Shawn Johnson East and Andrew East. John Salangsang/Shutterstock
Shawn Johnson and her husband, Andrew East, are making ready so as to add one other child to their household.
Johnson, 31, introduced her being pregnant through Instagram on Wednesday, July 12. “Swipe for a shock,” she wrote, debuting her child bump throughout her household’s trip to Greece.
Johnson and East, additionally 31, shared extra particulars about her being pregnant on the Wednesday episode of their “Couple Issues” podcast.
“We positively waited so much longer to let you know guys and, I’m not gonna lie, it’s a bit of bittersweet,” she stated. “I’ve form of cherished having it to be ours. … This has been so enjoyable to have between us.”
Johnson and East even joked that there have been solely “so many” extra methods they might hold hiding her rising bump now that she’s “midway” into her being pregnant.
“I did form of say this could be the final go-around,” she advised her husband. “Since you give me very giant infants that take a big toll on my physique. If we’re wanting extra youngsters after this, I’m so down, however I’m down for, like, adopting and happening totally different routes.”
The couple first turned dad and mom in November 2019, welcoming daughter Drew after struggling a earlier miscarriage. Son Jett adopted in July 2021. Forward of his beginning, Johnson and East had been already hopeful about including one other infant to their brood.
“We’re over midway by [this pregnancy with our second child], and I may see myself doing it once more,” Johnson completely advised Us Weekly in March 2021.
East chimed in on the time: “I believe it depends upon [the sex] of this one. We will see. However given how issues are going with Drew, and the way a lot enjoyable it’s, I’d like to have extra. I’m within the part proper now.”
Johnson and East — who will not be planning to search out out the intercourse of child No. 3 forward of time— are eagerly wanting ahead to assembly their new arrival.
“I don’t know what three [children] will likely be like, it both goes one in all two methods. Folks say it’s like, ‘Oh, it’s no massive deal, you have already got two.’ Or individuals are like, ‘Three youngsters broke me,’” East quipped on Wednesday. “So, we’ll let you know the way that goes for us, however I’m tremendous open to having extra youngsters … however I’m not the one who will get pregnant and I’m gonna respect [your decision].”
Johnson additional famous that she deliberate to have one other C-section. “[It’s] taken a really giant toll and I believe in preserving my physique as a mother, with the ability to run round after my youngsters and keep wholesome, I believe even my OB can be [saying], ‘Three is an effective quantity,” she stated.
