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See Kourtney Kardashian's Pregnancy Reveal astatine Blink-182 Concert!
Kourtney Kardashian has agelong wanted to support up with another baby.
The Poosh founder—who shares Mason, 13, Penelope, 10, and Reign, 8, with ex Scott Disick—announced June 16 that she's expecting her 4th child, her archetypal with hubby Travis Barker.
But the 44-year-old was dreaming of expanding her household adjacent before she dated Travis, asking a fan successful 2020 to "put the blessing retired there" arsenic she prayed for different small one.
And once she and Travis, 47, went from affable neighbors to lovers, it became wide helium was the cleanable idiosyncratic to bask each the tiny things—and large things—with. The Blink-182 drummer was already dada to Landon Barker, 19, and Alabama Barker, 17, with ex-wife Shanna Moakler, and stepdad to 24-year-old Atiana De La Hoya.
Sure enough, soon after Travis and Kourtney got engaged successful October 2021, the mates had babe connected the brain, a root told E! News astatine the time. They started the in vitro fertilization (IVF) process, but it yet "took a toll" connected her some mentally and physically, truthful they pressed pause on their travel successful aboriginal 2022.
"It was a lot," she said successful an interview past year. "I took a interruption to conscionable absorption connected our wedding and getting married."
But they didn't springiness up connected the anticipation of increasing their blended family—and successful betwixt their Las Vegas wedding successful April 2022 and their official nuptials successful Italy successful May, Kourtney reflected on conscionable however galore small rockers she'd emotion to person with Travis 1 day.
"I would emotion two, successful a imagination world," she told Access Hollywood. "And we each person three—so six, seven, eight."
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However, IVF conscionable didn't look similar it was for them. The Lemme laminitis had antecedently frozen 7 of her eggs, but they "didn't past the thaw" and nary made it to the embryo stage, she said connected a May 2023 episode of The Kardashians.
And portion the couple was "officially done" with the IVF process, they decided to way her ovulation and effort connected their own.
"We would emotion a babe much than anything, but I conscionable truly judge successful what God has successful store for us," Kourtney shared. "If that's a baby, past I judge that it volition happen."
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Just 1 period aft that confessional aired, the spouses were acceptable to denote their gestation quality to the world. Kourtney revealed she was expecting successful the champion way: by holding up a motion reading, "Travis I'm Pregnant" at a Blink-182 performance to recreate an iconic country from 1 of their euphony videos.
Scroll connected to support up with everything that led up to that moment—and everything Kourtney has said astir her tendency to person different kid with Travis.
January 2020: Kourtney Wants Another Baby
Months earlier she began dating Travis Barker, Kourtney Kardashian shared that she wanted to beryllium large again. When a follower asked if she was expecting, she responded, "No I wish." A fewer months later, she asked another fan connected societal media to "put the blessing retired there."
February 2021: Instagram Official
The brace made their romance public soon aft Valentine's Day.
October 2021: Kourtney and Travis Are Engaged & Open to Parenthood
Soon aft getting engaged successful October, they expressed involvement successful having a babe unneurotic and were hoping to beryllium expecting by 2022, a root told E! News.
"They would emotion thing much than to person a babe together," the root shared astatine the time. "Kourtney has ever wanted different babe and ne'er felt similar she was done. Now that she's with Travis, she wants it adjacent more."
November 2021: Brainstorming Baby Names
Travis had baby connected the brain aft they celebrated Halloween together—with Kourt dressing arsenic Patricia Arquette's character, Alabama Whitman, from True Romance. He commented connected a photograph of her, "Our sons sanction would be Elvis."
March 2022: They Confirm They're Exploring IVF
The Poosh laminitis confirmed she and Travis were truly trying to get large successful a March 2022 teaser for The Kardashians' archetypal season. "Travis and I privation to person a baby," she said, arsenic cameras captured them consulting aesculapian professionals to commencement the in vitro fertilization (IVF) process.
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April 2022: Kourtney Reveals How Many More Kids She Wants
Kourtney told Access Hollywood just however galore small rockers she wants with Travis, gushing, "I would emotion two, successful a imagination world."
April 2022: Kim Kardashian Gives an Update
Kim Kardashian reflected connected Kravis' hope to turn their family, telling Ellen DeGeneres, "I deliberation erstwhile you find emotion that you can't unrecorded without and there's inactive a chance—she's successful her aboriginal 40s—I deliberation they decidedly privation to spot what beingness would beryllium similar with a baby."
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April 2022: Kourtney Gets Emotional Over IVF Process
In an April occurrence of The Kardashians, Kourtney said IVF has been "awful" for her. "It hasn't been the astir astonishing experience," she said. "The medicine that they've been giving me, they enactment maine into menopause."
She told ma Kris Jenner that online comments speculating astir her gestation truly impact her. "Every azygous idiosyncratic connected societal media is ever like, 'Kourtney's pregnant,'" she said. "'Kourtney's gained truthful overmuch weight.' And I'm like, it's truthful rude to remark connected radical erstwhile you person nary thought what they're really going through."
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May 2022: Wedding Bells Are Ringing
It's amore! Their families traveled from their location successful Calabasas, Calif. to ticker the mates get married successful Italy.
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September 2022: They've Stopped IVF
The rocker duo shared that they were nary longer going done the IVF process.
"We started an IVF journey, but I stopped," Kourtney told WSJ. Magazine astatine the time. "It was a lot. I took a interruption to conscionable absorption connected our wedding and getting married."
September 2022: She Shares Why She Loves Their Blended Family
Kourtney explained wherefore parenting with the Blink-182 drummer conscionable works truthful well, arsenic she shares Mason, Penelope and Reign Disick with ex Scott Disick, while Travis shares Landon and Alabama Barker with ex Shanna Moakler and is besides stepdad to Atiana De La Hoya.
"We person known each different and I person had my ain narration with his kids for, like, 10 years," she told Today. "It does marque it truly easy. We each conscionable cognize each different and each other's intentions."
She added, "I came from a blended family... We person experience."
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September 2022: Kourtney Claps Back connected Pregnancy Comment
When 1 instrumentality commented, "Wait a minute, did I miss that she's pregnant?" connected Kourtney's lingerie photo, the world prima replied, "Nope, but you're missing a woman's body."
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October 2022: Kourtney Kardashian Says IVF "Took a Toll"
Kourtney got candid connected the antagonistic effects of the fertility process, saying on the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast, "It truly took a toll connected my wellness and mentally...The hormones. The medication. You person to get enactment to slumber each time. I cognize it's for truthful galore radical but it's conscionable not for me."
As for wherefore they tried it to statesman with? "I felt similar we benignant of got pushed into doing IVF," she confessed. "If you look online, it says if you're implicit 40 spell close distant to an IVF doctor. So I felt a small spot pushed."
Kourtney's new doctrine is that the "timing" volition enactment retired connected its own: "I consciousness similar if it's genuinely meant to beryllium it volition happen."
March 2023: Kourtney Shares More connected the After Effects
When a societal media idiosyncratic asked if she was expecting, Kourtney responded that her appearance has changed due to "the aft affects of IVF [sic]." She clapped backmost by saying, "I lone admit this remark due to the fact that I bash deliberation it's important to cognize however IVF affects women's bodies and it's not spoken astir much. Also are we inactive asking women if they're pregnant?"
May 2023: She Says None of Her Eggs Made It to Embryos
On a May occurrence of The Kardashians, Kourtney shared that the spouses were "officially done" with IVF, noting that her eggs "didn't past the thaw" and that nary of them "made it" to an embryo. "People bash it reasoning that it's similar a information nett and it's not."
"We would emotion a babe much than anything, but I conscionable truly judge successful what God has successful store for us," she said successful a confessional. "If that's a baby, past I judge that it volition happen. Being blessed is astir important, and being a bully genitor to my kids."
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May 2023: Trying to Conceive connected Their Own
They were still determined to turn their household and were trying connected their own, she revealed successful a May 2023 Hulu episode.
In fact, she told Khloe Kardashian that they were tracking her cycle. "I cognize that I'm already precocious for you, but I americium ovulating," she shared. "If you springiness america 5 minutes to spell bash thing truly fast...we'll beryllium back."
Fifteen minutes later, she was backmost and saying it was a "record."
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June 2023: Pregnancy Reveal
The mates shared that they're expecting! Kourtney pulled off a romanticist stunt astatine a Blink-182 performance successful June 2023, holding up a motion saying, "Travis I'm Pregnant" similar successful their 1999 euphony video "All The Small Things."
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