There’s a baby on board! Former Bachelor star Colton Underwood just announced that he’s expecting his first child with husband, Jordan C. Brown. It’s about to be cuteness overload, but the journey to “daddyhood” wasn’t easy.
An unexpected bump in the road
In an interview with Men’s Health, Colton opened up about the challenges he and his husband faced when trying to start a family. He and Jordan have been talking about fatherhood since they got married last year. However, when they went to a doctor to have a semen analysis, the results weren’t what Colon expected.
“I just figured I’d be good. I figured Jordan would be good. We’re healthy… I had four. Four sperm,” Colton recalled.
He continued, “And three of them are dead. Word for word, what the doctor said, he goes, ‘Uh, I can maybe make this one work.’ This one?!”
With that sobering news, Colton said he had to undergo “sperm rehab” to get things back to normal. The experience opened him up to a lot of education about men’s fertility that he wished he had known sooner. Low sperm count can happen for many reasons, but for Colton, his doctor attributed it to his athlete’s lifestyle.
“I wish somebody had educated me about my sperm and my body, and the decisions that I made and how it would impact me. I didn’t know the difference between semen and sperm,” Colton admitted.
Shopping for a surrogate
After sperm rehab, Colton’s swimmers were in good shape for him and Jordan to move forward with their surrogacy journey. They said they identified someone who was “spontaneous and adventurous” and dropped a hefty $350,000 to make this all happen. That’s just a small price to pay to achieve your dreams of having a family.
Ultimately, it paid off. Colton and his hubby got 22 eggs and their sperm was divided evenly between them. They fertilized three embryos and had the healthiest one transferred to the surrogate. Eventually, they want to have two kids so whoever’s sperm didn’t get used this time around will be up for the next round.
Colton revealed that their little one is due in October 2024. At this point, they don’t know whose sperm was used, but they plan on just figuring that part out once the baby arrives. For now, Colton is focused on being transparent about this process. He has a podcast called Daddyhood because he knows people have questions.
He explained, “I had my own family asking me how this process works, like, ‘Who’s the mom and who’s the dad in the relationship? Who’s the boy and who’s the girl? How does the mom work? Are the egg donor and surrogate the same?'”
With that in mind, Colton isn’t shying away from the tough questions on his podcast. He knows people see men’s sexual health as a tricky subject because it questions the traditional concept of masculinity. However, Colton wants to show that knowledge is power and “daddyhood” is attainable.
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