Pregnancy Rage, Mood Swings, & Baby Names: 2nd Trimester Q&A

The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby

Matt & Abby

Society & Culture

4.8 • 16.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2026

⏱️ 72 minutes

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0:23.1	Names that we like, but won't be using. I don't want to offend anybody. Quincy, Finley, Sloan. Sorry, I don't like the name. Okay, dang it. Rider. Writer from Paw Patrol is pretty sick. One time we said Luca, but now I feel like maybe not. I liked the name Rad for like boy number three or four, but you didn't like it.
0:38.7	I just offended someone that named their kid Rad.
0:41.0	I like it.
0:38.7	I like I just offended someone that named their kid Rad.
0:41.0	I like these two names, but you didn't like them. Ferris. Ferris Bueller's Day Off, baby. I know. Okay, dang it. Ramsey. Let's just name our kid Dave Ramsey. You really like the name Fletcher. I would love to name a boy, Fletcher.
0:51.5	Maybe we haven't locked this name in like we thought.
0:55.4	Welcome back to Unplanned, everybody.
0:57.3	We're so happy you're here. would love to name a boy Fletcher. Maybe we haven't locked this name in like we thought.
0:57.2	Welcome back to unplanned, everybody.
0:58.4	We're so happy you're here.
1:04.2	Guys, the amount of support that we received since announcing the gender of our baby,
1:07.0	we're having a boy, by the way, if you didn't know that.
1:08.7	We're like so, so excited.
1:12.1	We just want to do a Q&A for you guys because we got literally over a thousand questions submitted to our unplanned podcast Instagram asking
1:17.6	us like various questions about pregnancy about baby all that stuff but yeah it's a boy we're
1:23.5	super excited how do you how do you feel about that honestly babe oh I feel so happy it so happy. It's so funny, like, posting this now and, like, sharing it.
1:29.8	It's like we're reliving it in a way, but that was like, what, 15 weeks ago for us? Yeah. Yeah. No, no, 14 weeks ago. We found it in January. January 20th was when we found out. We knew. It's funny even experiencing that as like, I mean, we did call it gender disappointment.
1:48.7	But in a way, like, I feel like someone messaged me this and it really resonated with me because she had like the exact same situation.
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