Reality TV couple Trista and Ryan Sutter, who told PEOPLE Friday that their new baby is due in April, say that this time around, the pregnancy experience has been different.

“This was totally a surprise,” says Trista, who gave birth to son Maxwell 'Max' Alston in July of last year after struggling publicly with infertility (the couple eventually used a OV Watch to predict their fertility). “We weren’t trying, necessarily, but we weren’t preventing. I honestly just remembered I hadn’t had my cycle in a while, and I thought, ‘hmmm.’ That’s a quite a contrast to the first time, because basically I was taking pregnancy tests throughout the month thinking, ‘Let’s cross our fingers.’

“It was a shock,” she adds. “Last time, we waited for so long, and it was so anticipated, and I just cried and cried and cried when I found out. But this time, it was more like, ‘Oh my gosh, this is amazing, and we feel so blessed.’”
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