hello
welcome back to another episode of
squirmy and grubs.
oh very formal today huh?
I think i'll do this video a bit more
formally
we're speaking about a very important
subject so i think that a little
adultness is in order.
first things first hannah i have heard
a rumor swirling about
and recently an anonymous source told me
that you are off of your birth control. can
you
confirm or deny this humor? 
uh
was i the anonymous source? 
the source wishes to remain anonymous so i can't
tell you that.
yes shane as you as you knew i can
confirm that i'm not on birth control anymore.
*"Hello" by SB plays*
yeah hannah is off of her birth
control
which is scary uh because we're
you know thinking about children in a
very real way, we'll get to that...
um but what i think it means really is
that the
six feet of social distancing is more
crucial for us now more than ever.
oh my god.
we have to remain six feet
apart in our bedroom
at all times. since this video is about
birth control
um and that's kind of hannah's
area of expertise we're gonna have
hannah
take the reins i'm gonna be the
interviewer
shane's been excited about this all day.
 i'll be interviewing hannah
about you know getting off of birth
control and why
and where our family planning is at and
it'll be fun
and shane studied journalism in college
so let's all make sure we judge him
see how good at this he is this is this
should be
his forte.
this is my moment to shine.
um and i will take it with a very
serious level
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us yeah so
time for the birth control interview.
oh boy.
i feel like i need like an
interviewer outfit
wait a minute hold on
all right uh...
i feel so professional.
thank you to the
subscriber that sent shane this hat
uh it's a woody hat they said that he
looks like woody which he does woody
from toy story if anyone doesn't know
i think i see the resemblance.
you do people have said that before i see it
someone poisoned the waterhole.
okay a very professional shane.
maybe i should
do the whole interview in a woody voice.
no no please don't.
all right do you have questions?
yes i do uh hannah
you are now off of birth control...
how many times are we gonna establish
that fact?
why? why?
well shane there are a couple of reasons
why yes um
the first is that i didn't want to go
into my doctor to get a new prescription
during the pandemic
that is the main reason it's a little
bit of a silly one i probably could have
found a workaround
uh now that i know about simple health
that would have solved that problem yeah
that's what I mean, it was very relevant ad
for this video.
i know i think i will be using this service in like a
couple minutes but uh that was the main
reason that i stopped as i ran out and i
couldn't
renew it without going in and i didn't
feel like doing that. the other reasons
uh one was that the one birth control
that i was on
i've been on since i was like 15 maybe
uh
and thought it was time for a break i
was having some side effects and
thought maybe i should try stopping
birth control and seeing how that goes
yeah um and then the other reason is
that i read
that it can take up to a year for
someone to be able to get pregnant after
they stop birth control so
um we talked about when we want to have
kids and
we just wanted to make sure that when
we're ready i'm not still on birth
control because if it does take a year
for me personally
that would be annoying you know yeah and
i think that is kind of what this video
is
more to let you all know is that we are
beginning down that road yeah of like
getting ready
for kids. hannah and i have been having
these conversations more and more lately
the main reason we started having these
conversations about kids
uh is that shane obviously as most of
you probably know
started a new medicine for sma called
risdiplam
and um you have to stop taking risdiplam for four months before you can have
kids so when he was gonna start taking
the drug we were like oh
like now yeah (should we do it now?)
that's true but we were like we're gonna
have to know four months out
that we want to start having kids you
know like it's gonna take some planning
because of that
and so then i heard about the birth
control thing and for me it could be a
year so we just figured
uh we just started talking about it yeah
and i think
we all know that hannah and i are
definitely going to need to
plan out the various aspects
of our pregnancy and having kids as
probably all yeah parents should do um
but
uh you know with figuring out who's
gonna be doing my care
um while hannah is (pregnant and then
after) with child yeah um
yeah it's just something to figure out
and we want to
have all our ducks in a row so that when
we decide like alright let's do it yeah
we're ready
yeah the fact that our wedding has been
postponed by a year
uh was upsetting because we were really
looking forward to having kids we were
having these conversations
uh before we postponed the wedding so
when we did
it really felt like we were putting off
having kids for an extra year because
i've already bought a dress i don't
really feel like returning
i can't return the dress uh yeah and
it's not gonna fit me if i'm
pregnant so okay this isn't about birth
control
but i just like being an interviewer do
you think i will be a good father? 
oh my god shane
i say with my dress-up hat.
i know right now you're being a little immature
and i can't stop looking at it in the
little
camera thing you look ridiculous.
i will teach our kids
the true values of a cowboy...
trust, friendship
and... 
i think you're going to be a very
entertaining father
you have a lot of great voices. you have
some costumes
in your back pocket. 
i will be a very entertaining father.
you're gonna be very
entertaining
uh but yes of course i think you're
gonna be a good father
but i think that you're probably gonna
be the fun parent and i'm probably gonna
be the
serious parent. 
you're gonna be such a good mom though
you're the most caring, like thoughtful,
selfless person that i know this hat is
really bothering me. 
this is all nice but i cannot
stop looking at your eyebrows. do you want me
we can take the hat off... okay
um you like... caring for others is just
like
in your oh look you're doing my hair as
i'm telling...
that's more vain i want to make sure you
look nice shane
but i mean like you're very good at that
stuff.
i've always wanted to be mom i'm excited.
so are we still having just one two
kids six i think more than one i also
i think some people probably are going
to ask uh about how we've said that we
want to adopt in the past or that we're
you know
that's equally in our conversations as
biologically having kids
the neighbor's mowing the lawn, sorry!
well this is the unluckiest day just so
everyone knows we have already recorded
this video
and we went to edit it and the audio was
all messed up so
the fact that we've...
NOW HE'S MOWING HIS LAWN...
shhh you're gonna wake up please stop
you're gonna wake the puppies up
that's the thing yeah shane does need i
think a tiny little bit more maturing
before like sometimes when let's talk
about the puppies because i think that's
been a great
yes what role play in parenting yeah
yeah four puppies that was a lot uh the
first two days we were like we're never
having kids and then we got into our
routine
they settled in and it was still a lot
you know a lot of poop especially
but it's been really fun uh so i think
now
we feel ready to have kids but yeah
sometimes when i would care for the
puppies
shane would get upset that he wasn't
i don't know receiving attention but he
would have to wait for something i was
worse than chloe.
chloe was better behaved about the
puppies than me
i was like yeah but we haven't had
dinner yet.
or like if you're trying to watch a
soccer game and they start you know
making sounds you're like i can't hear
my game
so i think shane needs a little bit of
uh
i think when it's our kids he will
probably feel different.
i do too.
i have no problem admitting that i do
you know have some
maturing to do, and that has been part of
our
conversations about having kids we're
not doing this just like
willy nilly like yeah we were very
open about the fact that like i need to
improve in that way
and then the other thing was like we
don't feel quite
ready to give up our like carefree
travel whenever we want.. well prior to all this
i know we had thought about
seriously thought about having a
child or at least trying to right before
shane started his medicine
yeah uh because we saw that you know he
had to wait four months after and that's
going to be annoying because he might
feel weak
so we were like we should just do it now
uh we were very close
i can't tell you how close we were yeah
i mean there was a bit of a scare
and that scare really ingrained in us
how important it is for us to not have a
baby
i don't think my parents know about this
it's okay.
there was a scare.
there was, and that i really i mean i every day i
would be like i want a baby i want a
baby i want a baby
and then when i thought that we were
going to have a baby
uh that really changed my mind because i
was i thought about it seriously for the
first time and what that would
actually look like in our day-to-day
lives and not just the idea
it was a wake up we were like oh you know
what let's
actually plan this out yeah be smart
about this
it was eye-opening and i think it was
good that that happened
because it really changed how i was
thinking about it.
this is so funny... in all of our
planning for this video we never talked
about
telling you about the scare and now we
are
never were going to but i think it's it
really changed how we're thinking about
when we want to have kids.
it did yeah and okay so just to
summarize
we are beginning the process yeah i mean
it's a slow process but we are
beginning planning
yeah i'm stopping my birth control so
that we're ready um
so yeah yeah so we don't want to make
this video with a title like you know
are we having kids and then not give you
like real concrete information
so in terms of timeline
yeah you want to let them know what
we're thinking? 
i mean this is all
very it's just our thoughts right now
yeah and who knows if we have another
scare we might push it back by a decade
i have no idea
uh no more scares uh
i think we're gonna wait for our wedding
which is next summer
uh to be over and then i think we'll
probably start legitimately trying to
have a child
yeah little baby.
so that's the timeline
that we're working with.
but who knows if it turns out that then we have a huge
trip for uh speaking engagement coming
up
never know.
in next september or
something you know it's gonna be hard so
it'll take right now our schedule is
really open with the pandemic and when
the pandemic is over and we start having
things in our calendar again
i think it'll be difficult for us to
turn stuff down
you know on the hope of like yeah yeah
yeah exactly so i think we're gonna
really want to have a baby when we do
start turning stuff down you know it's
going to have to be like
we really want to have a baby in order
to turn everything down yeah
so that's where we're at um
and we're excited and i think
at least i'm a little bit nervous are
you nervous
not right i'm not actively nervous
because you're not actively having
kids now
i know i don't know because i think
we'll be ready when we
start.
so yeah
there we are there you have it yeah our
thoughts
our thoughts our beginnings.
our
deepest
there's a weed wacker out in our yard
this day
this whole day all right everyone
goodbye
piano music
