer 2021, Ashley and Jared announced that they were expecting their first child.
