{"id":109671,"date":"2026-03-02T05:26:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T10:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/uncategorized\/2026\/03\/thomas-rhett-and-his-wife-welcome-baby-5\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T05:49:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T10:49:23","slug":"thomas-rhett-and-his-wife-welcome-baby-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/03\/thomas-rhett-and-his-wife-welcome-baby-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Rhett And His Wife Welcome Baby #5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Thomas Rhett<\/strong>\u00a0and his wife\u00a0<strong>Lauren Akins<\/strong>\u00a0announced they welcomed their first son last week. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His name is Brave Elijah Akins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And he made quite the entrance. &nbsp;Even though he was two weeks early, he still weighed close to 10 pounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s what Lauren wrote in an Instagram\u00a0post&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Thomas was my biggest champion in labor and delivery . . . He helped deliver him, was the first one to see and tearfully, mixed with a bit of shock announce to us all in the room &#8216;It&#8217;s a BOY.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Brave joins his big sisters Willa Gray, Ada James, Lennon Love and Lillie Carolina. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lauren said, &#8220;Your four sisters are smitten and we are completely over the moon in love with you, big Brave boy.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DVSKGNljTqI\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thomas Rhett\u00a0and his wife\u00a0Lauren Akins\u00a0announced they welcomed their first son last week. \u00a0 His name is Brave Elijah Akins. And he made quite the entrance. &nbsp;Even though he was two weeks early, he still weighed close to 10 pounds. Here&#8217;s what Lauren wrote in an Instagram\u00a0post&#8230; &#8220;Thomas was my biggest champion in labor and delivery","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":90908,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[464],"tags":[1115,1162,482],"class_list":["post-109671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-baby","tag-lauren-akins","tag-thomas-rhett"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-21 19:41:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/03\/thomas-rhett-and-his-wife-welcome-baby-5\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109672,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109671\/revisions\/109672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}