Macklemore will soon be a father. He’s expecting his first child with fiancée Tricia Davis, and they were very excited to share the news with the world. First-time parents are a trip. They still have enough energy in their bodies to get excited about their future sleep-deprived state. I wish I was kidding. Mack made the annoucement by recording a sonogram video, and Ryan Lewis uploaded it to the trusty YouTube. It’s kind of sweet, really:
What do you think of this type of public announcement? Tricia is due in May, and I’m blown away at the advances in sonogram technology over the past decade. You can see the baby’s face very clearly. Part of me gets the heebies about peering inside someone else’s uterus, but I can get over it. I mentioned my own sonogram experience already, but even my mom was like, “Put it away, honey” when I showed her my own sonogram picture. So my view is skewed.
Anyway, this video is pretty adorable. It’s certainly more tasteful than a certain talk show host’s Clearblue-stick selfie from this weekend. Maybe I’m a little old-fashioned, but a simple “We’re expecting!” would have worked just fine in that case. Congrats to Mack and Tricia!
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Meh!… Cute
but I feel Pre Parentals are always trying to Out-cute Each other with these announcements… is like this and Proposals are no longer valid if they aren’t served up with Lots of Sugar and visuals to the outside world
I hate that. I rarely think it’s cute, I mostly just feel second hand embarrassment. I would hate to have a public proposal or anything like that.
However, I like Macklemore so much I don’t mind this.
I know what you mean. It was sweet. But my niece is pregnant and she posts selfies of her growing tummy, sonograms, has announced the baby’s name and sex, is constantly writing sugary love messages to her husband and thanking him for bringing her a blanket or making hot chocolate… Just live your life. I promise it does exist even if you’re not snapping photos and posting every second on Facebook or Instagram. It gets to be too much.
Gnat I’m MORTIFIED second hand about your niece
Charlie: I’ve told my Bf who never met a surprise he didn’t like.. I will PUNCH you in the Nuts if you embarrass me in public like that or Involve a gang of people in something personal of ours
GNAT
“Just live your life. I promise it does exist even if you’re not snapping and posting…” Well said.
Lets not forget the lameness of the gender reveal party.
@QQ- let it be known to the universe that you coined the phrase “pre parentals” and it is a beautiful phrase.
My spleen loves seeing pictures of my uterus. Sometimes it talks to my gyno while I just sit in the waiting room reading Highlights with Kiddo’s intestines.
P.S. Macklemore’s hair frightens me.
I’m more concerned about his mustache. How come you get to have fun with Kiddo’s intestines? Not fair.
I bet Kiddo’s intestines have a dirt ‘stache.
My eardrum heard from a friend’s mother’s replacement hip, that Kiddo’s intestines are having an affair with Bramhall’s hair follicles.
Oh I thought it was so sweet! I am a PNWer so I may be a little biased. In his Halloween video, Tricia put makeup on him and he asked if they had a girl would she be cute and I remember being surprised it was even on their radar (pregnancy/babies).
Very excited for them!
I’ve never personally had a problem with people sharing their sonogram/ultrasound pics. I shared mine when I was pregnant with both of my children. But I draw the line when showing your pee stick. That’s just gross!
Posting everything online is just annoying. My husband is the one who posted our announcements, sonograms, or pics of me (unauthorized- i seethe) because I know that nobody cares about my pregnancy like I do. I’m not ignorant enough to assume my morning sickness woes and every kick is big news to everyone. It’s not. But some get confused in their own excitement.
That said, I never understood how sonograms are icky. It’s a fuzzy black and white image showing a baby, and yes, it’s in the uterus, but an x ray of your arm bones is basically the same thing, it’s just that you know that the uterus is only a cervix away from their vagina, and oddly that skeeves people out? Oh well.
It’s pretty common now, no? And people even ask for it / expect to see it. Especially on Facebook, right? WHERE’S YOUR 3D ULTRASOUND, MACKELMORE?? I don’t get the pee stick thing either: look! I peed on this! Lookit my pee! But I guess to somebodies, it’s a cherished (bathroom) memento. Full disclosure: I kept mine. I just didn’t photograph. Probably worse
C’mon…it’s not like she actually shared a picture of her p*ssing on the stick or held the stick up in her pee soaked hand. Sheesh.
I agree. That would be much, much worse
These sort of videos usually bring out the hardcore, snarky cynic in me, but that was really beautiful. Your first pregnancy IS an amazing experience. The second, however, you are so busy with baby one that you just hope to make it through the day!
Ha, word to that. I’m on my second pregnancy now, and while I can’t take 3 hour naps every day, time flies by, so I’m grateful. First time around, every day I knew how many weeks and days, and read all the weekly info. This time I get asked how far along I am, and I have to check my app. What fruit/veggie am I? Don’t ask, I have no clue. Last time was a weekly countdown until I reached rutabaga/summer squash, and it could not have gone slower. An existing toddler changes everything!
Sweet! Congratulations to both of them. First time parents-to-be are so cute, they are clueless to what’s ahead, haha! I love Mack, but I hope baby looks like mama. 🙂
These sort of videos usually bring out the hardcore, snarky cynic in me, but that was really beautiful. Your first pregnancy IS an amazing experience. The second, however, you are so busy with baby one that you just hope to make it through the day!
PS She is more beautiful with no make-up. Man, am I jealous of those girls.
I have yet to see the video but i wish u guys would do a separate post about Tamera’s announcement and Chrissy Teigen’s GIGANTIC shade-throwing on twitter. And chrissy is getting horrible comments on her ig account and twitter because of it. I mean when i first saw Tamera’s pic i thought it was blah, cute whatever, but when i saw the caption it completely threw me off “we are #clearblueconfirmed” ? Seriously, she has known for a while that she was pregnant and she probably had to pee on the stick again just to advertise it and well. It throws the whole authenticity of the announcement out the window.
In that respect it seems macklemores announcement was more spontaneous that way and i appreciate it…
Lol, I just read about that.
I find already wealthy celebrities using special, personal life events (marriage, kids,etc) to market yourself and shill products pretty tacky. Chrissy kind of annoys me but kudos to her for some excellent shade throwing, and taking the bad reactions in stride.
TMI! I and million others, don’t have the need to see this or anybody’s Sonogram.But I am sure they and their families are thrilled to see it though. Good luck and enjoy the sleep now.
It took me five years of heartbreak until finally becoming pregnant with my (now 12 year old) son and I remember how excited I was to see my first sonogram. He looked like a little alien with a big head and a tiny body. I was so happy I put it on our refrigerator and his father and I dubbed him the little alien for the rest of the pregnancy. Facebook didn’t exist then or I probably would have posted it so I fully understand the excitement. I personally find the sonogram invention to be fascinating. I had to have so many of them due to my extremely difficult and dangerous pregnancy that by the end I was jaded because they were only looking to make sure everything was okay by then. And no one saw my pee stick but my hubby and my mom. I wouldn’t flash that around. Yuck.
Aww, I thought it was adorable! Made me consider having a kid for exactly 5 seconds. 🙂 And I love that song that they used in the video. Congrats to them!
Hahah, this was kinda sweet. Congrats to Ben and Tricia!!!
I think it’s sweet, and this is the way things are done these days, TMI or not. I don’t know anything about this couple but I thought the video was cute, so congrats to them!
I worked next door to the ultrasound department when I was pregnant so I had a ton of them done for free, the tech did a 3D one at 16 weeks and it scared the hell out of me, they look so weird at that stage. The MRI guy also offered to take images for me and said it wouldn’t harm the baby, but you always hear about how damaging things are years later so I didn’t do it, would’ve been a cool picture to have though.
I am happy for them. That said, I use to like him, and I’m in my 40’s haha, but I live in Seattle and after watching him protest (by jumping off bridges to block I-5) I have a different opinion of him. You’d be amazed at the amount of anger towards him from the people of Seattle. Protest away, don’t damage your city or block traffic AND endanger the police and people living there! 😠
Seattleite here… and people LOVE him around these parts.
Over share. Ugh. I couldn’t even watch the whole thing. It’s bad enough when normal people do it. Even worse when celebs or people in the spotlight not so candidly share intimate moments of their life with the whole world. It seems so… staged and starved for attention.
Showing the public your pee-stick is kind of gross. But I thought this video was sweet. 3-D ultrasounds look kind of creepy when the baby opens her eyes. Maybe it was the machine that was used on me or the angle but her eyes looked black with that odd sepia-kind-of color skin. It looked odd to say the least.
Um, a Clear Blue Easy sponsored Tweet?!? That’s tacky.