TikTok stars Matt and Abby Howard are about to be a household of 5.
The couple introduced Abby's being pregnant on Wednesday, August 20, telling People, “Going for our third child is sort of extra thrilling than ever as a result of now we actually know simply how good it's.”
Matt, 27, and Abby, 26, famous that they “genuinely don't have any desire” with regards to the child's intercourse, however their eldest little one is “actually hoping for a sister!” (The content material creators share sons Griffin, 3, and August, 2.)
Whereas reflecting on her present being pregnant, Abby famous that this expertise has stood out.
“This being pregnant has felt completely different from my different two,” she shared. “A lot of days I've to remind myself that I'm even pregnant and that that is actually occurring!”
Matt and Abby have been collectively since highschool and received married in 2019. They've since used their on-line platform to doc highlights from their life. Regardless of their profession as influencers, the duo lately made the choice to cease exhibiting their sons' faces on-line.
“Initially, we did have our firstborn's face on-line as a result of we have been like, ‘We're going to proceed doing all the things we've been doing. We've been vlogging our life, we have now a child now [and] we're nonetheless vlogging our life,'” Matt stated on a July episode of the “Two Dad and mom & A” podcast. “Then, we have been pondering, ‘OK, there's digital footprints right here,' and all this stuff that we're nonetheless studying.”
Abby stated the choice got here out of an “abundance of safety,” with Matt including, “It's loopy as a result of we're actually within the wild west. Somebody's going to [f***] up there. There have already got been mother and father [who] have effed up on-line, and, like, damage their children. So, we're studying, like, ‘Don't do this, Good.' We don't need to be a type of people who unintentionally [post our children]. We wish one of the best for our children.”
On the time, Matt and Abby broke down the boundaries they put in place as mother and father on social media.
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“We speak about them, we share them — simply not their faces,” Abby defined. “We don't need them to be a central a part of our content material or to be recognizable individually. Who is aware of what it can appear to be down the road. … We view defending our children very significantly.”
She continued: “It may be an overreaction, who is aware of down the road, however we'd somewhat be protected than sorry. I feel the opposite factor is that we selected for our lives to be public-facing [and] we need to give [our sons] the autonomy to make that alternative for themselves in the event that they need to down the road.”
Earlier than limiting their children' on-line presence, Matt and Abby made headlines in September 2024 after they shared an Instagram Story that alluded to their sons being left of their room on a cruise ship whereas their mother and father have been out at dinner.
“We take our function as mother and father extraordinarily significantly and we love our youngsters greater than something in your entire world. We're very protecting of our children,” Matt later shared in a TikTok video. “Individuals began to invest and consider that we had left our youngsters alone of their staterooms — and that's simply utterly unfaithful.”
Matt added: “We had somebody with our youngsters always on this boat. Interval.”
