Bobby Bones is about to be a dad — and his co-host is already offering to babysit for free.

The 45-year-old country music personality and host of “The Bobby Bones Show” took to Instagram on Sept. 24 to reveal that he and his wife Caitlin Parker are expecting their first baby in 2026.

In the post, Bones has his hands on his wife’s baby bump while she snaps a photo in front of a mirror. He captioned the post with a baby emoji and red heart emoji.

Both soon-to-be parents immediately shared the post on their Instagram Stories.

“Away we go!” Bones wrote on his Story, while his wife added, “Parents,” on her own.

On his show, Bones joked that he originally thought about not telling anyone about the news until the baby was born, but his wife nixed that idea because she didn’t like the idea of hiding it for nine months.

He also considered going with a funny announcement, but his wife didn’t want it to be a “comedy sketch.”

The couple reportedly didn’t have a set plan on when to announce it, but Bones suddenly got the green light after his recent interview with Clint Black.

“You can go ahead and post it, I’m ready for it to be said,” she told him, according to “The Bobby Bones Show.”

Nonetheless, Bones admitted that he has been dropping “little Easter eggs” on the show for weeks.

On a Sept. 18 episode, Bones and his colleagues went through a list of social media influencer-inspired baby names to see if they liked any of them.

While he wasn’t too fond of Stormi or Saint — sorry Kardashian fans — he did like the idea of Charlie for a girl and revealed that he is a fan of unisex names.

He also gave Zara, Arya, Sage and Addison a “thumbs down,” but was all for Rowan — another gender-neutral name.

On Sept. 23, Bones did a segment on his show about how not to discipline your kids. At one point in the segment, the soon-to-be dad said: “I think eventually we’ll have kids.”

Country music community congratulates Bones on his baby announcement

The country music community showed out in full force now that the world knows that Bobby Bones’ wife is pregnant.

Many of his colleagues and friends took to the comment section of the pregnancy announcement to share their congratulations.

“Double tap x 1000000000 🥹🥹🥹❤️❤️❤️ cannot wait to hold this precious baby. 👶🏼😍🙌🏼 will babysit. for free,” his co-host Amy Brown wrote under the photo.

“What does this mean? Please elaborate,” the show’s producer Eddie Garcia added.

“Man this is absolutely awesome - brother - you are going to be an incredible father . Welcome to the Goood Dad Gang,” country music star Jelly Roll wrote.

Other celebrities to comment on the post include Sharna Burgess, Cole Swindell, Russell Dickerson, Hillary Scott, Brandon Ray, Lina Bryan, Brantley Gilbert, Jason Aldean, Lauren Lane and Lionel Richie.

Bones and Parker met on the set of “Dancing with the Stars” in 2019, according to People.

They had separately attended the Season 28 premiere — one year after Bones was crowned champion — when they were introduced to one another.

They started talking on social media a month later and started dating shortly after.

One year later, Bones proposed to Parker in the barn in their backyard — and she said yes. The couple shared photos of the magical moment on Instagram in October 2020.

They tied the knot in their backyard in July 2021, per People, and are now set to be first-time parents.

According to “The Bobby Bones Show,” the radio personality “isn’t nervous yet” and is focusing his efforts on “helping Caitlin feel better through the tough early months.”

He’s also refraining from saying the phrase “we’re pregnant.”

“She’s doing all the work. I just get to be here,” he said on the show — adding that he once thought he’d never become a father because of how he grew up without a father.

Nonetheless, his first baby is on the way and was already given a future scholarship.

According to his show, Coach Barry Odom at Purdue — a friend of Bones — offered his child a future spot on the team, boy or girl.

“Bobby laughed that if the baby gets Caitlin’s athletic genes, ‘it’s on,’ since her whole family is full of athletes,” the show reported.

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