{"id":386495,"date":"2026-01-04T01:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T01:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/386495\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T01:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T01:43:08","slug":"meghan-mccain-and-ben-domenech-welcome-their-third-baby-a-boy-were-absolutely-over-the-moon-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/386495\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan McCain and Ben Domenech Welcome Their Third Baby, a Boy: &#8216;We&#8217;re Absolutely Over the Moon&#8217; (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEED TO KNOW<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Meghan McCain and her husband, Ben Domenech, have welcomed their third baby together \u2014 a boy named Ransom McCain Domenech<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The couple&#8217;s son was born on Jan. 2, PEOPLE can exclusively reveal<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">McCain and Domenech are already parents to daughters Liberty, 5, and Clover, 2<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/meghan-mccain\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Meghan McCain;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Meghan McCain<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/politics\/meghan-mccain-celebrates-5th-anniversary-with-husband-ben-domenech\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ben Domenech;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Ben Domenech<\/a> have welcomed their third baby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The couple&#8217;s son, Ransom McCain Domenech, was born on Friday, Jan. 2, PEOPLE can exclusively reveal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cEveryone is happy, healthy and exhausted,&#8221; McCain tells PEOPLE in a statement. &#8220;We\u2019re absolutely over the moon that our baby boy is here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Courtesy of the McCain Family Ben Domenech (left) and Meghan McCain (right) with newborn son Ransom McCain Domenech (center).\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/43feb7a3a52845223d7b4f7dfa138374.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of the McCain Family<\/p>\n<p> Ben Domenech (left) and Meghan McCain (right) with newborn son Ransom McCain Domenech (center).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We\u2019re so grateful to the incredible doctors and medical staff who took such wonderful care of all of us,&#8221; McCain \u2014 who is already a mom to <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/meghan-mccain-celebrates-easter-with-her-2-daughters-8405089\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:daughters Liberty Sage, 5, and Clover Jade, 2;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">daughters Liberty Sage, 5, and Clover Jade, 2<\/a> \u2014\u00a0continues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She adds, &#8220;Liberty and Clover are so excited to have a baby brother. Our family is so blessed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">McCain, whose parents are <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/author\/cindy-mccain\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cindy McCain;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Cindy McCain<\/a> and the late U.S. Senator\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/john-mccain\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:John McCain;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">John McCain<\/a>, shared her pregnancy news exclusively with PEOPLE in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She later expanded on her pregnancy while speaking with second lady <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/all-about-usha-vance-jd-vance-wife-11855731\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Usha Vance;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Usha Vance<\/a> for her podcast, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@CitizenMcCainYouTube\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:2Way&#039;s Citizen McCain with Meghan McCain;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">2Way&#8217;s Citizen McCain with Meghan McCain<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/people-news-daily-newsletter-sign-up-8692701\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:PEOPLE&#039;s free daily newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> PEOPLE&#8217;s free daily newsletter<\/a> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer\u200b\u200b, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I hope you don&#8217;t mind. I wanted to let you in on something that&#8217;s private that I haven&#8217;t talked about publicly yet,&#8221; McCain told Vance, 39, at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I have two little girls. They are almost 5 and almost 3. And I just am entering my second trimester, I&#8217;m pregnant with my third,&#8221; she continued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I know this is a weird way to announce it, but I&#8217;m very nervous about,&#8221; McCain added. &#8220;It&#8217;s a boy. I&#8217;m very nervous about having a boy. And I&#8217;m very nervous about having three children. Very.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Courtesy of the McCain Family Ransom McCain Domenech.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"368\" height=\"480\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ad7c746c6eb487793e2a2b6089e9f866.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of the McCain Family<\/p>\n<p> Ransom McCain Domenech.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">McCain spoke with PEOPLE in 2023 about how she believes in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/meghan-mccain-talks-daughters-first-birthday-keeping-it-basic-exclusive-8425935\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:keeping things really basic;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">keeping things really basic<\/a>&#8221; when it comes to her parenting style.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I feel so lucky just to have children because\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/parents\/celebrities-who-had-babies-after-miscarriage\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:I didn&#039;t know if I was ever going to be able;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">I didn&#8217;t know if I was ever going to be able<\/a>\u00a0to have children,&#8221; she said at the time. &#8220;I feel so lucky to be in this really sweet spot in my life right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Added the former co-host of\u00a0The View: &#8220;I just really try and live in a moment with them and really appreciate everything, even when it&#8217;s not glamorous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the original article on <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/meghan-mccain-ben-domenech-welcome-their-third-baby-a-boy-exclusive-11834019\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:People;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">People<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEED TO KNOW Meghan McCain and her husband, Ben Domenech, have welcomed their third baby together \u2014 a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[188055,188056,88,188059,188058,107601,188057],"class_list":{"0":"post-386495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-ben-domenech","9":"tag-cindy-mccain","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-mccain","12":"tag-mccain-family","13":"tag-meghan-mccain","14":"tag-ransom-mccain-domenech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}