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Hey guys, you guys probably expected this video to be Brooklyn's telling the family video
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that we said was going to go up this week
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But we felt like this video was more important to put up before that
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So we're postponing that to next week and we're gonna chat today.
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Yeah, a little bit
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Yes, we felt like the stuff
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that we're gonna talk about in this video needed to be addressed because there's been so much chatter
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Online in the last week about like the announcement Brooklyn made last week
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So we just want to talk about it and be like real.
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I mean clearly I announced that I was pregnant with my second baby last week
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And there were a lot of emotions coming through
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and coming out in the comments and I do not blame anybody for that
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This is a very emotional situation
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We are also experiencing an emotional roller coaster navigating this entire process, but we wanted to come on here and just kind of talk about it
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Yeah, like we just felt like it needed we we just needed to chat about it I think
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because there's just so much chatter
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But like none of it's coming from me and Brooklyn
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So we want you guys to hear from us about how
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we feel about everything how we feel about the comments things like that
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Um, so if you aren't aware
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Let's start from the beginning Brooklyn announced she's pregnant.
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Yay With baby number two last week.
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You can go watch that video if you want to.
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Yeah, super cute precious precious video
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But when we posted that obviously there were reactions because also
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if you don't know me and Asa have been struggling with infertility
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We're at like almost over a year
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and a half right now of trying to have a baby unsuccessfully
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and so we've been open about posting that and I think
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that caused like a reaction which we anticipated would probably happen when we posted about Brooklyn being pregnant.
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Yeah we knew.
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We were fully aware there'd be like reactions.
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If you guys go on the posts of Brooklyn announcing you'll see most of the comments are talking about me
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and my feelings
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and how it might make me feel like her being pregnant again with baby number two
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and I think the most important thing that you guys hear from us is
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that we obviously are fully aware
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that this is not like a normal experience no like manual
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on how to navigate identical twins one being able to get pregnant
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and one being struggling there's no manual we're just humans
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and sisters like trying to support each other through difficult and
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or happy times and so my mom commented this and i stand by it like two things can be true.
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You can be totally and fully, unexplisitly happy for Brooklyn and her pregnancies and also be sad for me.
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And those two things can exist at the same time.
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Like I do not feel like if you guys are congratulating Brooklyn
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that you need to say you're also sad for me
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because like I know you guys feel for me as well as celebrating her and they can exist at the same time.
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Like we know that, my family feels that, we all feel that, so we know that you guys are going to feel
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that so like two things can be true you can celebrate her
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and be sad for me at the same time
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and that's kind of the consensus of most of the comments like the people who are saying congratulations Brooklyn
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and Bailey like thinking of you that is totally fine like we appreciate
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that just the comments where it's starting to get a little hateful
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or bitter towards Brooklyn is where I want to like address
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and like talk about
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and I told her I was like you have to be in this video
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because I want it to come from both of us
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I don't want it to just come from me like I want
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you guys to see like we're fine we're happy like i'm okay like it's okay guys
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so we're okay like it's all right yeah obviously i'm sad obviously
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you guys know infertility is a hard thing to go through obviously
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but i am not sad
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that she's able to have a pregnancy i'm totally over the moon i get another niece
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or nephew i get another baby to hold like
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that is a reward to me and
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if i can't have it then i want her to have it
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and that is the end of that conversation
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and obviously like from my perspective like my husband
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and I had our son two years ago this is kind of the natural progression of our life
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and what our life what we kind of want our life to look like um
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and so but obviously there's also this complicated emotion with Bailey struggling to get pregnant
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and not wanting to feel like we're overriding her life
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or feel like we're you know not being sensitive towards her and everything she's going through so it's kind of like
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Bailey said there's like both happening simultaneously and they can both be true
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and they can both be fair yeah
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and it's just navigating like how they happen
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i just want her to have her moment with her pregnancy like i don't want
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it to be about me that's not my desire i genuinely feel like kind of bad
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that all the comments are talking about me even though i know
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it's from a place of love like the thing is is like people probably think i'm like upset about it
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but this is like we i could do about her and her baby and being happy
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Yeah, everyone wants to be happy.
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Because like if it was Bailey being pregnant, I would want her to feel special
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and her to feel like everyone cares about her and loves her and is excited about the baby.
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So I totally understand.
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Like give her love.
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By giving her love, you're not harming me.
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You're not hurting me, I promise.
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But also I do want to address
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and like this is you're going to see like me
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and Bailey come out for about five seconds and like I almost never come out.
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But like if I see anybody being mean towards Brooklyn or towards this pregnancy, like I'm not talking like.
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Oh, we love you, Bailey and Brooklyn.
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No, not those comments.
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Those comments are great.
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It's the people who are saying that like her having a baby is selfish
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or her having a baby is like intentionally hurting me
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or going on her way to hurt me or whatever nonsense is being spewed on the internet.
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Like I will come for you.
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Do not wish ill on me or my baby. Do not.
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Like you will seriously do not commentate on our page.
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Do not bring that energy to our page.
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You are not lifting me up by tearing her down during this pregnancy.
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That is not how this works.
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We are sisters.
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You guys don't understand.
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We are sisters first and foremost.
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Bailey loves my children.
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Her children are basically mine.
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So by saying that, you are hurting me.
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She feels maternal, guys.
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Like, do not.
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And if you do, your comment will be deleted and you will probably be blocked.
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I'm just telling you now.
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Like, do not send hate her way.
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I will not stand for it.
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You will see
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Mean Bailey come out and you do not want to see
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Mean Bailey come out.
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So, like, keep those comments to yourself.
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If you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all.
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Okay, I'm done with that.
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The other thing we wanted to talk about that's been like totally taken out of context.
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Oh, yeah.
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And do you want to talk about this one?
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Yeah.
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In my announcement video, I mentioned how I had sat down
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and had a conversation with Bailey before we even started trying for a second baby.
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Wondering about Bailey and, you know, this whole process.
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And before Dakota and I even started trying for another baby,
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I sat down with her and made sure like that it was going to be okay, basically.
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Somehow that got taken as I had to ask
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Bailey's permission to have another baby, which is crazy
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Let's just be so for real guys.
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Nobody's ever asking anybody.
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No, hey Can I actually go bang in the other room to make a baby like nobody's doing that?
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No, I did not do that with Bailey I did not sit down and say like hey, can I have a baby?
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No It was more just like a conversation of she has known since I had archer
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that I wanted the specific age gap with my kids that this was like an ideal timeline for me.
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So when it started to get close to that time, I came to her and I was like,
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hey, so it's getting kind of close to this timeline with where you're at and where everything is.
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I just want to make sure you're feeling okay.
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Like this is something that we're going to be able to navigate, that it's not going to impact our relationship.
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It was more of like a conversation of just respecting my feelings and like caring that I wasn't upset.
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But it was not a conversation of like, there was no permission given.
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It was just more like hey, this is what we're thinking want to give you a heads up.
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Are you okay?
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How are you and the other thing that I asked was how
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if I am pregnant how involved do you want to be?
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Like I want to respect you if it makes you really sad then I will not share anything with you
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And if it doesn't make you really sad and you're really excited
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Then I will share and if you want to know every second at every detail like i'm happy to do that,
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too So there was also like that conversation.
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I think people forget like we are sisters we are sisters before we are I've seen a few comments
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that were like do you guys know like hello?
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they're talking to each other
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we talk to each other every day almost all day long having conversations you guys are never going to see
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or hear or be a part of and just trust
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that we are taking care of each other she's trying to
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take care of my feelings as best as she can
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while also being happy about her pregnancy it's actually kind of interesting
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I think we both would say
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this we have been each other's best support system right
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it's like somehow we've been able to be like a support
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system for each other even though we're like living these alternate realities sort of yes
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i totally agree yeah like we're never gonna not support each other yeah
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we don't secretly hate each other like we love each other
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we want each other to feel the other thing i feel like i should bring up
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that i think people are like forgetting that we did this but it bailey
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Bailey and I both got our blood work done to check in on our fertility.
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When was that?
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Like, oh my gosh, a year or something, months ago.
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Bailey got her blood work done and her AMH levels came back really low.
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Which if you don't know what AMH is, it's basically a hormone that tests like your egg reserve.
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Your egg reserve.
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It's not an exact science, but basically it will tell you how many eggs you have left.
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Yes.
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Which is essentially telling you how long you're going to be fertile.
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Yes.
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And which essentially means like my egg reserve, like how many eggs I have.
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And the scale of good is like two to four and I have 0 .5, which means I don't, I don't have very many eggs,
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which is kind of a weird feeling to be told as a woman, like, you know, by the way, like clocks are ticking.
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Again, it's not an exact science.
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Things can change.
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It can improve.
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It's just a hormone.
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But in the grand scheme of things, it essentially gave us an idea of how long we would be able to have kids.
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Quote -unquote.
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Bailey's came back low.
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She wanted to see what mine was at.
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So I went and got mine tested and mine came back even lower than Bailey's.
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Yeah, ours were both pretty bad scores.
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Yeah, they were not great.
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Bailey's has improved though.
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Mine has improved a little bit because I'm taking all of these things.
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So I guess what I'm trying to say is like that I, while I'm able to get pregnant,
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how long I will be able to get pregnant for
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and like how many eggs I actually have that are going to be usable is not that long.
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It's not super long.
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So I also don't have the luxury of waiting, like extended periods of time to have kids
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because then I might run into a situation where then I can't get pregnant anymore.
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So I also want to just put that out there
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that there's a reason that I'm doing things and timing the way the things are.
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Yeah.
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And like, and I, and so anyway, that is explaining partially some of my thought process.
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Yeah.
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Like we don't have a bajillion eggs.
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Like we don't have a bajillion years.
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And so obviously because her score is even worse than mine, it makes sense that they are going to have kids within a certain timeframe.
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And that does not, what I'm going through does not change that timeline for them in any way
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because it's like just as valid of a reason.
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So there's that.
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The other thing, because it's because we're now like addressing all the things.
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The other thing that I've been seeing a lot of people comment about, and we've actually talked about this in past videos,
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is there are a lot of people saying we could have avoided this
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and we could have prevented these comments from happening if we got separate accounts because our lives do look different.
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I'm going through infertility.
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Brooklyn's obviously pregnant and already has Archer.
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We have different marriages.
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We live in different places we've talked about this before
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but brooklyn and i have genuinely zero interest no interest in doing
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that we don't zero want to separate it's part of what i think makes our account
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so fun and special is
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that you get two perspectives you get a dual perspective
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it's like what makes us different from other people is like you can come to one place
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and get two yes basically two creators
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and you might like like what i'm you might like one twin more than the other
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you might relate to one more than the other
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but like that's the fun is you get both on one page
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it also on the other hand helps out like obviously
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we take care of each other yeah like she's on mat mat leave i'm posting still
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and like when she's on vacation like i'm able to take step in like
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so there's a lot of like work sharing as well as
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like we just are both able to share our lives on one platform we've also always done it
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that way so like we're not about the change now 14 years later yeah someone
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Someone said they're not kids anymore.
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They should get separate accounts.
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I'm like, why does it have to be that way though?
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No, we love sharing an account.
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We're not planning on separating.
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So you guys can just stop with those comments because it's not happening.
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And I genuinely don't know if that would have prevented this scenario anyway.
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It would have been posting on separate flowers.
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I still think people would have left those comments on Brooklyn's house.
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Yeah, I'm like, people still would have just come on and said that.
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I just think that's the reality of the situation that we're in.
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But we've addressed that before.
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I wanted to address it again because we will not be separating accounts.
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Oh, the other thing
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that we need to talk about is next week
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we are going to be posting the video where I tell all of my family that I'm pregnant.
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And in that video, you're going to see me surprise
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Bailey by saying I'm pregnant.
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And we want to clarify.
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She came to me before she even got pregnant and was like, do you want to be surprised?
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Do you want me to like navigate this?
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Because I was like, do you want me to video?
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Or do you want me to not video at all?
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Like what's how are you feeling about it?
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And I me hear it for me I was the one that said yes.
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I want to be surprised.
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Yes.
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I wanted to be on video I want
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that memory for us I loved being able to go back
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and watch it last time when she told us like that was my choice I made that choice for myself.
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I'm the one going through infertility
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So there is no reason anyone should have let me be up in arms about that
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Because that was something that I said I wanted.
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Yeah, so when when you watch that video do not think that I did that
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Like I can already see the comments coming from a mile away.
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So, I don't know, she rub it in her face like, no. No. I did not do that.
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I wanted to be, I didn't want to lose that.
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Like I don't want to lose the special part of like, just because I'm going through something that sucks,
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like it already takes so much away from you.
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I don't want to lose that part of it.
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No, and at the end of the day, like what happens is I'm going to birth this baby and every,
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you're going to be obsessed with it.
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And then you might have regretted the fact that you didn't get that video.
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Yes, exactly.
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You know what I mean?
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Like it's like it just happens that way.
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So just for preface I was on the ask for it
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So next week like go into that knowing that when we posted all across socials
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There may be some people who didn't get this contacts who need to be reminded
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This is what I asked for and like that's what I wanted.
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Yeah, no As I'm like posting because I see a lot of people being like Brooklyn should keep her pregnancy low -key
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So it doesn't like hurt
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Bailey or whatever.
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I'm like like
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Bailey's also involved in all of the decision making I'm the one filming this.
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I'm the one taking the pictures.
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I want those pictures posted.
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I just think across the board, the consensus of this video, and we almost never make videos like this,
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but this one felt important to make because she's going to be pregnant for the next seven to eight months.
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So I'm going to be pregnant for another six months.
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Yes, six to seven months.
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So I just want to end that conversation here.
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When I post something about my infertility, We can talk about my infertility.
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We can talk about how sad we are for me when she posts about her pregnancy
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We can talk about how happy we are We can talk about her happiness and her pregnancy and her children.
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And, like, we can experience both at the same time.
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And we can be happy and sad at the same time.
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Yeah, and we can both be simultaneously happy and sad.
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Yeah, that's it.
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But not hate each other.
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But not hate each other and still love each other and still be sisters.
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Anyway, we love you guys.
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And that's on maturity.
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That's on aging.
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No, we are honestly so grateful.
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Obviously, there was a ton of love for Brooklyn.
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I'm so grateful for that.
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We're grateful for that.
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We're grateful for you guys.
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Thanks for tuning in.
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We can't wait to post all the stuff about Brooklyn's pregnancy.
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I can't wait until it's my turn eventually one day.
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And we will see you guys next week.
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Bye.
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Bye.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
The speaker keeps coming back to these words: bailey, pregnant, comment, baby, brooklyn. This video has 320 sentences and 3444 words to shadow. The speech runs for 15:48. The speaker talks fast, about 218 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 88% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| bailey noun | /ˈbeɪli/ | The outer wall of a feudal castle. |
| pregnancy noun | /ˈpɹɛɡnənsi/ | The condition of being pregnant; an instance of this. |
| egg noun | /ɛɡ/ | An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, often housing an embryo within a membrane or shell… |
| navigate verb | /ˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/ | To plan, control and record the position and course of a vehicle, ship, aircraft, etc., on a journey; to follow a planned course. |
| grateful adjective | /ˈɡɹeɪtf(ə)l/ | Of a person or their actions, feelings, etc.: expressing gratitude or appreciation; appreciative, thankful. |
| essentially adverb | /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/ | In essence: by nature. |
| announce verb | /əˈnaʊn(t)s/ | To give public notice of, especially for the first time; to make known. |
| timeline noun | /ˈtaɪmˌlaɪn/ | A graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events (past or future). |
| genuinely adverb | /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/ | In a genuine manner; truthfully, truly. |
| twin noun | /twɪn/ | Either of two people (or, less commonly, animals) who shared the same uterus at the same time; one who was born at the same birth as a sibling. |
| manual noun | /ˈmæn.j(u)əl/ | Synonym of handbook. |
| announcement noun | /əˈnaʊns.mənt/ | An act of announcing, or giving notice. |
| emotion noun | /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/ | A person's internal state of being and involuntary physiological response to an object or a situation, based on or tied to physical state and sensory data. |
| simultaneously adverb | /ˌsaɪmlˈteɪnɪəsli/ | Occurring at the same time. |
| consensus noun | /kənˈsɛnsəs/ | A process of decision-making that seeks widespread agreement among group members. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| go through verb | To travel from one end of something to the other. | |
| come back verb | To return to a place. | |
| come out verb | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | To be discovered; to be revealed. |
| sit down verb | To assume a sitting position from a standing position. | |
| bring up verb | To mention. | |
| check in on verb | To pay a visit in order to monitor the health, security or safety of (someone or something). | |
| come out in verb | to be afflicted by (a visible disruption of the body) | |
| come through verb | To come into a room or other space through a door or passageway. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- We were fully aware there'd be like reactions.
- By giving her love, you're not harming me.
- I'm like, why does it have to be that way though?
- Do you want me to like navigate this?
- You know what I mean?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result | if you do, your comment will be |
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | have been struggling · I've been seeing |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | there's been · we've been · that's been |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | be addressed · being spewed · will be deleted |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 103 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, we're, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, congratulations /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/, vacation /veɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/, luxury /ˈlʌk.ʃə.ɹi/
- Long words — get the stress right: essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, genuinely /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/, simultaneously /ˌsaɪmlˈteɪnɪəsli/, complicated /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/, congratulations /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like bailey, pregnancy, egg.
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