Colton Underwood Gives an Exclusive Look Inside His ‘Not Traditional’ Nursery Ahead of Baby Son’s Arrival

Colton Underwood and husband Jordan C. Brown are inching closer to meeting their baby boy.

The couple, who wed in 2023, are expecting their first baby together via surrogate in early October, and Underwood teamed up with Babylist to help get their son’s space ready for his arrival.

“We’re going with not your traditional [nursery], so we’re going with some greens, some yellows, some reds, which I know people might not think is going to work, but we’re really excited,” Underwood, 32, tells PEOPLE exclusively.

The Daddyhood podcast host and his political strategist husband worked with designer Chad Wood for the special space, and one of Underwood’s favorite elements is the “canopy” over the crib that he says “really ties into [our] house.”

The crib, in particular, is an extra special addition to the nursery as Underwood and Brown built the piece of furniture from Nestig together.

“All of these little moments just mean so much to us because we don’t physically get to be along with the entire ride. We’re not with our surrogate every single day,” says Underwood. “So little things, as far as picking paint colors out and leaning into how we want this room to feel when we enter, where do we want to sit, where do we want the nursing chair to be when we want to hold him and feed him, it just adds more weight into those decisions.”

To help him keep track of everything he’d need to make the room really feel like a sanctuary for the new family, Underwood relied on Babylist’s app feature.

“I was overwhelmed. Once you start looking at baby products, there’s so many different brands, so many different types of things. And on the app, there’s a checklist. Here’s what you have out of that category, here’s what you’re missing. And it was just so helpful for new parents and people who are sort of intimidated,” he says.

The Bachelor alum says he’s most excited for “bonding” with his baby in the nursery space, doing everything from “holding him and feeding him” to “changing him and wrapping him.”

In fact, the baby will be swaddled in the very same blanket Underwood had a child, too.

“I still have my same blanket that I went home from the hospital in, so I’ve kept it with me this entire time,” says Underwood of preparing for this moment. “Wrapping him in that and just loving on him and showing him the world, and being able to watch Jordan hold and feed him and having late nights and early mornings and all of the things that come with being a dad is what I’m looking forward to.”

In February, Underwood opened up to PEOPLE about his path to fatherhood, sharing that he was chronicling his journey to become a parent on a new podcast, Daddyhood.

At the time, Underwood shared that he and Brown had embryos made and frozen and were currently undergoing testing with their surrogate, whose identity they are keeping private. 

“I think outside of the LGBTQ+ matters — the obvious discrimination and what’s at stake for us — straight couples too, need to stop putting the blame on the women. I think that’s one thing that I could at least say, from two men going through this, is I’ve had some fertility issues and struggles, and I don’t think a lot of men openly talk about that,” Underwood shared.

“I mean right away, my husband gets his results back for his sperm count and he had incredible, great numbers, and I got mine back and all my sperm was dead. And I think immediately I was just like, ‘Oh, what does this mean? It means I’m sterile and can’t have kids now.’ And it was not a great feeling,” he added.

While Underwood was able to increase his sperm count to a healthy level, he and Brown decided as a couple that they wouldn’t find out whose sperm was used to conceive their son.

“They’re ours is the approach we’re taking. We’re staying away from biological, this one’s mine, this one’s yours, we’re not doing that,” he told PEOPLE. “It’s our family that we’re creating and we just really are leaning into just health. Hopefully we have a healthy child.”