Two dads in Portland are making news after they announced that they’re expecting a baby together after going through a miscarriage last year.

The couple, Biff Chaplow and Trystan Reese, who is transgender, found out that Trystan suffered a miscarriage in 2016 just before he was six weeks pregnant, they told the WNYC podcast The Longest Shortest Time. In order for Trystan to get pregnant, he had to stop taking testosterone, and it was tricky for the couple to figure out what to do next. Biff wanted to wait a year before trying again, but Trystan says it was better for him to just stay off testosterone.

Biff says the early stages of Trystan’s pregnancy were a "very cautious phase, emotionally," and Trystan weighed himself “obsessively” to make sure he was still gaining weight. Trystan says he also called the ob/gyn’s office ahead of his six-week ultrasound appointment, to give them a heads up that they would be treating a "pregnant dad."

"I can feel someone looking at my face and searching for the remnants of womanhood," Trystan said. "They kind of squint their eyes a little bit and I can tell they're trying to take away my beard, they're trying to de-transition me in their heads." But Trystan says his ob/gyn’s office has been great—and no one has made a big deal about the fact that he’s a pregnant man.

The couple, who also share two children they adopted, has been candid about their family life: They share a website, BiffandI.com and have a corresponding Facebook page where they share updates and even joke about Trystan’s pregnancy (one video is titled “A pregnant man?! WTF?”)

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The couple recently learned that their baby, who is due in July, is a boy, which has become a joke for them. "Our baby has been diagnosed male," Trystan said. "That's my own little joke in our family—diagnosis: male."

Korin Miller Korin Miller is a freelance writer specializing in general wellness, sexual health and relationships, and lifestyle trends, with work appearing in Men’s Health, Women’s Health, Self, Glamour, and more.

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