Speaker 1: Aaron, You're a mom. You're a mom. Calm Down with
Speaker 1: Aeron and Carissa is a production of iHeartRadio. Guys. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the Calm Down Podcast. We got a lot to
Speaker 1: talk about. A couple of things. Actors are on strike.
Speaker 1: We're the only people working work for hire. Anyone need
Speaker 1: me for a game show? CHRISA and I would love
Speaker 1: to host. Okay, Second of all, Lebron, Lebron's ing, Who's
Speaker 1: coming with me? Not retiring? I can say this and
Speaker 1: it's not a headline. It's an opinion, but I could
Speaker 1: write that article for you. Marco Robbie is killing the
Speaker 1: Barbie looks. I mean, I know we talked about crushing
Speaker 1: all of them. It's great. He looks amazing. I don't
Speaker 1: know who the casting director is, but those two together great. Okay.
Speaker 1: And then finally, I have seen from TMZ footage of
Speaker 1: vander Pump Rules. They are filming and no one knows
Speaker 1: where Rachel is. Where is she I think I saw
Speaker 1: something last night as I was trying to go to sleep,
Speaker 1: But you know, I'm really I can't concentrate of Sheena
Speaker 1: giving it to one of the Tom's meaning yelling, but
Speaker 1: I'm dialed in. I mean, where is Rachel? Where is she?
Speaker 1: We should go, We should go as an extra. But
Speaker 1: you don't really have a lot of time to go
Speaker 1: out because the third and final headline of the week,
Speaker 1: ladies in jener my life is over. Aaron Andrews is
Speaker 1: a mother. Yo, yoday. I took my apologies to the
Speaker 1: Calm Down Podcast for rearranging their schedules and everything. Thank
Speaker 1: you. You guys have been so freaking patient and I love
Speaker 1: you for it. Now, my girlfriend who's on the other
Speaker 1: side of this, has been very patient with me through
Speaker 1: these nine months because she has literally lived, breathed, and
Speaker 1: her boyfriend's been carrying an egg for me. We'll get
Speaker 1: to that coming up. Wait, okay, we're going to get
Speaker 1: to all the specifics. But seriously, and I have cried
Speaker 1: every happy tear for you, and I literally was going
Speaker 1: to drive to the hospital and meet you as soon
Speaker 1: as your baby boy came out. Now, tell the world
Speaker 1: his name, tell me everything in that moment, and then
Speaker 1: we'll work backwards on how this incredible nine year journey
Speaker 1: culminated in a perfect baby boy. But tell me, like,
Speaker 1: take me into the delivery room that day. WHOA, yes, exactly.
Speaker 1: We gotta go. We gotta do an outline. Where are
Speaker 1: we starting? Okay, where should we start? I want to
Speaker 1: start with the moment that you saw him, because I
Speaker 1: don't think you and I haven't talked about this. We've
Speaker 1: talked about a lot of it. So the moment we
Speaker 1: saw him, I think I was like, Hi, Hi. It
Speaker 1: was funny because as soon as the nurses took him out,
Speaker 1: they were like, he's got hair and he's really cute.
Speaker 1: And we had had you know, it was kind of
Speaker 1: crazy in the delivery room up until they got him out.
Speaker 1: We can get into that. So I wasn't even thinking,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, does he have hair? Is he cute?
Speaker 1: I was just like, is this guy? Okay, what's happening? Hey?
Speaker 1: Another headline? Jets on hard knock. I know a quarterback
Speaker 1: that's gonna love that. By the way, welcome to Aaron
Speaker 1: Andrews in Motherhood. We're talking about the baby in the
Speaker 1: birth analogies like breaking news. Back to you, Kevin and
Speaker 1: Greg Jesus, I love you, Okay, go back to your baby. Okay.
Speaker 1: So yeah, just was I was like Hi, Like it
Speaker 1: was just kind of like they just like throw them
Speaker 1: in your arms and it's all happening at once, and
Speaker 1: it's wild and it's crazy, and like I remember, even
Speaker 1: when we were getting ready to take him outside back
Speaker 1: into our room, we put him in this rollie thing
Speaker 1: and we're like, are we allowed to take him like
Speaker 1: out like and they're like, yeah, put him in this
Speaker 1: little rollie thing, which those are great. By the way,
Speaker 1: we haven't even talked about that newborn in a stroller.
Speaker 1: I got a lot to teach you before it's your turn,
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about. Oh, I love that you
Speaker 1: just said to me. I got a lot to teach you. Okay,
Speaker 1: So you mean the actual like things that you see
Speaker 1: in the movies where they put the babies in the
Speaker 1: little like plastic dead thing and then which, by the way,
Speaker 1: like our nursery is still a thing like oursen go
Speaker 1: and one he didn't go into the nursery. He stayed
Speaker 1: in our room overnight. All right, let's start in order.
Speaker 1: Where are we'll start? I just wanted that moment that
Speaker 1: you like, see because this has been a nine year journey,
Speaker 1: which I know that we sit here and rightfully so
Speaker 1: and can like make like funny little like qrps and
Speaker 1: jokes and you can smile because you finally got the
Speaker 1: baby boy that you've always wanted in granted, boy girl,
Speaker 1: whatever it was that, I just can't imagine how grateful
Speaker 1: and everything that you feel. But on the other side
Speaker 1: of that, you know how difficult this has been. So yeah,
Speaker 1: to start wherever you want to start, let's go, and
Speaker 1: let's go through. Because I know that there's a lot
Speaker 1: of people that listen to this podcast that are going
Speaker 1: through similar things or have one through similar things, And
Speaker 1: a lot of our listeners have been so awesome in
Speaker 1: terms of reaching out DM wise of like books for
Speaker 1: me to read, you know, when I hadn't divulged that
Speaker 1: we were actually pregnant and so forth. So you know,
Speaker 1: we have been pretty candid on this podcast, which I
Speaker 1: have a appreciated, just about my journey and the struggle
Speaker 1: I did nine years of IVF. Like you know, was
Speaker 1: trying really really hard. You and I have talked about
Speaker 1: it about trying to get eggs. I just couldn't produce eggs. Yes,
Speaker 1: did my age have a lot to do with it, sure,
Speaker 1: But also I was dealing with you know, cervical cancer,
Speaker 1: and sometimes you know, your body just doesn't really do
Speaker 1: a great job with producing these eggs, and that was me. So,
Speaker 1: you know, we would get so long in the process
Speaker 1: and you would just get one egg. Sometimes sometimes you
Speaker 1: would get eleven. Sometimes you would get too well. Then
Speaker 1: you want to mix in your husband's sperm and make embryos,
Speaker 1: and you're waiting, you're weight and you're waiting, and then
Speaker 1: you don't have any and you just feel I And
Speaker 1: so I ended up having to do IVF. I did
Speaker 1: nine or I did eight rounds of IVF. And don't
Speaker 1: you always feel like CHRISA Like every vacation I was on,
Speaker 1: every event I had to go to, I was shooting up,
Speaker 1: like I feel it. I so many of our vacations
Speaker 1: were affected by my freaking IVF. This was like my
Speaker 1: first summer I didn't have to. We were in Montana,
Speaker 1: I you know, Kelly and Matthew wanted to stay longer,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I have to go home because
Speaker 1: I have to go get you know, I an ultrasound.
Speaker 1: Like everything I was doing for the last nine years
Speaker 1: was affected by IVF. And it sucks because there's no
Speaker 1: like rhyme or reason, there's no right timing. You just
Speaker 1: it's like you don't even know when your right time
Speaker 1: is going to be it to crapshoot. And by that
Speaker 1: it's also the phone calls and the different things that
Speaker 1: you're doing while you're trying to do your job, or
Speaker 1: even the medical stuff that you had to go through
Speaker 1: and wearing you know, unfortunately, like certain things in your
Speaker 1: clothing because you had to have an operation, and reporting
Speaker 1: on Packers Cowboys coming up in America's Game of the Week.
Speaker 1: Like there's so much that little game. Yeah, exactly. But
Speaker 1: that's to me, which is why when when you know
Speaker 1: when you which will get to in a second, like
Speaker 1: told me that this embryo took, and it's just like
Speaker 1: it's so incredible. Okay, So starting at the very beginning,
Speaker 1: you had how many embryos left, like how many like
Speaker 1: did you know that you could like try to get
Speaker 1: pregnant with. So we didn't have many at all, as
Speaker 1: my doctor would say, less than a starting lineup. That's
Speaker 1: one thing I loved about my fertility doctor so much
Speaker 1: is that he knew for me my way to kind
Speaker 1: of cope with things is sports. And so I would
Speaker 1: be like, all right, what are we looking at follicle wise?
Speaker 1: And you've got you have enough for a starting lineup.
Speaker 1: You know, this one could be your point guard, this
Speaker 1: one could be your starting quarterback, like things like that,
Speaker 1: to tell me the strength of the embryos and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. So less than a handful, less than a
Speaker 1: starting lineup, which isn't great. And then we started realizing,
Speaker 1: you know, I, when I was diagnosed with cervical cancer,
Speaker 1: I should have gotten a second opinion. I didn't. I
Speaker 1: went to the first doctor that told me that she
Speaker 1: could get this out, and she didn't, and she packed
Speaker 1: me open and I lost more of my cervix than
Speaker 1: was necessary. But unfortunately the cancer went past the march,
Speaker 1: so I had to have another surgery, and at that point,
Speaker 1: holding a baby was just not going to happen. Literally,
Speaker 1: we went to when we were like, okay, am I
Speaker 1: going to try to get pregnant now? After cervical cancer.
Speaker 1: We went to a lot of doctors that gave me
Speaker 1: advice about if I did go into labor while and
Speaker 1: work in a Green Bay game, or if I did
Speaker 1: go into labor while I'm working a Patriots game, I
Speaker 1: have to stay in New England. I have to stay
Speaker 1: in Green Bay for the rest of my pregnancy, like
Speaker 1: I cannot move. They even talked about like potentially stitching
Speaker 1: me up so my cervix could hold it, but unfortunately
Speaker 1: we made the decision there just wasn't enough there to
Speaker 1: actually carry a baby, and which was really hard, it
Speaker 1: was really hard to hear that. But COVID Easter, we
Speaker 1: were in our house and we're normally at our friend's
Speaker 1: house who has kids, Jackie Quick. We're usually there, and
Speaker 1: we're usually with everybody who has kids, and we're just
Speaker 1: here by ourselves, and we're like, this sucks, Like this
Speaker 1: just sucks. This is I mean, my husband's great, we
Speaker 1: love each other, but we're like what are we doing?
Speaker 1: So it wasn't really until that Easter because we were
Speaker 1: kind of like, well, maybe I will get pregnant, maybe
Speaker 1: I won't go into labor, and maybe it was just
Speaker 1: like this isn't working. I'm not getting pregnant. They don't
Speaker 1: want to use the embryos on me because I don't
Speaker 1: have very many and the potent may I'm older, the
Speaker 1: stats are up against me, the numbers are up against me.
Speaker 1: I probably will lose the embryos. So you know, finally
Speaker 1: we were like, let's just try. Let's look into saragacy.
Speaker 1: Let's see what we can find out and let's see
Speaker 1: if it's even for us. So probably twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: we really looked into it and we finally found someone.
Speaker 1: And this is a really difficult process. It's it's mentally exhausting.
Speaker 1: You literally are. You go to an agency, they look
Speaker 1: for candidates. Then they send you profiles or resumes of
Speaker 1: different surrogates and maybe sarrogate of her and her husband,
Speaker 1: and you kind of read it. You read it all
Speaker 1: read all about their life, and you feel feel like
Speaker 1: you really think that they're a good match. You could say,
Speaker 1: I'd like to meet them. Then they read my story
Speaker 1: and they read Jarrett's story of why we need saragacy
Speaker 1: and why we're looking to go this avenue. Then you
Speaker 1: get on a zoom because nobody does anything in person
Speaker 1: anymore because of COVID, And you meet them and you
Speaker 1: talk to them and you end up crying and you
Speaker 1: end up saying, you know, thank you so much. This
Speaker 1: would mean the world to me for you to you know,
Speaker 1: be able to have my baby, and this is what
Speaker 1: we've gone through as a family. It's a lot, it's exhausting.
Speaker 1: Then from there you have to get legal involved and
Speaker 1: they check them out and then you end up, you know,
Speaker 1: having them looked at. So we went through that with many,
Speaker 1: many different women. And my doctor was so so particular
Speaker 1: and sensitive about who he chose as a surrogate because
Speaker 1: I didn't have many, so we'd get so close and
Speaker 1: if they had one little thing wrong with them, he
Speaker 1: was like, oh my god, I can't I can't do this.
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty one, we found a lovely, lovely woman.
Speaker 1: We loved her so much. We adored her family, huge
Speaker 1: hockey fans. They were just perfect. They were absolutely adorable.
Speaker 1: They were right up the road. It was perfect. We
Speaker 1: went into this very we just we didn't really know
Speaker 1: the risk of it all. We thought it was going
Speaker 1: to be so so easy to do, and we ended
Speaker 1: up putting two embryos in and we lost them both
Speaker 1: and that was so hard. And that was actually a
Speaker 1: podcast we did and we didn't say what it was
Speaker 1: and I was just sobbing. I think you were in
Speaker 1: Lake Tahoe and I called you no Lake errolhead, sorry,
Speaker 1: but I had the text because because we knew like
Speaker 1: you had you know, these embryo, like the transfer it happened,
Speaker 1: and just waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting for
Speaker 1: the news. And then I'll never forget that text that
Speaker 1: I got from you where you're like neither of them were,
Speaker 1: and I just my heart like I'll like cry thinking
Speaker 1: about it, because you know, these are it's their goal,
Speaker 1: like these are like when you only have a few.
Speaker 1: And then just like my heart like broke for you
Speaker 1: in that moment. And we, like I said, we went
Speaker 1: into it so blind. We kind of just thought, well, like, well,
Speaker 1: well let's get it over with, let's have twins, like
Speaker 1: it'll be like really quick and then we'll be done,
Speaker 1: or if one doesn't take, we'll have the other. And
Speaker 1: we kind of just thought that's how it went. And
Speaker 1: so that was a really hard go for me. Jarrett
Speaker 1: was so good because he kind of like mourned and
Speaker 1: grieved right away. I remember he went upstairs and just
Speaker 1: laid in our bed with our dog and just balled
Speaker 1: his brains out. And I just kept thinking, Okay, we
Speaker 1: have to get past this. We have to get because
Speaker 1: that's just how I am. That's how I am with
Speaker 1: like everything. Let's just hey, let's talk about the jets
Speaker 1: on hard knocks, what's going on? You know, I just
Speaker 1: don't want to get deeper, and I got really fucked up.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember. I was just not right.
Speaker 1: I just couldn't communicate my feelings about it. I think
Speaker 1: I was scared to move forward. What does this mean
Speaker 1: if I we just lost these two, we don't have
Speaker 1: much left? What if we don't have success? We're now
Speaker 1: going to have to find a different person. This is
Speaker 1: all like crazy And I ended up having to get
Speaker 1: some help because it was actually, I know I've told
Speaker 1: you this, having a hard time like forming sentences. I
Speaker 1: just was like missing words more so than usual. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm good for that, but it made me kind of
Speaker 1: deal with a lot. It was hard. It was really hard.
Speaker 1: But I think the biggest thing it made me do
Speaker 1: was start talking to you guys about it all more
Speaker 1: because you're you're a tough cookie like you. Let us
Speaker 1: in us is the proverbial. You know, your friend group,
Speaker 1: your family, like we we know when and when you
Speaker 1: don't want to open up about stuff, and it's like
Speaker 1: it's hard because you don't want to press someone. But
Speaker 1: when you love someone so much and you care about
Speaker 1: them and you know, you know, you just want to
Speaker 1: do anything that you can for them, so that's even
Speaker 1: more of a reason why with your baby boy. Have
Speaker 1: you said his name? Mat, I'm here, Maggaroni man, tell everyone,
Speaker 1: tell his full name. It's Mac Roger for my grandpa
Speaker 1: who loves sports so much Stole. So now all the
Speaker 1: more reason why Mac being here and again and we'll
Speaker 1: get into that other stuff of like the Megan Mitchell
Speaker 1: story of like they choose you and like everything happens
Speaker 1: for a reason, and like we've got a lot of
Speaker 1: years something about that dinner at pawn shows at another night. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they've run for episode two of this story because it's
Speaker 1: so it's just so special. So as on the side
Speaker 1: of heartbreak is the side of joy. So now being
Speaker 1: able to sit here and go back on this journey
Speaker 1: with you and really like think about how long it's
Speaker 1: been for you, it's a testament to who you are.
Speaker 1: And I know I've said this to you, whether it's
Speaker 1: you know, at our pseudo baby shower, which I made
Speaker 1: you have because you reluctantly didn't want to have that
Speaker 1: and I respect that, but because you don't want the
Speaker 1: attention to ever be on you. But you have worked
Speaker 1: so hard and this baby boy is here because you
Speaker 1: and Jarrett didn't give up, and that would be the
Speaker 1: message I think, and I would hope that people like
Speaker 1: you know there's always another option, even if it wasn't
Speaker 1: your first choice. So after all of that happens, then
Speaker 1: for you sort of what that next step was and
Speaker 1: how you kept going even if it was so hard
Speaker 1: dealing with myself talking about it with you guys was
Speaker 1: a big one for me, you know, Like you said,
Speaker 1: this led us to something and even greater. We then
Speaker 1: found our kind of angel, one of our angels. Her
Speaker 1: name is Stephanie Levitt. She actually runs family Match consulting
Speaker 1: and her story is incredible and she's just an awesome person.
Speaker 1: I love her so much. And she led us to
Speaker 1: our surrogate. That wasn't easy though either. We had actually
Speaker 1: a couple other people that we had interviewed. We got
Speaker 1: really close with another girl that we thought we were
Speaker 1: actually going to do it with the transfer with, and
Speaker 1: that didn't work out obviously for all reasons that you know.
Speaker 1: We're fabulous on the other end, but very hard at
Speaker 1: the time. And Steph made this whole process just a
Speaker 1: wonder full experience how it should be, and she led
Speaker 1: us to our girl and our family, and I'm trying
Speaker 1: to think. I think it was last summer maybe that
Speaker 1: we met her. I think it was. I think it
Speaker 1: was maybe like gosh, like May or June that we
Speaker 1: met her. And yeah, we met her, and we did
Speaker 1: a zoom with them, and we thought that they were lovely.
Speaker 1: But it's kind of like this is like your sixth
Speaker 1: or seventh interview with a surrogate. You know, you're like,
Speaker 1: all right, let me cry and tell you my story again, Hello,
Speaker 1: how are you? But you know, they were great. We
Speaker 1: met him a few times for lunch and everything, and
Speaker 1: then when she checked out medically and everything was good.
Speaker 1: I was telling this story the other day. Obviously I'm
Speaker 1: a person that can block my feelings, my emotions hide
Speaker 1: behind sports. Not the healthiest thing to do. But I
Speaker 1: was working a forty nine ers game in I think
Speaker 1: it was probably like October, maybe the end of September,
Speaker 1: right before the transfer, and I just blocked it all out,
Speaker 1: blocked it all out, and then got on the plane
Speaker 1: to go take off back to LA and I knew,
Speaker 1: oh no, no, that wasn't even the transfer. The transfer
Speaker 1: that was to find out if she was pregnant. So
Speaker 1: on this Sunday, I'm flying home and I just was
Speaker 1: looking out the window and I just started bawling because
Speaker 1: I'm like, shit, this is happening tomorrow. We were texting.
Speaker 1: I think I was like, I'm having a panic attack,
Speaker 1: and I was like yeah. And then I was also
Speaker 1: grateful that you were only on a forty five minute
Speaker 1: flight because I was like, I need you on the ground.
Speaker 1: I need you because I don't need you cross country
Speaker 1: and then you checking out on me, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, I'm like I can't get to you. So
Speaker 1: let's make this forty five get home and get in
Speaker 1: your bed, Like, would you like anything to drink before
Speaker 1: we take off? Yes, I'll have three drinks, thank you.
Speaker 1: I'll have Run white and Blue. Yeah. But it's really happening.
Speaker 1: And so that's where like emotionally you were at there
Speaker 1: and then and then the next day it was a
Speaker 1: crazy day. Well, first of all leading up to that.
Speaker 1: After the transfer, it takes about ten to twelve days
Speaker 1: to figure out if they're pregnant. So my girlfriend Chrissa
Speaker 1: Thompson and Kelly Stafford girlfriends drop off this huge care
Speaker 1: package to my house and was basically the twelve days
Speaker 1: of waiting to see if you're pregnant, and each day
Speaker 1: had a note and a different gift. There were Disney magazines,
Speaker 1: there were cuddly socks. There were jammis that I wear
Speaker 1: all the time now my Kate'spade jammys. There were bathrobes,
Speaker 1: there were lip glosses, there were like Charlotte Tilbury like
Speaker 1: it was just so sweet and so of course I
Speaker 1: had it back here like during the podcast and we
Speaker 1: were filming, and I was like, oh god, people are
Speaker 1: going to see this every day. Jeret would come down
Speaker 1: and be like, so what is day three? Like what's
Speaker 1: he four? Like what do you guns? Jarney? So but no,
Speaker 1: we just wanted we you know, because I remember Kelly
Speaker 1: and texting me and she was like, we have to
Speaker 1: distract her. And Kelly's been very very open about her
Speaker 1: struggle about the journey, journey exactly, and that is I
Speaker 1: think the thing and hopefully to anyone that's listening, like
Speaker 1: the support system, and whether that's you're am meeting get girlfriends,
Speaker 1: or whether that's strangers that you don't even know, is that.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately and fortunately this community is really really big and
Speaker 1: if you lean on them, waiting rooms are packed if
Speaker 1: you let your friends or even strangers like support you,
Speaker 1: then you don't feel like you're so isolated. And I
Speaker 1: don't know, I mean I have never I haven't went
Speaker 1: on this journey that you have. You can only hope
Speaker 1: to like support somebody in that be like, Okay, we're
Speaker 1: here for you. So it was the Twelve Days of
Speaker 1: Distraction and the Twelve Days of Christmas. It was so good.
Speaker 1: Thank you Baby Jesus culminated in mac Roger Stole because
Speaker 1: oh my gosh. So then we get through that week
Speaker 1: because we're all in this together. You guys are doing it.
Speaker 1: The Stafford's, the Thompson Candaries, like the Stole Andrews. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like we're in it. My girlfriend Jackie, Heather, Meghan, my
Speaker 1: other Megan. Yeah, like everybody's in it. They know we're
Speaker 1: supposed to find out if she's pregnant or if she's not,
Speaker 1: and that Monday, and so usually when you find out,
Speaker 1: like last time we found out it didn't work, it
Speaker 1: was about like four o'clock in the afternoon. So I
Speaker 1: had said to you guys, like you guys were being
Speaker 1: so sweet. And a lot of times friends don't know
Speaker 1: how to react, like they don't know what to do.
Speaker 1: They don't want to get in your way. But you
Speaker 1: guys wanted to be helpful if it didn't work. And
Speaker 1: I get that, So Kelly tell the story. Kelly had
Speaker 1: the idea, We're just going to plan a dinner regardless,
Speaker 1: We're going to plan a dinner because I this is
Speaker 1: what happened when Matthew won this Super Bowl. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're planning a dinner. We're meeting at such and such
Speaker 1: a restaurant, Dantannas. What who cares? What the saying at Dantanna's.
Speaker 1: Let's say whatever time it was, we were going to
Speaker 1: be at seven o'clock. And yeah, so then you're supposed
Speaker 1: to find out I think like around four, right, was that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And then and then tell everybody what happened? Well, what
Speaker 1: are you and Kelly doing? That? Whole time? You guys
Speaker 1: are just texting right like have you heard? Have you heard?
Speaker 1: Like of course you're updated. Do I have a wife again?
Speaker 1: Why is a signal? Strong? I remember seeing that we're
Speaker 1: waiting at South Beverly Grille and they're like, ohh And
Speaker 1: I was like I'm going to need another drink. They're like,
Speaker 1: you're already at your max psychopath, like you got to
Speaker 1: go to another restaurant because I was like, we're waiting,
Speaker 1: and we're waiting, and then like as time keeps going by,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh no, because now you're like,
Speaker 1: oh fuck, like this might not be good enough. Times
Speaker 1: like keeps going by. So I know we were just
Speaker 1: waiting for you to tell us great news. But then
Speaker 1: we got the text that's yeah. So I was laying
Speaker 1: on the couch and it's like finally five o'clock and
Speaker 1: I'm just like, I'm literally my heart is just coming
Speaker 1: out of my check. I'm like, this is crazy. This
Speaker 1: is like torture to put people through. Jared's stomach's killing him.
Speaker 1: He's running up and down and so the stairs. It
Speaker 1: was so finally I just I called the fertility clinic
Speaker 1: and I was just like, I don't want to press
Speaker 1: three for help. I don't want to press four for English, Like,
Speaker 1: just get me an operator. I don't want to hear
Speaker 1: this music. Just let me know what's going on. So
Speaker 1: my sweet sweet nurse who I love so much, was like,
Speaker 1: I am so so sorry. The test results are not
Speaker 1: going to be in today. You're not going to find
Speaker 1: out until tomorrow. And I'm like, they can't do this
Speaker 1: to me. They cannot do this to me. And instantly
Speaker 1: I went into let's call Neil Latosh with the rams,
Speaker 1: let's call somebody from the chargers, like who do we
Speaker 1: know to break into the lab? Like I literally thought,
Speaker 1: who from the I'm gonna call Sean McVay right now,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call Sean McVay and ask for help, like
Speaker 1: I need help to get into this lab. And she
Speaker 1: just said, I'm so sorry. There's something we can do.
Speaker 1: And I texted you guys and you were just like
Speaker 1: and then our reaction was, how can we break it?
Speaker 1: We're gonna get arrested into this lab. We don't care.
Speaker 1: Let's go yep, yep. And Jen was like, we get
Speaker 1: your clothes on, let's go. Let's go meet them, Like,
Speaker 1: let's go meet them, and let's just go have a
Speaker 1: time because sitting here, we're gonna drive each other nuts.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna, you know, cause some sort of pain or whatever,
Speaker 1: like to my heart. So I was like, all right, fine,
Speaker 1: So we got an Uberg, we went up to Hollywood
Speaker 1: and we had a night. Oh my god, we had
Speaker 1: a time. In this particular case, Steve my boyfriend had
Speaker 1: been carrying around this little dish with an egg, like
Speaker 1: a raw egg for how long at that point, like
Speaker 1: a month the transfer. Yeah, so since the transfer, he
Speaker 1: had been carrying around this egg and continued to carry
Speaker 1: it around until we found out that it worked, and
Speaker 1: then kept it in our refrigerator until we met Mac
Speaker 1: because he's like, just because we wanted to make sure
Speaker 1: through the entire pregnancy, like it was like his. I
Speaker 1: have so many pictures of Steve and random faces, the
Speaker 1: flat family things of like you take the picture of
Speaker 1: like the random cut out, like and we're in Asia,
Speaker 1: We're in this hiffel tower. There's seven hundred photos in
Speaker 1: my phone with Steve with the egg just randomly around.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so he brought the egg that night and
Speaker 1: it was excellent. We were wild, wild, and at one
Speaker 1: point I got way to whatever with my hands and
Speaker 1: broke the egg and you guys realized they broke out
Speaker 1: and that minor craft there was a minor crack. But
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, that's okay, that's okay, this doesn't
Speaker 1: mean anything. We're still good. Uh. But yeah, we tried
Speaker 1: to get you through that night, and then I had
Speaker 1: to leave on an early flight the next day to
Speaker 1: go wherever I was going. So then I was like,
Speaker 1: oh shit, like when we find out this news, if
Speaker 1: I want to, like, I better have Wi Fi on
Speaker 1: this plane, like okay. So then the next day happened
Speaker 1: and I am I have to connect through somewhere, and
Speaker 1: I remember being like, oh my god, I don't want
Speaker 1: it because I don't also want to annoy you, like
Speaker 1: I need what's happening. What's happening. But then I finally
Speaker 1: like my phone starts ringing and it's FaceTime with you
Speaker 1: and Kelly, and my plane's about to take off, and
Speaker 1: you tell me on the plane that if it weren't
Speaker 1: I crying like staring, and I have this I have
Speaker 1: this cot over my head and it's like because I'm
Speaker 1: trying to like muffle, We're about to take off. Then
Speaker 1: close the door on the plane. Yeah, close the door.
Speaker 1: And so then you tell me it worked, and I
Speaker 1: spilled my coffee all over it goes down, I like
Speaker 1: down the woman next to me, and they at this point,
Speaker 1: I'm just hammered. I'm about to get escorted off the
Speaker 1: plane because they think I've had way too many which
Speaker 1: has happened at the bar but in this case, I
Speaker 1: was like hysterically crying, like tears of joy, and it
Speaker 1: was just we have like stupid pictures of the FaceTime
Speaker 1: screen shots from that day, but like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: like that feeling for you and remember hold on, remember
Speaker 1: the flight attendant going, ma'am, you need to turn off
Speaker 1: your phone and you put a blanket over you. You're
Speaker 1: like Kristen Wig and Bridesmaids. You're like, I'm sorry, my
Speaker 1: friend is pregnant. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry, and
Speaker 1: you're crying like you are so lucky they didn't kick
Speaker 1: you off that plane. But I was once crazy, Yeah
Speaker 1: no I didn't. I look like a stone, but I didn't. Yeh.
Speaker 1: I was like, actually kick me off this plane. I
Speaker 1: dare you too, because I'd love to finish this conversation.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. It was so exciting. So then for you,
Speaker 1: so this journey in a colonia and like the news
Speaker 1: that you've been waiting, you know, the nine years, your
Speaker 1: whole life here and like you and Jared having that moment,
Speaker 1: and then for you, like how did the pregnancy for
Speaker 1: your starting it? Did it feel like it went by
Speaker 1: fast or like because how is that process for you
Speaker 1: and how did it feel sort of being like, you know,
Speaker 1: just letting this and of course be the member of
Speaker 1: your family now, but like, you know, somebody carry your
Speaker 1: baby and that's sort of all the psychological stuff that
Speaker 1: goes with that and thinking about it daily. I feel
Speaker 1: like now looking back at it, it does seem like
Speaker 1: it went by fast. I mean, we were in the
Speaker 1: middle of a football season. The first time we went
Speaker 1: to go hear his heartbeat. I had conference calls and
Speaker 1: zooms with the Packers and the Cowboys because they were
Speaker 1: playing that Sunday in America's Game of the Week. So
Speaker 1: I remember we went to go listen to his heartbeat
Speaker 1: and see it, and then I had to race out
Speaker 1: of there, and Jared's like, let's go celebrate, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I have to get in the car. Zach Martin is
Speaker 1: calling me. I've got to do an interview with Zach
Speaker 1: Martin as my husband's at the bar, you know, having
Speaker 1: two Savean blancs celebrating hearing our kids heartbeat. And then
Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, we got to make this quick because
Speaker 1: we got we have Aaron Rodgers at three o'clock. He's like,
Speaker 1: can we toast our kid? Like really, so you know,
Speaker 1: it's like I was like trying to cram in a
Speaker 1: football season and then deal with you know this, you know, pregnancy,
Speaker 1: But it did seem fast, I think looking back at
Speaker 1: it now, she was everything is everything that we and
Speaker 1: anyone could ever want. A surrogate, super calm, super chill,
Speaker 1: the opposite of real mama, so positive, maybe the opposite
Speaker 1: of real mom. No, I'm kidding. She's a mom already.
Speaker 1: She has two kids of her own, she has four
Speaker 1: kids total, but she also has her husband. She is
Speaker 1: a great wife, she's a great friend. So she's like
Speaker 1: everything we wanted in a sarrogate. And then that even
Speaker 1: like culminated in the delivery, Like we'll get to that.
Speaker 1: But she was such a freakin' baller through that. So
Speaker 1: she's amazing. She's everything I'm not in terms of being calm,
Speaker 1: so chill. She knew she had done Sarahenacy before, she's
Speaker 1: a mom. She just kind of really led us through it,
Speaker 1: held our hand, which was incredible. Also a sports fan,
Speaker 1: here's a fun one. When I had my playoff games,
Speaker 1: she would turn the TV up so he could hear
Speaker 1: my voice. No, they did the same thing for Jarrett
Speaker 1: when Jarrett was on TV so he could hear Jarrett.
Speaker 1: So yeah, they just got it and they really just
Speaker 1: guided us through this whole thing. It was awesome. That
Speaker 1: is so special because we talked about this. There are
Speaker 1: not enough words to describe the self angels of the service. Yes,
Speaker 1: I don't even and I would love I mean I
Speaker 1: know that of course, the anonymity and rightfully so whatever,
Speaker 1: but like I just want to do like a whole
Speaker 1: like conversation with like how and why and all the things.
Speaker 1: And obviously you know, let's talk Arrious on the podcast
Speaker 1: one time. Let's bring her in. Yeah we should, we
Speaker 1: definitely should, but like, wow, what an incredible person to
Speaker 1: do that. I mean that is like the ultimate act.
Speaker 1: So that's so and so thoughtful. Like oh, you know
Speaker 1: because again we hear all the time like babies, and
Speaker 1: the woman can like hear music, and so for her
Speaker 1: to turn up your voice, that's so sweet. I know, sweet,
Speaker 1: she's the best. She was the best. And like you know,
Speaker 1: just to fast forward to delivery and all that stuff,
Speaker 1: that's where you know, we had a great relationship with them.
Speaker 1: We'd go meet them, we'd text them, we were on
Speaker 1: a family text chain with them everything like that. But
Speaker 1: it wasn't until the delivery that it was like, wow,
Speaker 1: I mean she just I mean it just the relationship
Speaker 1: just moved to a whole different place. And we had
Speaker 1: a little bit of like kind of an emergency in
Speaker 1: the delivery room. Nothing major. She just dilated really really fast.
Speaker 1: He dropped. They wanted to, you know, kind of get
Speaker 1: his heartbeat like back chill like. They didn't lose his heartbeat,
Speaker 1: but they wanted to get him ready for delivery, and
Speaker 1: that's stressful for the baby when they're going through the
Speaker 1: birth canal. All the things we talked about it countless
Speaker 1: number of time am I going to be in there?
Speaker 1: Am I going to watch? What? Am I going to do?
Speaker 1: I don't know. We have a good friend that just
Speaker 1: went through Sarahgacy. He and his wife were so lovely
Speaker 1: to me to tell me what they did, and that
Speaker 1: really helped a lot. But once again my sarrogate. She
Speaker 1: guided us through this with her husband as well, and
Speaker 1: we kind of walked in and they were working on
Speaker 1: getting the baby calmed down before delivery. They also wanted
Speaker 1: to get her doctor in there in time because the
Speaker 1: doctor had left. Nobody thought she was going to give
Speaker 1: birth that quickly, and she, you know, everybody's kind of yelling,
Speaker 1: and I'm up against the wall and I'm like, oh god,
Speaker 1: what's happening. And I said to Jared should we be here?
Speaker 1: Should we be here? Should we be here? And He's like,
Speaker 1: we're fine, We're fine. But I had my head facing
Speaker 1: the wall because I didn't want to be in the
Speaker 1: way of the doctors and the nurses and a lot
Speaker 1: was happening. They were trying to stabilize a lot of things,
Speaker 1: and Jarrett was seeing a lot of stuff. So then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, a nurse grabbed me and said,
Speaker 1: she wants to hold your hand. She wants to hold
Speaker 1: your hand. And I was like, I don't want to
Speaker 1: get in the way, and she's like, go be with her.
Speaker 1: They grab me. I walk around and it's the most
Speaker 1: unbelievable thing, and then I'm like, Jared, Jarreed, come be
Speaker 1: with me. She grabs my hand. Chrissa and this woman
Speaker 1: like like she's giving birth. I look at her, she's
Speaker 1: her baby tear just coming down her eye one tier.
Speaker 1: She's like just an angel, a machine just crushing. And
Speaker 1: at that moment, Jarrett and I turned into like the
Speaker 1: biggest sports fan, and we're like, come on, you can
Speaker 1: do it, like you got this girl. And I think
Speaker 1: I've showed you this picture. I think Jarrett hasn't. And
Speaker 1: this is where I'm so proud of my husband and
Speaker 1: I'm just like really following his lead in this is
Speaker 1: that he we have this picture and he can't wait
Speaker 1: to show everybody. It's the perfect picture of what Sarah
Speaker 1: Gacy should be. I'm kissing my girl on the head
Speaker 1: and Jarrett is just holding the nurse as she's like
Speaker 1: cleaning up Mac, and he's like, you know, he looks
Speaker 1: like he won another cup, and it's like that is
Speaker 1: the perfect picture of Sarah Gassey and he just like,
Speaker 1: you know, they gave us Mac and we was like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, okay, and it was just so crazy.
Speaker 1: But then Jarrett could not wait to give him to
Speaker 1: our girl to just be like, look what you did.
Speaker 1: It was amazing. That says everything about me. If you
Speaker 1: have a fantastic experience, that's what you feel like, that's
Speaker 1: what you feel like because you're just like you knew that, yeah,
Speaker 1: this person's giving a birth, but this person is giving
Speaker 1: birth to your kid, and they are like rock stars
Speaker 1: doing it. Jarrett couldn't wait, and he has this picture,
Speaker 1: like he shows it to everyone. I know he probably
Speaker 1: showed it to you and Steve, but like he's like,
Speaker 1: look at this picture. This is the first time she
Speaker 1: saw him. Like it's so sweet. And then we we
Speaker 1: had a moment when we said goodbye to her in
Speaker 1: the hospital the next day and she came in to
Speaker 1: say goodbye and all her family was with her and
Speaker 1: that was really emotional and like she said bye to
Speaker 1: Mac and Jarret closed the door and he walked back
Speaker 1: into the hospital room and he was just crying, and
Speaker 1: I was like, what's happening, and he goes, that's it,
Speaker 1: Like it's just she did so much and that's it,
Speaker 1: Like that's not it. She's a part of our family forever,
Speaker 1: Like that's not it. But yeah, it's really cool. That
Speaker 1: whole thing is like another level. I remember you just
Speaker 1: said that, you know, you know who you're talking about
Speaker 1: who helped you sort of from that outside perspective of
Speaker 1: what to expect. So if you could give anybody advice,
Speaker 1: I know it's so fresh because baby bears like brand new.
Speaker 1: What advice do you have or mothers that are on
Speaker 1: the other side of you know, waiting for their surrogate
Speaker 1: or just sort of like what kind of wisdom can
Speaker 1: you now bestow upon someone that might be listening that's
Speaker 1: like hasn't had their baby yet or is thinking about
Speaker 1: this sort of your big takeaways on the chapters of
Speaker 1: surrogacy and sort of what you've learned throughout this like
Speaker 1: incredible process. It's a lot, It's so much to take
Speaker 1: in mentally, and I would recommend being with a great
Speaker 1: group that like our Family Match Consulting are our woman Stephanie,
Speaker 1: who matched this with this arrogacy. No text was too
Speaker 1: late or too early in the morning, no text was stupid,
Speaker 1: no question was ever you know dumb or you know,
Speaker 1: I know that's redundant, but she just she literally held
Speaker 1: our hand through it. She also got to know us,
Speaker 1: so she knew who to place us with, who to
Speaker 1: match us with, and that was really helpful, especially when
Speaker 1: you know you even get like what you're packing when
Speaker 1: you're going to the hospital, like I don't know what
Speaker 1: I'm bringing, you know, like all those things. So I
Speaker 1: would say that was the number one thing for us
Speaker 1: Family Match Consulting. This is not an ad. I can't
Speaker 1: hype her up enough you need someone that you really
Speaker 1: trust because it is a whole new territory we had
Speaker 1: never been a part of before. You have a ton
Speaker 1: of questions. You have people in your life asking you questions,
Speaker 1: so you want to get those answered. And that was big.
Speaker 1: And another thing, you know, Stephanie really guided us on
Speaker 1: is the fin The financial burden of this whole thing
Speaker 1: is incredible. It costs a lot of money to do this.
Speaker 1: And it really got me to thinking. And I know
Speaker 1: I talked to you a lot about it, is that
Speaker 1: it is for me. I did this because I was
Speaker 1: not able to carry a baby. That was just not
Speaker 1: our option. It wasn't a luxury thing. It's not because
Speaker 1: I didn't want to be pregnant on the sidelines. I
Speaker 1: would have loved to have been pregnant on the sidelines.
Speaker 1: I think the guys would have gotten a kick out
Speaker 1: of it. I'll tell you one of those guys, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna remind you because he I'll tell you. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you after it. But okay, who So I told
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey when I saw him at the charity event
Speaker 1: that you know these and I hope you don't care,
Speaker 1: but he's sending me a little care, I know, but
Speaker 1: like I told him because he said, you a badass
Speaker 1: like baby Louis Vauton like things. But he was so excited.
Speaker 1: It was the same reaction that Terry Bradshaw gave when
Speaker 1: you showed Terry the ultrasound picture when we were in
Speaker 1: Las Vegas and the guy's face, and I like, that's why,
Speaker 1: like I just I'm so excited, like for so many reasons.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so Travis like, oh my god, that's like
Speaker 1: just so excited for you because you have you are
Speaker 1: the sister to so many of these guys, you know,
Speaker 1: and like they're the big brothers, and now like Mac
Speaker 1: has so many big brothers, so it's really really special.
Speaker 1: I think that's the part that's tearing me up because
Speaker 1: I like, I've talked about all this stuff, but like
Speaker 1: I haven't talked to the boys. Yeah, you know, and
Speaker 1: like Brian Davill texted me the other day and he
Speaker 1: read it and he's like, I'm so happy, and it
Speaker 1: was just like those boys know you like right that, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're the I mean the journey and the hours and
Speaker 1: you have spent so much of your life not being
Speaker 1: able to start your own family or or starting it
Speaker 1: later in your life because your life has been your
Speaker 1: professional career. Yeah, but that has been your family, right,
Speaker 1: And I feel the same way. I sit here and yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't have kids, and like so many those are
Speaker 1: that's our family. That's our family exactly. So it's just
Speaker 1: like becomes this extended group that just is so excited
Speaker 1: for you. And I know that what you want is
Speaker 1: other people to be able to have the same opportunity
Speaker 1: that you know you have had. And you just mentioned
Speaker 1: that there is a huge financial burden, So I think
Speaker 1: it's really special you spoke about it on the Today's
Speaker 1: show and the platform there, and I know that it's
Speaker 1: really important for you to be vocal about this process.
Speaker 1: So what do you want people to know that maybe
Speaker 1: didn't get a chance to hear what you said earlier. No,
Speaker 1: we're going to wrap up this never ending podcast after this.
Speaker 1: I do want to talk about this one point quickly,
Speaker 1: and I have two funny athlete stories about this whole thing.
Speaker 1: I do want to talk about the financial burden. That's
Speaker 1: one thing I learned a lot through this whole thing
Speaker 1: is that you know a lot of people do this,
Speaker 1: yes for a luxury purpose, but a lot of them
Speaker 1: do it because it's their only way that they're going
Speaker 1: to have a baby. And I just every time we
Speaker 1: would talk to Stephanie or write a check, I just thought,
Speaker 1: oh my god, think of people in the LBGTQ community
Speaker 1: think that this is their way to have a baby
Speaker 1: for you know, men a lot of obviously, and then
Speaker 1: think about people who went through cancer like I did,
Speaker 1: spend all their money on these medical bills, and now
Speaker 1: if they want to have a kid and this is
Speaker 1: the only way to do it, they've got to pay
Speaker 1: for IVF and sarrogacy. It just a lot of it.
Speaker 1: I think we need to rethink the way we talk
Speaker 1: about it. We need to make it comfortable in conversations,
Speaker 1: and then I feel like it's going to be easier
Speaker 1: for people to realize people need financial help for this.
Speaker 1: So Stephanie, who I've talked about a lot, I noticed
Speaker 1: that she would align herself with this group called Baby
Speaker 1: Quest Foundation, and she actually helped a woman go through
Speaker 1: sarrogacy and she helped get it financed. And Baby Quest Foundation,
Speaker 1: I want to say it right, they actually are on
Speaker 1: a mission to make parenthood happen for those who cannot
Speaker 1: afford the high cost of IVF, sarrogacy, egg and sperm donation,
Speaker 1: egg freezing, embryo donation. They're focused on helping couples or
Speaker 1: singles in this journey, especially those who are cancer survivors,
Speaker 1: military personnel, regardless of genitor and sexuality. They've given out
Speaker 1: twenty grants to help people get their babies. And this
Speaker 1: is just something that I'm really really really excited about
Speaker 1: aligning myself with. I just I feel like we have
Speaker 1: a purpose. I feel like we have a voice for
Speaker 1: all this, and I'm really really looking forward to it,
Speaker 1: so more to come on all of that. I think
Speaker 1: that's so special because it is it's not something that
Speaker 1: you should be you know, you should feel like, oh,
Speaker 1: I can't do it because of financial reasons. So knowing
Speaker 1: that there's options, I think that's really special to pay
Speaker 1: it forward because that is the ultimate thing, is that
Speaker 1: you have the ultimate gift now and you've had a
Speaker 1: lot of people that have helped you along the way,
Speaker 1: but that all want to help others. I know you're
Speaker 1: quick to deflect, yeah, attention, but it also starts with
Speaker 1: you and Jared and that you know that that that
Speaker 1: athlete mindset that you guys both have like you don't
Speaker 1: give up, and you didn't give up, and now you
Speaker 1: have a baby boy. So I have to ask the
Speaker 1: question of like, what has been the best part about
Speaker 1: being a mother, albeit your short tenure, what has been
Speaker 1: like the greatest thing, Like what has surprised you the
Speaker 1: most good and bad? Like changing diapers or like like
Speaker 1: give me the good, the best, the biggest surprise, good
Speaker 1: and bad. Just kind of studying his face watching my
Speaker 1: husband with him, Jared Is, I was like, I'm your
Speaker 1: Dutch hotter to Jared really hot, hold a bit, I'm
Speaker 1: your dad, I'm your dad. And then because we're both
Speaker 1: super competitive, not so much with each other, but just
Speaker 1: in life, it's like, all change the diaper. I want
Speaker 1: to try this because we both want to nail it, Yeah,
Speaker 1: to be better than each other. I'm setting a tested this.
Speaker 1: I'm sitting on your couch because I was like, I
Speaker 1: need to see him immediately, like the second like I
Speaker 1: got over there, he needed deciper change. And you guys
Speaker 1: were like, so it's really sweet to watch you guys
Speaker 1: as a team. I love you. Where it's like, oh no,
Speaker 1: you can hope if you do it, Like it's just
Speaker 1: really special to see your relationship now with Jared in
Speaker 1: a completely different way, and seeing you hold a baby
Speaker 1: like is my like magic. I'm so happy for you there,
Speaker 1: I'm really happy for I love you and I can't
Speaker 1: thank you enough for just helping and guiding me through this.
Speaker 1: And and somebody asked me the other day, when is
Speaker 1: your like real big cry going to happen? I think
Speaker 1: I'm very much like Cameron Diaz from the Holiday, like
Speaker 1: I know it's going to come. I don't cry right
Speaker 1: away about things. And somebody told me you're gonna cry
Speaker 1: when that baby, like he's a newborn now, he eats, sleeps, poops,
Speaker 1: and like that's it. It Like she's like when he
Speaker 1: acknowledges you when you walk into the room and he
Speaker 1: hears your voice. I feel like he's doing that now,
Speaker 1: but not really. Two quick funny athlete stories about this.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to get more because obviously we're announcing
Speaker 1: it today officially like it's been announced, but like we're
Speaker 1: commenting on it. A couple of weeks ago, we were
Speaker 1: at the Fox seminar and you are so lovely and
Speaker 1: you're so wonderful, and you give a shout out and
Speaker 1: you say Fox's Family and we have a new Family edition.
Speaker 1: Rob Gronkowski is sitting there. I mean she hears Aaron
Speaker 1: Andrews just you know hat newborn son Mac, and he goes, oh, really,
Speaker 1: I was just with you a three weeks ago. I
Speaker 1: didn't know she was having a base Sarah get Gronk,
Speaker 1: Sarah Get. But I love him so much, like, you know,
Speaker 1: like I was just with her three weeks ago. But
Speaker 1: I notice, so it was a bag. Sure I didn't
Speaker 1: have Yeah, actually I just discovered that you can have
Speaker 1: a baby in three weeks. And I'm already back in
Speaker 1: my skinny jeans. Like it's so I God love that.
Speaker 1: It's very on brand. We uh. We saw Tom Brady
Speaker 1: in February and my husband was so excited to tell him,
Speaker 1: and they were skiing for a bit together. And then
Speaker 1: I saw Tom later that day and he gave me
Speaker 1: a big hug and he's like, congratulations, Like I had
Speaker 1: just come off doing the Super Bowl, Like we had
Speaker 1: a kick ass broadcast, great game, Mahomes comes back from
Speaker 1: an injury. You know, I get Kelsey and Mahomes and
Speaker 1: I go thanks. The game was awfo hundred fifteen million viewers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifteen million viewers. TV goes, congratulations, so
Speaker 1: happy for you. I was like, thanks, it was like
Speaker 1: one of the best Super Bowls I've ever worked. I
Speaker 1: was like mahomes Kelsey was. I was like, we missed
Speaker 1: you and it was a time and he was like,
Speaker 1: I mean about the baby, and I was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is my favorite. Is that. It's so great though,
Speaker 1: because again, and this is like one of the many
Speaker 1: reasons why I'm so excited for you, because like now
Speaker 1: your first thought will be like he's here. It's so
Speaker 1: different because like, you know, like we would be sitting
Speaker 1: there and we're in Montana and Steve orders a cake
Speaker 1: and he says happy third trimester, and the waitress three master,
Speaker 1: the waitress didn't hear him correctly, and she and it
Speaker 1: says happy third Measter, and we all just we all
Speaker 1: started cracking up because we're like, it's your third trimester,
Speaker 1: and like just you know, and this is Aaron. She's like,
Speaker 1: happy third trimester, Like but like cheers, here's us and no,
Speaker 1: it's honestly, I'm so happy. Like Aaron, you're a mom.
Speaker 1: I love you. You're a mom. Guys, when you're a mother,
Speaker 1: you know, that's gonna be that's my favorite phrase. You
Speaker 1: can say forever. Now, wait, has he pete on you yet? Paper? Oh?
Speaker 1: That was the story I couldn't tell when I got
Speaker 1: the tattoo. One of our good friends, a little he
Speaker 1: was like, a he's like a thirteen fourteen year old.
Speaker 1: He saw this and said, Aaron, you're a mother. Yep,
Speaker 1: sure am, Augie, sure am. Has he peed on me? Yes?
Speaker 1: He pe on me right in the hospital that night,
Speaker 1: and then he's peed yeah, peede on me during a
Speaker 1: diaper change here and then peede through his diaper one time.
Speaker 1: So we're good, We're gold. You. Well, I cannot I
Speaker 1: couldn't be happier for you. And I just can't wait
Speaker 1: for like all the stories and like I know now
Speaker 1: that you being able, I got a lot of stories, guys,
Speaker 1: I got a lot of stories building up for the
Speaker 1: past nine months. I'm dying now. You the other part
Speaker 1: that I'm so excited because I'd start to say something
Speaker 1: and I'm like, Nope, can't say it yet. So don't
Speaker 1: you know, relieved? This is real? Scoopid. Yeah, finally Yeah. Also,
Speaker 1: like we're great like liars or actresses. We've been holding
Speaker 1: this in for nine months. We've been lying to our audience,
Speaker 1: you know, but not to ourselves. Here's a teaser for
Speaker 1: next week. Sugar water is the pits. And also here's
Speaker 1: the other thing. I can't wait to go on a
Speaker 1: rant about this stuff you have to buy for newborns.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. I've been for nine months keeping this
Speaker 1: in and dying to go off about it. But I
Speaker 1: am next week when you tell me to get a
Speaker 1: bascinet and the fitted crib sheet and I can't find
Speaker 1: a waterproof pad protector to put with it. Just make
Speaker 1: it a package. Just make it like I'm going to
Speaker 1: Chick fil A and I'm getting the sandwich and the
Speaker 1: value and the sprite. Just give it to me, like
Speaker 1: I don't want to have to be doing measurements and
Speaker 1: looking around. Guys, this could be a lot. Easy guy.
Speaker 1: She's a mother, She's a mother for this, this this,
Speaker 1: I'm a mother. Well this is the headline of the week.
Speaker 1: Aaron Andrews and Jared Stole. Congratulations on your perfect baby boy,
Speaker 1: mac Roger Stole. Welcome to the world. I'm already obsessed
Speaker 1: with you. I ask you for like pictures every single day.
Speaker 1: I love you so much. And Erin. I'm so freaking freakin'
Speaker 1: happy for you. Love you, love you, love you, love you.
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