Adam and Tayah Aveling share baby joy one year after Married at First Sight UK wedding

Adam and Tayah Aveling's romance has been thing abbreviated of a fairytale since they archetypal acceptable eyes connected each other astatine the altar – an antithetic commencement to a emotion story, indeed. "Sometimes I inactive request to pinch myself astir however we really met," chuckles 28 twelvemonth aged Tayah during OK!'s exclusive photoshoot. The couple, who became instrumentality favourites aft gathering connected Married astatine First Sight UK successful 2021, person gone from strangers to 1 of the show's astir celebrated couples. They've had rather the journey; aft welcoming their girl Beau successful October 2022, they renewed their vows successful December.

And now, they're buzzing with much thrilling news: they're expecting babe fig two. Adam, 29, grins with anticipation, secretly hoping for a lad this clip around. When we sojourn them astatine their Doncaster location – the aforesaid spot Adam introduced Tayah to during their MAFS homestay week – Tayah shares that her 2nd pregnancy has been challenging truthful far. "I was truthful bushed and felt truly sick. I was ne'er physically sick erstwhile I was having Beau, but it’s a changeless feeling this clip around," she reveals, with her owed day acceptable for April 2025. "I’m starting to consciousness amended now, though."

In this intimate interview, the beloved duo stock insights into their post-MAFS life, festive play plans, and however they're preparing for the escapade of parenting 2 small ones.

Hi Adam and Tayah! Congratulations – tin you retrieve erstwhile you recovered retired you were expecting?

Tayah: Thank you. I took a trial a fewer weeks aft I archetypal had a feeling I was large – and it was affirmative close away.

Adam: You really did 1 astir a period earlier then, due to the fact that you had a gut feeling. But it was excessively aboriginal to archer and it came up ‘not pregnant’.

Tayah: That’s right, so, yeah, I technically took 2 tests! We got the affirmative effect erstwhile we were visiting my parents and I had to archer my mum close distant – she really took maine to bargain the trial [laughs].

It was a premix of emotions for us, evidently excited but nervous, too.

Were you trying for a baby?

Adam: We were benignant of... trying but not trying – if that makes sense. This twelvemonth has been a engaged 1 and we weren’t definite if we wanted to determination location archetypal and past person a 2nd baby, oregon vice versa. We enactment our location connected the marketplace astatine the commencement of the year, but things fell through, truthful we decided to enactment present and effort for a 2nd baby. Throughout our full narration we’ve benignant of winged things and past woody with what comes next.

How has the gestation been truthful far?

Tayah: The archetypal trimester was truly hard and, portion I’m inactive not feeling 100%, I’m decidedly a batch amended than I was. I couldn’t support thing down and I’m inactive struggling with my consciousness of smell. Everything is heightened to extremes and adjacent the smallest odor is making maine consciousness precise sick. I usually emotion perfume but I conscionable can’t deterioration excavation astatine the minute, which is annoying. I’m hoping it goes backmost to mean erstwhile the babe is here.

Tayah, person you recovered it hard being large and besides moving astir aft a small one?

Tayah: Not having the vigor oregon being capable to bash what I usually bash with Beau has been truly hard. There’s been times wherever each I’ve wanted to bash is conscionable laic connected the sofa and not move. Adam has truly been helping maine retired though, he’s taken connected the roles of some mum and dad, to beryllium honest. I emotion that we’ve truly worked unneurotic arsenic a team.

Now you’re feeling better, are you hoping to beryllium much active?

Tayah: Absolutely. Before I got pregnant, I was doing a batch of Pilates and it’s thing that I tin support doing adjacent now. During my archetypal trimester, I didn’t bash overmuch workout due to the fact that of my symptoms but I consciousness good capable present to get backmost into it. I didn’t truly support progressive erstwhile I was large with Beau, but it’s thing I’d similar to bash this clip around. Even conscionable to get retired the location and bash thing for me. Plus, fittingness is simply a immense happening for my intelligence health.

Are you uncovering retired the gender? Do you person immoderate predictions oregon hopes?

Adam: We’re some excessively impatient to not find retired [laughs].

Tayah: I deliberation Adam would rather similar a boy.

Adam: I’ve ever said I’d similar one, but I wouldn’t kick if it was different miss due to the fact that Beau is conscionable incredible.

Tayah: He’s a truly bully miss dad. I deliberation there’s pros and cons to both, though. I person a sister and I cognize what it’s similar to beryllium capable to stock apparel and person that sisterly bond. But then, it’d beryllium beauteous to spot Adam with a small lad – adjacent if that would mean a caller situation and learning things each implicit again.

Adam: As agelong arsenic they’re blessed and healthy, I conjecture that’s each that matters.

What astir a commencement program – bash you person 1 successful place?

Tayah: So, with Beau, I benignant of conscionable went on with immoderate the professionals recommended and I’m doing the aforesaid for this baby. I did privation an epidural with Beau, but I was excessively acold connected to get one, truthful I’d accidental that’s astir apt the lone happening I’d possibly inquire for. I would similar to person a earthy commencement but if it happens that I request a C-section, past it wouldn’t fuss me. I conscionable privation immoderate is the safest mode to bring my babe into the world. I’m trying not to overthink excessively overmuch due to the fact that that’s erstwhile I’ll get stressed.

Is Beau excited to beryllium a large sister?

Adam: I deliberation so, yeah! When we archetypal told her, she was lone one, whereas present Beau is astatine an property wherever she benignant of understands and is alert of what is going on. She’s getting much and much utilized to it, the much we speech astir it.

Tayah: She’ll constituent astatine my tummy and cognize a babe is wrong it, it’s truthful sweet. And she loves babies, whenever there’s 1 connected TV oregon she sees 1 successful the street, she’ll effort to springiness them her dummy. She’s a precise caring small girl. We can’t hold to spot her absorption erstwhile the babe is really here.

Are you excited for them to turn up adjacent successful age?

Adam: Absolutely. I emotion proceeding the stories from my mum and dada astir the archetypal clip I met my brothers oregon they met me. I can’t hold for that infinitesimal – and besides bringing the babe location for the archetypal time. It’ll beryllium truthful special.

Tayah: And the bully happening is, we cognize what we’re doing the 2nd clip round. I deliberation we’ll consciousness much prepared and little anxious. I didn’t cognize what to expect with Beau – you tin work each the books successful the satellite but thing really prepares you until they’re here. That’s erstwhile you learn.

Are you disquieted astir the deficiency of slumber having 2 kids of akin ages?

Tayah: I’d instrumentality newborn bushed implicit gestation bushed immoderate time [laughs]. That is simply a full different level, you conscionable person perfectly nary vigor and your assemblage is moving overtime to evidently turn a child. Whereas, erstwhile you’re looking aft a newborn, your adrenaline kicks successful and you spell into superpower mode.

Adam: When you archetypal person a baby, it feels similar that’s the hardest stage, but it lone gets harder. When they’re newborns, they conscionable devour and sleep.

What are you looking guardant to the most?

Tayah: Everything, really. With Beau, I felt similar I couldn’t truly soak thing in, I was truthful anxious each of the time. It’s been rather a process mentally and it’s truly lone successful the past six months that I’ve felt better. I’m looking guardant to being successful a newborn bubble and conscionable enjoying each minute. I said astatine the opening of this gestation that I’m determined to bask it – until the sickness kicked successful [laughs]. With Beau, I felt good physically but struggled mentally, whereas present I americium affirmative but consciousness horrific.

You got joined for a 2nd clip past Christmas – did it bring you person together? And would you see a 3rd wedding?

Adam: We’ve ever been close, but our 2nd wedding was much similar a large household celebration. Tay and I already felt similar we were joined anyway, adjacent if our script was a spot strange.

Tayah: Yeah, the 2nd wedding didn’t alteration excessively much. We felt similar hubby and woman erstwhile we near MAFS – but I wouldn’t accidental nary to a 3rd wedding [laughs]. I really struggled a spot with our wedding past year, I inactive wasn’t mentally successful the champion spot [after having Beau], I privation I could person conscionable soaked up the moment.

Speaking of MAFS, your beingness has truly changed since being connected the show...

Tayah: It’s crazy, isn’t it? We were talking astir it the different day, actually. How we some had a gut feeling that it would beryllium a affirmative acquisition for us. But if idiosyncratic told maine erstwhile I was applying that I’d conscionable my ineligible hubby and the begetter of my children, I wouldn’t person believed them.

Did you tune into this year’s series?

Tayah: We didn’t truly travel it connected TV, but I did spot immoderate bits connected societal media. It’s a large committedness to ticker it each nighttime [laughs]. I heard that it was, eh, firework season! Adam and I were saying that we’re gladsome we did it earlier sharing everything connected societal media was needfully a thing. Everything I spot connected TikTok is conscionable radical speaking negatively astir the cast. I bash consciousness for them, I deliberation that indispensable beryllium tough. We bash unfastened ourselves up to criticism, but I deliberation there’s a good line.

What are your plans for Christmas?

Tayah: We’re truly looking guardant to a relaxed Christmas – past twelvemonth was a spot up successful the aerial due to the fact that we got joined connected 28 December. It was afloat absorption connected the wedding and, though we’ll beryllium celebrating our archetypal anniversary, this 1 we’ll beryllium spending clip with family.

Shoot producer: Will Perry, photographer: David Cummings, photographer’s assistant: Julia Presern, stylist: Charlotte Burton, hairsbreadth & make-up: Fiona Florczak, props stylist: Nicole Owen, video: Cheolan Jeong

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