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First Comes Love, Then Comes Marriage, Then Comes A Baby! (Ayla Brown Is Pregnant!)

Country 102.5 morning show host, Ayla Brown, is pregnant with her first baby! First Comes Love… It truly is a gift when you find the right person… The one that you’re meant…

Ayla Brown, Rob Bellamy and Brate Pregnancy Announcement

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Country 102.5 morning show host, Ayla Brown, is pregnant with her first baby!

First Comes Love...

It truly is a gift when you find the right person... The one that you're meant to be with for the rest of your life.
I was lucky when a friendship with a Nashville co-writer turned into a romantic relationship. We wrote about love, sang about it, and actually lived it.

Then Comes Marriage...

After 3.5 years Rob proposed to me on the cliffs of Martha's Vineyard. You can hear all about it HERE! And, in August we got married in Newington, NH in front of our closest family and friends at a family friend's home. It was outside, with an oldies band, food trucks, and beer kegs. It was a day that we will never forget!

The day after the wedding we went on a two-week honeymoon on the West Coast. We flew to Portland, OR and drove from Portland, all along the coast of Oregon and California to San Diego. It was a trip that I still sometimes fantasize about because it was so memorable! We saw the Redwood Forest, Big Sur, Napa Valley, coastal towns, and palm trees.

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Rob wrote a song for our first dance. Obviously as you can see I was VERY emotional when I heard it for the first time!

Then Comes Ayla Brown With A New Baby...

I'm still pinching myself as I write these words...Rob and I are so excited to announce that we will be expecting a baby in late July or early August, 2022. (With my luck the baby will come on my birthday, July 28th!). If you follow astrology, you know there should only be ONE Leo in a room at a time!! ;-)

All kidding aside, we don't know the gender yet, but we are thrilled to find out what we are having at our 20-week ultrasound. I will make sure to keep you in the loop! Here are my personal photos of the pregnancy stick, when my husband found out about the pregnancy, the Onesie I bought my parents for Christmas, and the Ultrasound. And keep scrolling to hear about what we did on air!!

Rob Bellamy

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Rob Bellamy finds out he's going to be a dad!


Ayla Brown Pregnancy Stick

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Ayla Brown, Rob Bellamy and Brate Pregnancy Announcement


Christmas Onesie

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This is what Ayla gave her parents to announce the pregnancy


Ayla Brown's Untrasound

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Ayla Brown's first ultra sound


Ayla Brown Rob Bellamy and Baby Ultrasound

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Ayla Brown Rob Bellamy and Baby Ultrasound


Pregnancy cookies

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Ayla's cookies she gave to Jonathan and Jim on the air

Since finding out I was pregnant there was nothing I wanted to do more than to tell my team on Country 102.5 the news. But I knew if I told them it would ruin the the most amazing surprise. So instead, I came up with this crazy, drawn out plan to do a "cookie bake-off" so my co-host Jonathan and I could finally put to rest who makes the BEST chocolate chip cookies. (We are insanely competitive).

Producer Jim was our judge, but instead of giving him chocolate chip cookies as agreed upon, I gave him special cookies that I bought from Blackbird Baking Co. that had the pregnancy announcement on them!

The on-air reaction was PURE SHOCK!

Listen here:

Or watch the facebook snipit here so you can see their faces!

Country 102.5 is thrilled to welcome the youngest member of the Jonathan and Ayla morning show!

On Thursday morning, Jonathan and Ayla had a cookie bake-off. Ayla surprised Jim and Jonathan with cookies that said she is pregnant! Scroll through to see the video and all the pictures of their reaction!

We can't wait to meet your baby, Ayla!

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Ayla Brown has been an on-air morning show host with Country 102.5 since 2018. Before taking this once-in-a-lifetime job, Ayla was (and still is) a country music singer. In 2006, she placed 13th on American Idol. In 2012 and 2013 she celebrated her Grand Ole Opry and Ryman Auditorium debut, and over the years she has visited 13 countries overseas to sing for the American Troops. Country music is in Ayla Brown’s soul. Not only does she sing it, but she gets to talk about it every day on “Country Mornings with Jonathan and Ayla.” Ayla is happily married to singer-songwriter, Rob Bellamy, and they welcomed a son named Barrett in August of 2022. In her free time, she loves to sew baby bibs and experiment with new recipes in the kitchen. She also loves to travel and try new foods. Ayla writes about Boston area happenings, parenting, holistic lifestyle and living, and travel.