00:00We've got a crazy house here.
00:02Posey, don't do that.
00:05Why don't you believe in birth control?
00:07I prefer natural ways of prevention or I get pregnant.
00:11How is that for you?
00:12Are you okay with that?
00:14With being young parents, I feel like the judgments we mainly get is we're kids raising
00:20kids.
00:21They'll say that I'll leave.
00:22Yeah, we're emotionally mature.
00:23I'm nervous.
00:24How do you guys think the response will be?
00:26How do you guys think the response will be?
00:28Uh...
00:30I want an apple.
00:32You want an apple?
00:33Hey, where are you going?
00:35Come back here.
00:37Come here, you.
00:38You didn't help me make a tall ice cream cone.
00:40Hey, can you please go over here and play with your toys over here?
00:44Because we're trying to film a video.
00:46Can you go eat your snack over there, please?
00:48You'll be in the video later.
00:50My name is Reason.
00:51I'm 21.
00:52My name is Bella and I'm 20 years old.
00:54We have two children.
00:56Posey is, like, the most smart, funny, sweet little kid.
01:01She's just literally the sweetest little two-year-old ever.
01:04You want to read this one?
01:06Yeah, I know that.
01:07It's a dummy.
01:09You're so funny.
01:13And then we have Centauri, but we call her Aria, and she is almost one.
01:17High five!
01:19Yeah, good job.
01:21I was 17 when I got pregnant with Posey,
01:24and then I got pregnant again at 18 years old with Aria.
01:28What does this say?
01:29Cluck!
01:30Cluck.
01:32She's so smart, and she's really advanced.
01:34She's on, like, a kindergarten or, like, a first grade reading level.
01:39She knows things better than me sometimes.
01:42The girl is scared.
01:45The girl is scared?
01:47No.
01:48How would you guys describe your parenting style?
01:50I would like to say there's not really a name for our style.
01:52We just parent how we feel.
01:54It's kind of parenting with common sense.
01:56We parent based off of our kids and not just kids in general.
02:01We're also Christian, and so we try and take aspects from, like, that as well.
02:06And what's this?
02:09Chicken.
02:10A what?
02:11Chicken.
02:12Can you say it louder?
02:14Chicken!
02:15And what does the chicken say?
02:16Cluck, cluck!
02:18All right.
02:19There you go.
02:20And then we go back, and then we come in, and then we do the, you know.
02:24When you guys decided to share your story on social media?
02:27When I first made my first post, I was pregnant with Posey.
02:31I was probably about, like, 12 weeks pregnant, and I just made an announcement post.
02:35It kind of blew up, and so then I was like, maybe I'll try and make a few more videos.
02:40So the video that got almost 70 million views was the video of my, like, bump progress throughout my pregnancy with Posey.
02:49This is the video that went really viral.
02:52There was a lot of controversy in the comments on it.
02:55With being young parents, I feel like the judgments we mainly get is,
03:00we're too young to, like, know how to parent kids.
03:03Like, we're kids raising kids type of thing.
03:06They'll say that I'll leave.
03:08You know, we're emotionally mature.
03:10What they don't realize is what kids do to you.
03:13It'll change you and your maturity level.
03:15What are some of the challenges that you think you've experienced as a result of being young parents?
03:19Nobody's our age.
03:21Nobody with kids is our age.
03:23Everybody else who has kids is so much older than us.
03:25We've lost a lot of friends and people in our lives because of that.
03:30Because we had kids.
03:31What are you going to put as the caption?
03:33I don't know what the caption is.
03:35And now we're pregnant with our third child.
03:38And we're really excited.
03:40We actually did plan this one.
03:42Probably sounds really crazy because we have two under two already.
03:45Yeah, people think we're nuts.
03:47They will think we're nuts.
03:49We enjoy it. We love it.
03:51Right now we're posting our pregnancy announcement for baby number three.
03:56Are you an apple?
03:59Yes, I'm an apple. I'll take one.
04:01Thanks for the offer.
04:04Thank you so much.
04:06You can say you're welcome.
04:08You're welcome.
04:09Posey, do you want to click the button?
04:13We did it!
04:17I'm nervous.
04:19How do you guys think the response will be?
04:22I think our followers right now will probably be supportive.
04:27Someone commented, bro, three already? Congratulations.
04:31Got another one that said, happy for you.
04:33But if it starts reaching a lot beyond that,
04:36that's where a lot of negativity will come
04:38because that's where you get most of the assumptions
04:40is people who don't know us at all and just see,
04:43oh, three under three at that age?
04:45Oh, I don't know.
04:47We planned it for a few reasons.
04:49For one, our wedding is in next September.
04:52And so I didn't want to be pregnant at the wedding.
04:54And we also didn't want our kids too far apart.
04:56It's like buying at Costco for babies.
04:58Just do it all at once, buy in bulk, and get it done.
05:02What do you guys think it'll be like having two kids?
05:06I think it'll just be slightly more crazy.
05:09We do really well with both girls already,
05:12and so we feel like we can handle a third.
05:14And obviously, like, we'll find out down the road
05:17how hard it actually is, but we're really excited about it.
05:21Why don't you believe in birth control?
05:25With birth control, I don't believe in it for myself.
05:28I prefer natural ways of prevention, or I get pregnant.
05:32This is just going off of my own theories,
05:35my own personal beliefs, so take it as you will.
05:38Obviously, I'm not a doctor,
05:40but I know from so many experiences
05:44like my friends have had, my family has had,
05:47and just so many other women online who have come to me,
05:50birth control has messed with their hormones,
05:52it's messed with their fertility,
05:54and it's just, it disgusts me personally.
05:56How did people respond to you
05:58when you shared that opinion online?
06:00I had mixed opinions on that for sure.
06:03I think majority of people actually were supportive
06:06because a lot of people were standing by the fact that,
06:09yeah, it did mess with my hormones,
06:11it did mess with my fertility.
06:13And then there were other people who were like,
06:15no, there's no statistics, people like saying there's no proof,
06:18like, you know, fighting on it.
06:20Personally, it's not something I have or ever will put in my body,
06:23but I don't judge anybody for either.
06:25Hi, Paisley!
06:27Hi!
06:29Wow!
06:31Oh, I got my nice seat right here.
06:33Hi! I was going to sit on you!
06:35So, Desiree, tell me,
06:37how did you feel when Bella Risen told you
06:39that Bella was pregnant the first time?
06:42Oh, he wants a toy.
06:45Well,
06:47I actually knew
06:49before they told me.
06:51I was excited and nervous
06:53because they were young, for sure.
06:55Told Risen that he needed to straighten up
06:59and get his stuff together.
07:01Yeah, or wasn't.
07:03Yeah, he was being a teenager and having fun.
07:07At first I was kind of worried,
07:09but they stepped up and proved me wrong.
07:12Now they got these beautiful kids.
07:14And everybody that sees them
07:16makes the same comment.
07:18They're just like, oh my gosh, they're really good parents.
07:20And you don't hear that from a lot of people with teenage kids.
07:23Or teenagers with kids, you know.
07:25So they've impressed a lot of people.
07:28The fact that they don't want to do birth control,
07:30how is that for you?
07:32I am okay with them not doing it.
07:35It's a personal opinion.
07:38I just don't know when it stops.
07:41Do you plan on getting married?
07:43Now we're engaged
07:45and now we're planning to get married next September.
07:48We proposed at the exact same time.
07:50At the same time, at a Rocket Lunch.
07:52We're excited for it to finally happen
07:54and even more excited that all three of our kids
07:56are going to be at the wedding.
07:58So that's going to be really cool.
08:00Would you guys like to have any more children?
08:02We feel comfortable with four.
08:04Our idea was if we, this third one,
08:07if it's a boy, we most likely will stop.
08:10But if it's not a boy,
08:13we're definitely going to have a fourth.
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