Gypsy Rose Blanchard and boyfriend share name of their baby daughter, due in weeks

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Gypsy Rose Blanchard is counting down the weeks until she meets her soon-to-be daughter and ahead of the big day, she has shared the baby's name.

Blanchard and her boyfriend Ken Urker have decided on the name Aurora Raina Urker, the couple told People.

The parents-to-be held a baby shower with friends and family at LARC's Arcadian Village in Lafayette, Louisiana on Nov. 16. In an Instagram post, Blanchard shared photos from the day, which featured food, sweet treats and decorations from Louisiana small businesses.

Blanchard's media team confirmed the baby's name with Paste BN on Tuesday afternoon.

Baby's name shared just weeks after paternity test results

In early November, Blanchard turned to social media to share the results of a paternity test. The test followed questions about who was the baby's father: Urker, who is also Blanchard's ex-fiance, or Ryan Scott Anderson, Blanchard's now ex-husband.

Blanchard married Anderson during the final two years of her eight-year prison sentence for the murder of her mother, Clauddine "Dee Dee" Blanchard. Blanchard and Anderson split in March and around the same time, Blanchard and Urker reconnected. Blanchard shared the news of her pregnancy in July.

Blanchard shared paternity test results that showed that Urker is the baby's father.

In addition to squelching rumors, the paternity test was necessary for Urker to be the baby's legal father, despite the fact that the baby always was.

In Louisiana, law states that, "If the mother is married to someone other than the biological father when the child was conceived or has been divorced for less than 300 days at the time of birth, the husband/ex-husband shall be the presumed father, unless paternity is established for the biological father."

Therefore, if Blanchard had not completed the paternity test, Anderson would have been named the legal father.

What was Gypsy Rose Blanchard's case about?

Blanchard was involved in perhaps the most recognizable suspected case of Munchausen by proxy, a mental condition in which someone makes another person ill for sympathy or gain, which Blanchard was subjected to by her mother, Dee Dee.

Dee Dee alleged to have made Blanchard appear to have a range of physical and development ailments, including leukemia, asthma and muscular dystrophy in order to gain disability payments and gifts from charity. Blanchard spent most of her childhood wheelchair-bound.

While living in Springfield, Missouri, where Dee Dee and Blanchard moved to in 2008 after Hurricane Katrina destroyed their home in Louisiana, Blanchard met Nick Godejohn online. Blanchard sought help from Godejohn, who became her boyfriend, to escape from her mother. In 2015, Godejohn traveled from Wisconsin, where he lived, to Springfield, where the two made plans to kill Dee Dee.

Following Dee Dee's murder, Blanchard and Godejohn were nowhere to be found, as they had traveled back to Wisconsin. Following the pair's arrest, Gypsy pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 10 years for her role in the fatal stabbing of her mother. She became eligible for parole after serving 85% of her sentence.

Blanchard was released after serving eight years in December 2023. Godejohn remains behind bars.

This story was updated to add new information and photos.

Greta Cross is a national trending reporter at Paste BN. Follow her on X and Instagram @gretalcross. Story idea? Email her at gcross@gannett.com.