The Sutters Visit Sea World, Discuss Second Pregnancy
By Kristin Harmel in Orlando:
Reality TV couple Trista and Ryan Sutter, who told PEOPLE Friday that their new baby is due in April, say that this time around, the pregnancy experience has been different.
“This was totally a surprise,” says Trista, who gave birth to son Maxwell ‘Max’ Alston in July of last year after struggling publicly with infertility (the couple eventually used a OV Watch to predict their fertility). “We weren’t trying, necessarily, but we weren’t preventing. I honestly just remembered I hadn’t had my cycle in a while, and I thought, ‘hmmm.’ That’s a quite a contrast to the first time, because basically I was taking pregnancy tests throughout the month thinking, ‘Let’s cross our fingers.’
“It was a shock,” she adds. “Last time, we waited for so long, and it was so anticipated, and I just cried and cried and cried when I found out. But this time, it was more like, ‘Oh my gosh, this is amazing, and we feel so blessed.’”
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Despite saying in the past that they’d want a girl next if theirfirst baby turned out to be a boy, Trista says she’s changed her mind.“I really, truly do not care,” she says. “I just want a healthy baby. Iknow it’s cliché. But I really do. I love having a boy, so I would lovehaving another. He’s such a good baby. But I would love to experiencebeing the mother of a girl. So I’m just leaving it up to God.”
Trista says she plans to have a tubal ligation after delivering hersecond baby. “I know people think it’s drastic when they hear that,”she says. “But I have such rough pregnancies. I would have been ashappy as a clam in salt water with just Max. So this is just the icingon the cake.”
But, she says, they’d consider adopting if they decide they want toexpand their family further. “I think we’d have to figure out first ifwe could handle two before we add a third!” she says.
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In Orlando to speak at Fertile Dreams‘ Embracing Hope Gala and to celebrateher 36th birthday, Trista and Ryan took 15-month-old Max to SeaWorldOrlando, his first-ever theme park visit, where he played with penguinsand got a kiss from a killer whale on Friday. The family plans to swimwith dolphins over the weekend at SeaWorld’s Discovery Cove. “Max iskind of in awe,” Ryan says. “He’s not really very scared of things.He’s just really curious. It’s not like he’s laughing or smiling orcrying or anything. He’s just staring inquisitively.”
Adds Trista, “He does like to figure things out, and with the killer whales, I think he was thinking, ‘Is that for real?’”
Max, whose first word was, “Dad,” seems cut out for the spotlight.He holds up his index finger when asked how old he is, throws his armsabove his head and giggles when his parents say, “Touchdown!”, and evencurls his right lip up when Trista asks him to impersonate Elvis. Hesays a bunch of words – including ball, sock, shoe, fish, dog, bird,and fox – and he calls the family’s two dogs, Tash (short for Natasha)and Tank, by name.
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As with her first pregnancy, Trista says she’s experiencing nausea, but she’s able to keep more food down this time around.
“With the first pregnancy, I didn’t eat anything for the firsttrimester,” she says. “I had no appetite and felt so nauseous that Ijust wanted to eat crackers. So this pregnancy, I feel a little better,and I have some more cravings. Like we have Snickers in the diaper bag.And smoothies. So if I have a craving, I’m going to eat it. I’m cravingsweets. And Ruffles and French onion dip. I would never eat that when Iwasn’t pregnant! I haven’t had that in ten years. Then I’m like, I haveto have those! So I haven’t limited myself. I haven’t gained too muchweight, but I’m not worrying about it.”
After having Max last summer, Trista bounced back to her pre-babyweight quickly. After taking the mandatory post-c-section six weeksoff, she hit the gym with a trainer and took a supplement, approved byher doctor, called Revolution Abdominal Cuts to help take the babyweight off.
“I worked really hard,” she says. “You have to. But I did it withinthe realm of what my doctor said was okay. I got a trainer, and thathelped tremendously. It just makes you accountable. If you go to thegym on your own, you can say, ‘Oh, I have all this work to do; or Ihave to go this.’ But if you have an appointment with somebody, it’stheir time, and you feel responsible. Even if you can’t afford that,meet a buddy at the gym.
“It was hard work, but when you have the motivation of being on thecover of a magazine, it’s good pressure because it’s good for you inthe end, but I know it’s not a normal pressure,” she continues. “So Itell people if you’re looking for inspiration, aim for going onvacation and putting yourself in a bikini. Or set up a family photosession with your new baby. Have a goal.”
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