My Pregnancy Story

Alex Cooper opens the episode by announcing her pregnancy to the Daddy Gang, acknowledging that the topic can be sensitive for women on different parts of their own journeys. She recounts that a year prior, she had shared on the podcast that she and her husband Matt had decided to pause starting a family in the summer of 2024, shortly after their wedding, because she felt she needed more time for herself, her relationship, and her career.

Alex describes the turning point when she finally felt ready — a night in the hot tub with Matt where she told him the only thing missing from their life was a child. She describes the experience of trying to conceive as initially exciting and connecting, but gradually becoming more regimented and emotionally taxing. She tracked ovulation obsessively, and each negative test brought increasing disappointment and anxiety. She credits Matt's supportive attitude — framing it as something they were going through together — as essential during this period.

She then tells the story of discovering she was pregnant on a Tuesday morning after Matt had left for a work trip. After weeks of negative pink strip tests, she bought digital tests, and both came back positive immediately. She made the deliberate choice not to tell Matt over the phone, instead holding the secret for four agonizing days. She describes the mental and emotional experience of sitting alone with the news, conducting interviews for the show while internally bursting with excitement, and even lying to Matt over text claiming she had gotten her period to preserve the surprise. When Matt returned home, she placed the pregnancy test in his hands, and they shared an emotional, wordless moment together.

Alex discusses her first trimester in detail — the extreme hunger in early weeks, followed by severe nausea that she insists should not be called 'morning sickness' since it lasted all day. She describes curling up on her office floor between meetings to cope, and the counterintuitive advice that eating more frequently helps reduce nausea. She also opens up about pregnancy-related anxiety, particularly the fear between ultrasound appointments about the baby's wellbeing, which she says was alleviated once she could feel the baby kick.

She recounts attempting to hide the pregnancy at a major New York City work event, wearing a suit with buttons that kept popping open over her bump, lying horizontal in an SUV to prevent the buttons from bursting, and barely surviving the red carpet. The post-event rumors were about her and Matt's supposedly cold body language — not about a baby bump — which she considered a win. However, after that event, Matt encouraged her to announce, pointing out that the secrecy was causing more stress than relief. She posted a photo on May 17th from upstate New York and felt immediate relief.

The episode concludes with Alex reflecting on how she knew she was ready for motherhood, emphasizing that there was no single triggering event — just an internal feeling of readiness, combined with confidence in her partnership with Matt and satisfaction with how she had spent her late 20s and early 30s. She argues that women should not let societal timelines dictate their reproductive choices, that living freely in her 20s made her a more emotionally prepared parent, and that women's decisions — whether to have children young, old, alone, or not at all — deserve equal respect. She promises the show will not become exclusively a 'mom podcast' and will continue covering the full range of her life.