Exes Kody Brown and Meri Brown mirrored on their fertility points — and being pregnant battle — whereas trying again at previous Sister Wives episodes.
“Retrospectively, I’m really glad we didn’t have more children,” Kody, 54, revealed on the Sunday, December 24, episode of the Sister Wives Particular: Look Again, The place We Began. “It wouldn’t have been good for the child because Meri and I weren’t healthy then.”
Throughout Sunday’s episode, Kody and Meri, 52, watched clips from 2012 during which they have been optimistic about doing invitro fertilization (IVF) in hopes of increasing their household. The pair beforehand welcomed their solely youngster, Leon, in July 1995.
“It just freaks me out to go through that again. I want to have another baby. I would love that,” Meri stated within the throwback episode. Kody was additionally on board with the thought on the time, saying, “When we’re dying when we’re 110, we’ll look back and we’ll be glad we did the IVF.”
The previous couple, who introduced their cut up in January after greater than 30 years collectively, then watched a clip from 2013. Inside that yr, they’d modified their tune about having extra youngsters — or a minimum of Kody had.
When Meri requested, “Do you want to have another baby with me or do you not?” Kody confessed, “I would do it if it just happened.” He famous that “because of the stakes, I’m not burning in my gut to do it.” At this level, the pair had suffered a miscarriage within the mid-2000s after making an attempt for greater than a decade.
“During that time, it was more realization that our marriage is not really healthy,” Kody defined whereas trying again on the two moments.
Meri had the same recollection of that interval, telling the cameras, “Kody and I were in a slightly tumultuous time.” Regardless of their ups and downs romantically, Meri shared, “I really wanted to have more than just one,” noting that it took her and Kody 5 years to have Leon.
Over time, Meri has spoken out about her fertility points. In Might, she shared an emotional message about her previous miscarriage, which occurred earlier than she and Kody talked about one other spherical of IVF within the aforementioned clips.
“Today was a travel day for me, and as I was driving through this town tonight, I saw a group of three teenage-looking boys, maybe 15 or 16 years old, walking down the street, hands in pockets, chit chatting away, and I just had to smile and almost sort of giggle to myself,” Meri wrote by way of Instagram on the time. “It was a fun, and even bittersweet, moment for me, realizing that had my baby survived, he might be engaging in that same sort of teenaged banter, and having those same sort of memorable teenaged moments.”
Whereas Meri wasn’t certain whether or not she was anticipating a son earlier than the miscarriage, she stated her “gut” advised her it was a boy. “He’d be 15 now, and I often wonder what life would be like with him here,” she continued. “There’s often a lot of sorrow and pain surrounding that loss, but having that moment of joy today, seeing those boys happy and alive, was healing in a way for me.”
Half 2 of the Sister Wives Particular: Look Again, The place We Began airs on TLC Sunday, December 31, at 10 p.m. ET.