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The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby

We're pregnant with our rainbow baby

The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby

Matt & Abby

Society & Culture

4.816.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2026

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Today's episode is sponsored by Shopify, Pocket Pivot, Little Spoon, and Upwork. Shopify: Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial today at https://shopify.com/unplanned Pocket Pivot: Text UNPLANNED to 64000 to get a free pocket pivot and 10-pattern sprayer with the purchase of any size Copper Head hose; message and data rates may apply, see terms for details. Little Spoon: Go to https://littlespoon.com/unplanned30 and enter code UNPLANNED30 for 30% off your first order of real, nutritionally balanced meals and snacks for kids at every stage. Upwork: Visit https://upwork.com to post your job for free and connect with top talent ready to help your business grow. In this episode Matt and Abby get honest about what this rainbow baby pregnancy has actually felt like: the joy, the grief, and the complicated space where both live at the same time. They open up about the fear leading up to that 17-week appointment and what it has meant to finally let themselves feel hopeful again. Follow The Unplanned Podcast: https://www.instagram.com/unplanned__podcast/ https://www.tiktok.com/@unplanned_podcast Listen to the pod on Spotify/ Apple Podcasts: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ToDA4ufQuWuEgMq07zN6t https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-unplanned-podcast/id1669604504 Follow Matt & Abby: Abby's Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/abbyelizabethoward/ Matt's Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/_matt_howard_/ TikTok | https://www.tiktok.com/@matt_and_abby Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/mattandabb YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/@MattandAbbyHoward #unplannedpodcast #mattandabby Chapters: 00:47 - Why we waited to share 05:15 - Finding out we're pregnant 15:28 - Bleeding scare and coping 22:50 - Ad Break 26:31 - Finding out the gender 29:07 - Telling our family 38:36 - Reaching the 17 week mark 45:35 - Gender reveal party 49:11 - Ad Break 52:02 - Pelvic Rest 59:52 - Telling our boys 01:02:09 - Feeling the baby kick 01:09:21 - Talking about baby #4 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Now, are all the traitors present?

0:02.5

Let's get started, shall we?

0:04.5

From rags to riches.

0:05.8

I'm so sick of this.

0:07.0

Working like a dog and being treated worse.

0:09.1

Yorkshire to New York.

0:10.7

Poor climbers, you and me.

0:12.4

A life dedicated to revenge.

0:14.4

Let's make this an occasion to remember.

0:16.5

A woman of substance on Channel 4, stream now.

0:20.2

We're pregnant. Woo! You're glowing, by the way. Uh-huh, thank you. I think this is your prettiest pregnancy yet. I can't believe you've been pregnant four times. This is your fourth pregnancy. I know. That's a lot of being pregnant. I know. Goodness. I do love it. Is your body doing okay? That's a lot on your body. No, I feel like I'm very, very lucky. I don't feel bad, super bad when I'm pregnant. I just get a lot of headaches at this stage. And I have a headache currently and I have a headache basically every day for the past like two months. I'm sorry. It's okay. Yeah, no, I'm really relieved to,

0:56.3

like a part of me is relieved to be talking about this publicly, but I would say about 60% of me is

1:03.0

like, I don't want to do it. Why are you afraid? I'm not, there's, there's just so much. much you know we were so public with our miscarriage

1:13.0

and you know gosh I'm just a human right like it just feels like we were so candid about everything

1:20.5

and just authentic and you know there's just certain pressures with being public facing with

1:25.6

something that's like so fragile like feeling seemingly fragile

1:29.1

but um you know there comes a time like obviously like i'm short too and people are starting to find out

1:35.0

isn't that lovely like i mean honestly isn't that just incredible that just shows like etiquette online does not

1:41.2

exist you know how they say grief requires a witness yeah grief demands a

1:45.3

witness i keep seeing comments from women who find out that they miscarried and they the comments are like

1:51.5

hey i watched i watched this six months ago when you shared you know everything you went through gosh

1:59.0

and then they watch it back again and they're like, I'm going through this exact same thing. And it sucks and it's hard. And I don't even know how to get out of bed in the morning. But I feel like that's why I feel like that's what we shared. Oh, no. 1,000 person. 1,000 person. Like that's the purpose. and also just like, like it's not something I'm like ashamed of and it's not something I want to keep a secret.

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