The Bachelorette’s Trista Sutter discusses her pregnancy

Trista Sutter and Ryan Sutter, who met on The Bachelorette and have now been married three years, spoke to US Weekly about their pregnancy with their first child. Trista is currently about 14 weeks along and due in mid-August.

Click ‘Continue Reading’ for the highlights, including if they used fertility treatments, if they want a boy or a girl, and Trista’s morning sickness.

Do the couple have a preference; boy or girl?

Honestly, and this is the 100% truth – I just want everything to go well and for the baby to be healthy – 10 fingers, 10 toes. I want both, so if we had a girl already I’d want a boy or if we had a boy already, we’d want a girl. Since we don’t have either, we want either!

How bad is her morning sickness?

Not really a good description. It’s pretty much all-day, all-night sickness. There are fluctuations and little tiny ways to get around it momentarily, but it is brutal! It feels like a constant hangover without the headache.

Unusual cravings?

We went to a movie and in the middle of the movie, I was like, “I have to have French fries!” It just popped into my head and I thought about the French fries the whole way through the movie. Immediately after we went to Wendy’s. Read more about her juice cravings!

What are they most excited about?

I’m most looking forward to seeing Ryan being a dad. This is the one thing I’ve always dreamed about, besides getting married and finding Ryan. I’ve always wanted to be a mom. And I really think it’ll be fun to see him with a baby.

Did they have to use IVF?

No, thankfully we didn’t have to go that far – but we were ready to. Once you hit a year of officially trying, your doctor will usually recommend you to a fertility specialist. So we went to one in Denver who came highly, highly recommended, so I knew we were in good hands. We saw him one time and luckily I had a test done that was really helpful. But before that, all these people come up with things you can try – you lay on your back afterwards, putting pillows under your butt – you try positioning. You try going away on vacation. People are like, “Have a few drinks!” It’s interesting what ideas people come up with, but I think it just has to be the right time.

So afterall, the baby was conceived naturally?

Yes – we didn’t do anything – I actually worked with a company called OV Watch. They approached me early on and said, “You should try our watch.” It’s basically an ovulation watch where you wear it at night and it tells you based on the Chloride that you exude when you sweat at night, which isn’t a lot of sweat. But it senses that change and it tells you up tofour days prior to normal ovulation. With this, you don’t have to pee on a stick. You just know when you’re going to ovulate. Thankfully, because of this watch, I knew when I was going to ovulate. It was just that, Ryan works 24-hour shifts and we have to be in the same room for conception to happen. So a lot of it came down to timing. If I was away on vacation or visiting family or friends or if he was away climbing a mountain in Argentina – there are so many things that have to come into play, so you never know.

If there’s anything I want to do out of this, even if it’s just one person, help one person keep up hope that even if you’ve been trying for two years, keep up hope that it’s going to happen when it’s supposed to and don’t lose all hope and think that there’s something terribly wrong with you, which I was luckily able to do. I really feel like I kept up a positive attitude and I just felt like it would happen when it was supposed to. I did everything I could – I saw my doctor regularly and talked to her about stuff that we could do and it just so happened that it ended up working after two years of trying.

Read more about OV Watch, the fertility predictor, Ryan and Trista used to become pregnant.

Would IVF have been the next step?

[Yes]. We’d looked at our finances just to make sure we could do it. It really is expensive!

Did she take an at home test?

Yes. I had a million EPT tests laying around and had used all of them except for two boxes. So when it happened, I was a day late so I took the test. Then I went about my business and did my laundry thinking it was going to say “Not pregnant” again. Then I went back to it a half an hour later and it said “Pregnant” and I just stood in my tracks and I couldn’t move for like two minutes and then I finally moved and the tears started flowing. I could not stop crying for like twenty minutes. It was like an ugly cry, but a good cry. It was a happy, happy cry, but an ugly cry.

How did she tell Ryan?

So I met him at the airport and I had written him a poem and gave it to him in a quiet little spot in baggage claim. He couldn’t really react because he couldn’t move his face [he was sunburned and windburned], but you could see it in his eyes. He was really excited, but he couldn’t physically react. But he was obviously really excited.

Source: US Weekly

Photo credit: PEOPLE

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