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OH, BABY! AFTER YEARS OF HEARTBREAK AND STRUGGLE, BRITNEY SPEARS AND MIRANDA LAMBERT ARE FINALLY GEARING UP FOR SOME VERY SPECIAL NEW ARRIVALS.

TEN months after revealing her heartache over not being allowed to get pregnant under her 13year conservatorship, Britney Spears has triumphantly announced she and her fiancé, Sam Asghari, are expecting. “I am having a baby,” the 40-year-old wrote on Instagram April 12. The “Toxic” singer claimed in June that she had been forced to use an IUD contraceptive during the conservatorship that controlled every aspect of her life. (It officially ended in November.) “This has been her dream for so long,” an insider tells Star. “And it’s finally coming true.”

She’s not the only one with happy news. Insiders tell Star that, after three years of marriage, country star Miranda Lambert also has a bun in the oven! Already a stepmom to husband Brendan McLoughlin’s young son, Landon, she is over the moon. “She’s so happy,” says an insider. “She and Brendan are more in love than ever.”

IT’S A GIRL!

Mom-of-two Britney feels confident her longed-for third child is a girl. The star — who shares sons Sean, 16, and Jayden, 15, with ex-husband Kevin Federline

— has been yearning for a mini-me for years, and is banking on old wives’ tales proving true. “Britney had horrible morning sickness with Sean and Jayden and she hasn’t had any nausea this time, which makes her think it’s a girl,” reveals the insider. “She loves her boys but she’s always wanted a daughter, and she can’t

wait to dress her up in girly things and go on shopping sprees.”

According to the insider, an equally thrilled Sam, 28, is doting on Britney every chance he gets. “Sam’s been wonderful and so caring and gentle,” says the insider. “He’s making sure she’s comfortable and eating healthy and getting all the right nutrients. He’s even joining her during her prenatal yoga workouts. He wants to experience everything with her.” The first-time dad-to-be called fatherhood “something I have always looked forward to,” in a recent Instagram post, adding, “It is the most important job I will ever do.”

FAMILY TIES

Not everyone will get the chance to celebrate the good news. Post-conservatorship, Britney has all but cut off her family, who she accuses of profiting off her misery. Now she’s vowed that her father and ex-conservator Jamie Spears, 69, and mom Lynne Spears, 66, will never meet their granddaughter. According to the insider, they have reached out, but Britney has no plan to return their calls. “Britney just doesn’t trust them, period. And she doesn’t want them around her baby.” The same goes for her little sister, Jamie Lynn Spears, who “liked” Britney’s pregnancy post on Instagram. Their once-close relationship soured over the years, with Britney claiming the 31-year-old failed to advocate for her. Jamie-Lynn’s January memoir, Things I Should