{"id":288783,"date":"2023-04-09T11:37:15","date_gmt":"2023-04-09T16:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=288783"},"modified":"2023-04-07T11:42:17","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T16:42:17","slug":"couple-first-daughter-husbands-family-1885","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/couple-first-daughter-husbands-family-1885\/","title":{"rendered":"Couple welcomes first daughter in husband&#8217;s family since 1885"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>A couple in Michigan has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodmorningamerica.com\/family\/story\/michigan-family-welcomes-1st-daughter-130-years-87746845\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">welcomed<\/a> a baby girl \u2014 the first daughter in the husband&#8217;s family since 1885. Audrey Marie Clark was born on St. Patrick&#8217;s Day in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Ten years ago, when Carolyn Clark began dating her now-husband Andrew, he told her that for generations his family had only welcomed sons. She didn&#8217;t think much of it, though, and didn&#8217;t fully believe that it was true.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m like, &#8216;Oh, it&#8217;s a 50-50 chance every time. What do you mean?&#8217; He goes, &#8216;No, legitimately, we have not had a girl in our direct line in over 100 years,'&#8221; she told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodmorningamerica.com\/family\/story\/michigan-family-welcomes-1st-daughter-130-years-87746845\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Good Morning America<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/video\/embed\/?pid=13090872\" width=\"476\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The couple already had a son when they suffered a miscarriage in 2021. So when they learned they were pregnant again, they weren&#8217;t focused on whether they were having a boy or a girl, just the hope that they wouldn&#8217;t experience a second miscarriage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When we found out we were pregnant, we honestly didn&#8217;t care if we were having a boy or girl at that point,&#8221; said Carolyn. &#8220;We just were thankful to be pregnant and just praying for a healthy pregnancy and a healthy baby.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When the time came to learn the baby&#8217;s gender, they decided to do a big gender reveal for their family with cookies that had either blue or pink frosting on the inside. No one, not even the couple, knew if the baby was a boy or a girl, but Andrew expected it to be a boy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/walgreens-cvs-petition\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-283198\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--700x180.jpg\" alt=\"Walgreens CVS banner\" width=\"700\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--700x180.jpg 700w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--300x77.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--768x197.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--500x128.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We kept it a surprise to ourselves as well,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/michigan-family-first-daughter-138-years-baby-girl\/13092350\/?ex_cid=TA_WLS_FB&amp;utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&amp;utm_medium=trueAnthem&amp;utm_source=facebook&amp;fbclid=IwAR3wI7AobUqAkSswNUcGQo8ZdquXzYg92RY6qMMxDfGn4J_WRBBRjC_RsdU&amp;mibextid=Zxz2cZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Andrew. &#8220;So I just assumed it was going to be blue in the center of the cookies and it&#8217;d be another boy in the lineage. I was shocked. I think I just stared at the center of that cookie like, it&#8217;s really pink. So it was a good suprise for us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The now-family of four is thrilled to be home together and the whole family is celebrating the newest baby girl in 138 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/give.liveaction.org\/general-donation\/?utm_source=lan&amp;utm_medium=display&amp;utm_campaign=monthly&amp;utm_content=article\"><i><strong>Did you know that as little as $10 a month is enough to reach more than 3,000 people with the truth about abortion that no one else is telling them? Click here to start saving lives 365 days a year.<\/strong><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple in Michigan has welcomed a baby girl \u2014 the first daughter in the husband&#8217;s family since 1885. Audrey Marie Clark was born on St. Patrick&#8217;s Day in 2023. 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