Gaines for Girls with Riley Gaines - Riley's Pregnant!

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00:00:43.920 We announced some very, very exciting news that we have been keeping close to our chest

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00:02:09.060 As I said, we shared some very, very exciting news over the weekend.

00:02:14.060 What did we share?

00:02:15.060 We have a little baby on the way.

00:02:18.020 We'll insert a clip of how I shared this exciting news.

00:02:23.000 Little context, we were at Young Women's Leadership Summit at a Turning Point event.

00:02:27.040 Turning Point, of course, has been fantastic for the conservative movement, specifically

00:02:31.420 among the youth.

00:02:33.260 You have leaders like Charlie Kirk, myself, getting on college campuses.

00:02:36.900 So I really found there was no better place to share this information than to a room full

00:02:42.220 of these vibrant, young, conservative women.

00:02:46.840 Check out the clip here.

00:02:47.680 I think the funniest thing about this to me and her saying, bully someone your own size, 1.00

00:02:54.520 which would ironically be a man.

00:02:57.420 How many men do you know that have this? 0.91

00:03:02.560 So that was the first exciting news that we shared.

00:03:15.680 Of course, we are bringing life into this world.

00:03:18.620 It was just the most incredible response to.

00:03:20.840 Maybe you could hear some of the audience in the clip.

00:03:23.340 But again, so many young girls, it made me so emotional. 0.97

00:03:26.640 I think this was kind of like the final step in admitting, of course, to everyone, but also

00:03:32.520 like to ourselves that this is real.

00:03:34.780 It's happening and it's happening relatively soon.

00:03:37.600 I was overwhelmed with emotion, like tears immediately came to my eyes.

00:03:42.660 It was almost uncontrollable, but I kind of kept it in.

00:03:46.240 But then I brought out a very, very special guest, my co-host of the Gainsborough Girls podcast

00:03:51.700 today, and he shared some more exciting news.

00:03:55.360 Yeah, I was fortunate enough to be able to share that we are having a little girl, which

00:04:01.000 just completely changes like everything that we've been working towards the last few years.

00:04:07.140 It takes it to a whole nother level.

00:04:09.280 It's even more personal now that like it's actually going to be our daughter that we've

00:04:14.080 been working to protect and fight for.

00:04:16.740 So it was pretty neat to be able to announce that.

00:04:20.620 And again, to a room full of young girls, when we found out we were pregnant, I immediately

00:04:27.560 knew like at relatively early on, right?

00:04:30.740 Like at six or so weeks when we found out, I knew it was a girl.

00:04:34.620 I'm not an overly intuitive person.

00:04:37.280 Typically, I would have bet our house on it, our life savings on the fact that it was a girl. 0.99

00:04:44.460 But we, of course, you go through, we did the blood test, all the genetic testing to make

00:04:50.040 sure everything was good and healthy, which, praise God, it is.

00:04:55.380 Not that it would have mattered either way, but everything is fantastic.

00:04:59.440 She's growing.

00:05:00.340 She's right where she needs to be.

00:05:02.280 I'm right where I need to be in terms of health.

00:05:05.600 But we did the blood test.

00:05:07.780 Kind of funny story.

00:05:08.800 We did like, I think it's called like the sneak peek results where they basically prick

00:05:12.800 your arm, send your blood, a little vial of your blood off to a lab somewhere, and then 0.96

00:05:18.300 they'll email you the results.

00:05:20.400 And so we did this and the results come back.

00:05:23.800 You wait like two days, maybe 48 hours.

00:05:25.600 The results come back the first time and it said inconclusive.

00:05:29.500 And it just felt like a sick joke.

00:05:32.660 I'm like, oh gosh, like...

00:05:34.540 We're having a day then.

00:05:36.160 Like, what does this mean?

00:05:38.040 Inconclusive.

00:05:38.800 But they reached back out and assured me that there was someone else's DNA, one of the handlers

00:05:43.660 of the blood vial got on there.

00:05:45.060 We need to redo it.

00:05:45.780 We redid it.

00:05:46.620 It came back.

00:05:48.660 You want to tell how we found out together the sex with the baby?

00:05:52.360 So we got, the results come through in an email.

00:05:55.420 And so we were in the bathroom when the email came through.

00:05:59.500 And so you just have to scroll down to the bottom and then it has in big letters, whether

00:06:04.880 it's a boy or a girl.

00:06:06.760 And so we scrolled down and there was definitely a brief pause after we had kind of like seen

00:06:14.680 what it was.

00:06:15.160 I think it was almost shock.

00:06:17.920 Which we did like final guesses before this.

00:06:20.760 Yeah.

00:06:21.020 I, of course, guess girl.

00:06:22.300 I guess boy.

00:06:23.360 And so I was definitely shocked if it was a girl.

00:06:26.300 But after that brief little pause, the first words that came out of my mouth were, I'm

00:06:31.800 going to jail.

00:06:32.380 Which I think that's how, you know, you married the right man.

00:06:37.080 When the first words that he says after finding out he is going to be a girl, dad, a dad to

00:06:43.360 a little girl is I'm going to jail. 1.00

00:06:45.420 I, I take that as a sign.

00:06:47.180 You know, you married the right person.

00:06:49.120 And I posted over on my Instagram just this weekend after we did the reveal.

00:06:54.940 Let me know if you guys have any questions, because of course, we're going to be talking

00:06:57.940 about it on the podcast this week.

00:07:00.120 And you guys sent in so, so many questions, so many that I can't possibly get to them all.

00:07:05.760 But I figured I would take the ones that were the most popular and answer some of those.

00:07:09.680 So the first one was due date.

00:07:12.200 Due date.

00:07:12.840 So our little girl is due towards the back end of September, which I'm kind of nervous

00:07:19.080 for because my birthday is also towards the end of September.

00:07:22.660 And I think that my birthday is going to be co-opted.

00:07:26.240 Yeah.

00:07:26.620 And forgotten forever.

00:07:27.740 You're just going to be 25 forever because...

00:07:30.080 We're going to have to do my half birthday or something.

00:07:31.820 Yeah.

00:07:32.220 His birthday is September 19th.

00:07:33.460 And if she is born that day, then...

00:07:36.380 It's no longer mine.

00:07:37.020 I love you so much, but you are going to unfortunately be forgotten for the rest of...

00:07:41.980 Fully expected.

00:07:42.560 ...your life.

00:07:43.200 Yeah.

00:07:44.360 So she's due then.

00:07:46.200 Second question is, how did I find out?

00:07:50.000 I feel like I found out relatively later.

00:07:53.160 Like I said, we found out about six or so weeks, which nowadays I see on TikTok or on social

00:07:59.220 media that you have girls who are finding out like three weeks, which is insane to me.

00:08:03.060 That was a video of literally three weeks.

00:08:04.440 Yeah, that's so crazy, but it speaks to the innovation of these pregnancy tests and results

00:08:09.180 and all the different things.

00:08:10.860 But the way that I found out is pretty crazy.

00:08:15.200 I woke up one day not feeling fantastic, nauseous, very, very dizzy.

00:08:22.860 That's how I felt.

00:08:24.020 It was almost like symptoms of like vertigo.

00:08:26.540 Like you stand up and immediately like your blood rushes to your head, you're lightheaded.

00:08:31.400 And so I was standing at my grandma's house.

00:08:35.020 I was on the phone with my sister and I stood up and it was like timber.

00:08:40.120 I fell flat on my face.

00:08:42.640 I had passed out and my grandma's standing there and God bless her. 0.79

00:08:45.800 And she's running over and she's like, Riley, Riley.

00:08:48.200 And I'm so confused at this point.

00:08:50.100 Like what?

00:08:50.620 I have no idea why that happened.

00:08:52.320 Like I'm healthy.

00:08:53.220 I'm like there's no sort of heart condition that I knew of at the time.

00:08:57.540 I didn't get the vaccine.

00:08:58.340 Like there was nothing that could have made that happen.

00:09:01.280 So I believed.

00:09:02.760 And it was then I took a pregnancy test and it came back positive.

00:09:07.140 But if you have been like a loyal fan of the show, a loyal watcher or follower, you may

00:09:15.620 be remember several, several episodes back.

00:09:19.000 Of course, this was in January or February.

00:09:21.720 There was an episode with Gracie Hunt, the daughter of the air.

00:09:25.920 She's the heiress of the Chiefs, the Kansas City Chiefs.

00:09:28.460 This was leading up to the Super Bowl.

00:09:29.660 You may remember if you watch the show, I had two shiners, like two black eyes and like

00:09:37.020 a bruised nose where I had fallen so hard on my face.

00:09:43.660 So that is how I found out that I was pregnant.

00:09:46.660 But I kept this information from Louis, the father of the child, for about a week or so

00:09:52.860 because in my defense, I was desperately trying to think of a cute way to tell him about this.

00:09:59.660 To surprise him, I'm not overly creative.

00:10:02.920 I couldn't really think of anything.

00:10:04.220 Each day went by.

00:10:05.180 I'm like, OK, I really, really need to tell him.

00:10:06.920 I'm not that great at keeping secrets either.

00:10:08.400 So it's a miracle.

00:10:09.480 I kept this one for like a week.

00:10:11.820 But I was definitely surprised that she held it in for as long as you did.

00:10:17.220 But I remember I.

00:10:19.420 I said to you, I was like, I've got I've got exciting news and I'm not going to tell you.

00:10:24.180 And you what you had to obviously try and one up and you're like, well, I've got exciting

00:10:27.620 news.

00:10:28.160 I'm not going to tell you.

00:10:29.660 And I thought you were bluffing.

00:10:31.160 I thought you were doing that middle school game where it's like, oh, I know something

00:10:34.120 you don't know, which is typical like Riley fashion.

00:10:37.760 So I didn't believe you.

00:10:40.180 But I caved as I normally do with this stuff.

00:10:42.920 And I had just been told that my green card had been approved.

00:10:47.700 And I'm sure some of you heard about all that stuff and just found out my green card had

00:10:52.320 been accepted, approved, and it was on its way in the mail and it was going to be at the

00:10:56.340 house the following day.

00:10:58.100 And so I just said, well, my green card is coming in tomorrow.

00:11:01.240 What have you got?

00:11:01.800 And she pulls out the pregnancy test and just sets it on the counter in front of me.

00:11:07.440 And I remember my jaw hit the floor.

00:11:10.980 And lo and behold, Riley did one up me.

00:11:13.780 She won that one.

00:11:15.280 In true Riley fashion.

00:11:16.720 I still had like black eyes at this point, too.

00:11:19.120 So it's kind of funny.

00:11:20.140 We were able to tell our family and friends.

00:11:22.780 We did like just a relatively intimate little sex reveal.

00:11:26.820 I don't like the whole verbiage of gender reveal, to be honest with you, because it kind 1.00

00:11:31.080 of goes against everything that I have been declaring for years.

00:11:36.260 Again, if you've been watching this podcast, you know that I have made the very, very firm

00:11:40.660 stance that gender and sex are not synonymous.

00:11:43.860 They are not interchangeable words.

00:11:45.540 So I prefer to say our baby sex reveal because, again, that is accurate. 0.99

00:11:49.900 And when the results came in on our phone, like that email we were talking about that we

00:11:53.300 scrolled to the bottom, it says girl.

00:11:54.580 It says girl XX. 0.98

00:11:57.960 Like, I just thought that was perfect and very, very fitting.

00:12:01.780 So we had a relatively intimate little sex reveal with our family and our closest friends.

00:12:07.660 Had a little cake, cut into the cake.

00:12:10.720 And of course, the icing on the inside was pink.

00:12:15.540 Next question, you guys, a lot of you guys were asking is why did we keep it private for

00:12:19.880 so long?

00:12:20.500 Uh, it took us till week 26 to now come out and tell the public.

00:12:26.460 I think a couple of reasons.

00:12:27.760 Number one, because it took me a while to show.

00:12:31.300 Um, I mean, even week 20 or so, like halfway through the pregnancy, I go to the anatomy scan.

00:12:36.420 Of course, I can tell, like I can, I have, I'm very self-aware.

00:12:40.340 I know my body.

00:12:41.140 I think being very fit and, and tuned into myself my whole life being an athlete, like

00:12:45.100 I could tell that my body's changing and, and growing and shifting things internally.

00:12:50.360 We're shifting.

00:12:50.980 That was just about when you started saying, okay, my clothes are starting to feel tighter.

00:12:55.520 Yeah.

00:12:55.660 I think that was right around then as well.

00:12:57.160 Wouldn't it?

00:12:57.460 Yeah.

00:12:57.840 Yeah.

00:12:58.200 So it took me a while to show, but then I would say like the past probably three or

00:13:02.400 so weeks, it has really like every morning I wake up, I'm like, oh, that's not just like

00:13:08.600 bloated looking anymore.

00:13:09.880 That's like a bump.

00:13:10.800 Yeah.

00:13:11.620 So that number one, and I think number two, people are just cruel.

00:13:15.600 And I am so secure and, and firm in what I believe, uh, and with my convictions to be

00:13:24.340 able to take the negativity and the backlash.

00:13:26.540 But even without my daughter, our daughter being in our arms yet, I feel this innate inherent

00:13:32.600 sense of protection over her.

00:13:34.640 So come for me all day long.

00:13:36.720 Leave me hate comments all day long.

00:13:38.260 I will say me and the blog button are like this nowadays, not really on X or, or like TikTok.

00:13:43.520 I don't really read those comments, but Instagram, the notifications pop up so readily.

00:13:47.580 And I see when people leave hateful comments, you won't get blocked in like 0.2 of a second.

00:13:53.660 Like, yeah, like I don't, it's not because again, it makes me feel any, any sort of way.

00:13:59.300 It's more so like, I don't want to give you the power to comment on my photo.

00:14:04.480 I think it's so bizarre, like a grown adult going to another grown adults, social media

00:14:10.580 page to leave a negative comment.

00:14:12.600 A lot of them like all the men as well.

00:14:14.680 Yeah.

00:14:14.980 It's like, grow up, find a hobby, maybe get a job.

00:14:18.820 These are the same people who are protesting at the no Kings day, uh, protests all across

00:14:23.800 the nation.

00:14:24.320 It's like, get a job.

00:14:26.440 Um, anyway, so I think those two things were a large part in why we kept it close to chess

00:14:31.740 for as long as we did.

00:14:32.780 Yeah.

00:14:33.180 People are just crazy, you know, and it was something that was, that was personal to us.

00:14:37.640 And we wanted the, we wanted the ability to tell people when we were ready.

00:14:42.640 And, uh, yeah, I think what better time for us than at the young women's leadership summit,

00:14:48.900 knowing that it was a girl.

00:14:49.660 I mean, that was just, that was perfect.

00:14:51.080 And a lot of you guessed it truthfully.

00:14:53.880 Like a lot of you were leaving comments on my social media, uh, saying like, Oh, are

00:14:58.700 you pregnant? 0.90

00:14:59.360 Is there a baby on board?

00:15:00.920 And it was funny because a lot of you would say like, it's not even because you look any

00:15:04.660 different or we see a bump or anything like that, but there's just this glow about you.

00:15:08.280 So I thought that was kind of crazy.

00:15:09.540 A lot of you were very, uh, you were in tune, uh, and, and way ahead of your time and knowing

00:15:15.820 this information who was really, I think this is cool.

00:15:18.180 Who was really like the first being to know our dog, our female dog, for sure.

00:15:26.000 We, I remember this was probably like week two, like in, yeah, it was crazy.

00:15:32.700 Like, like before you knew we'd be, we'd be in the kitchen, the dogs would be, you know,

00:15:37.080 underneath our feet, which we have three dogs.

00:15:39.080 We have buddy, lady, and Dumbo.

00:15:41.480 Buddy is our oldest male.

00:15:43.560 Lady is the female buddy and lady got together.

00:15:48.180 Uh, so she was a mother before me, uh, and she had 10 puppies, Dumbo being one of them.

00:15:53.320 We'll insert a picture of them.

00:15:54.800 Um, they're just the best, sweetest dogs ever.

00:15:57.520 Um, and they're like a little, their own little pack, if you will.

00:16:00.940 Yeah.

00:16:01.200 Lady would, she'd almost like circle you like a shark and like sit on your feet. 1.00

00:16:06.760 Now we're used to them being underneath our feet just cause they're, they're people,

00:16:10.040 dogs through and through.

00:16:11.520 But lady would sit on your feet and I mean, she'd never like growl at the others, but 1.00

00:16:16.600 she was like fending them off. 0.99

00:16:19.020 It was like almost like a healer, like, like wanting to like nip or like ankle bite at the

00:16:23.620 other ones if they got too close to me.

00:16:24.980 And she's not, she had never done that.

00:16:27.500 Yeah.

00:16:27.640 And so it was super bizarre to me.

00:16:29.700 Uh, she would like at night, they would sleep in the bed with us.

00:16:32.380 She would be, and she was, she's always slept very close to me, but it was like different.

00:16:37.180 Like I could tell something was up with her and it's how she acted before she had her puppies.

00:16:41.680 Like before she had alternative, her little puppies, she wanted to be sitting on my lap, 0.95

00:16:48.040 touching me as close to me as possible when she was nesting, if you will.

00:16:52.660 And so I think she, we both think that she was the very, very first being to know that

00:16:59.480 there was a little baby inside of me, which is crazy.

00:17:03.220 So you and her, she, she's the kind where she's going to sleep with her head, like on 1.00

00:17:08.040 your pillow.

00:17:08.620 Like we wake up touching noses.

00:17:09.900 Yeah.

00:17:10.320 But she had, she'd switched a little bit and she was sleeping with her head, like on your 1.00

00:17:15.200 stomach.

00:17:15.640 Yeah.

00:17:15.840 That's crazy.

00:17:16.480 Yeah.

00:17:16.720 She knew, she knew something was going on.

00:17:18.540 Yeah.

00:17:18.940 It really was crazy.

00:17:19.720 So next thing, a lot of you were asking about symptoms that I've had.

00:17:26.800 So many of you actually were commenting, like, please talk about how, how difficult the first

00:17:31.040 trimester was.

00:17:31.940 And I think you're going to hate this.

00:17:33.960 Maybe I would hate this if I was a woman who had a very difficult first trimester. 0.63

00:17:40.440 I truthfully have had zero symptoms this entire time.

00:17:45.600 Um, no sickness, no fatigue, no, nothing really.

00:17:51.680 No.

00:17:52.580 Temp has been a little short every now and then I've been on the receiving end of a few

00:17:57.820 thrashings.

00:17:58.720 I will say the first trimester I would wake up like angry for no reason at him.

00:18:03.200 Yeah.

00:18:03.420 If I was still asleep when she woke up, I was cooked.

00:18:07.140 That's it.

00:18:07.640 I was in the doghouse.

00:18:08.760 That is true.

00:18:09.600 But it only lasted like the first 10 minutes of the day.

00:18:11.740 And then I'm like, okay, I feel better now.

00:18:13.140 I just wanted to like be angry at you for 10 minutes.

00:18:15.440 I just showed violence that morning.

00:18:16.800 But I would say there's, there was like a four day stretch where the emotions I could

00:18:21.380 tell were super heightened, uh, intense feelings of sadness and anger.

00:18:26.640 But also when I was happy, that was a very intense feeling too.

00:18:29.880 And it was frustrating to me because I knew like I, I could tell my emotions were heightened,

00:18:35.900 but it didn't feel like there was anything I could do about it.

00:18:38.020 So that was, that was a really bizarre, almost out of body feeling where, you know, you're

00:18:43.620 acting irrational, but there's not a lot that can be done to prevent the irrationality.

00:18:50.000 And so I had to just tell him, I'm like, just have grace with me.

00:18:53.120 I think this will be over soon.

00:18:54.940 I don't really know, but I am either going to like, I think I'm going to just strangle

00:18:59.460 every single person around me.

00:19:01.200 So, but again, that only lasted like about four days.

00:19:04.460 Yeah, it was, uh, it was a few four days where I was, I was dreading the rest of the

00:19:09.020 pregnancy.

00:19:09.480 If it was all, if it was going to be like that the entire time, but it really was, it

00:19:13.320 was a couple of days and then you were good.

00:19:16.080 Yeah.

00:19:16.340 Yeah.

00:19:16.720 Um, other symptoms, oftentimes they say with a girl, your face breaks out.

00:19:21.200 I haven't really had any breakouts, but I do feel like my face is just kind of swollen.

00:19:25.720 If that makes sense.

00:19:26.980 Um, I feel just like, I don't know if it's more drainage.

00:19:30.460 I don't know what it is.

00:19:31.840 I feel just like a little more puffy in my face.

00:19:36.100 And I think that's been the hardest part for me of pregnancy.

00:19:39.680 And I would imagine many athletes, especially athletes who have competed at a high level.

00:19:45.020 I think, especially in sports like gymnastics or swimming, where you're either wearing a

00:19:48.620 leotard or a very revealing skimpy bathing suit, if you will.

00:19:52.420 Like it's hard because it's, your body is so revealed all the time and it's almost

00:19:59.940 inevitable that you like observe it and evaluate it and, and critique your, your, your own

00:20:05.660 biggest critique of your own body.

00:20:07.500 And I hate to say that.

00:20:08.640 I hate that that's the way that it is.

00:20:10.000 But truthfully, like that is the reality.

00:20:11.680 It's why so many women, especially struggle once they're done with athletics again, and 1.00

00:20:19.120 collegiate athletics.

00:20:20.120 And what I experienced, like you're so in tune, you're so fit.

00:20:23.320 You're training six plus hours every single day, swimming 10 plus miles, um, then all

00:20:28.280 that ends.

00:20:28.980 And so to have your body change, of course, you know, it's going to happen.

00:20:33.880 Uh, I have been fortunate enough to stay relatively fit, still running, still exercising, lifting,

00:20:39.120 doing all the things.

00:20:40.260 Um, so my body, of course has changed.

00:20:41.960 I've lost a lot of that muscle that I had.

00:20:43.700 I'm not as lean as I once was.

00:20:45.740 Um, but I would say I haven't gained like in terms of body fat percentage, uh, not a ton

00:20:51.440 of, of fat, my body's just changed.

00:20:53.000 And I think that happens as a woman too, as you get older into that childbearing stage

00:20:57.940 of life.

00:20:59.060 Um, so the hardest part for me is how now growing this, this little tiny human inside of me,

00:21:06.480 it's involuntary.

00:21:08.040 Like there's nothing you can do.

00:21:09.220 Your, your stomach is growing, which is very bizarre.

00:21:12.080 I've always, uh, I mean, from the time I was like 10 years old, probably even younger

00:21:17.000 than that.

00:21:17.320 Like I've always truthfully just had like a rock solid six pack of abs must be nice.

00:21:23.300 Yeah.

00:21:23.920 Yeah.

00:21:24.600 I've, I think a lot of it is genetics, but a lot of it also is of course, hard work and,

00:21:28.880 and your diet and all the things that go into it.

00:21:31.360 And so now all of that is, is shifting and growing.

00:21:37.000 And I feel like my, uh, I mean like your whole body.

00:21:40.980 And so that has been the hardest, hardest part for me to be able to come to terms with

00:21:45.120 and be okay with is that my body is changing.

00:21:48.420 And again, why the Simone comments to me reading that were even more outlandish than they would

00:21:55.500 have been prior to conception.

00:21:59.400 Um, which is again, just crazy.

00:22:01.440 I have to remind you every now and then I'm like, you'll see, you'll be, you know, when

00:22:04.840 we go and travel and doing stuff and you'll say, okay, I haven't got any clothes that fit

00:22:08.780 and you'll get frustrated.

00:22:09.460 And I say, well, hon, you're growing a child.

00:22:11.720 They say with a girl, the dad's body changes too. 0.97

00:22:14.620 Yeah.

00:22:15.580 I don't know why that is.

00:22:16.940 I'm taking that as an excuse.

00:22:18.220 Dad bod, here we come.

00:22:19.500 They say that like when the white or like when you're having a girl, I don't know if there's

00:22:23.600 a certain amount of like, like, like hormone.

00:22:26.220 I don't know how this stuff works.

00:22:27.140 Like hormones that are released, pheromones that are released, but they say.

00:22:30.340 Stress.

00:22:31.280 Maybe.

00:22:32.260 Little girls make dad stress. 0.85

00:22:35.020 Otherwise, like in terms of exercise, I have been able to stay totally the same as before.

00:22:41.440 You work hard.

00:22:42.220 You always have.

00:22:42.880 I mean, she's a little crazy. 1.00

00:22:45.600 I ain't even gonna lie. 0.90

00:22:46.420 Yeah.

00:22:46.540 Like, I'm not a morning person.

00:22:48.700 I'll hear her wake up at like four o'clock and I'll be like, what on earth are you doing?

00:22:51.920 And she's like, it's gonna work out.

00:22:54.060 Yeah.

00:22:54.520 Call me if you need me.

00:22:55.700 I am.

00:22:56.440 So a lot of running.

00:22:58.000 Running has felt entirely fine.

00:22:59.600 I mean, the entirety of my pregnancy, still lifting.

00:23:04.560 Don't come for me, but I feel like I'm actually can still lift pretty heavy and not feel any

00:23:09.280 sort of pain.

00:23:10.080 And that was what my doctor said, like, do as you were doing before.

00:23:13.000 Don't add anything new.

00:23:14.120 But if you're lifting and your body's adjusted to it, and that's fine.

00:23:18.300 So like the other day, I mean, in back squat, I mean, we're back squatting six reps of 175,

00:23:25.040 185 pounds.

00:23:26.140 And I still don't feel any sort of discomfort or pain.

00:23:29.600 I think I'm reaching that little brink, that point where it starts to feel different.

00:23:34.860 But I haven't yet.

00:23:36.760 So yeah, he said business as usual.

00:23:38.980 If anything feels different, just back off.

00:23:41.700 That was the advice he gave.

00:23:42.880 And I think that's what's made the rest of pregnancy really a breeze for me is being fit.

00:23:47.620 So this is my clarion call to everyone, especially women who are hoping to conceive at some point,

00:23:54.840 whether it's in the near future or later down the road, get as fit as you can prior to conception.

00:24:01.180 And I think that has been a large part of why pregnancy has been a breeze.

00:24:05.200 I think that's something that I wish I'd kind of taken a little more seriously through the

00:24:07.620 pregnancies because like, obviously you are now growing a human.

00:24:12.360 So you've got to be on your A game, staying fit, staying active, drinking a lot of water,

00:24:16.620 eating better.

00:24:17.640 I'm terrible.

00:24:18.220 My diet is awful.

00:24:19.060 I'll be the first to admit that.

00:24:20.760 But if you also work like manual labor.

00:24:22.880 Yeah.

00:24:23.160 So he has a construction company here in Nashville, pouring concrete.

00:24:27.480 Any of you who have done this know what this is like.

00:24:30.600 Like it's blue collar, like soft hands around here.

00:24:33.220 No soft hands.

00:24:34.240 So he's he works a lot.

00:24:36.200 Like I would say probably 45 ish minutes away from home.

00:24:38.840 If you're familiar with the Nashville area, he works a lot in Brentwood, which is about

00:24:42.760 45 minutes away from our house.

00:24:44.360 And so he's on the road a lot.

00:24:45.500 He doesn't have time to, of course, come back.

00:24:48.080 I guess you could pack a lunch from home, but it's a lot of on the road eating and we

00:24:51.980 travel so much.

00:24:52.700 So that's a hard part, too.

00:24:53.620 Yeah, I think that's something that dads should definitely focus on more is like, okay, so

00:24:58.660 you're growing a child for nine months.

00:25:01.980 Dad should make it a challenge to take that nine months and get in as best shape as they

00:25:06.200 can as well.

00:25:06.940 And no doubt we'll have another.

00:25:08.860 That's going to be one of my one of the things that I think I focus on.

00:25:11.700 It's not too late now.

00:25:12.840 I'm going to remind him of this in the morning when I wake up at 5 a.m. to go work out.

00:25:16.220 Next question a lot of you ask is, have I always wanted to be a mother?

00:25:24.640 Yes, I have.

00:25:26.240 I think this is because, again, I have a plethora of siblings and being the second oldest, like

00:25:33.140 there is almost this nurturing capacity that I feel like I've always had.

00:25:39.140 I've always said that I want like a basketball team of kids.

00:25:42.700 And subs was the last I'd heard.

00:25:43.860 And subs, definitely.

00:25:45.100 I have thought for the longest time and I know, like, don't come for me.

00:25:49.800 It's easier to say this when you haven't yet had a child.

00:25:53.060 So this probably sounds very, uh, naive.

00:25:56.200 Yes.

00:25:56.660 Yes. 1.00

00:25:57.340 Blissfully ignorant. 0.96

00:25:58.400 But I would like my dream is to have three kids under three. 1.00

00:26:01.720 I've told you you're crazy for that.

00:26:03.500 So let's get through the first one. 0.79

00:26:04.820 Like that just sounds like a dream to me.

00:26:06.920 So I've always wanted to be a mom, but I will say again, since I think especially the,

00:26:13.240 first of all, hearing the heartbeat for the first time, that was like when it's like,

00:26:17.860 oh my gosh.

00:26:19.100 And you hear the heartbeat at the very, very first appointment at eight weeks.

00:26:22.620 It's faint.

00:26:23.680 It's, it's not as strong as it continues to progress to be.

00:26:27.220 Uh, it's, it was a lot faster than I thought it was.

00:26:30.740 Yeah.

00:26:30.840 It's like 150.

00:26:32.320 I thought it was a little, yeah.

00:26:33.360 150, 160.

00:26:34.680 It was, that was, that was one thing that I was surprised about is even still, I think

00:26:39.320 the last time we went, it was still 140, 130, something like that.

00:26:44.560 That heartbeat's fast.

00:26:45.880 That, that was, that caught me off guard a little bit.

00:26:47.560 But so he's working hard in that.

00:26:49.380 Yeah, she is.

00:26:50.220 But that, and then the 20 week, like the anatomy scan where you see her little hands and her 0.96

00:26:55.180 little feet, and we'll insert a picture here too, of what we saw.

00:26:58.680 And you can see on the sonogram, like she's in there flipping around and moving and like

00:27:03.920 hardly still enough for the, uh, nurse to take the photos that she needs to take to make

00:27:10.760 sure that she's growing properly.

00:27:12.120 It is the craziest thing ever.

00:27:14.160 So I think since seeing that with your own eyes and hearing that with your own ears,

00:27:18.080 that makes that, that desire to be a mother, like, like more personal, like it, it's, it's

00:27:25.500 really, really real.

00:27:26.780 And it's something that I don't know how at that point, how any woman could not want that.

00:27:33.040 Like, that's how magical those moments really were.

00:27:36.200 It's, you know, it is different for dads as well.

00:27:38.380 Cause we're not, I don't want to say you forget about it, but like the baby's not inside

00:27:43.460 of us.

00:27:44.320 And so we don't feel the change is happening.

00:27:48.500 So getting to see, getting to hear the heartbeat was really neat.

00:27:51.860 And then the first ultrasound, I remember when we went for that, she looked like she, 0.60

00:27:59.420 she had a tail. 1.00

00:28:00.620 Yeah.

00:28:00.820 I seriously said, okay, why does she have a tail? 1.00

00:28:02.400 Well, why does it have a tail?

00:28:03.700 Cause we didn't know it was a she. 0.51

00:28:04.640 Why did it have a tail?

00:28:05.400 Well, that freaked me out a little bit, but seeing the 20 week one was where it kind

00:28:10.160 of really clicked that that's a, like, that's a baby.

00:28:15.540 Yeah.

00:28:16.040 That was really cool.

00:28:17.000 Good.

00:28:17.180 And see that the hands and like the nose, the mouth, the face, just seeing it all.

00:28:20.660 It was, that was, that was where it kind of clicked.

00:28:22.680 And it was like, it's happening.

00:28:24.680 There she is.

00:28:25.040 What about cravings?

00:28:26.960 Um, if Riley goes, I've like tried to classically condition.

00:28:31.920 Yeah.

00:28:32.480 She, uh, her only craving that I've noticed is Dr. Pepper.

00:28:36.640 So if she does that little cough, it's like, she needs a doctor.

00:28:39.360 And I'm like, got it.

00:28:40.700 Yep.

00:28:41.100 So anytime, like it's been, yeah, he's been classically conditioned too.

00:28:45.160 Anytime it's like, I'm sick.

00:28:47.580 Pavlov's dog was onto something there.

00:28:49.600 So, but other than that, I don't think I've had any like absurd cravings.

00:28:54.320 I will say now I do like three meals.

00:28:57.140 I think prior, maybe it wasn't overly healthy, but prior to being pregnant, I don't think I,

00:29:01.720 I love breakfast.

00:29:02.620 It's like my favorite type of food, breakfast food, eggs, bacon, all that stuff.

00:29:07.600 But I don't feel like I was someone who prioritized eating breakfast every single day.

00:29:12.340 But now I will say like, I, I definitely want a breakfast, a lunch and a dinner.

00:29:17.440 Um, and never been a big soda drinker really.

00:29:19.860 But now like all of a sudden having never drank Dr. Pepper in my life, I do find myself liking

00:29:25.200 Dr. Pepper.

00:29:26.080 Don't tell RFK.

00:29:26.740 Is there anything that you've noticed that you just cannot stand?

00:29:30.300 Because a lot of people get put off of things like my mom could not eat chicken, still can 0.83

00:29:35.060 like to this day, cannot eat chicken.

00:29:36.580 Is there anything like that that you've noticed?

00:29:38.140 I don't think I really had any food aversions.

00:29:40.700 I can recall one time we went to Texas Roadhouse and my meal, my order at Texas Roadhouse or

00:29:46.640 Longhorn Steakhouse or Outback.

00:29:48.140 It's virtually the same, uh, at all those steakhouses.

00:29:51.600 I get a ribeye.

00:29:52.820 It is ribeye is by far, hands down the best cut of meat.

00:29:56.680 Uh, I will argue with a wall about that one.

00:29:59.120 It's not even close.

00:29:59.980 No.

00:30:00.420 So medium rare ribeye with broccoli and Brussels sprouts.

00:30:04.380 Love Brussels sprouts.

00:30:05.460 Love broccoli.

00:30:06.060 Awful.

00:30:06.600 Yeah.

00:30:07.000 Criminal.

00:30:07.640 Um, but got, went to Texas Roadhouse, ordered the food, got to me and I could not eat a bite.

00:30:16.000 But that was the only time that was the only, like, I think a lot of women have, uh, meat 1.00

00:30:20.420 aversions to either chicken or red meat.

00:30:22.380 That was the only time where I was like, I, that I can't even sniff that.

00:30:25.580 That's making me want to gag.

00:30:27.360 But other than that, everything's been normal.

00:30:29.380 So what about, um, sports again, if you don't know who Louie is, or if you haven't followed

00:30:37.120 me on other platforms or listen to the episodes where we're talking about, um, either our marriage

00:30:42.440 or what he has gone through in relation to the whole, uh, legal immigration battle that

00:30:48.080 we were a part of, um, we met at Kentucky.

00:30:51.120 He was a swimmer there as well.

00:30:53.180 Uh, you played rugby and some other sports growing up.

00:30:55.740 Yeah.

00:30:55.980 Rugby, basketball, our football in England, not this hand, hand, egg sport that you guys

00:31:01.940 call football.

00:31:03.100 Um, yeah, played a lot of sports growing up, but swimming was the one that I kind of gravitated

00:31:07.700 towards in, I guess, the equivalent of high school.

00:31:10.260 So with you being a swimmer and me being a swimmer, do you have hopes that our daughter

00:31:17.060 will be a swimmer?

00:31:19.840 I'm open to any sport.

00:31:23.140 That sounds like a, but there is a, but I know, I feel like we have done our sentence

00:31:28.820 in swimming pools, whether it's even just on the pool deck or in the pool.

00:31:33.780 I think she definitely needs to know how to swim. 1.00

00:31:36.240 And I know everyone's going to say, ah, the pedigree, the pedigree, she's going to be a swimmer.

00:31:39.840 But if she's a swimmer, fantastic. 0.99

00:31:41.900 If she wants to do other sports, great. 0.98

00:31:44.260 But I feel like we've done enough in the pool.

00:31:47.300 Yeah.

00:31:47.640 You're, you're saying that for your own sake.

00:31:49.600 You don't want to spend time in a hot, if you're like a swim parent or a swimmer, you

00:31:54.260 understand like those chlorinated natatoriums.

00:31:58.100 Number one, they're so hot.

00:31:59.540 Your eyes are burning.

00:32:00.660 You're like sniffing in like toxic chemicals for hours to watch a 30 second race.

00:32:07.120 But, um, it is such a fantastic form of exercise that you can do for the rest of your life.

00:32:12.500 So I don't think we'll put pressure on our kids, uh, our daughter to, uh, swim necessarily,

00:32:19.100 but I am a big advocate for our daughter having to play sports.

00:32:24.440 My parents did that with me.

00:32:26.560 Um, now it's probably a form of child abuse to make your kids play sports, but it teaches

00:32:32.340 you so much.

00:32:34.060 I mean, so many skills that I developed.

00:32:36.460 I learned from playing sports from swimming that have translated to what I'm doing now.

00:32:41.280 Like it's playing sports that taught me how to be a leader and to set goals and work to

00:32:44.920 achieve those goals and to be resilient and, and, uh, persistent and all the things that

00:32:50.480 again, we're utilizing now in the fight to, to, uh, fight for a future for our daughter.

00:32:57.980 Those I all learned from playing sports.

00:33:00.480 So, yeah, absolutely.

00:33:01.780 Sport a hundred percent, but any sport is on the table.

00:33:05.540 I feel like this one, a lot of people asked me this question and I think it's a little taboo.

00:33:11.280 Um, was it easy to conceive?

00:33:14.920 I understand the struggles that exist with infertility and my heart goes out to those who,

00:33:23.260 who struggle with this because again, both men and women, because again, I think it is

00:33:28.420 so natural for women to want to be mothers, uh, to have to, and I have many friends even

00:33:34.320 who have had trouble, um, conceiving or, or, uh, having a pregnancy that actually sticks and holds

00:33:42.680 beyond a certain point of time.

00:33:44.800 Uh, and it breaks my heart for them.

00:33:47.120 Um, but our story was a little different.

00:33:49.500 Uh, it was a concern of mine for no reason, an irrational fear, because again, you hear

00:33:54.260 it so often where women have a hard time getting pregnant. 1.00

00:33:56.580 It was a fear of mine, but really how it went for us.

00:34:00.560 Um, we sat down over like around Christmas time of 2024 and we had discussed like, okay,

00:34:07.380 I think 2025 is the year.

00:34:08.820 Uh, we've been married for, uh, coming up on three years at that point.

00:34:12.480 Now we have been married three years.

00:34:14.260 I think we're ready.

00:34:15.320 You will want it.

00:34:15.820 Yeah.

00:34:16.020 You were definitely, you were wanting kids.

00:34:17.740 I mean, day one, I'd be like, I'm ready.

00:34:20.940 And my, I had a bit of a hesitation at the start, just, I mean, partly just to do with

00:34:26.780 the line of work that, that you and we are in, there's too many crazy people out there.

00:34:32.880 Like there, there have been too many situations that we were in where I was like, yeah, I

00:34:37.160 think if we either had a child with us or you were carrying a child, again, I'd be in 1.00

00:34:42.660 jail.

00:34:43.280 Like that, that was one of my hesitations from the start, but we've, there's been a

00:34:47.400 shift, especially in how people are towards you over the last few years when I guess people

00:34:52.600 have realized that, oh, you're not this big, scary person.

00:34:55.160 That's just like attacking kids as they'd like to say, I guess.

00:35:00.100 Um, so I think that kind of made it like the general public has shifted to where now people

00:35:04.980 are more willing to offer their support and encouragement and agreement with the stance

00:35:11.020 that we've taken in public as opposed to in private.

00:35:14.540 And that certainly, again, I've always understood that perspective and understood that there are

00:35:19.460 so many of us, so many more of us, uh, who agree it's literally insane to put men and

00:35:24.980 women's sports and to say that men can become pregnant and to put tampons and boys 0.77

00:35:29.780 bathrooms and all the things that come with the harmful gender ideology movement. 1.00

00:35:33.880 But a lot of that support was private at first.

00:35:36.180 Yeah.

00:35:36.580 And so it's, it's been great to see, especially from like the husband's point of view to see

00:35:40.720 that shift where people are more open to support you.

00:35:44.420 That made me a lot more confident saying, okay, I think, yeah, if, if it happens in 2025,

00:35:49.620 that'd be amazing and didn't take long.

00:35:53.780 Uh, it was January when we, I guess, conceived.

00:36:00.180 Uh, and so it's pretty amazing to think about too, like just all of the, the things our daughter

00:36:05.840 has been able to indirectly be a part of, uh, of course we were at inauguration.

00:36:11.440 Uh, so our baby got to be there.

00:36:15.380 I can tell her this one day, uh, as Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 47th president

00:36:20.140 of the United States, uh, she's been to the white house.

00:36:23.600 Uh, she's been able to watch president Trump sign executive orders.

00:36:27.700 Uh, she's been to the state of the union address or the joint address to Congress.

00:36:32.540 So I should say.

00:36:33.840 You need to figure out how many states she's been to.

00:36:36.040 I know.

00:36:36.540 While she was born.

00:36:37.080 I know.

00:36:37.740 So it's, it's pretty amazing to, to think of it that way.

00:36:41.740 What about vaccines?

00:36:43.980 This is a tough one.

00:36:45.540 In, in, uh, I think with vaccines.

00:36:49.340 We haven't even really talked about this on yet.

00:36:51.740 Vaccines.

00:36:52.320 I think, you know, the statistic you've said it before, before they go to school or something,

00:36:56.760 but what is it?

00:36:57.280 They get like 60 something vaccine, like 72 vaccines by the time you turn 12 years old.

00:37:02.180 Yeah.

00:37:02.480 Something like that, which to me, that seems a little excessive.

00:37:05.900 Uh, I think obviously ones like the longstanding ones like polio, MMR, smallpox, chickenpox,

00:37:13.140 those ones that have been around for a long time all for it.

00:37:18.040 But definitely, I think the best thing we can say is that everybody needs to do their

00:37:22.340 own research into what the vaccines are, what's in them and what they're supposed to

00:37:28.100 prevent, treat or whatever.

00:37:30.080 We need to do research.

00:37:31.980 Um, I wouldn't say either of us are, are anti-vaxxers.

00:37:36.660 If again, you've been following this show, you know, that I have been critical of, I mean,

00:37:41.240 both of us we've been, I mean, critical to the COVID vaccine to the point where it prohibited

00:37:45.560 him for three years, basic, almost three years of getting a green card.

00:37:49.240 So we very much stand strongly on principles, but I think we, as a nation have been able

00:37:56.300 to develop and grow.

00:37:58.480 It's just a matter of being able to, to really look into what is worth it.

00:38:03.580 What is good, what is known to be, what is proven to be effective.

00:38:07.740 Um, and for, uh, the best, I guess, outcome of our child and their, their health, their

00:38:14.160 wellbeing.

00:38:14.900 But at the same time, I mean, I would love any sort of recommendations from you guys.

00:38:19.580 Honestly, I wish it was laid out easier.

00:38:21.200 That's one of the things that we've had a hard time, uh, in the very brief minute, like

00:38:25.220 moments we've discussed this, we really haven't talked about a lot where we've discussed

00:38:28.380 this.

00:38:28.680 It's, it's not easily accessible to, as a conservative with the viewpoints that we do

00:38:33.980 to find information that lays it out of what is what.

00:38:38.140 And again, being 25 years old, never having health problems before, I'm just not overly

00:38:41.660 familiar with what each vaccine is, what it does, how long it's been around, how well

00:38:45.760 has it been tested?

00:38:46.880 But I will say, um, the thought of day one or the first day your child is born day zero,

00:38:54.020 basically sending your child back with a doctor to get poked.

00:38:56.740 Who knows how many times, uh, that is, that does not sit very well with me.

00:39:02.600 I think it's, you know, research all around is pretty important.

00:39:05.100 I think figuring out what is in them, what they do, you know, the background to them,

00:39:10.540 but also researching the pediatricians as well, because something that we found out is that

00:39:16.060 a lot of these providers have quotas and, you know, kickback schemes where, you know, if

00:39:24.480 they have, if 80% of their patients get, you know, the completed vaccine series of

00:39:29.180 everything, they get bonuses and stuff, which to me, that doesn't sit right because, you

00:39:34.420 know, pediatricians will stop seeing patients if they're, if the parents are like, I don't

00:39:39.120 know if I want my kids to get every single one of these, they'll stop seeing you because

00:39:43.360 it's going to mess with their numbers and their stats and they're not going to get their

00:39:45.960 bonuses.

00:39:46.240 So that's something that I think that we need to look into as well.

00:39:48.960 And that I think that people should look into is, is who, who your pediatrician is, who

00:39:54.180 the healthcare provider is and kind of what their values are and what their thought processes

00:39:58.680 are.

00:39:58.940 If they say, yeah, you need every single one of these, I'd ask why, you know, I'd ask the

00:40:03.620 question of why, what is it?

00:40:05.200 What does it do?

00:40:06.440 Is it necessary?

00:40:07.160 Okay.

00:40:07.900 Okay.

00:40:08.200 Last thing is birth plan, which we haven't really even discussed with each other again,

00:40:14.520 because I think we've kind of just been putting it off, waiting to reveal it to the public

00:40:19.160 to now make everything else more real, like crib, nursery, birth plan, packing like the

00:40:25.560 postpartum bag or your hospital bag or whatever it is.

00:40:28.000 Like, I feel like now is the time we'll really start to sit down and do all those things.

00:40:31.900 So I haven't really talked about birth plan, but here's what I will say.

00:40:34.720 Those of you, I mean, you were your moms who gave birth at home, whether you chose to,

00:40:42.880 whether it happened kind of like involuntarily, this wasn't what you wanted, but you, it was

00:40:47.260 last minute you're giving birth at home. 1.00

00:40:48.800 Y'all are superheroes to me, but I just don't think that could be me.

00:40:52.640 I have a high pain tolerance.

00:40:54.220 I really feel like I do, but if there's an option to not feel it, I don't want to feel

00:40:59.180 it.

00:40:59.900 Give me that epidural.

00:41:00.920 Give me the epidural.

00:41:01.760 Like, give me everything that will make me not feel it.

00:41:03.500 Like the thought of like pushing out essentially a watermelon is, is that's terrifying to me.

00:41:09.840 Yeah.

00:41:10.200 I don't blame you.

00:41:10.820 I'll be holding your hand and saying, you're doing a great job, sweetie, but I do not envy

00:41:14.100 you in that moment.

00:41:15.560 I really do not.

00:41:17.300 No.

00:41:17.800 So I think a relatively standard birth plan hopefully goes out, goes off without a hitch.

00:41:22.480 I will say my oldest sister, she had a baby about nine months ago.

00:41:26.140 Uh, she, similar to me, had a fantastic pregnancy where no symptoms felt great, um, all the things.

00:41:33.460 But then her delivery process was pretty brutal, uh, labor for like 24 hours. 0.99

00:41:39.520 Uh, then they decided to ultimately do a C-section, um, which of course you want in that moment,

00:41:46.860 whatever they have to do to make sure your baby is healthy, um, and is, is alive and well,

00:41:53.000 and, and all the things, of course you will do whatever it takes.

00:41:56.120 Um, hopefully we can, we can have this, this baby girl without a hitch.

00:42:01.340 Everything goes great.

00:42:02.720 Um, but other than that, I think that's a pretty standard birth plan.

00:42:05.620 How about schooling?

00:42:07.380 We haven't really gone over this one.

00:42:08.960 No, we haven't.

00:42:09.940 Um, I went to a public school and I had a fantastic experience.

00:42:14.540 Granted, a lot has changed.

00:42:16.540 Uh, when I graduated high school in 2018, compared to my younger sister, who is going to be a junior

00:42:23.140 in high school next year, like at the same high school, it is totally different.

00:42:27.580 So I think there are things to consider.

00:42:29.960 Uh, we live in Tennessee where we are blessed to have the option of school choice.

00:42:34.000 Um, we have a fantastic legislature and a wonderful governor who made sure this was a priority in

00:42:38.980 our state.

00:42:39.440 So we have that option.

00:42:41.200 Uh, so I think discussing what homeschooling would look like, I don't know if I'd be the

00:42:45.220 best teacher.

00:42:46.600 I don't think, I don't know.

00:42:48.600 I don't think I'd be the best teacher.

00:42:50.020 I spell color differently.

00:42:50.840 So I think.

00:42:51.480 Yeah.

00:42:51.760 All you Brits.

00:42:52.640 Yeah.

00:42:52.880 If I like color, Deva, I spell all those differently.

00:42:55.800 So I'm probably just going to confuse her if I teach her how to spell.

00:42:59.240 By the way, July 4th is coming up, which I remind him every July 4th.

00:43:03.300 Full subject.

00:43:04.000 I will, I will admit that I think I was probably just born on the wrong side of the revolution.

00:43:07.800 I'll admit that.

00:43:08.460 You heard it here first on the games for girls podcast.

00:43:11.560 Well, we appreciate you guys and the outpouring of support that we've received over the past,

00:43:18.300 I mean, 72 hours at this point, uh, since releasing and sharing this exciting news, um,

00:43:26.300 has just been, it has been the biggest blessing.

00:43:28.520 So thank you guys.

00:43:30.340 Uh, we have, as I mentioned, I think growing life, it's made me radically pro-life, not

00:43:38.660 because I've prior to, for clarity, prior to conceiving.

00:43:44.220 I mean, I've always understood that life is to be valued, uh, because we have a creator

00:43:50.680 who condemns the shedding of innocent blood and who has breathed purpose into every life,

00:43:57.180 including those in the womb.

00:43:58.100 Um, so it hasn't made me more pro-life if you will, but growing a little girl inside of

00:44:04.640 me, it has made me, uh, it has made the thought, the practice of abortion hurt deeply and viscerally.

00:44:12.960 It has made it unimaginable to me.

00:44:15.180 Um, you know, like at 20 weeks, I could not imagine, you know, a lot of these states where

00:44:20.880 you can go late term, I don't get it as a provider.

00:44:26.380 I don't get that.

00:44:27.120 I don't get how you could sleep at night after, you know, after seeing the hands, the face,

00:44:31.420 the feet, I mean, the whole body, like, like it, I mean, it's not just a human.

00:44:36.860 It looked like a human at that point, you know, everyone's like, oh, clump of cells.

00:44:39.580 Like, uh-uh, it's a human.

00:44:41.700 I mean, it's, yeah, I don't know how people can sleep at night doing that.

00:44:45.320 No, which is why, like, so many, uh, pregnancy centers or pro-life organizations, they really,

00:44:52.640 really push for women to have that first ultrasound, have one ultrasound before you 0.99

00:44:56.940 make that decision.

00:44:57.980 And now I fully, fully understand why.

00:45:00.420 And of course, as we alluded to with, uh, in our intro by saying the meaning of gains

00:45:05.720 for girls has changed entirely.

00:45:07.840 It hasn't really changed, actually.

00:45:08.980 It's just become more personal in a way where it makes it, it was worth it before, but knowing

00:45:15.540 it's so much bigger than just you, you really are fighting for the next generation.

00:45:20.820 Uh, and that future that you're fighting for, it's for your own daughters, um, is, is really,

00:45:27.380 really special and has reinforced why we do what we do and why we will, we will continue

00:45:32.440 to do what we do, uh, with such tenacity.

00:45:34.880 It's, it's taken it out of the hypothetical and it's made it real.

00:45:39.120 Yeah.

00:45:39.640 Yeah.

00:45:40.160 So very, very exciting.

00:45:42.940 Appreciate you guys.

00:45:44.580 Um, go to youtube.com slash outkick.

00:45:47.340 Check out all things gains for girls there, like, subscribe, share these episodes.

00:45:51.800 Uh, you can go over to my Instagram as well.

00:45:54.340 Would love to keep, keep hearing questions from you guys, hoping to do just more kind of

00:45:58.880 personal, authentic, raw episodes like this, whether it's with our wonderful co-host, you'll

00:46:04.740 have to let us know if you liked him on the show or not.

00:46:07.380 Please be gentle.

00:46:08.600 He's got a cool British accent.

00:46:10.200 It's like a British Southern at this point.

00:46:11.540 It's pretty, it's pretty funny when we revealed, uh, that, or when he was the one to reveal

00:46:15.700 that we were having a girl on stage, he got out like three words and the whole audience

00:46:19.560 just starts cracking up because of his accent.

00:46:22.100 So it's all messed up.

00:46:23.780 It's, it's definitely, I'd say it's probably two thirds over the Atlantic right now.

00:46:27.480 Yeah.

00:46:27.940 I think he's pushing a little further.

00:46:29.480 We just need to get all the way there.

00:46:31.100 Um, let us know if you like him in the comments on this, this episode, uh, and be sure to

00:46:37.580 go to cozy earth.com.

00:46:38.940 Use my code gains for 40% off, uh, fantastic sheets, loungewear pajamas.

00:46:44.620 Uh, it's what I got my dad for father's day.

00:46:47.360 Um, he has, of course we use the sheets every single night.

00:46:50.620 So breathable temperature regulated.

00:46:52.720 They wick away moisture heat, which is crucial, at least for us in the middle of June in the

00:46:58.200 state of Tennessee, where it is hot and humid outside keeps us cool.

00:47:01.840 So I appreciate you guys.

00:47:03.120 And we will see you again next week on the gains for girls podcast.

Gaines for Girls with Riley Gaines - June 16, 2025

Riley's Pregnant!

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