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Hayden Cruise Haibon · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast
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  Speaker 1: with on our radio.
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  Speaker 2: Hey everybody, this is the Almost Famous podcast. And this
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  Speaker 2: is an episode that just warms my heart, makes me excited,
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  Speaker 2: makes me happy. It's a weird episode because when Almost
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  Speaker 2: Famous started, you had two people in their twenties calling
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  Speaker 2: each other on the phone, recording a show talking about
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  Speaker 2: the Bachelor Bachelor at Bachelor in Paradise, not knowing what
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  Speaker 2: in the world life would bring, and through ups and downs.
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  Speaker 2: Now we're here today to celebrate Ashley and Jared as
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  Speaker 2: they welcome their second child into the world. Ashley, welcome back.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. I feel great, I feel refreshed. I feel
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  Speaker 3: like I can talk to you and breathe, which is
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  Speaker 3: really awesome.
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  Speaker 2: How quickly, so some of these are going to be
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  Speaker 2: very naive questions about.
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  Speaker 3: I love naive questions though.
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  Speaker 2: How quickly did you do you start to feel, what
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  Speaker 2: would do what you would consider like normal or back
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  Speaker 2: to self again?
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  Speaker 3: Staneously? No, I know I'm not like, I'm probably not
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  Speaker 3: the norm when I say that, just because I don't
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  Speaker 3: like pregnancy, you know, like I don't like the physical
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  Speaker 3: feeling of pregnancy. So as soon as the kid comes out,
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  Speaker 3: like I feel physically so much relief. And this time,
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  Speaker 3: especially with the second there's a lot less healing, and
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  Speaker 3: I just like was up and at it. Like the
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  Speaker 3: next day.
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  Speaker 2: You kind of mentioned before that you had been told
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  Speaker 2: that the second time around was going to be so
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  Speaker 2: much easier giving birth. You know, typically not everybody has
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  Speaker 2: that experience. I understand that, but for the expectation from
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  Speaker 2: the doctors was the second time around giving birth was
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  Speaker 2: going to be so much easier than the first. Did
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  Speaker 2: that end up being true?
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  Speaker 3: It was so easy. I actually feel almost guilty talking
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  Speaker 3: about it. Like Jared was like, let's just kind of
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  Speaker 3: keep the ease of this private, okay.
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  Speaker 2: It was like, I mean, but we got to celebrate,
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  Speaker 2: you know, not again, not everybody has that story, but
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  Speaker 2: we got to celebrate people's successes. And that's a succes.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's a big thing that we want to say. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: I'm happy for you that that was your experience.
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  Speaker 3: Everyone deserves what I went through with this delivery. It
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  Speaker 3: was awesome. I thought that Dawson's delivery was relatively you know,
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't call it easy, but it wasn't like traumatic
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  Speaker 3: at all. Like I went into like the delivery month
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  Speaker 3: with Hayden being like, oh, I'm not really scared of delivering,
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  Speaker 3: because you know, with Dawson it was like eh, I
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  Speaker 3: mean like I'm not looking forward to doing that again.
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  Speaker 3: But it wasn't like awful, and this was just like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I liked an induction with an epidural before I filled
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  Speaker 3: into contractions, like truly, it didn't feel pain. It was
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  Speaker 3: like despression was awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. Okay. So there's a couple of ways, because there's
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  Speaker 2: so much to talk about. There's a couple of things
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  Speaker 2: I think too, because I like to organize how I
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  Speaker 2: want to go through this. Let's start with kind of
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  Speaker 2: an open ended question for you and to tell our
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  Speaker 2: audience and myself because I haven't heard any of this yet,
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  Speaker 2: walk us through that day, that experience leading up to
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  Speaker 2: the delivery of Hayden.
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  Speaker 3: So I knew from I knew well. I had an
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  Speaker 3: appointment to be induced at thirty nine weeks and that
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  Speaker 3: was really it was like nothing medical. It's just that
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  Speaker 3: like my OBI practice is kind of like if you
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  Speaker 3: want to be induced at thirty nine weeks, we like
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  Speaker 3: it because, like you know, it's a practice of a
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  Speaker 3: number of doctors and they're like, we can be there
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  Speaker 3: on the date. You know, your doctor can be there
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  Speaker 3: on the date of your delivery. And like, I'm really
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  Speaker 3: close to my midwife now and she's like the midwife
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  Speaker 3: of the practice, and she's like, we can both be
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  Speaker 3: there and it'll be just like kind of calm and
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  Speaker 3: you know, just we'll give you an epidural before we
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  Speaker 3: put potocin in and you'll barely really you don't really
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  Speaker 3: have to feel the contractions. So I didn't even think
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  Speaker 3: I was going to get to thirty nine weeks, like,
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  Speaker 3: because Dawson was ten days early, and I just kind
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  Speaker 3: of figure like, oh, if your first is ten days early,
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  Speaker 3: you'll probably early be early for the second. But he
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  Speaker 3: didn't come within a week of the due dates. So
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  Speaker 3: we just kind of strolled into the hospital at their
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  Speaker 3: early six am on Monday, two weeks ago from today's recording,
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  Speaker 3: and that it was just like Jared was like it
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  Speaker 3: was like a doctor's appointment, and then so he went
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  Speaker 3: in at six am and then he was out at
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  Speaker 3: two thirty.
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  Speaker 2: And then you spent do you stay the night in
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  Speaker 2: the hospital.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so you have to stay for twenty four hours
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  Speaker 3: after the baby's born.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, what was it like for the two of you.
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  Speaker 2: I've always been told that the birth of a child
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  Speaker 2: is unlike any emotional experience that you can have when
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  Speaker 2: it comes to looking at your baby for the first time.
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  Speaker 2: Was there anything different seeing your second child born than
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  Speaker 2: your first? Were the feelings the same kind of walk
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  Speaker 2: us through the emotional journey? Then once Hayden was delivered.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Jared and I are both like on the same
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  Speaker 3: page where it's like when the baby actually comes out,
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  Speaker 3: we're like not like completely overwhelmed with emotion like some
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  Speaker 3: people like his mom is like I saw heaven when
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  Speaker 3: Jared came out, and Jared and I both like, yeah right,
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  Speaker 3: Jared and I both feel like our love grows for
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  Speaker 3: the child, like you know, well every single day actually,
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  Speaker 3: but we in that moment, it's when you it's the
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  Speaker 3: slimy kids pulled out, and it's I don't, I don't
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  Speaker 3: have this overwhelming sense of love produce both of us
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  Speaker 3: straightforward to that. But like once you have hours to
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  Speaker 3: like hold the baby in your arms, that's when it
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  Speaker 3: gets more emotional. And I feel like with the second
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  Speaker 3: we were just more comfortable. I was more comfortable with everything,
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  Speaker 3: Like when Dawson came out, it was like, oh my god,
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  Speaker 3: this a human just came out of my body and like,
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  Speaker 3: I what. And then with Hayden, it was more like
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  Speaker 3: they pulled him out and they gave him to me,
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  Speaker 3: and I just felt like so much more comfortable with
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  Speaker 3: him in my arms, and I was like, I know
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  Speaker 3: what to do with you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, You're like you're you're in it because you confident.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, it's you. Remember when you had Dawson. We
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  Speaker 2: were doing the talk afterwards similar to this one, and
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  Speaker 2: you said you don't remember life before Dawson, like, like
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  Speaker 2: life before kind of is this blur now, like you
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  Speaker 2: can remember it, but there's there's so much now new
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  Speaker 2: in the world that, like Dawson has now feels like
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  Speaker 2: it's been a part of your life. He's been a
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  Speaker 2: part of your life forever. Is it the same feeling
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  Speaker 2: with Hayden, Like, now you're two weeks in, does life
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  Speaker 2: feel that much different?
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  Speaker 3: Uh? Okay, So I think that I don't know how
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  Speaker 3: life is going to feel once, Like we're away from
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  Speaker 3: our village, so we're going back to Rhode Island and
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  Speaker 3: it'll just be like the four of us for the
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  Speaker 3: first time. This coming Friday. So I think we're a
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  Speaker 3: little apprehensive about that because it's just gonna be like, wow,
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  Speaker 3: like it's just the two of us and we have
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  Speaker 3: two kids to you know, keep alive. But as like
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  Speaker 3: to answer your what I mean, what I think you
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  Speaker 3: mean by your question, Yeah, I think I have more
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  Speaker 3: of like a memory of what it feels like to
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  Speaker 3: not have hidden because you're like, oh, wow, we just
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  Speaker 3: had to take care of one kid beforehand. That was
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  Speaker 3: kind of easy.
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  Speaker 2: Like what did we ever complain about it feel like
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  Speaker 2: in comparison just having Dawson.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but also because like my body is back to
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  Speaker 3: feeling itself, so like I can run around with him
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  Speaker 3: like I can. I'm not supposed to really lift him,
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  Speaker 3: but like you know, I'm living. I would be go
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  Speaker 3: out with him and feel like capable of caring for
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  Speaker 3: him totally. And now I'm like, oh, you know, it's
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  Speaker 3: easy taking care of a two and a half year old.
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  Speaker 3: So I think that's like the biggest difference is realizing
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  Speaker 3: just like the the load that we now have.
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  Speaker 2: But right now you do have a village around you,
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  Speaker 2: so you have a lot of help. You have multiple
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  Speaker 2: eyes and hands at all times, but has it been
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  Speaker 2: more difficult, even in two weeks having two children.
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  Speaker 3: Probably just because the sleep thing. I mean, he has
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  Speaker 3: been waking up every two hours. Yesterday I got a
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  Speaker 3: stretch of two and a half hours, and I woke
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  Speaker 3: up and I was like, okay, yeah, so I could tell.
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  Speaker 3: I could tell immediately it had been more than two hours.
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  Speaker 3: Look at the clock. Two and a half hours? Big whoopee?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? How much? Like how long will this last?
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  Speaker 3: How long will this sleep last? Who knows? Uh. That's
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  Speaker 3: what's weird is that you kind of forget certain things
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  Speaker 3: about the first time, even though it was two and
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  Speaker 3: a half years ago. I feel like Hayden might be
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  Speaker 3: a little fussier than Dawson was as a newborn. Dawson
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  Speaker 3: was extremely fussy as a baby, you know, when we
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  Speaker 3: got out of like the three month phase and then
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  Speaker 3: on and I was like, this kid is so hard,
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  Speaker 3: so they may swap. Who knows. He's just been hungrier
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  Speaker 3: than Dawson. And all I remember is that Dawson like
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  Speaker 3: slept three to four hour stretches pretty early on, I
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  Speaker 3: want to say, like within the second probably like in
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  Speaker 3: his third week. So your fingers crossed. I think there's
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  Speaker 3: a big difference between getting three straight hours and two,
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  Speaker 3: because two is like did I did I sleep? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: You like as soon as your eyes closed and you
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  Speaker 2: like get in a rim sleep, then you're wide awake again.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: How did you come up with Hayden? Where did that
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  Speaker 2: come from?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so it was a name on our list for
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  Speaker 3: a while. I did an Instagram poll at like seven
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  Speaker 3: months pregnant. It's like, guys, is it ridiculous if I do?
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  Speaker 3: If we do Hayden Hayben because we both like Hayden
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  Speaker 3: was like one of the few names that Jared and
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  Speaker 3: I agreed on, and but then we put it with
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  Speaker 3: the last name. We're like, is this so silly? And
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  Speaker 3: then but it's kind of cool. It's either like such
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  Speaker 3: a cool name or it's so silly. Oh you think
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  Speaker 3: it's cool.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's great. I think it's oh thank you. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So well, I've only I've known of it from like
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  Speaker 3: kids in school and stuff, but Jared has only known
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  Speaker 3: of it from Hayden Christensen. And we've always joked that
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  Speaker 3: like Jared would name like we would name the kid Anakin,
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  Speaker 3: because I think Anakin is kind of a cool name,
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  Speaker 3: but like we would never actually do it, but it's
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  Speaker 3: kind of cool at the same time. And uh so
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  Speaker 3: when we were joking about Anakin, Jared was like, well,
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  Speaker 3: Hayden Christiansen like Hayden, and I was like, well, I
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  Speaker 3: do like Hayden, So it's not after Hayten Christiensen, but
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  Speaker 3: like it's sort of like inspired by. And then we
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  Speaker 3: didn't have it really picked out until we were sitting
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  Speaker 3: in the hospital room the day after or I guess
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  Speaker 3: this was the night that he was born, and I
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  Speaker 3: said to Jared, I was like, so, what name on
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  Speaker 3: like our short list is your favorite? And he was
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  Speaker 3: like Hayden and I was like, I think that one's
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  Speaker 3: my favorite too. So then we're like, all right, screw
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  Speaker 3: the illiteration, screw the fact that there's an alliteration and
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  Speaker 3: people may make fun of it, but we like it.
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  Speaker 2: So this was like, right up until delivery time, you
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  Speaker 2: hadn't really decided.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, because first it was going to be Dominic, which
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  Speaker 3: was after my dad and my grandfather and my grandpa.
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  Speaker 3: But like, it's weird, why wouldn't you just go with
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  Speaker 3: the family name. Well, because I kept saying, how many
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  Speaker 3: how can I say Dominic, Dominic, Dominic, Dominic, Doug Dominic
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  Speaker 3: all day long, you know what I mean. And my
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  Speaker 3: dad has always gone by Jay, and whenever I would
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  Speaker 3: say his name's gonna be Dominic, my dad felt no
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  Speaker 3: emotion towards that. I was like, Dad, do you even
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  Speaker 3: do you care? Do you like that? And He's like,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I never had done with Dominica's have
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  Speaker 3: always been j And then and my dad liked Hayden more.
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  Speaker 3: And so then with my dad's neutrality on that and
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  Speaker 3: then me just staying it over and over and over again,
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  Speaker 3: I was like, Okay, so maybe it's not going to
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  Speaker 3: be Dominic. And then we were like kind of thinking
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  Speaker 3: it was going to be Dmitri, which is Dawson's middle name,
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  Speaker 3: because it was like our second favorite name. Which my
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  Speaker 3: advice to everybody out there, like I've said before, don't
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  Speaker 3: name your first kid's middle name your second favorite name,
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  Speaker 3: because then you won't be able to use it if
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  Speaker 3: you have this same sex again, even though I think
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  Speaker 3: I think I like Hayden more than Demitri, you know.
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  Speaker 3: And then we went with Hayden.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so Hayden is then born. Hayden was the
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  Speaker 2: name chosen kind of right up until the end and
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  Speaker 2: then Dawson and the video is so sweet gets to
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  Speaker 2: meet Hayden. What has the big brother reaction been like
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  Speaker 2: so far?
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  Speaker 3: Definitely the best part. My favorite part by far as
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  Speaker 3: see has been seeing Dawson interact with Hayden. He immediately
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  Speaker 3: kind of like understood. I thought I wasn't sure whether
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  Speaker 3: he understood like little brother coming, and but he seemed
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  Speaker 3: to get it. And he has been nothing but sweet,
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  Speaker 3: like no jealousy, just so much interest, so much affection
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  Speaker 3: toward him without even being prompted. He'll say, like, night night, baby,
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  Speaker 3: I love you. It's so special. And then in the
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  Speaker 3: morning he'll come into my room and he'll like look
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  Speaker 3: in the snow, and if Hayden's not in the snow,
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  Speaker 3: he's like, where's baby, And like he now knows that
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  Speaker 3: like morning time is time to like snuggle with Hayden.
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  Speaker 3: The thing that the only thing to worry about is
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  Speaker 3: that like he wants to like just give him like
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  Speaker 3: a bear hug and like throw all of his weight
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  Speaker 3: on him. Besides that, it's just been so sweet and
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  Speaker 3: he like pets his head is very adorable.
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  Speaker 2: It has that been the most emotional part, Like just
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  Speaker 2: watching him kind of adapt and react.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yesay, And I feel like Dawson has also grown
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  Speaker 3: up so much in I don't know. I was just
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  Speaker 3: the age that he's at at two and a half,
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  Speaker 3: or it has to do with another kid being here,
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  Speaker 3: but he just seems to have like really flourished the
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  Speaker 3: past few weeks. And that's been emotional.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's awesome. Well he's stepping up, he's maturing. He
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  Speaker 2: knows mom and Dad need a little help and he's
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  Speaker 2: there to give it. I I mean, obviously Dawson has
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  Speaker 2: been such a fun and cue and such a good
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  Speaker 2: looking baby. Is there similarities now when you look at
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  Speaker 2: them as newborns, like, do you think they're going to
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  Speaker 2: look alike?
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  Speaker 3: I think so. That was like one of the first
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  Speaker 3: things that I said when he came out. I was like,
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  Speaker 3: oh my god, thank god he looks like Dawson, because
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  Speaker 3: I don't want, you know, I want them to look
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  Speaker 3: similar because you know, the obvious Dawson's is so f cute.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, he looks like he's like the darker version
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  Speaker 3: of him. I don't think he's gonna have blue eyes.
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  Speaker 3: It's hard to tell with newborns, but they it seems
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  Speaker 3: to be dark now and dark hair, but they have
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  Speaker 3: very similar features, so I think that's kind of cute.
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  Speaker 3: The ones lighter one's darker.
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  Speaker 2: Well, before we kind of get into this next stage,
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  Speaker 2: questions about what your dreams are, what kind of products
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  Speaker 2: have come on in the last two and a half
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  Speaker 2: years that maybe you would give advice to any listeners on.
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  Speaker 2: Has there any been anything we've missed that you really
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  Speaker 2: wanted to talk about when it comes to bringing Hayden
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  Speaker 2: to the world.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe just that, like Jared is so good with newborns,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm truly like a little jealous, like he's I
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  Speaker 3: feel like with the newborns, he's just like a better
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  Speaker 3: parent than me.
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  Speaker 2: He's just just crushing her right now. And he's around still,
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  Speaker 2: he's still there with you, Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Off the record, he had to go for the weekend,
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  Speaker 3: but that's why, Yeah, he's so comfortable with them. I
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  Speaker 3: feel like I might break them to like a certain point,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and he just when it comes to just
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  Speaker 3: loving on them and just caring for them, there's something
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  Speaker 3: that just comes so much more naturally to Jared when
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  Speaker 3: they hit a certain point, Like I feel like I
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  Speaker 3: totally I click, you know, like it I think what's
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  Speaker 3: nice to me and Jared is that like we each
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  Speaker 3: have like our phases where we thrive, ages and stages
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  Speaker 3: and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: So he loves a newborn.
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  Speaker 3: He's so he's just so good with them. And I
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  Speaker 3: think he says it it's because like he had experience
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  Speaker 3: when volunteering at the hospital and he would be with
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  Speaker 3: little babies and like the nursery and stuff. I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: that could be it, I guess, but I just I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I've never other than our kids, like I don't ever
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  Speaker 3: interact with neighbors.
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  Speaker 2: I can't. I can't really say that. It's happened to
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  Speaker 2: me many times in my life.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're just at the first couple of weeks, they
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  Speaker 3: just seem I'm so fragile, and I'm like, I feel
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  Speaker 3: like changing your diaper is just like I can break you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, scary. Yeah, We'll keep getting updates. Right, you're two
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  Speaker 2: weeks out, you're fresh, You're you're in survival mode, but
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  Speaker 2: you are thriving. So two and a half years since
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: you had Dawson. Well, is there anything new out there
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  Speaker 2: or anything you've learned about this process that for anybody
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: listening who's maybe on their way to have a baby
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: that you would recommend, that you've learned.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: That I've learned like products to deal.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: Oh, I mean yeah everything.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: So I mean my thing that I posted on Instagram
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: yesterday is that you know, we're formula fitting again, and
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: for me, I think it's really good. I just thrive,
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: have my body back to being my own. But we
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: have this thing called the baby. I think the pronounced Bariza,
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: even though I call it Bariza, So it's like a
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: curing for formula. And with Dawson, we kept it in
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: the kitchen. I don't know, you just think like, oh,
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: you make bottles in the kitchen. Well, what's really smart
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: is that if you bring it up to your night
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: stand at night and you line it up with like
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: six clean balls and you don't have to get out
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: of bed when the kid wakes up and it's hungry.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: So I stay in bed all night long.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: And that's been helpful.
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: Yes, it's been very good. And what's interesting is that
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: like what one kid likes, the other one may not.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: Dawson loved his swings, his Mama Roo, the greyco Swing,
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: and then Hayden likes his little vibrating chair.
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: So anything else like yeah, this time I've also like
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: kept like a basket of like all the necessities like
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: by our side, like diapers, wipes, bottles, and I always
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: have it like near us and it can go up and.
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: Down the stairs. And then I would just say overall,
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: I think I've said this before on the podcast, but
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: like just don't worry so much about like preparing, because
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: you will figure it out and it will come to
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: you regular, relatively naturally. Just the whole baby thing. You know,
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: it's just like at first they eat, they sleep, you
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: have to burp them. Burping is probably burping is you
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: know early on burping is kind of a challenge. It's
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: something you forget about because you feel like if they
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: eat and then they don't burp, but you didn't do
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: something right. But that's like kind of what it is
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: at first, so and then like it and then it
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: just grows into something else. But everything is so gradual
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: that you don't even see it in front of your eyes.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: And then all of a sudden they're two and a
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: half and you're like, how did you get to be
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: so independent? You can't figure it out? What it's that gradual?
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: So great, Well, we all here have been anxiously awaiting
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: your return, to hear about the experience, to hear about Hayden,
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: and kind of do this introduction into the world. We
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: can't wait to hear all the stories that are going
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: to come from raising Dawson and Hayden over the next
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: many many years. But for now, well done, good job.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: Tell Jared's the same thing. Keep crushing it, and we're
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: happy you're back.
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: Thank you. I'm so I'm happy to be back. I'm
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: happy to feel good, so fortunate to feel just like
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: kind of ready to go back to regular life. And yeah,
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: he's a cute little baby boy. He's so sweet. I
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: can't wait for you to meet him.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: I can't wait either. It's going to happen soon. Well
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: until next time, which this week, we are going to
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: have a lot of next times. We have a lot
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: of content coming your way. But Ashley is ba act
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: with us. Rachel did a tremendous job. While she.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: Did a great job, she did so well.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: But we did miss you, and so until next time.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: I've been Ben Nationally.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: Bye.
• 21:16
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