Erin Bates Welcomes 'Miracle' Baby No. 5 with Husband Chad amid Bringing Up Bates Cancellation

Erin Bates Welcomes ‘Miracle’ Baby No. 5 with Husband Chad amid Bringing Up Bates Cancellation

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UPtv announced on Tuesday that it would not be moving forward with the show, which was expected to premiere its 11th season in February

The Bates family’s new addition has arrived!

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Baby Finley arrived at 4:51 a.m., weighing 5 lbs., 4 oz., at birth.

“Our little miracle baby is doing wonderful and we can’t wait to share more details soon! This mama and daddy are going to get a little rest now and as many snuggles as possible,” the mom of five wrote alongside a photo of the couple with their newborn.

“We can’t thank you enough for the prayers. We feel indebted, loved, and so grateful to each of you. We serve such a big God. 🤍,” she added.

Erin also shared a sweet photo snuggling her baby girl to her Instagram Story, writing, “Madly in love.”

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The happy baby news came the same day that UPtv announced it would not be moving forward with Bringing Up Bates, which was expected to premiere its 11th season in February.

“We will not be premiering Bringing Up Bates season 11 on UPtv as planned as we will be focusing our programming in 2022 on movies and a new scripted series to be announced soon,” UPtv said in a statement, obtained by PEOPLE.

Erin Bates baby Credit: Erin Bates/Instagram

“When we premiered Bringing Up Bates, the series was focused on parents with 19 kids who were teenagers and young children. The cameras were there to capture the love, laughs and big life moments, as the family continued to grow. Thank you to Gil and Kelly Jo Bates for welcoming viewers into your family’s home over the past ten seasons,” the statement continued.

Erin and Chad first announced in August that they were expecting their fifth child.

“Thank you to the fans who tuned in every Thursday night to be part of the journey. We’re looking forward to continuing to uplift you with our programming in the future,” the statement concluded.

“Every day life is a miracle, but this is such a special miracle for our little family,” the parents told PEOPLE at the time. “For the past year, Erin has experienced different health problems, which ended up leading to multiple surgeries.”

The road to parenthood was bumpy for the Paines, who endured several miscarriages due to Erin’s blood-clotting condition before Carson came along.

“After consulting with our doctor, we realized having another baby was not going to be in our future. It was sad, just because we both really love kids, but I knew Erin’s health was the biggest priority, and we were overwhelmingly grateful for the four little blessings God has already given us,” the pair continued. “We were content knowing that God sometimes has a different plan than our own. As you can imagine, we were absolutely blown away when we found out the good news and really in shock!”

“Our hearts were filled with so much joy and some uncertainty, but we have been relieved and so encouraged to know Baby Paine is growing and doing great and Erin has been doing wonderful as well,” the couple added. “God has been so faithful and so good to our family. We want to thank each of you for your continued love and support, and we are looking forward to January 2022 now more than ever.”

In February 2021, Erin opened up about her health complications on Instagram, revealing that she had three surgeries over the course of a few months “due to cysts that have ruptured and caused a lot of internal bleeding.” She also shared that she had to have one ovary removed and “most of the second removed as well.”

“It has been scary and really discouraging at times, but we have been so grateful for the medical doctors who have helped us navigate through these uncertainties,” she wrote at the time.

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Lawson Bates & Tiffany Espensen Share HUGE News

Bringing Up Bates fans are thrilled to see Lawson Bates and Tiffany Espensen’s latest announcement. In 2021, the couple announced their engagement. Now, in 2022, they’ve got something else in the works. Of course, they’ll likely tie the knot this year, but there’s something else happening with the soon-to-be husband and wife. So, what is their big news?

Lawson Bates & Tiffany Espensen share an exciting sneak peek.

On their Instagram pages this week, Lawson and Tiffany shared a sneak peek at their latest project. The couple recorded a duet together! On Instagram, they shared a sneak peek at the music video, which was filmed in Italy. They went on this special trip together in the fall, and Lawson ended up popping the question while they were there.

In the short clip they shared, the couple is dancing and singing out in the street with a beautiful backdrop behind them. Lawson plays the guitar while his fiance dances and sings along.

Lawson writes, “Our duet ‘Crazy Love’ is OUT NOW when you pre-save the album ‘American Dream’ at link in bio 🤍” Tiffany shared a similar post over on her own page. On Lawson’s post, his fiance sweetly writes, “Our love story is my favorite ❤️” Then, Lawson called Tiffany his “queen of everything 🤍” in response to her post.

Tiffany also teased that a full music video for the song is “coming soon.”

Bringing Up Bates fans are loving the big news.

In the comments sections of Tiffany’s and Lawson’s new posts, fans are talking about how excited they are.

Lawson’s mom, Kelly Jo Bates, appears to be one of the couple’s biggest supporters. On her son’s post, she commented, “Y’all are adorable 😍😍”

Over on Tiffany’s post, the soon-to-be mother-in-law wrote, “🔥🔥😍😍😍❤️❤️🙌🙌🙌🙌😍sooooo excited about it!!!”

One fan commented that Tiffany needs to get a pair of boots. After all, Lawson is a country performer. Maybe that will be her next purchase. Fans will have to wait and see whether Lawson and Tiffany continue to make music together. There could even be more songs in the works already.

You can watch the sneak peek that Lawson shared with fans here, and check out Tiffany’s post here.

So, what do you think of Lawson Bates and Tiffany Espensen’s big announcement? Do you think they’ll continue making music together in the future? Let us know in the comments section below. For more news about the Bringing Up Bates family, come back to TV Shows Ace.

Challenger Ivan Bates outraises Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby in first fundraising report of campaign

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In an interview with The Baltimore Sun, Bates touted raising nearly as much money in the seven weeks following his most recent campaign announcement as he did in a year’s time ahead of his last run. He chalked up that support to what he described a desire for a new direction in the state’s attorney’s office and his attention during his campaign to stemming violence.

Lakeside 19-year-old with autism runs 100-mile race

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When January 15th came around, Zach was ready. He stood at the starting line of the Coldwater Rumble 100 Mile race, surrounded by 99 other ultra runners, and he was the only teenager.

How the White House hopes to save Biden’s Build Back Better bill

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U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on “how the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will rebuild America’s bridges,” in the South Court Auditorium at the White House in Washington, U.S., January 14, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

WASHINGTON, Jan 18 (Reuters) - The White House is seeking to “reset” talks on its $1.75 trillion spending bill, aiming to salvage climate change measures but pare down or cut items like the child tax credit and paid family leave to appeal to U.S. Senator Joe Manchin and other Democrats as soon as this week, said two people working on the plan.

Democratic President Joe Biden’s administration is expected to pivot from a long-shot attempt to pass voting rights legislation through the Senate, which begins on Tuesday, to renew talks in earnest with lawmakers on a slimmed-down version of the Build Back Better bill, the sources said.

White House climate czar Gina McCarthy and U.S. Treasury officials will head to Capitol Hill to meet with lawmakers and staff on the bill, the sources said, as part of the effort to preserve some of Biden’s economic and environmental agenda.

The president continues to work with both chambers of Congress to pass sweeping legislation that helps the middle class pay for items like prescription drugs and child care, said Andrew Bates, a White House spokesman.

“We are always in touch with members about this,” Bates said.

Manchin, a moderate Democrat, abruptly halted talks on the spending package before Christmas, citing his concerns over inflation, deficit spending and what he called an attempt to “reshape our society.”

Biden, Manchin and Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, another Democrat who has expressed reservations about the spending bill, met Thursday at the White House to talk about voting rights. The president had not spoken to Manchin since the West Virginia senator’s surprise announcement last month. “There needs to be a reset” to negotiations, said one person working on the plan. “There’s not a lot of mystery anymore about what Manchin would accept. We need to calibrate as much as possible to what he can accept, and then there needs to be a personal ask (by Biden) for his vote.”

With all 50 Republicans in the 100-seat Senate opposed to the spending bill, the White House has to win over Manchin and any other Democratic holdouts. If it succeeds, Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris could cast a tie-breaking vote.

CHILD TAX CREDITS

The revamped measure would likely run over $1 trillion, these people said, and could jettison hundreds of billions of dollars of funding for new social safety net programs like paid family leave, universal pre-kindergarten and home healthcare.

It is unclear which programs would be slimmed down or scrapped entirely. The White House and Democrats are weighing imposing stricter income caps on the child tax credit and other social safety net measures.

Capping who gets child tax credits could target the money to lower-income earners but stretch funding out for a decade, in line with Manchin’s demands. The monthly payments, which began last July, lifted some 3.6 million children out of poverty in October, according to Columbia University research.

Manchin indicated earlier this month that he supported $555 billion in climate spending, including production tax credits for solar and wind industries, which are seen as vital to ensure the United States reaches its 2030 emissions reduction goals, the sources said.

Manchin’s approval of this funding is seen as the “fulcrum” to move the bill forward, on top of which progressive-friendly social spending, including expansion of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare, can be added.

Reporting by Jarrett Renshaw and Andrea Shalal; Editing by Heather Timmons, Paul Simao and Jonathan Oatis

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