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Speaker 1: This is Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous in Depth.

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Speaker 2: Hello, Almost Famous listeners, Welcome back to part two of

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Speaker 2: our interview with Claire Crawley. We wanted to have an

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Speaker 2: episode dedicated just to talking about her future daughter. Make

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Speaker 2: sure if you haven't already listened to part one, it'll

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Speaker 2: give you a lot of context for what has led

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Speaker 2: Claire and Ryan to this point in their lives.

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Speaker 1: Ryan is now going to be a girl dad of three?

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Speaker 1: Right or right? He has two girls right now?

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Speaker 3: Yep, he does.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna be a girl dad of three. I don't

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Speaker 1: know Ryan, Well, I know my buddies. Well, I know

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Speaker 1: my buddies well who have two girls? There was a

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Speaker 1: lot of hope for a boy. Was he hoping for

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Speaker 1: a boy?

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Speaker 3: Here?

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Speaker 1: Is he really just happy to be a girl dad

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Speaker 1: of three? Is he like? Walk us through what Ryan

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Speaker 1: looks like as a girl dad?

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Speaker 3: Oh? Okay, So I'll give you a little insight on

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Speaker 3: the IVF process. And as we went through IVF. In

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Speaker 3: IVF and when you're making embryos, you get the option

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Speaker 3: to know, because you create embryos the sex of the babies. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: And knowing that that was going to be an opportunity

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Speaker 3: or an option. I asked Ryan, And when we were

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Speaker 3: talking about it one night, I was like, would you

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Speaker 3: or would you like a girl?

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Speaker 4: If we should? I really want He.

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Speaker 3: Was like, well what do you want? And I said,

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Speaker 3: I just want a baby. I'm happy with a baby.

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Speaker 4: But Claire, you know you wanted to be a girl mom.

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Speaker 3: Well now you know what you said it literally you

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Speaker 3: said it best. Ashley. That like makes me cry because

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Speaker 3: I'm like, I was meant to be a girl mom.

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Speaker 4: I was meant to be.

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Speaker 3: A girl mom. But Ryan said the same thing. He

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Speaker 3: was like, if we could choose, I love my girls.

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Speaker 3: I love being a girl dad. I love of every

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Speaker 3: single thing that comes along with being a girl dad,

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Speaker 3: and I know how to do it. I would love

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Speaker 3: another girl. We ultimately came to the decision obviously we

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Speaker 3: don't want to choose, we just want. So we did

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Speaker 3: not choose the sex of our baby.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I was gonna ask you if I wasn't sure

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Speaker 2: there was two personal When when you cut that cake,

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Speaker 2: it's like it's gonna be pank, duh.

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Speaker 4: She's definitely getting a girl.

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Speaker 2: In my head, I was like, and if they went

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Speaker 2: through the whole process like she got to pick so,

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Speaker 2: but you didn't pick.

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Speaker 1: Wow, I didn't know it would be personal, like I

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Speaker 1: would have just has to hear as a follow up.

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Speaker 1: So I'm glad you saved me from embarrassing myself. Claire

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Speaker 1: things one step.

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Speaker 3: Further and tell you, guys, so the funny thing this is,

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Speaker 3: this is one of my favorite parts of this story.

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Speaker 3: And I'll tell you a two part you guys, But basically,

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Speaker 3: as you do get to choose the sex, I was

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Speaker 3: we were literally on the phone with doctor Amy and

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Speaker 3: she's our embryo. I don't know what you but would

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Speaker 3: you use the egg whisper?

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 3: Yea doctor. She's amazing. She's actually ten minutes from our house.

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Speaker 4: It's okay.

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Speaker 3: So we're on the phone and it was time for

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Speaker 3: the embryos. We were seeing which what grew, you know,

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Speaker 3: how it all was playing out, and she said, okay,

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Speaker 3: this is her last option because we'd already told her

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Speaker 3: we don't want to find out the sex of the baby.

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Speaker 3: You choose the healthiest embryo if one grew and became healthy.

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Speaker 3: And she said, okay, do you want to know those

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Speaker 3: the sex of the baby, and we said, we still

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Speaker 3: want to stick by it. I mean, obviously it was

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Speaker 3: dying to know by it. Please just as long as

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Speaker 3: long as the health there's it's a healthy baby, we're happy.

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Speaker 3: And she said, okay, because I will let you know.

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Speaker 3: You actually do not get to choose the sex of

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Speaker 4: It was gonna be a girl.

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Speaker 2: The whole time, but you still didn't know until you

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Speaker 2: cut the cake. That was a true gender review.

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Speaker 3: We told we knew, we knew before we cut the cake.

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Speaker 3: That was just way because I am.

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Speaker 4: Just your Instagram, Yeah, that would I.

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Speaker 3: To share with you guys because I knew. I didn't

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Speaker 3: share with everybody. But it's just cool because literally, for

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Speaker 3: ten years, probably more than that, I've shared with my

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Speaker 3: friends and family, I've had so many dreams of my baby,

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Speaker 3: and it's crazy how life has played out. Because that

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Speaker 3: in my dreams, I'm not pregnant in my dreams.

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Speaker 1: I was always grew.

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Speaker 3: Up at the hospital. Yeah, and it was a little girl.

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Speaker 3: And I just like, this makes me so happy.

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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.

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Speaker 1: Clear, that's really wildly, really incredible. Is that you had

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Speaker 1: dreams that, like, you've never had dreams that you're pregnant,

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Speaker 1: but you had dreams of picking up your little girl.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. And it was always different dreams of like she's

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Speaker 3: am I going to bring her home? And we don't

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Speaker 3: have her Carci yet or what do we name her? Like,

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Speaker 3: it was always dreams, different dreams all the time. But

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Speaker 3: it was always going to pick her up at the

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Speaker 3: hospital and she's here and I'm not ready for it,

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Speaker 3: or she's here and I'm finally ready, or you know,

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Speaker 3: just a variety of different dreams.

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Speaker 1: But it was.

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Speaker 3: Always a little girl that we were going to pick up.

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Speaker 3: And like I said, I never have had dreams of

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Speaker 2: And I know that I've talked to you know, you

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Speaker 2: and we will be able to know it all at

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Speaker 2: a certain point. So there's certain details that we can't

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Speaker 2: able to respond to because you alluded to it earlier.

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Speaker 2: You said that you were going through the IVF process.

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Speaker 2: Was that you just harvesting the eggs or was that

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Speaker 3: So with me, it's a little different, and I know

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Speaker 3: everybody's story is very, very different and no two stories

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Speaker 3: are the same. For me, it was I'll tell you this,

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Speaker 3: I started the egg process prior to even knowing Ryan.

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Speaker 3: I am the person that I know. You guys know this.

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Speaker 3: I'm very very proactive with my health and I had

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Speaker 3: So when I started going into doctor Amy, my breast

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Speaker 3: So going into doctor Amy, it was not looking good.

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Speaker 3: And that's why she was like, you need to stay

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Speaker 3: coming to me if if whatever this looks like, however

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Speaker 3: I will help you become a mother. And I trusted

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Speaker 3: when Ryan and I were together, I didn't know in

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Speaker 3: the very beginning if he wanted another baby, wanted a

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Speaker 3: my last relationship. Actually, in my last relationship, I was

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Speaker 3: I had gone into the relationship with Brian knowing what

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Speaker 4: But no love it at all. Thank you for sharing

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Speaker 4: all that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just it's it's been a lot and I've

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Speaker 3: there was a lot of things that were working against me.

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Speaker 3: But I don't really like the term infertile or infertility.

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Speaker 3: Like doctor Amy says, if you want to be a mother,

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Speaker 3: it might look different, but you can become a mother

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Speaker 3: in many different ways.

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Speaker 2: Now, Sarah Herron is also working with the Whisper, and

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Speaker 4: What's your relationship with Sarah like?

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Speaker 2: Because I know you guys are friendly, but do you

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Speaker 4: Through your doctor?

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Speaker 3: I love Sarah. I absolutely love Sarah. I don't think

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Speaker 3: what not even just her, but so many, so many

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Speaker 3: it you completely understand, just like I don't understand her

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Speaker 2: So I've just been rooting for her to be a mom,

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Speaker 2: and I like told my mom as soon as you

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Speaker 4: I'm like, mom, Claire's having a baby. She's like yay.

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Speaker 2: So like I don't know, it's just like something like

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Speaker 3: Because I just it's everything I've ever wanted. I know

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Speaker 1: I don't know if that's my story to tell anymore.

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Speaker 4: All right, let's do it.

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Speaker 1: This has been another episode of almost Famous podcast. Thank

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Speaker 1: we wish Gary still the best. He's a good dude. Anyways,

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