The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast - Ashley’s Expecting!

Episode Date: January 23, 2024

Ashley and Jared have big news to share… they’re having another baby! Hear their hopes, their fears and everything in between leading up to a family of four!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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They announced this yesterday, but we wanted to give you our... our listeners, the people we love so much, all the exclusive details. Hey, everyone. Welcome to the Almost and Miss podcast. Today, Jared is here with me, and we're just going to talk about pregnancy number two. Yeah, we're going to be a family of four. Family of four. Or five, do you want to count Lois?

Is that the thing? Like, do you count the dog when you have kids? No. Okay, no. I mean, when the kids get older, let's, I don't know, who the hell knows? Anyway, we're growing into a family of four. It's me, Ashley Dawson, and the new one. And Lois is a part of the family.

It doesn't have a name, by the way. We have no names picked out for this kid. Thought we, thought we may have had a name, but no. So we're not revealing whether it's a girl or a boy. That reveal will come later. Yeah. We did our reveal, our reveal, the baby reveal with Amazon Live. We love working with them.

It's so much fun. So I have, basically, if you go and click the link, it's on my Instagram, you'll find it. You can see the live where we talk about a lot of things, but we also have like our full-blown registry below, not our registry like for this baby because we have everything. But it's everything that we loved that we used with Dawson. plan on bringing up from the basement again for this baby. It's so nice to have everything. But now I just want to set up other parents to be out there with

what we think are the absolute essentials. So I did check that out. All right, babe, do you want to like how should we do this? No, I don't know. Let's just talk. All right. So we were We had sad. Jared. So

Jared, so we knew we wanted the kid to be ideally two and a half years apart from Dawson because Jared and I are two and a half years apart from our siblings and that was a big deal for me apparently not a big deal for you no I mean it would it's nice to get them close in age but also it's just ideal to get it over with you know you definitely want them in a similarish phase yeah together the same time could you imagine trying to do this three or four years from now we would only have one kid we wouldn't do it well that sounds sad no it's not it's a lot of people that have kids that

far apart no it's not sad i'm saying just for us we if we were out of the baby phase i think we would be like we don't want to go back in but now it's perfect because he's starting to be a little bit more independent and we're like all right who was like the best like he's just better and better every day yeah he gets better and better every day i mean he throws he throws temper tantrums now so like He throws himself on the floor, but those are easy. We literally step right over them. And it's like, bro, if you're going to do this over not getting a piece of cheese, then it just cry. He's so dramatic, guys.

He's just, he is us. It's just so crazy. But you don't think that Jared's dramatic, but the thing is, like, he's very emotional. So imagine what our offspring's like. But, yeah, we are so happy that this, that this kid will be two and a half years. exactly like crazy like almost to dawson's like half birthday i think he's like basically due on dawson's half birthday just about yeah yeah so is july the exact six months january first it would be july 31st right so i'm due july 29 how many days in july is there 31 i think

there is 31 i think so oh my gosh i don't want the kid to come on 31st that i mean i'm two days late i'm just let's just i just love the way that dawson was 10 days early that'd be a fun game tell me how many days are in each month i'm not that great at it obviously it's 31 in january it's 28 in february there's 31 in march it's definitely right march 31st yeah i think so yeah i think so i don't think april's 30 30 okay what's all we're here to talk about i think i think may's 31 the trivia babe this is the trivia for audres i think july's 31 all right so um other things so yeah it was it was great for us because it was too Two months trying. Dawson was seven months of trying to get pregnant. So this was like such a surprise and so awesome. So what happened was I actually had a chemical pregnancy in October, which was the first month of us trying. So a chemical pregnancy is like a very early miscarriage. It's like specifically during week five. So if you are familiar with the pregnancy cycle, your week one is like the week after your.

period or is like the first day of your period something like that so like you're technically not actually pregnant the first couple weeks it's just like week one is the actual start of your cycle but like the egg's not fertilized until week three I think so anyway in week five what happens usually in week five is that women take pregnancy tests going into week five or you would get your period in, you know, the tail end of loop four. So I took a pregnancy test a couple days before what I would assume would be my missed period. And it was positive. And I just knew it in my bones that it was going to be positive.

And then I did the cute thing where I took it in, like, put it in the pregnancy test in a little gift bag. I gave it to Dawson, and then I had Dawson when Jared came home from work, go running over to Jared. And then Jared opened it. And it was our cute moment on video. Very cutie. But then it didn't stick. So a couple days later, after the positive, I started bleeding. And that was very sad.

I was pretty bummed about it. But it was the first month trying. And, you know, I do have like, what? concept of how we've been blessed okay yeah we have perspective perspective thank you there's a lot of people there's a lot yeah so

I was like the first month we have Dawson this is not no I mean sad but it's sad but not a huge deal and my midwife was like you know lots of women get pregnant the month after a chemical pregnancy and I kind of had that positivity in my brain and

And she called it. And she called it. So that time was not as cute because it's just weird to like back to back try something cute. I knew Jared wouldn't respond the same way. So I just like took a shower, took a pregnancy test, put Josh in the bed, sat on the couch, pulled it out of my pocket. And I was like, here, I'm pregnant, by the way. And he was like, uh, that's a very faint line. You think that's pregnant?

And I was like, yes, I'm a woman. I know that that's pregnant. That's exactly what Dawson's pregnancy tests look like. Well, her pregnancy test had the one with the lines. So he doesn't like the one with the line. No lies. Just give me words. The one that I gave him in the gift box, whatever, was that pregnant.

He needs words. So whatever. But then a couple weeks, a week without my period, he started to believe him. My boyfriend's professor is way too friendly and now I'm seriously suspicious. Oh, wait a minute. Sam, maybe her boyfriend's just looking for extra credit. Well, Dakota, it's back to school week on the OK Storytime podcast, so we'll find out soon. This person writes, my boyfriend has been hanging out with his young professor a lot.

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better. One week, but in poor Jared now has to deal with pregnant Ashley. Oh, it's fine. It's not so bad. It's not that great, babe. No, it's not great,

but I'll be fine. I'm fine. We had this question in the good advice this week. It was just like, um, my, like, Ben was like,

you have to like, you know, be attractive and like, nice for your husband and all, like, you know. Ben said that? No,

no, like as like a partner, like, not just for your husband, but like vice versa. Oh, you know, you have to like care about yourself

and like, be your best version for them and I was like and I wanted to be like Ben I I say audios to like wifehood while I'm pregnant oh yeah you know what I mean like I'm like I'll see you in nine months every time I offer Jared to be like I could go live at my parents you don't have to deal and see with me see me like this I mean I definitely give it a second thought for a good second and a half like yeah well right now you can't like I'm not going to take gossip away from you so that's why I wouldn't actually do it but like it would be like nice you know and then you'd be so excited to see me once the baby came

oh yeah if i didn't see you for like seven more months it'd be so fresh and then like it'd be great you know distance makes a harker fonder yeah i know so anyway guys we this is just who i am when i'm pregnant i don't i don't feel good on the inside i don't oh stop that i mean i you know i don't feel good so like that you don't feel good and then i don't feel like i look good on the outside. So, like, I'm just not a very good version of myself. I'm not mean. I'm just lazy. I just feel sick. There's nothing wrong with just being like, yeah, I'm sick. I'm bloated. I feel like crap. I'm throwing up. My face is blown. Like, you know, like I know it's 15 pounds. Well, I have put on almost 15 pounds. So it's like, who knows when it's going to look great.

You do. I mean, you see. I look like I've gained 15 pounds. But like, that's obviously fine. you know it's growing life inside of you but like I don't feel my best so when I don't feel my best then I don't even want to like try because then I'm like just try this is what happens to me

if I don't feel that great on the outside and the inside at the same time then like if I'm if I take a shower do my hair do my makeup and then like I look at myself in the mirror and I'm like

that's still not me and then I'm like why did I even try because it just it's almost more discouraging to see that like I can't even look the way that I you know and so that was evident at the golden bachelor you're like the person you're like the kid in high school who doesn't who doesn't want to put effort in because they don't want to they'd rather fail and not try than try and fail oh well I don't like that you know I'm all about trying but that's what you're

doing right now which totally but that's the thing I try and then I fail and upset that's what I'm saying Oh, okay. But you just said you'd rather try and fail. Oh, I understand what I was saying. I was trying to make a joke. No, obviously didn't like it. I understand what you're saying. I'm joking.

Okay, okay. Well, it was quite evident at the Golden Bachelor wedding. Somebody even DM me today. They're like, I could tell at your looks at the Golden Bachelor wedding in your face. And I was like, I know. Were they there at the wedding? No, but Jared. They saw us for the, they saw you for a political.

I know. I guess it was a picture you posted. So Jared posted this picture. I was like, Jared, that was, like, so evident that, like, I was, like, green. I looked green. It was the lighting. No, it wasn't. It was nice, natural lighting. It was nice, natural green lighting.

Well, guys, the Golden Bachelor wedding was the worst day of my pregnancy, where I threw up nine times in nine hours. I left the reception. You threw up more than nine times. No, no, no, yes, because I left the reception at nine, and I threw up once every 45 minutes until we left for the airport at five. It was bad. Then I threw up in the airport. So this is when the tally goes up higher than nine. And then I threw up multiple times throughout our transportation over here.

Yeah, it was bad. Bad day. Bad day. Couldn't take the Zofran yet. I was just in week 10, which is when you're allowed to take Zopran. And I, I, yeah. So it was really gnarly, guys. But that was really, I mean, you've been.

That was the worst, worst day. You've had crap days, but nothing, nothing like that. So just every, like lots of people, very, very sweet. And I appreciate it so much. It's so nice. A lot of people are asking me, like, how I'm feeling in comparison. And I am feeling so much better than my pregnancy with Dawson. I didn't start getting sick until week seven, which was actually kind of alarming for me.

I know I'm rambling, but I just felt like it was very strange to go from hypermesis with Dawson to not. And I started getting symptoms at like five and a half weeks of Dawson to at seven weeks, having not even thrown. up yet. And then it came. And then I was like, oh, okay. So I guess I can calm down. You know, there's this thing. They say like sick pregnancy, is a healthy pregnancy, which is probably ridiculous because there's, we look at the studies. You and I, like there's some, there's, you know, whatever. I'm not, I'm not going to scientist. I'm not getting into it. I'm not going to pretend that I'm a doctor on TV though. But yeah. So overall, been sick. But for what I went through with Dawson, it's not really a lot to complain about because I think that this is probably like an average first trimester.

My worst part for me is that like I still have my aversion to water. Water still doesn't make me feel good. So I feel like I'm in a constant state of dehydration because like all I can stomach is like sugary drinks, like a lot of soda and juice. And I don't even feel like that that hydrates me. and I pee only I hate seeing I hate seeing Instagram Reels of women being like I'm pregnant of course I pee every hour in the middle of the night

It's like I'm pregnant and I pee less than I've ever peed in my life Like I pee when I wake up because you know Just the water's running And then I pee when I go to bed again because I brush my teeth and the water's running And that's it P when you sneeze I pee when I sneeze but I pee when I throw up And then I pee when and then I pee when

and then I pee when I cough. Yeah. So you just got to cough more. And I cough when I'm nauseous and you hate that. I think that's annoying, which it is. It's not. Oh, here we go. No, it is.

It is. I would be annoyed. I would replicate the cough that she does. He doesn't like it when I dry heave. It's no. No, no, no, no. Your cough, it's, first of all, she doesn't cover her mouth. Yeah, because no one's around.

I'm aware. It's not a germy cough either. It's a. He's not germs. But okay, go ahead. Let's move on. All right. No, no, no, no, you can tell everybody.

No, I was going to say, because your cough is so over the top and you're like, you stick your tongue out and then you don't cover your mouth. You look like a child. No, whatever. No, you got a child, you know, we're like, and I'm like, oh, my God, Ashley, okay. And every time I peeve my pants. So I would be wearing a diaper a lot, you know, big pad. do what you got to do you got to do survival mode now anything else anything else to i mean we i survived disney world pregnant that's that's the testament to the fact that i was able that i'm

feeling much better than last time i know that's stunk i mean i was curious i felt bad for you for not i didn't get to be the most fun because i didn't get to go on all the fun rides with him so a lot of his favorite like things i didn't get to experience and i was like you know But I got to experience, and that's the only thing that mattered. No, I was genuinely happy that Jared got to go on Guardians of the Galaxy and stuff. Yeah, it was so much fun. But it made me sad that you can go on the rides. Like when Lauren, because Lauren came, her sister, and Lauren and I would go on the rides and then we got off.

I mean, most of them were like, oh, okay, that was fun. But there was a couple like Guardians of the Galaxy and Tron where it was like, all right, that was. That was awesome. Do we tell Ashley how awesome and how much fun that was? Or do we down play it? No, of course. told you how awesome it was what else is there anything else to tell not really i mean you're pregnant second kid on the way in july she or he is cooking down there um i mean i are

we nervous about having a second kid yeah yeah we're very nervous well just because like everybody tells us and i always say this it's no longer two-on-one zone defense it's now one-on-one like you get a kid i get a kid and i'm here like i think for me personally i need to get prepared um with audries to ensure that I can be at home as much as possible. Yeah. You know, so, but I have six months to get my affairs. Six months to move to Virginia. Six months to move to Virginia.

Get my affairs in order. So I can go to Equinox down there. That would be his gift for moving to my family. Yeah. Yeah, but we, yeah, I think like our, we, you know, people are like, you're so excited. so excited it's like kind of like last time i'm like very much very very much very happy definitely always wanted a family of four we're just going to have four you know just could be the four of us we have no plans to have a third and we are just anxious to see how life is i think i'm anxious as

dawson runs oh right maybe that's a good time to end the podcast it's a good time all right guys well thank you so much we really appreciate you like listening to them we appreciate you caring and appreciate the support like it's just unreal like I did it's crazy it is so cool anybody who watch the the Amazon Live who's listening to this podcast who follows us on on social I truthfully Ashley and I want you guys to know what that means to us because it means so much and it's something we'll never take for granted so then I don't think either one of us ever thought would happen Dawson told him to Mike he's a football You just disconnect.

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Now he's insisting we get to know each other, but I just want or gone. Hold up. Isn't that against school policy? That seems inappropriate. Maybe find out how it ends by listening to the OK Storytime podcast and the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, my name is Enya Umanzor. And I'm Drew Phillips. And we run a podcast called Emergency Intercom. If you're a crime junkie and you love crimes, we're not the podcast for you. But if you have unmedicated ADHD...

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