My Pregnancy Story

Pregnancy story & mindset

• Alex Cooper (Call Her Daddy) shares her pregnancy journey and emphasizes that pregnancy can be sensitive for different audiences.
• She explains she paused plans to start a family around summer 2024 to prioritize:
  • her relationship
  • her work
  • herself / personal readiness
• After nearly 2 years, she says she feels more emotionally and personally prepared—and is celebrating the next chapter.

How she and her husband decided to try again

While traveling and hitting personal/couple goals, she “got the itch” and told her husband in a moment of clarity. She describes it as:

• A calm, unified readiness
• Not driven by a single “big event”

Trying to conceive: routine + emotional reality

• At first, intimacy feels spontaneous and “sexy.”
• Then it shifts into a planned “small-window” approach.
• Her timing strategy:
  • She tracked ovulation obsessively using ovulation strips
  • She kept strips in multiple purses
  • They aimed to synchronize during peak days (about a ~3-day egg window)

She also highlights the emotional part:

• Not getting pregnant each cycle can create anxiety and a “starting over” feeling
• She stresses the importance of a supportive partner—she felt her husband reassured her it wasn’t “on her”

How she found out she was pregnant (step-by-step)

• She tested using ovulation/pregnancy kits and had negative pink-strip pregnancy tests repeatedly, despite expecting her period soon.
• Suspicious signs:
  • She typically gets bad cramps before her period, but this time she had no cramps
• Final confirmation:
  • She bought digital pregnancy tests (2 of them)
  • She tested on a Tuesday morning, shortly after her husband left for a 3-day work trip
  • The first digital test read pregnant immediately
  • She took a second test for reassurance (also positive)

Reaction & secrecy:

• She cried privately at first
• She tried to avoid a phone reveal because she wanted to tell him in person
• She held the news for about 4 days until he returned

Telling her husband: the reveal plan

• She planned a surprise dinner night featuring her favorite: taco bowls
• She set the mood with candles, music, and drinks
• Reveal method:
  • She had him sit with his eyes closed and placed the pregnancy test in his hands
• They both cried immediately and celebrated all night

When/why she announced publicly

• She aimed to “hide” pregnancy as long as possible (trying to “Kylie Jenner it”).
• But her bump became too hard to conceal.

Trigger event:

• A major New York City work event/red carpet
• Her outfit no longer fit securely
• She had to improvise (Spanx/girdle, hiding/sucking in, re-securing buttons constantly)
• She feared camera exposure if buttons popped, but the night passed without pregnancy “rumors”

Turning point:

• After the red carpet, she said the secrecy became too stressful and uncomfortable
• Her husband encouraged her to announce so she could live more normally again

Announcement timing:

• She took a photo in Upstate New York and posted it on Sunday, May 17 (the day after a Saturday photo)

Early pregnancy symptoms (what surprised her)

First trimester: hunger then “monster” nausea

• Hunger
  • She describes being ravenous—able to eat everything in sight
  • Example: she ate bread/appetizers and then cried because she felt her steak looked too small (she later learned it wasn’t)
• Morning sickness reality
  • She dislikes the phrase “morning sickness,” saying it felt more like a debilitating illness
  • For her, it lasted through the day in cycles—not only mornings
• What helped (key insight)
  • She found that eating helps reduce nausea
  • Even though it doesn’t seem logical when nauseous, more consistent eating reduced later nausea

Nausea + exhaustion work struggle

• She continued working meetings while feeling overwhelmed
• She often needed to retreat—privately “crawling/falling apart” between meetings

Anxiety between appointments

She experienced anxiety mainly:

• Between ultrasound appointments (a “comedown” after excitement)
• Fearing the baby might not be okay at the next scan

Relief:

• Once she could feel baby kicks, her anxiety improved significantly
• She describes bonding joy:
  • she lays hands on her stomach to feel movement
  • later, Matt could also feel it

Lifestyle/health positioning (overall themes)

• Listen to your body and intuition about readiness (and don’t be forced by society’s timelines)
• A supportive partner matters for both logistics and emotional safety
• Pregnancy can include intense physical symptoms and a heavy mental load—she frames it as complex and not always “pretty”

Notable locations / products / speakers mentioned

• Speaker/host: Alex Cooper (Call Her Daddy)
• Brands/sponsors/products:
  • Google Pixel 10 Pro (auto best take, Camera Coach)
  • Ashley Luxe / Ashley Furniture
  • Uber (Women Preferences: request a woman driver)
  • Depop (resale marketplace)
  • SoFi (finance app: banking/loans/investing)
  • Ashley (mentioned as part of Ashley Luxe)
• Places:
  • Los Angeles (LA)
  • New York City (work event/red carpet)
  • Upstate New York (photo post)
• Other references:
  • “Hannah Montana” scene (for comedic comparison of a sudden “boom” moment on the carpet)