Four-time Billboard Country Airplay chart-topping artist Lauren Alaina and her husband Cam Arnold have welcomed their first child together, daughter Beni Doll Arnold, born Wednesday, June 11 in Nashville. Beni Doll weighed 7 pounds and 13 ounces, and was 19 inches long.
“The right words are hard to find to describe how parts of my heart that I didn’t even knew existed were unlocked at 8:44 AM when they laid you on my belly for the first time. I will never be the same,” Alaina wrote in a social media post, revealing the birth of the couple’s daughter. “You, to your dad and me, are absolute perfection. We are honored God chose us to be your parents. Thank you to everyone for all the love, prayers and support for our precious daughter.”
Alaina also released a new song, “Heaven Sent,” to celebrate the occasion. Alaina co-wrote the song with her labelmate HARDY and Ben Johnson. The song also pays tribute to Alaina’s own father, who passed away nearly a year ago.
“I have a little surprise for everyone. To celebrate the most precious miracle on Earth, I have decided to release a song I wrote about my daughter,” Alaina added. “We learned she was coming in a time of deep sadness after the loss of my daddy. I wasn’t sure when I would share ‘Heaven Sent,’ but watching my own husband become a father the last couple of days has made me want to share it with you now.”
Alaina added that that her daughter being born just before Father’s Day felt significant, especially given that this is her “first without my own father … now have a new and perfect reason to celebrate it: Beni’s daddy, my sweet and steady husband. Beni is truly a gift from God that my old man sitting up there in Heaven Sent.”
Alaina first shared the news of her pregnancy in January, at the end of the music video for her song “Those Kind of Women.” She’s released a string of songs this year, including “Household” and “All My Exes,” featuring Chase Matthew.
Hear “Heaven Sent” below:
