Finding Out The Gender Of Our Rainbow Baby and Telling Our Families Finally

The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby

Matt & Abby

Society & Culture

4.8 • 16.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2026

⏱️ 68 minutes

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0:00.0	Did you feel any gender disappointment, Matt Howard? What's the answer do I give right now? The honest one. To be completely 100% honest. I was coming to terms with the fact that I didn't have like a girl sized hole in my heart. Like I have like a Emerson size one. Like I just like wanted her. Yeah. Having another baby girl wasn't going to fix that. I've seen videos of where it's like they're about to announce. They pop balloons or whatever. And then the mother-in-law pops it with like pink or blue. Like she steals the announcement. Oh, that is horrible. Right? Should we say what the gender is? Sure. Three, two, one. It's up. What's up, dudes?
0:39.0	Welcome back to unplanned, a show where we talk about our life.
0:46.0	What?
0:46.4	That's not the right show.
0:47.5	That's always here.
0:48.8	That's the new show that we launched.
0:50.1	We never made like a cool slogan for Unplanned, you know?
0:52.6	I know.
0:53.1	It was all unplanned. We actually did kind of a lot of planning for all right. I know. Well, it was all unplanned.
0:54.5	We actually did kind of a lot of planning for a lot.
0:56.3	I know.
0:56.9	Yeah.
0:57.4	But I guess that's kind of part of the fun of it, right? It's kind of crazy that we've gotten to interview the people that we've interviewed. By the way, thank you to everyone that has commented on the Elizabeth Smart episode. that was unreal that we got to sit down with such an inspiring person, someone that's been
1:11.4	through literally being kidnapped and held captive. episode that was unreal that we got to sit down with such an inspiring person someone that's
1:11.2	been through literally being kidnapped and held captive for nine months and abused and and you know
1:19.2	just to hear that she's been able to press on through everything that she's been through was very
1:23.9	inspiring to me so yeah thank you to thank you to everyone that commented and shared their stories as well. Yeah, we definitely know that it was a very heavy subject matter.
1:32.5	So it really was an honor to give her another outlet to share her story. I think the advocacy work
1:38.3	she's doing is super, super important. And like Matt said, the response from you guys was super
1:43.2	overwhelming too. A lot of you even
1:45.7	felt inclined to share your story as a survivor of any type of harm that was similar to hers which
1:54.7	was really it just means a lot that our plate our platform is a safe place for you guys.
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