Dale Earnhardt Jr. announces the birth of his second daughter, Nicole Lorraine
Dale Earnhardt Jr. announced on his weekly podcast that his wife, Amy Earnhardt, gave birth to their second daughter, Nicole Lorraine, on Monday, October 12 — just two days after Dale Jr.’s birthday.
On the Dale Jr. Download, which was released later than usual because of the big baby news, Earnhardt explained that their second daughter’s name comes from both Amy and his late mother, Brenda Jackson.
“It is awesome,” Dale Jr. said on the podcast. “Amy had a pretty good pregnancy, and she said it felt like it was a long one because of COVID and all that. But we’re not gonna complain because we’ve got a healthy little baby girl, and her name is Nicole Lorraine. Nicole is Amy’s middle name, and Lorraine is my mom’s middle name.”
The Earnhardts’ first daughter, Isla, celebrated her second birthday in April. They announced they were having a second child back in March, and Dale Jr. explained why he was elated to have another daughter.
On this week’s podcast, Junior said everything about their second pregnancy felt more “laid back” and “chill” than the first.
“When we came home with Isla, we were a ball of nerves. We were freaking out. You get home, and you’re like, ‘Ahh, I can’t believe they let us take this home.’ … And then when we had Nicole, in the hospital, we were like, ‘When can we get out of here? Let’s get out of here. What are we doing? What are we sitting here for?'”
And this time, unlike with Isla, Earnhardt said he and Amy weren’t a “basket of nerves” on the way home or once they got there. But it also probably helps, at least a little, that he said Nicole Lorraine is a pretty chill and quiet baby too.
“It’s going great!” Earnhardt continued. “It’s going very smooth. She is super quiet, doesn’t cry. The only time she has ever cried is when she’s hungry, and you just get her up and start to feed her and she’s fine. Typically, she stops crying as soon as you pick her up. … It’s early. This all could change in 180 degrees in a minute.”
Dale Jr. said people tell him that Isla looks like his late father, Dale Earnhardt Sr., and he sees that comparison, but he also thinks Isla looks like a combination of him and Amy. But with newborn Nicole, the NASCAR driver turned NBC Sports broadcaster said he sees more of himself in her.
“With Nicole — and this is weird for me to say — but I look at her and I see so much of myself,” Earnhardt said.
“It’s like looking in a mirror when I look at her. It’s crazy. Now, it may change in 24 hours, but as soon as I saw her, I was like, ‘Oh my God, it’s like a baby me. I’m looking at my baby-self.’ And every time I look at her, I look at her, look at her, look at her, and I keep seeing it. And it’s the craziest thing because it was not that way with Isla.”