He could come at any moment!
Amber Portwood’s second pregnancy was a shock to Teen Mom OG viewers and cast members alike. After all, it was a surprise to Amber herself! Soon after ending an unhealthy relationship with her controversial boyfriend Matt Baier, Amber met Andrew Glennon, who would become her partner and baby daddy. It wasn’t long before they announced their unexpected pregnancy, and it won’t be much longer before fans get to see the first adorable pictures of their newborn child.
Amber has revealed that her baby will be here sooner than expected. After a night in the hospital, Amber shared with fans that she has entered the early stages of labor, meaning that her child could be here any moment!
Almost Here
It’s official: Amber Portwood is going into labor for her second child. She revealed the exciting news to fans with a brief update via Twitter: “Another nocturnal night with my uncomfortable pregy belly,” she wrote. “But it’s all worth it! I’m 3cm dilated and home waiting for labor. Wonder if I’ll make it to my due date? Wish me luck loves! Goodnight.”
Amber’s baby daddy Andrew Glennon previously revealed her due date via an Instagram post. “Bomb’s Away!” read his announcement which captioned a picture of a pink horse on a rainbow rocket. “Due date: MAY 13th, Mother’s Day! One day before Amber’s actual birthday. She was born on Mother’s day 1990. The stars really aligned on this one.”
Early Labor
The stars have clearly aligned, but apparently their son couldn’t wait until May 13 to start his journey into the world. At 3cm dilated, Amber is considered to be in the early stages of labor. Luckily, Amber and Andrew have also revealed what name they picked out for their son.
"It's Andrew's father's name who passed. Andrew was very close to his father. That's the main reason he got into cinematography — his father and his grandfather," Amber explained to In Touch Weekly. "He really wanted to honor his father and I thought that was a beautiful thing. I even was thinking of putting my dad's middle name in there, but my brother is named after my dad so we just went with James Andrew Glennon. It means a lot and I love the name."
Pregnancy Complications
They even had the chance to celebrate an adorable baby shower anticipating the arrival of their baby.
Amber’s pregnancy seems to have been healthy and safe, which is a relief considering her recent pregnancy complications. Her diagnosis of gestational diabetes was revealed on Teen Mom OG. "My morning sickness has been getting worse, so I went to the doctor and found out I have gestational diabetes," Amber said in a voiceover for Teen Mom OG. In the clip, she told Andrew, "I feel like I could just like go to sleep right now. I need to eat some fruit or something. Maybe my sugar's just low."
"This pregnancy — I don't know if it's because I'm older — has definitely been a lot more rough," she added. Luckily, she has some helpful friends in her corner.
Wedding Bells?
"I'm so excited and I'm anxious. I'm nervous too because I don't have a baby boy. I don't know how to clean properly," Amber told In Touch Weekly. "I'm gonna have to call Maci [Bookout] to know what to do. God, I love Maci. That's my girl. She helped me out during pregnancy with this lemon water thing, so that helped my tummy out a little bit. She's such a sweetheart. I'm nervous about taking care of a boy and raising a boy, but I think it's gonna be so fun. I love how I'll have a little boy and a little girl now. That's just perfect to me, honestly."
Now that Amber and Andrew are parents-to-be, there’s only one question fans still have: will we be seeing another Teen Mom wedding next season? According to Amber, even she isn’t quite sure.
“[Andrew has] been asked that many times,” Amber spilled to Ok! Magazine. “I don’t think what he’s thinking and he wouldn’t tell me anyways because I’m sure he would want it to be a surprise,” she explains.
Right now, it seems the couple is focusing on themselves and their growing family. “We haven’t really been talking about [it]. “We are just living together, loving each other and waiting for this beautiful baby to come!” Amber said. “It’s up in the air, I don’t know!”
Even though Amber will have her hands full with Leah and her new son, she doesn’t seem entirely closed off to the idea of having more children with Andrew down the road. "That's life...You never know what is going to happen,” Amber said. “I'm so happy to have my boo boo, little girl and my little boy, it's perfect. I am open to anything in the future, if it happens if we decide to have another baby, we will see, but we are going to focus on little James and boo boo right now and really just be happy as a family together and build a life together."
Andrew's Criminal History
Unfortunately for Amber, her pregnancy hasn’t always been easy. Soon after she began dating Andrew Glennon, her new man’s lengthy criminal record surfaced.
Andrew has had multiple restraining orders taken out against him from women he previously dated. “In May, he showed up uninvited and after I asked him to leave he secretly let the air out of my tire till it was flat,” one of his exes wrote in a protective order filed on October 30, 2013, as reported by Radar Online. “On my birthday, [he] showed up at my work under a false name delivering flowers. Security at my work turned him away.” She went on to say that he “threw rocks at my window and smiled and laughed when he saw me look.” And this was far from Andrew’s only offense.
Another woman he dated took out a restraining order on him April 23rd, 2015 after they dated for only two months. “Since breaking up with him, I have received hundreds of emails, phone calls, text messages and Facebook messages from him harassing me,” she wrote. “He has shown up at my work, home and the bus stops I take to and from work as well.”
A Dark Place
On top of his apparent obsessive behavior towards his exes, Andrew has also had run-ins with the law for weapon possession. “Possession of a deadly weapon was committed by Andrew Glennon, who did unlawfully manufacture, cause to be manufactured, impose into the State of California, keep for sale, offer and expose for sale, and give lend, and possess an instrument and weapon of the kind commonly known as a billy,” reads a further report by Radar. Radar also reports that Andrew was arrested on March 3, 2014 when he “did willfully and unlawfully drive a vehicle while being under the influence of an alcoholic beverage.”
Andrew has since spoken out with his own take on the crimes he committed. “I have been through so much pain in my life,” he told Radar. “My father was diagnosed with prostate cancer while my mother was fighting breast cancer. I prepped myself to potentially lose both of my parents. My mother survived, but my father did not.” He explained that “Depression, drinking and throwing my heart through any open door… nearly cost my life.”
As for the restraining orders, Andrew seems to deny the validity of them. “These are out of context and there is so much more to these accusations,” he said. “I have three sisters and would never consider stalking nor harassing any women. In hindsight, I should have contested the first one ( [I] didn’t know about the second). […] I am willing to share every experience I’ve had, good and bad, because I am not the only one with a past. I would have addressed this openly on camera had I been given the opportunity.”
At the time that this information about Andrew came out in October, it seemed to put his relationship with Amber in a bad place. “This is jeopardizing our relationship, which tears my heart,” he admitted at the time. “She is still processing. Right now everything is up in the air.”
Back Off!!
Luckily, it’s obvious that she and Andrew eventually worked things out. Unfortunately, there were some rocky moments along the way. Amber was blasted early on in their relationship after she shared a picture of Andrew hanging out with her daughter Leah after they’d only been dating a short while. Fans thought she may be sending mixed messages to Leah.
“I like Amber and I said she’s come a long way,” Instagram user @giggles2laugh wrote. “But she brings men in to her daughters life seemingly quickly and to see this girl next to a man she knows less than 8 months I’m going to say. Even under a year. It’s not like they’ve been a family for a long time. I just felt uneasy that she’d put and or let her daughter be in the position/situation.” User sheenajeanbrown wrote, “It’s seriously so sad though that it seems you can’t be the mother you need to be unless you are in a relationship and ‘playing house.’”
Many other commenters wrote similar messages to Amber, and she fired back quickly — and angrily.
“Anyone with rude and obscene comments can f*ck off!!” she captioned an Instagram update of the middle finger.
“I share my life and family with you all however that doesn’t mean I need everyone’s ignorant opinions! It’s sad when my 9 year old thinks a picture is funny and cute and I can’t even post it without f*cked up comments from ignorant people. I have an amazing daughter and a loving and brilliant man. Andrew is a kind hearted loving man and takes good care of his new growing family! Send love not hate!!”
This isn’t the only rocky patch Amber went through. She and Andrew had a pretty ugly fight about their son’s nursery that was revealed on Teen Mom OG.
Getting Ugly
“I’m thirteen weeks pregnant,” Amber told a producer in an episode from last season of Teen Mom OG. “I think I’m far along enough to where I could find out what [gender] the baby is on Monday.”
“Yeah,” Andrew said, but added, “Do you want to find out?”
Amber seemed taken aback immediately. “Well, of course I do,” she said, looking offended.
“Do you want to wait just a little bit longer?” Andrew asked. “You just want the mystery gone?”
“Why do I need a mystery on a baby?!” Amber demanded. When Andrew suggested painting the nursery a neutral color like “taupe or something,” Amber rolled her eyes. “No, baby, listen,” she said. “I want to know what the baby is so I can get prepared. If it’s a boy, I’ve never had a boy.” Then she exclaimed, “I’m getting annoyed right now, I’m getting stressed out!”
Andrew suggested just getting “gender neutral stuff,” but Amber lost it. “Stop!” she said. “I’m done! I’m done!” When Andrew went on about the color, she cursed and added, “What is happening?! What is the big deal? … I’m getting p*ssed off! It’s the weirdest argument, it’s the weirdest thing!”
Andrew again insisted, “It’s called gender neutral,” but Amber yelled, “Baby, I don’t give a s**t about your hippie bulls**t right now! I’m done!” It’s not a comfortable argument to watch, but you can check out the whole thing for yourself here.
"Messy" Relationship
Their relationship has even been criticized by the professionals! After all, these two have a one-of-a-kind story of how they met. Amber explained that Andrew fell in love with her while she was filming for Marriage Boot Camp — and trying to patch things up with Matt Baier! Even the hosts of the show, Dr. Ish and Dr. Venus, have shared their thoughts about this relationship.
“The issues with [her new relationship] is the impulsivity of it,” Dr. Ish told In Touch Weekly. “You are in a program designed to get you some closure and move forward in your life, in wherever direction that takes you — but while you’re in the program, the guy you came with doesn’t work out, so you end up with another guy, and you ended up getting pregnant — it’s a mess.” He added that Amber’s “personality issue” may have contributed to her inability to be alone.
“I certainly don’t like the fact that it happened while she was there, and it speaks to me that there might be more of the same in store for her with [Andrew],” Dr. Ish went on. “The thing that’s the same in every dysfunctional relationship she’s had is her. She’s the common link. That makes me worry for her in this relationship also.”
Dr. Venus chimed in to agree, “We shouldn’t find stability in our children or in our relationships. Stability needs to come from within us.”
Amber's Defense
Luckily, someone very close to Amber is defending her choice to stay with Andrew: her brother, Shawn.
“When I said that Andrew ‘contains her’ in a sense, I mean it,” Shawn spilled to The Ashley’s Reality Roundup. “Her mood and her behavior has chilled out a lot since they’ve been together. I have never shied away from the fact that I believe she moves really quickly, but I think this is one move that she made that has benefited her health and her family situation.”
He revealed that now that Amber’s with Andrew, she’s doing very well. “I have seen her ups and her downs and I have seen her at her worst,” he said. “Because of that I can honestly say, without a doubt, that she is doing better now than she has in 15 years.”
Only time will tell how Amber and Andrew’s relationship will play out. But considering their baby will be here any day now, they’ll certainly have their hands full in the meantime!
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