Teen Mom OG’s Catelynn Lowell Gives Birth, Welcomes Third Child With Tyler Baltierra

The Teen Mom family just got cuter. Catelynn Lowell and Tyler Baltierra have welcomed their third child on Thursday, February 21, the couple tell Us Weekly exclusively. Vaeda Luma was born at 9:24 a.m. and weighed in at 6 lbs and 4 oz.

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Lowell kept her anxiety in check throughout her pregnancy with the help a psychologist who specializes in trauma.

Scroll through the gallery below for more of the couple's journey!

The Teen Mom family just got cuter. Catelynn Lowell and Tyler Baltierra have welcomed their third child on Thursday, February 21, the couple tell Us Weekly exclusively. Vaeda Luma was born at 9:24 a.m. and weighed in at 6 lbs and 4 oz.

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Lowell kept her anxiety in check throughout her pregnancy with the help a psychologist who specializes in trauma.

Scroll through the gallery below for more of the couple's journey!

Us Weekly exclusively broke the news in September that the couple were expecting. “This baby is our rainbow after the storm,” Lowell told Us, referring to the miscarriage she suffered in 2017. The middle-school sweethearts were using birth control when the 26-year-old became pregnant. “We were using protection and everything,” she said. “This baby just wanted to be here. It was very unexpected.”

Though the miscarriage was devastating, Lowell sees a silver lining: The loss led her to seek treatment for suicidal thoughts. “I really believe in my heart that I was meant to have that miscarriage because I spiraled so hard that it forced me to go to a place where I really had to dig into my childhood traumas,” she told Us. “I really think that that baby was meant to leave so I could really dig deeper on my wounds from childhood.”

After a rough road, Baltierra, 27, told Us he was worried about this pregnancy, but was pleasantly surprised. "Everything’s been smooth, all the doctor’s appointments are great. Everything’s been A-OK this whole time," he said on the "Watch With Us" podcast in December 2018. "It’s a lot smoother than we expected, especially after the miscarriage, we didn’t know exactly how that would affect anything. Would it affect anything? What happens? Do we have to take any extra precautions because of that during this one? Everything’s been going great.”

On February 13, the reality star began having contractions. “Dilated to a 3 and having contractions. This little girl wants to come," she wrote on Instagram. 

The pair originally planned to name their daughter something completely different. “We were looking at names and we were just writing it down and I don’t know … I saw Lesley and I’m like, ‘No, not Lesley.’ It’s kinda weird. We just put different words together, letters together,” Baltierra told Us in December 2018. “We wanted to keep Lee in there ’cause [of our daughter] Novalee, so we just played around with it and then Tezlee [came up].

The 16 and Pregnant alums are also parents of 3-year-old, Novalee. The Michigan natives placed their daughter, Carly, now 9, for an open adoption in 2009, but they remain involved in the little girl’s life.

Lowell, who suffered postpartum depression after giving birth to Novalee in 2015, was in a good place during her third pregnancy. “I’m not anxious. I’m not depressed,” the Conquering Chaos author told Us in September. “I’m actually in a good mental state with this one.” 

The couple have definitely been through their fair share of ups and downs; when she was pregnant, they decided to begin couples' therapy and live apart for a bit. "We actually don’t even call it separation anymore. We say, ‘Let’s just do 30 days of self-reflection time. You get to focus on you, I get to focus on me. We’ll continue to do couples’ therapy,’” he explained to Us.

Baltierra shared the first photo of the couple's newborn child on Saturday, February 23. "Welcome home Vaeda," he captioned a photo of the baby sleeping in a rocker while their dog laid down on the floor next to the infant. "Mommy & Daddy love you so much & can't wait to watch you grow with love in this crazy family of ours!"