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"Teen Mom OG" Star Catelynn Lowell & Tyler Baltierra Welcome Baby
Never underestimate a child's funny mind.
Ever since appearing connected 16 and Pregnant back successful 2009, Tyler Baltierra and Catelynn Lowell have been unfastened astir their determination to spot their girl Carly, present 13, for adoption. But connected the Nov. 1 occurrence of Teen Mom: The Next Chapter, some parents were forced to tackle the taxable with their 7-year-old girl Nova.
"I picked Nova up from schoolhouse and she got successful my car and said, ‘Mom, I'm sad,'" Catelynn, 30, told Tyler, 30. "She conscionable started sobbing saying, ‘I truly miss Carly. Why did you person to abstracted us?' It conscionable ne'er occurred to maine erstwhile I was making the determination astatine 16 however it would interaction my aboriginal children."
While gathered astir the room table, the mates mildly asked Nova what made her upset earlier successful the day. What came adjacent were a bid of questions that Nova wanted answers to.
"It feels similar that's my sister and I can't spot her that much," she said. "Imagine getting divided up from your sister oregon your brother? How aged were you erstwhile you were pregnant?"
When Catelynn revealed she was a teen astatine the time, Nova was shocked.
"That is not a grown up," Nova said. "You should be, like, 40 oregon something. Why did you deliberation astir having a babe that early?"
Without hesitating, Tyler admitted Mom and Dad weren't reasoning and made atrocious choices. "We were being irresponsible," helium said portion Catelynn added, "When mommy recovered retired she was pregnant, maine and daddy talked and we said we can't rise a babe close now. We didn't person cars. We were inactive successful school, nary jobs."
At the time, some Tyler and Catelynn—now besides parents to Vaeda, 3, and Rya, 13 months—agreed to an unfastened adoption with Carly's adoptive parents, Brandon and Teresa Davis, allowing in-person visits arsenic she grew up. While the reunions typically hap each 2 years implicit a 2 oregon three-day period, Catelynn antecedently said they pass successful aggregate ways.
"We substance backmost and forth," the MTV prima told E! News successful September 2021. "We nonstop pictures, I nonstop pictures of my girls to them and they nonstop pictures of Carly to america and updates connected what they are doing and vice versa."
While Nova is already asking questions, Catelynn knows her youngest kids will yet person their ain inquiries. And portion immoderate days whitethorn beryllium harder than others, the Teen Mom prima hopes her daughters cognize everything she did was retired of love.
"I cognize that it's going to beryllium a lifelong travel of missing out, my kids missing retired connected their sister's things and Carly missing retired connected her younger sisters' things," Catelynn told E! "It's portion of the sacrifice of adoption. We sacrifice a batch for this kid to person the beingness that she has."
Teen Mom: The Next Chapter airs Tuesday nights astatine 8 p.m. connected MTV.
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