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Sanya Richards-Rossis adding another member to her family after a long journey.
Handing husband Aaron Ross a pregnancy test casually, he takes a closer look and says, “No way!”
“This is real?” he asks, to which she nods as she starts jumping up and down, cheering, “I’m pregnant!” before hugging everyone in the room.
The new arrival will join the couple’s sonAaron Jermaine, who turns 6 next month.
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“I nursed my son for almost two and a half years. A nurse — and I wish I had taken her advice — told me to pump. She said, ‘You have to share this load. If you’re exclusively breastfeeding, it’s going to get overwhelming.’ And I was like, ‘Oh, no, I’ll take that on, it’ll be fine,’ " she recalled.
“And I remember, there were days where I would ask my husband to just stay up with me. Even if he wasn’t feeding, I just needed his company. And he was like, ‘Why should we both be tired,’ and it caused a big rift. It was a point of contention for me because I was taking this full burden on and he wouldn’t even sit up with me.”
She continued, “So, I think it’s about, for both people, sharing your needs clearly, but then also your partner having the heart to really hear you and understand that those needs matter to you, even if they don’t seem important to them.”
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“It feels like a very selfish thing, but it’s not. I think it’s very mature to know what your capacity is and to be brave enough to stand in that truth. My husband and I are trying for a second one this time, and I’m in a much better place and our family is in a great place.”
She added her RHOA castmates have been “so supportive of my journey,” adding, “Like they want me to be pregnant more than I want to be pregnant. I just love that because that’s what real sisterhood is all about.”
source: people.com
