“We did not go along with this.”
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After Slate mentioned that she gave birth six weeks ago, she joked that she would not choose a name for her daughter that would more accurately reflect that she was pregnant during the pandemic: ‘We had to think more about her to give something to commemorate this time in our universe. “
Slate then discussed the baby naming process, saying that she and fiancé Ben Stattuck “looked at some Eastern European names” after discovering that some of her family came from an area in Europe.
“One name we were both obsessed with was a spell,” she continued, struggling not to laugh. “And while I was pregnant, we just kept calling her Bagrat, which I certainly am not … how to pronounce it.”
Slate also became aware of birth during the pandemic, which she defined as “a very important time to have a baby now”. Luckily, Stattuck was able to accompany her into the delivery room.
“We had everything going on, and that’s good, because I made a lot of faces that I might not want him to remember.”
Slate described the birth experience as’ an extreme experience in which I lost any filter I’ve had left. After I had the baby … I was just like, ‘Did my vagina tear in half? is it another vagina, or is it not? ‘
Congratulations to the new parents!
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