Cameron Hamilton and Lauren Speed-Hamilton.Photo:David Becker/Getty
David Becker/Getty
Lauren Speed-HamiltonandCameron Hamiltonare sharing their fertility journey with fans for the first time.
“This conversation is not the easiest for me,” Speed-Hamilton, 36, admits. “I’ll be honest, I like to share a lot of things but this is one that’s still kind of tough. But I think it’s so important to talk about it so that you can see yourself in the conversation that we’re about to have.”
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Hamilton, 34, then asks his wife how she thinks their fertility struggle has impacted their relationship.
“I think that it’s actually made us stronger,” she concludes, and Hamilton completely agrees.
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Lauren Speed, Cameron Hamilton.Charles Sykes/Bravo/NBCU Photo Bank
The proud husband then begins to tear up as he recounts their experience with in vitro fertilization (IVF) from his own perspective.
“When I saw what you were going through in terms of of taking the medications, doing the daily shots,” he explains, all while “knowing that IVF and all this stuff wasn’t really something that you naturally wanted to do but you did it for me — you showed me a new level of love that I’d never seen before.”
Later in the episode, Hamilton offers some advice to other men who may be witnessing their partner go through a similar fertility experience to their own: “As men, our first instinct, it seems, is to want to fix things,” he shares. “When we’ve been struggling to conceive, my first instinct is to dive into the research on fertility, IVF, try to consume everything I can (and) come up with a strategy, how are we going to improve the next time.”
Amber and Barnett with Lauren and Cameron Hamilton.amber barnett/Instagram
amber barnett/Instagram
Giving a quick life update, Amber, 32, shared, “I sent myself back to school because I felt like we were in a place where I could do that, like, I had the support and I was mentally there.”
“Then, over summer break, he just went and knocked me up,” she revealed, pointing to Matt, 34.
“The biggest congratulations to you guys, I’m so excited,” Lauren exclaimed, while Cameron added he’s “ready to be an uncle.”
source: people.com