'American Idol' 's Janelle Arthur Welcomes First Baby, Daughter Lovelyn: 'In Love'

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Janelle Arthur is officially a mom!

“She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. Long life is in her right hand in her left hand are riches and honor. Her ways are pleasant ways, and all her paths are peace,” Arthur writes, quoting Proverbs 3:15-17.

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“It’s hard to put into words what you go through because you have so many different emotions,” Arthur told PEOPLE at the time. “It was as if my brain wasn’t prepared for the loss and the sadness of it all. I let myself cry and grieve. And then I just had to trust Him. I just had to trust God’s timing.”

“When I went in for my 20-week ultrasound, they determined that the due date was Jan. 19,” she explained. “I mean, you can’t even dream this stuff up!”

“I thought it was probably a little boy, but I was just so thrilled that it was a little girl,” she raved. “People are already buying this girl so much stuff. She’s going to be loved from every direction.”

“I want people to know that they are not alone,” she said. “For me, I feel like I have a child in heaven that I will see someday, so I don’t have to really look at it as a loss. It’s just delayed, and that’s okay. I knew that it was only going to happen when it was right. God was always going to give me the children that I’m supposed to have.”

source: people.com