Courtesy of Erin Andrews
On Friday, Andrews opened up on bothTODAYand in a feature forGlamourabout her experiences with IVF and surrogacy. The sportscaster underwent IVF treatments for several years and had her life change in 2016 after she wasdiagnosed with cervical cancer. At the time of her diagnosis, she had already frozen eggs, and the couple then underwent treatment to produce embryos.
In herGlamourfeature, Andrews detailed more about her and Stoll’s journey to parenthood and shared how her own fertility journey had helped her reflect on how to communicate about the subject.
“Women may be intimidated to talk about fertility with men. Sometimes we don’t want to have the conversation about just getting engaged. Imagine having to broach the subject of fertility,” she shared with the outlet. “That’s not easy either. But honestly, my advice to any woman is just do your thing. And until you become a unit, you have to worry about you. And that’s something I was proud of myself for doing. But obviously things got real for us.”
Andrews added that after the cancer was removed following “multiple surgeries,” she later began to open up about her fertility journey — including on herCalm Downpodcast after her eight round of IVF treatment. The sportscaster also shared apersonal essayon Facebook’s Bulletin in 2021.
In the summer of 2020, after reflecting that Andrews was “not getting pregnant” and that the couple didn’t “have many embryos to work with,” she and Stoll “decided we should take this surrogacy route,” she toldGlamour. The couple tragically lost two babies after being paired with a family in 2021, a period Andrews admitted was “really, really hard.” The loss eventually led the pair “to this organization that we were able to find our new surrogate with,” she said.
Andrews also told TODAY that her surrogacy journey was “incredible,” with one specific moment that she said she’ll never forget.
“Right before [Mack] came, she asked to hold my hand. So I grabbed her hand, I saw the tear coming down her face, and he came fast. My man was ready…Hence he’s got a good little head on him,” Andrews said. “He was fast and they just gave him to her and put him on her and cleaned him up, and then gave him to us. It was just like, ‘Hello, how are you?'”
As for how she and her NHL husband, 41, are finding parenthood, Andrews said on TODAY it was “great” before joking that the pair still have a bit of competitive edge in them — even outside of the sports world. She admitted though that he’s better at burping, but she’s much better at swaddling.
“We both wanna nail it better than each other. If he starts peeing through his diaper, I’ll say, ‘I got it, I got it,’ because I want to [do it] better than him.”
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Andrews had a few more sweet words about being a mom in herGlamourfeature.
“I know he is going to be a little young as we turn it on in the next few months, but I’m super pumped about it and I’m excited to take him to the hockey rink. Not so much to see him on skates, we’ve got a couple years for that.”
source: people.com
