Erin Andrews and Jarret Stoll Welcome First Baby Via Surrogate

Erin Andrews is contemplating different thrust toward the extremity zone. 

Fifteen months aft the sportscaster and hubby Jarret Stoll welcomed lad Mack with the assistance of a surrogate, "We're talking astir trying it again," she revealed successful an exclusive interrogation with E! News. "And I was really, truly honorable with my doc a mates weeks ago. I conscionable said, 'We've had truthful overmuch precocious with the commencement of Mack and however large he's doing that I don't privation to spell backmost to that spot of nonaccomplishment again, and I'm really, truly acrophobic of it.'"

While she's much acquainted with the playbook astatine this point, having travel retired the different broadside of her traumatic 10-year fertility journey, she's anxious astir tackling the process again.  

"It's crazy, due to the fact that erstwhile you get backmost connected the telephone with your fertility doc and you commencement talking astir the travel again, PTSD each comes backmost of however crappy you felt, however numb your assemblage gets, conscionable the fearfulness of loss," the 46-year-old recounted of losing 2 embroyos earlier learning their surrogate was large with their son. "So, it's a lot. It’s a loaded thing."

Having tested the for-worse bit of their seven-year marriage, they've learned "that you person to beryllium truly honorable with each other," said Andrews. "You person to springiness each different a break. You person to person patience. It's taxing connected your financials arsenic well, which besides brings accent to your marriage. It's not cheap. It's awful. There's thing astir the infertility journey that I would accidental is great, but your extremity product. When you are capable to person the babe and you're like, 'Wow, you were worthy it.'"

And should they look to grow their team, she knows she'll beryllium relying connected her adjacent friends and family—"Even though they didn't truly cognize what I was going through, they knew however crappy it felt, and they were conscionable truly great, like, 'I'm sorry, payment check,' and things similar that"—and mind-clearing exercise.

"Honestly, it's a non-negotiable for me," the Calm Down podcast co-host said of trying to acceptable successful regular sweat sessions. "It's conscionable a ace large merchandise for me. I request it. Life is simply a grind. You don't person to beryllium doing sideline reporting to consciousness that way. There's conscionable excessively overmuch going on." 

So, yes, her satellite looks a spot brighter these days. 

She acknowledges that raising a toddler portion criss-crossing the state is simply a tricky play. With Stoll moving successful subordinate improvement for his erstwhile squad, the Los Angeles Kings, "We are some successful play astatine the aforesaid time. It's a batch and you person to person help. And I'm not shy astir saying that. And you person to marque definite that assistance works with you and your household and your lifestyle."

But the WEAR by Erin Andrews founder genuinely knows she's winning erstwhile they're watching a Kings game, "And I conscionable support saying, 'That's Daddy! That's Daddy!'" she said. "He was looking, but who knows what helium was looking at." 

She conscionable hopes he's absorbing a fewer of the Xs and Os she's been dispensing on with his greeting breakfast. 

"I'm telling him who I'm talking to that time and I'm conscionable saying, you know, 'The Detroit Lions are moving the shot truly well, honey. We're going to person to spot however the Dallas Cowboys tin halt the tally this week,'" she recalled. "That's his mentation of Sesame Street, I guess."