Jon Mullins And Wife Welcome First Child: ‘Our Daughter Is The Biggest Miracle’
By Movieguide® Contributor
THE VOICE alum Jon Mullins has welcomed his first child! His wife Whitney gave birth to a daughter named Charlotte Rose on September 21.
“You never quite realize how insane and special and crazy having a child is until it happens to you,” Mullins shared. “But I wouldn’t miss it for the world.”
He and Whitney were initially worried about her pregnancy. Due to the ongoing effects of a 2016 traumatic brain injury, Whitney was deemed a “high risk” pregnancy.
“It was a scheduled c-section,” Mullins said of Charlotte’s birth. “It was probably the most terrifying day of both of our lives because you’re walking into a room and your wife is on an operating table and there’s nothing you can do.”
Thankfully, the procedure went fine. Adding to the couple’s worries was a 2021 miscarriage.
“I was actually at a writer’s retreat in Tennessee, and Whitney called me to tell me something was wrong,” Mullins remembered. “Within a day and a half, she had lost almost half of her blood volume. We lost our baby and we almost lost Whitney.”
The couple were overjoyed to hear that Whitney was pregnant again, but were still anxious about the birth.
“All the things that could have gone wrong or that usually would have gone wrong for some reason went right,” the singer shared. “We’re Christians. We love Jesus. And when it comes down to it, even though everyone says to ‘trust God,’ we were still scared.”
Now that Charlotte is here, the couple can’t wait to be parents.
“I don’t know how I can imagine leaving Whitney and Charlotte behind to go play a show, because I feel like my heart is going to break,” Mullins said. “But I’ll figure out how to juggle that.”
He continued, “I don’t know how to explain it, but to go from something that’s just a thought in our minds and a hope in our souls and a prayer that’s come out of our mouths to a human being that we now get to call our daughter is the biggest miracle. I don’t think anybody ever really grasps how much of a miracle it is until it happens to you.”