DC ExtraTime: Cheyenne & Baby Ryder - The Reveal, Baby Shower & Birth

From last year during coverage of AYTO and The Challenge; DCBLOG will offer more on them & Cory when it looks at their arrival on Teen Mom OG before its October premiere.

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From during Real World Seattle in Oct. 2016

CHEYENNE'S PREGNANT!

Well, it's safe to say that wouldn't be a season in the Trifecta without mentioning anything about babies... we've sure had a good number of them in our time covering this world on here. In our RW season preview, we told you about Tyler from AYTO Season 4 announcing his incoming entry into fatherhood, and as Tony from RW Skeletons & two Challenges prepares to become a dad for the second time in nine months next month, they and so many others who've gone through this experience now have some company: another one is on the way.

It seems as if the AYTO Season 3 cast - Team Ohana - has had quite the past 13 months: two couples in Zak & Hannah and Chuck & Britni still together, Amanda & Nelson dropping into Rivals III, the many adventures of Kiki, and of course Mike making his much talked-about crossover into RW land. And of course, there's that most eventful finale and its ending 11 months ago that earned them the Underdog Award on last year's Reality Debrief Awards. Now, they have something in common with a few other alums of their show and so many others in the wider Trifecta ecosystem.

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It wasn't that long ago that we were discussing inside the Strategy Room about what could possibly happen if Devin & Cheyenne could make a run at Bananas & Sarah when they were second at the end of the first stage of the Rivals III final. That didn't turn out that way, but along with Team Princess holding up to the pressure at least now there is an additional consolation prize to go along with adding to that prize money that Devin singlehandedly helped them win the $750,000.

On Wednesday while many's attention were split among Real World, the debate and baseball, Cheyenne announced on Instagram and on her 24th birthday with a simple caption news that would reverberate in the Trifecta: "the greatest birthday present in 24 years 👶🏽✨." That angel who's about to be a mom revealed her baby bump to everyone, all part of a 24th birthday party and baby reveal party thrown for her in her L.A. pad to reveal to the world her new munchkin and was captured for those on that social media platform to see. A Snapchat story captured all the excitement and plenty of dance moves for the big day, as well as her eating a cupcake that revealed the gender of who the baby would be, and it turned up pink - which means she has a baby girl coming.

She further adds on IG, "Thank you for all of the loving text, calls, and comments.. yesterday was one of the best days of my life full of love, happiness, and support! I am having a girl 💗💕👑." We send our congrats out to Cheyenne and the Floyd family and wish her all the best.

DC ExtraTime: Cheyenne & Baby Ryder - After Birth

From during The Challenge XXX and 3 months after Baby's Ryder's birth; DCBLOG will offer more on them & Cory when it looks at their arrival on Teen Mom OG before its October premiere.

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With Nelson and Hunter aligning with Cory, Britni winning the first female Presidio and Devin & Amanda holding fort in Redemption Island, it wasn't long ago that they and their AYTO Season 3 castmates were the new kids on the block. It was at this very time in early August 2015 that the group who affectionately called themselves "Team Ohana" was just enjoying some R&R between filming their season and them being revealed later that month as MTV's newest class of newbies. Of course, we saw them pull out a Miracle in the Islands, the man who plotted that ascend to superstar status, and even saw one of their own head to the Real World Bad Blood house and score a blonde who happens to be on this Challenge. And of course, they have made a lot of noise on here.

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And then, there's that baby. As we told you back in our last cycle, Cheyenne revealed her entry into parenthood on her birthday last October through an Instagram post and then had a party with family and friends that doubled as the gender reveal, and it being a baby girl. Then, she had her baby shower in the company of her inner circle as well as Devin, Britni's perfect match entrepreneur Austin and (as a result of her & Chuck splitting up recently) the lone remaining lovebirds of that season who's still together, Zak & Hannah. And in April, the moment arrived when Ryder K. Floyd was born and social world was abuzz in sending their heartiest congrats to the newest mom in the MTV family.

Last week on her YouTube channel as the young one turned four months old, Cheyenne shared a YouTube video of her giving birth to Ryder K.  There, Chey shared her experience of going into labor this past spring and the enormously painful process of that coming of age moment whose rewards are of welcoming her new baby girl.  And if you're a parent or someone who's gone through this experience - including my sister who's had this two times, you'll relate to her. Enjoy the video below.

That video helped to launch Cheyenne and Ryder's own YouTube vlog where the mom plans to share some of her experiences in this first year of motherhood. Last week, she posted a video of baby Ryder going swimming for the first time, and just yesterday came another clip, this time in castmates -- or better yet, uncle and aunt -- Zak and Hannah got to meet her as well as them posing for pics for their new clothing line.

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DC ExtraTime: Cory, Cheyenne & Baby Ryder K.

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As we near the end of 2017 amidst the warmth of the holidays, there have been a lot of big moments and unexpected surprises both in and outside the ecosystem this site calls the MTV Trifecta in the course of the past 12 months. We saw anguish and elation for the Seasons 5 and 6 Are You The One? casts, the arrival of the newbies of Floribama Shore, and the survival test of Stranded with a Million Dollars. And of course, there's the move of making The Challenge a year-round happening with not one, not two... but four seasons of the fifth major pro sport airing this year alone. And as a result, DCBLOG has been churning out a record number of posts to more readers than ever, including ExtraTime stories such as these.

   And before we begin our usual year-end review of the reality TV year this Christmas weekend, there's the latest life-changing moment for not one, but two people in this always fascinating world of the people who make this world happen. It's of something very familiar in one who has been on recent Challenges who started like many others on a Real World season, and we've seen so much happen to him since. But this also links all three shows we cover extensively here, as he is also linked to an Are You The One? alum, and for which they were casted together on one season and saw one of the many love affairs he's had in front of MTV cameras. And in the end, the result is two things that take on greater priority: the responsibility of family and raising a young kid at this young adult stage.

   This is the very scenario that, just now, is beginning to play itself out in Real World Ex-Plosion alum and soon-to-be six-time Challenge competitor Cory Wharton and AYTO Season 3 alum and Rivals III finalist Cheyenne Floyd, and where of all things, a baby, has brought them together yet again.