“We didn’t go with that.”
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After mentioning that she gave birth six weeks ago, Slate joked about not choosing a name for his daughter that more accurately reflected being pregnant during the pandemic: “We should have thought more about giving her something to celebrate this distinct moment in our universe . “
Slate then went on to discuss the process of naming babies, saying that she and fiancé Ben Stattuck were “looking at some Eastern European names” after discovering that some of her family came from a region of Europe.
“One name we were obsessed with was bagrat,” she continued, struggling not to laugh. “And while I was pregnant, we just called her Bagrat, which I’m sure is not … how to pronounce that.”
Slate was also real about childbirth during the pandemic, which she defined as “a very important time to have a baby now”. Fortunately, Stattuck was able to accompany her into the delivery room.
“We were wearing our masks and everything, and that’s a good thing, because I was making a lot of faces that I might not want him to remember.”
Slate described the experience of giving birth as “A totally extreme experience, in which I lost any filter that was left over. After I had the baby … I thought, ‘My vagina broke in half? Is it a vagina yet, or not is? ‘”
Congratulations to the new parents!
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