Dancing With the Stars alum Lindsay Arnold goes to be a boy mother!
Arnold, 31, introduced on Sunday, December 14, that she and her husband, Sam Cusick, just lately discovered the intercourse of their third child. (Arnold and Cusick, 31, already share daughters Sage, 5, and June, 2.)
“We really feel so past grateful and blessed to be bringing our first boy into this world,” Arnold captioned an Instagram video of the reveal. “Our ladies can’t wait and ask on a regular basis how for much longer till child brother is right here.”
Arnold and Cusick discovered the infant’s intercourse earlier than telling Sage and June.
“We opened our outcomes collectively and in non-public, however I want y’all may have heard/seen Sam’s excited ‘YESS!!!!!!’ once I learn boy to him,” the mirrorball champ wrote in her caption. “He’s the perfect woman dad and I simply know he’s going to be probably the most wonderful boy dad. Our son is so fortunate.”
After discovering out the intercourse, Arnold and Cusick organized a particular reveal for his or her daughters. Whereas June was eager for a child sister, Sage needed a brother.
“As a result of we don’t have any boys,” the 5-year-old instructed her mother of her logic.
Arnold had Sage and June collectively pop a black balloon, revealing an array of blue confetti inside.
“You’re going to have a child brother,” Cusick instructed his children, who promptly celebrated by tossing the streamers within the air.
Arnold introduced her being pregnant final month.
“Child Cusick #3 is on the best way,” she captioned maternity pics through Instagram. “We couldn’t really feel extra blessed, grateful, and excited. We love you a lot already child and we are able to’t wait to satisfy you!!”
Days later, Arnold detailed the “hiccups within the street” throughout her being pregnant.
“Issues have been superior, nevertheless it’s been attention-grabbing,” she mentioned in a TikTok video shared on November 25. “With each Sage and June’s pregnancies, I had what’s known as a subchorionic hematoma, the place primarily you have got a blood clot in your uterus. It can launch throughout these first couple weeks [and] months of being pregnant, and also you bleed quite a bit. It’s scary since you’re simply bleeding in early being pregnant.”
In response to Arnold, her earlier experiences with the hematomas have been “fairly innocent.”
“I’ve had that occur two occasions now [on] two separate events the place I bleed fairly a bit for a time frame,” the dancer defined. “As a result of this occurred to me so many occasions, I really feel fairly assured and OK about it, nevertheless it’s nonetheless one thing [where] you’re like, ‘I believe every part’s OK however you by no means know.’”
Arnold additional said that fears about growing one other blood clot had been the “solely hiccups within the street” throughout her being pregnant.
“It’s one thing that I’m used to as a result of it occurred earlier than,” Arnold added. “Each occasions every part was OK [and] mainly I simply needed to move that blood clot, after which every part was good.”
Fears apart, Arnold had a comparatively straightforward first trimester.
“I don’t really feel one hundred pc, however I don’t really feel depressing both. I believe the largest symptom is that I get drained within the afternoons,” she recalled in her social media video. “I’m actually making an attempt to remain robust and maintaining with my morning exercises and get into that session. For me, mentally, it’s simply the perfect factor ever.”

