06/22/2016 at 04:15 PM ET
Alexa and Carlos PenaVega simply confirmed to Individuals that they are expecting their very first child, and now they’re sharing a few of the details behind their decision to begin a family.
“You wanted to get hold of pregnant truly early,” Alexa, 27, tells her husband in a video on his YouTube channel. “Like, Carlos was ready for babies.
“Yet after Dancing [with the Stars], we decided, ‘You understand what? I believe now’s a great time. I believe we’re prepared to get hold of pregnant.’ ”
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Though the couple is now over the moon at the truth that they’ll soon be parents, the procedure of Alexa becoming pregnant was not a straightforward one, even though she does admit “it’s been a truly enjoyable journey.”
“I believed for sure it’d be like, ‘One, two, three, wham, bam, we’re pregnant!’ ” Carlos, 26, says. “Yet no, that’s not the case. You gotta maintain trying, trying, attempting … and attempt some more. Which is not a inadequate thing.”
“We learned considerably along the way,” the mom-to-be adds, noting that she tried making use of apps and doing lots of “weird things” she was advised to do, such as taking her temperature every morning.
The former Spy Kids star then shares that there was one thing that worked for them in terms of making sure they were attempting to conceive at the ideal times.
“We purchased among those Clearblue ovulation kits, where you get hold of the little happy faces,” she says, laughing as Carlos flashes a massive smile for the camera.
The PenaVegas after that joke regarding exactly how Alexa would certainly text Carlos while he was filming or at the gym, along with an image of the “ovulation is happening” happy face.
“Carlos!” Alexa laughs once the Big Time Rush member says he would certainly rush residence from the health and fitness center to get hold of in “one more workout.”
“What? That’s exactly how you make a baby!” he says.
The Repo! The Genetic Opera actress after that modifications the subject slightly, admitting that she can easily relate to women that currently over-strategy and are simply prepared for pregnancy to happen as quickly as they begin trying.
“once it doesn’t happen, you think, ‘Is something wrong along with me?’ or ‘exactly what am I not performing right?’ once truly it’s simply your physique adjusting,” she says.
“And we literally were simply like, ‘Let’s not worry regarding it anymore,’ ” Carlos adds. “once God prefers us to have actually a baby, we’re gonna have actually a baby, and that’s it.”
Alexa adds that she has actually had a “crazy and exciting” pregnancy so far. One thing that she has actually had to endure that lots of current and former moms-to-be can easily relate to?
“[In] my very first trimester, I have actually had a great deal of morning sickness,” she admits.
“It [has been] awful,” Carlos says, describing times once the couple have actually been out with each other and Alexa has actually had to run to the bathroom to throw up.
“I’m sorry it was so challenging for you,” Alexa tells your man jokingly, throwing a consider the camera and including that on top of morning sickness, pregnancy fatigue is a “fairly actual thing.”
“There were days once I simply wanted to sleep all of day long, and I did,” she says. “Yet that’s simply portion of the quest — and I have actually so more electricity now, which is amazing. I feel Adore a various person.”
The couple after that share an ultrasound photo of their growing baby.
“We don’t understand [the sex] yet,” Alexa says. “Yet whatever it is, it’s perfect.”
The couple are paid Clearblue spokespeople.
— Jen Juneau
