{"id":230983,"date":"2020-09-17T18:34:12","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T23:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=230983"},"modified":"2020-09-17T23:31:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T04:31:19","slug":"empty-hearts-josie-bates-balka-miscarriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/empty-hearts-josie-bates-balka-miscarriage\/","title":{"rendered":"‘An empty spot in our hearts’: Josie Balka of ‘Bringing Up Bates’ tells of miscarriage"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Josie Bates Balka, the sixth daughter and tenth child overall of 19 children in the family featured on the popular reality TV show, “Bringing Up Bates,” recently shared devastating news on social media. The 21-year-old and her husband Kelton Balka are parents to 13-month-old Willow, and according to Josie’s Instagram post had recently shared news that they were expecting again with their extended families. Then, they lost the baby.<\/p>\n

Josie wrote<\/a>\u00a0on Instagram, “Sometimes you have to walk through experiences you never thought you would have to. This has been a very difficult time for our little family. Kelton and I were over the moon excited to be expecting a sweet baby in March, 2021! We were filled with anticipation as we began to dream of what it would be like as a family of four and for Willow to have a little playmate. We surprised our family and friends with the news at Willow’s one year old birthday party!” Josie shared, “Already, my heart felt an unexplainable amount of excitement!”<\/p>\n

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My favorite people in the world! I love doing life with these two.<\/a><\/p>\n

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