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Lauren Alaina<\/a>\u00a0has\u00a0Martina McBride<\/a>\u00a0to thank for helping her navigate the tough days of early motherhood.<\/p>\n She shared more during a chat with\u00a0Taste of Country Nights<\/em><\/a>\u00a0when asked if any country moms have helped her throughout the journey.<\/p>\n Alaina welcomed her first child, a baby girl named Beni, in June.<\/p>\n “Martina McBride, actually,” she reveals. “She texted me a couple of weeks ago and talked to me about taking the baby on the road.”<\/p>\n Alaina admits she’s feeling nervous, because she returns to the road soon.<\/p>\n “I’m super freaked out to be leaving our home\u00a0… and taking her on the road,” she says. “I had no idea the world of being a mom.”<\/p>\n McBride appeared on Alaina’s podcast\u00a0LA Lately<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>recently where she shared her story of going on tour while pregnant, like Alaina has had to do in the past year.<\/p>\n Alaina was pregnant while on\u00a0Rascal Flatts<\/a>‘\u00a0Life Is a Highway Tour\u00a0earlier this year, while McBride was pregnant while opening up for\u00a0Brooks & Dunn<\/a>\u00a0in the mid-90s.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Of taking baby girl on tour with her, Alaina realizes she might have been overconfident before baby was here.<\/p>\n “I was like, ‘Yeah, 12 weeks?\u00a0We’ll totally be ready then to hit the road,'” she admits, “and now we’re almost twelve weeks out and I’m like, ‘What was I thinking?'”<\/p>\n Lauren Alaina will perform some headlining shows<\/a> starting Aug. 28 in Evans, Ga. She’s back with Rascal Flatts starting early next year (Jan. 15).<\/p>\n The “Road Less Traveled” singer\u00a0says\u00a0she has also heard from MacKenzie Porter<\/a> about being a new mom and touring: “She talked to me about getting back out on the road and balancing everything.”<\/p>\n “I’ve got a good community of moms around, actually,” Alaina says.<\/p>\n McBride has three kids: Delaney Katharine, 30, Emma Justine, 27, and Ava Rose Kathleen, 20.<\/p>\n If you call yourself a real fan of ’90s country music, you probably need to know the words to all of these hit songs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Let’s take a look at which country music song dominated the Billboard Top 100 chart for Country Music by year in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Gallery Credit: Wood<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nHow Many Kids Does Martina McBride Have?<\/h3>\n
See 50 Essential ’90s Country Songs<\/h2>\n
Top Hits of the ’90s by Year<\/h2>\n