Pregnant Shay Mitchell Talks ‘Extremely Difficult’ Miscarriage, Relationship With Matte Babel and More in ‘Almost Ready’

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Pregnant Shay Mitchell Talks 'Extremely Difficult' Miscarriage, Relationship With Matte Babel and More in 'Almost Ready'

Next stop, parenthood! Shay Mitchell and her boyfriend, Matte Babel, are gearing up for their baby girl's arrival in Almost Ready. The Pretty Little Liars alum, 32, kept her pregnancy private for the first two trimesters, finally announcing the news in June on Instagram. "Does this mean I’m allowed to drive in the car pool lane at all times now?" she captioned a topless baby bump pic at the time. The music reporter, 38, shared another shot from the actress' maternity shoot, writing, "Watching the both of you grow over the past 6 months has been the most beautiful thing in the world. The strength, vulnerability and grace you’ve had during this pregnancy has left me in awe, you’re going to be an incredible mom...We’re lucky to have you, love you." Since the couple's reveal, the You star has been showing off her budding belly on social media while rocking a variety of bikinis and glam date-night looks. "This is my new sucking in," she wrote alongside a photo of her and friend Alex Merrell wearing orange bathing suits, matching striped towels on their heads and black sunnies in July. "#summerbod2019." [jwplayer 05qieaGF-l3ahXupL] That same month, the pair revealed the sex of their baby-to-be with an epic gender reveal featuring a battle between blue and pink Power Rangers. While the Possession of Hannah Grace star "truly" thought that she was carrying a son, the pink fighter won! "I thought it was a boy for the longest time," Mitchell exclaimed when she found out. "Obviously, I’m super happy. I’m just like, it’s crazy. Everybody was right.” She went on to say that having a baby girl will be "retribution," adding, "My parents [will] just look at me and be like, ‘It’s karma, bitch.’” Keep scrolling to see what Mitchell revealed about her pregnancy and her relationship while filming Almost Ready with the Canada Sings host.

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Pregnant Shay Mitchell Talks 'Extremely Difficult' Miscarriage, Relationship With Matte Babel and More in 'Almost Ready'

Next stop, parenthood! Shay Mitchell and her boyfriend, Matte Babel, are gearing up for their baby girl's arrival in Almost Ready. The Pretty Little Liars alum, 32, kept her pregnancy private for the first two trimesters, finally announcing the news in June on Instagram. "Does this mean I’m allowed to drive in the car pool lane at all times now?" she captioned a topless baby bump pic at the time. The music reporter, 38, shared another shot from the actress' maternity shoot, writing, "Watching the both of you grow over the past 6 months has been the most beautiful thing in the world. The strength, vulnerability and grace you’ve had during this pregnancy has left me in awe, you’re going to be an incredible mom...We’re lucky to have you, love you." Since the couple's reveal, the You star has been showing off her budding belly on social media while rocking a variety of bikinis and glam date-night looks. "This is my new sucking in," she wrote alongside a photo of her and friend Alex Merrell wearing orange bathing suits, matching striped towels on their heads and black sunnies in July. "#summerbod2019." [jwplayer 05qieaGF-l3ahXupL] That same month, the pair revealed the sex of their baby-to-be with an epic gender reveal featuring a battle between blue and pink Power Rangers. While the Possession of Hannah Grace star "truly" thought that she was carrying a son, the pink fighter won! "I thought it was a boy for the longest time," Mitchell exclaimed when she found out. "Obviously, I’m super happy. I’m just like, it’s crazy. Everybody was right.” She went on to say that having a baby girl will be "retribution," adding, "My parents [will] just look at me and be like, ‘It’s karma, bitch.’” Keep scrolling to see what Mitchell revealed about her pregnancy and her relationship while filming Almost Ready with the Canada Sings host.

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Labor and Delivery

In the final episode published on October 21, Mitchell took fans inside her hospital room for an intimate look at her labor and delivery. The 33-hour journey included lots of pain for the new mom — but lots of support from Babel and her doula. When her baby girl finally arrives Mitchell says, “This is definitely the most intense experience of my life. Matte and I are parents, I can’t believe it. And we thought being pregnant was a journey? We have just begun.”

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What She’ll Do to Avoid a C-Section

“I’m going to do anything. If you told me to eat a bunch of pig s--t, I would do it at this point,” Mitchell told her mom after finding out her baby is breech on an October 2019 Almost Ready episode. “Whatever I can do to flip her around so I don’t have to [have a cesarean].”

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How She Decorated Her Nursery

The YouTube star showed off her baby’s room-in-progress, featuring pink walls, a gold crib and a fully stocked closet.

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How They’re Preparing

After Babel built a stroller in September 2019, his girlfriend said she had three other strollers and two car seats for him to put together.

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Her Doula Decision

“I am terrified of giving birth. … I know Matte will be there, but I think having a doula who can give us advice will be a really big support,” Mitchell said, before inviting one to their home to ask about epidurals, breast-feeding and immunizations.

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Uh-Oh

Mitchell told her former Pretty Little Liars costar Ian Harding that her baby's head is a little bigger than normal, according to her doctor.

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How She Feels About Matte

"Matte and I started quietly dating about three years ago," the pregnant star said in the first episode. "I guess you could say we’re best friends now. When I first found out I was pregnant, we were super happy slash really nervous."

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The Time He Dropped the Ball

Mitchell was nervous about her structural ultrasound appointment, especially since Babel was out of town for work. She requested that her boyfriend FaceTime her, but he forgot! “I reminded him an hour before I left and the night before,” she told her friends two weeks later. “I said, ‘Please put it in your thing,’ and he said, ‘I don’t even need to. 100 percent, I’m going to remember.’”

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Her High Hopes for Their Family

That being said, Mitchell already knows her boyfriend is going to be a wonderful father to their baby girl. “He’s going to be a great dad," she gushed in a confessional. "He is so good with kids. He is just so comfortable. After the pregnancy, I don’t have a worry at all.”

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How She Handled Her Loss

“I chose to hold on until I announced [my second pregnancy] because of the first time,” the actress said in the first episode, referring to her 2018 miscarriage. “It didn’t go as I had hoped for, and it was extremely difficult. … When it happened, I was just completely blindsided by it. I still have those photos on my phone. I still have all the doctor visit [videos], and it’s weird because I haven’t looked at them, but it’s not like I forgot about that happening. Of course, I’m, like, super happy, but I still feel for the one that I lost.” Because of that, Mitchell decided not to decorate her daughter’s nursery until the last minute.

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The Best and the Worst

While hiding her baby bump, the Canadian star struggled with her lack of a social life. “This is the sh--ty side of being pregnant when no one knows because you can’t go out to see anyone, you don’t want to see anyone,” she said while crying in her car. “Anyway, I don’t feel myself.”

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Her Pregnancy Symptoms

While preparing for a photo shoot, the actress admitted to her stylist that she was wearing a diaper. “It gets so annoying having to go to the bathroom all the time,” she explained in the Wednesday, July 31, episode of her YouTube show. “I peed myself [last night]. I got a couple good times and I had to throw it out. ... I’ve had to pee way too much. I’m over it.”

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Their Birth Plan Disagreement

“I’m a hypochondriac, I’m afraid of drugs,” Babel told Mitchell when she said she wanted to have an epidural in September 2019. “I meet women all the time who choose not to get an epidural. … A root canal is not comparable because you're not born to go through foot canal. As a woman, your body is genetically engineered to get through birth.”