Married at First Sight couple Jamie Otis and Doug Hehner are debating the right time to start using a more permanent form of birth control.
“My husband wants a vasectomy, but I don’t want such a definitive stop on our family-creating journey,” Otis, 39, wrote via Instagram on Friday, February 27. “We had the most difficult time getting pregnant and growing our family. Multiple pregnancy losses. Years of trying to conceive, but we never gave up and look at us now.”
Otis and Hehner, 42, have been married since 2014, where they met on their wedding day during the first season of MAFS. Otis suffered a miscarriage two years later after learning she was expecting a baby boy they named Jonathan.
Otis gave birth to her first rainbow baby, daughter Henley, in 2017. The couple later welcomed son Hendrix in 2020 and twins Huxley and Hawkins in 2024, respectively, after other pregnancy losses.
“Pregnancy and bringing life into the world is such a miracle,” Otis added on Friday. “I thank God that he has blessed me to carry and deliver four precious babies on earth and one in heaven.🙏🏻❤️ Hubby, what’s one more?!?”
The Bachelor alum further stressed that whether or not Hehner gets a vasectomy will be a mutual decision driven by their shared family-planning desires.
“I can’t believe how angry I just made people by sharing about Doug’s vasectomy,” Otis said in an Instagram Stories video shared later on Friday. “I do think that comes down to whether or not we have [more] kids together. It’s something we both have to agree on.”
Hehner appeared in the background of Otis’ video, nodding his approval.
Otis also noted in her caption that getting either a vasectomy or a tubal ligation would be a joint decision since it “affects [their] whole family at large.”
Until making their decision, Otis and Hehner have their hands full as parents of four.
“We have two kids already, so we know the mayhem that comes with a baby,” Otis exclusively told Us Weekly in October 2024. “Expecting twins this time, I knew we had better be prepared for them. We fully anticipate it’s going to get a bit chaotic from time to time with two newborns, so I wanted a very calm and serene space for their nursery.”
After settling into her routine with 12-month-old twins, Otis has kept fans updated on her family via social media.
“Nothing makes my mommy heart happier than seeing my kids love on each other and play nicely together,” she gushed via Instagram earlier this month. “Hendrix has had such a tough time learning how to be gentle and play the way the twins like to play. They’d usually push him away [because] he was just a little too rough and loud. He really didn’t think they liked him or loved him and my heart BROKE over that.”
Otis continued at the time, “[Hendrix] been so patient with [the twins] and never gave up trying to play with them. He consistently keeps trying to learn exactly what they like so they won’t push him away, and it is really paying off. It is the SWEETEST watching him keep trying in the gentlest way.”
