Tia Booth of Bachelor Nation and Taylor Mock welcome first child

Bachelor Nation just got a little bigger! Tia Booth and her fiancé Taylor Mockwelcomed their first child together, a boy.

Former Bachelor in Paradise The 31-year-old star gave birth on Tuesday, December 6 and announced her baby the following day. “Tatum Booth mocking 12/6/22 6:13 am,” the reality TV star wrote. via instagram along with a cute sound clip of her seeing the baby for the first time. “The best day of our lives.”

Booth first announced her pregnancy on Father’s Day 2022 via Instagram in honor of her father, who passed away.

She posted a black and white photo of her maternity shoot with the caption, “I have never felt such overwhelming sadness and pure joy at the same time. It was hard to be grateful for the kindness, as if one of the most important people in my life is missing from the celebration.”

She added, “…Happy heavenly Father’s Day to the first man I ever loved, and happy soon Father’s Day to mine forever.”

The gender of their first child was later revealed via Instagram in July of that year. Booth and Mock fire canisters of confetti to bring out the blue.

Initially, Booth was depressed and depressed upon learning that she was pregnant with her first child. “I am trying to plan the wedding of my dreams. At this point, I was still trying to get married for six months to get it done this fall. So I just couldn’t believe it,” she said on the Bachelor Nation’s “Click Bait” podcast at the time. “We didn’t try to get pregnant, but we also didn’t try very hard not to get pregnant.”

The Arkansas native and her fiancé got engaged in April of that year while Booth was on the Bachelor Live On Stage tour. Bachelor The alums were shocked when Mock got down on one knee and proposed, asking “Are you kidding me?”

The couple first met before Booth left for Mexico to film Season 7. Bachelor in Paradise.

On another episode of the Click Bait podcast, she revealed that she didn’t really realize Mock until she returned from paradise. “One day he had the guts to try to flirt with me and get me to hang out and I was like, ‘Honey, I’m moving on. Bachelor in Paradise. See you later,” she said. “Then when I got home, I was like, ‘Damn, this damn dude has been here trying all this time, that’s all I asked for on the show.’ So, I tried, and we succeeded.”

Mock, a construction and project manager, was born and raised in California but now resides in Nashville, where Booth lives.

The reality TV star, for her part, made her Bachelor Nation debut during Arie Luyendyk Jr. season 22 Bachelor and later appeared on Bachelor in Paradise in 2018 and 2021.