Singer and TV personality Adrienne Bailon and husband Israel Houghton are celebrating today, because the couple shared with fans that they’ve welcomed their first child. Slightly boy named Ever James, the couple revealed that they welcomed their son through a surrogate after five years of attempting to expand their family.

“Our baby boy is here & we’re so in love!” they wrote in a joint Instagram announcement. “If you’ve followed our love story… that our journey to baby has been very difficult – But God is true to His word and His guarantees.”

“Now we have quietly prayed while sitting on this most opulent secret for the last 9 months. He’s price every tear, every disappointment, every delayed prayer, every IVF cycle, every miscarriage. Every little thing,” they added. “All we feel is joy and overwhelming love & gratitude. Grateful to God, to our angel surrogate and to all of our family and friends who’ve stood with us for over 5 years on this journey. He’s here and now we have never been happier to lose sleep!”

As noted, that is the pair’s first child together. Houghton has five others, including three from his first marriage to Meleasa Houghton, and two other children from a relationship with a girl named DeVawn Moreno.

Bailon has been open for years about her desire to have children for the reason that couple married, starting around 2017. And she or he also been open in regards to the hurdles they’ve faced, while at all times being optimistic that things would work out.

“We get these bad notices and it’ll be like ‘and it didn’t work this time’ or , I’ve done multiple cycles of IVF and so many other things, and I’ll be sad for a day, like I literally will cry,’” she said earlier this yr on The Real. “And like the following day, I do know this sounds psychotic, I’ll be like, ‘OK, I discovered three latest baby names.’ I don’t know why, I refuse to let this be the top of my story. I do know that it’s not. And I like it that I tell myself, it’s not an issue of will I be a mother, it’s an issue of when. And I promised myself that I’m sticking to it [and] that it would occur.”

And it has. Congratulations to the completely satisfied couple on their newest addition!