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Cloth Nappies for Triplets!? · Outspoken the Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to the Mums Group that you actually
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  Speaker 1: want to be a part of. Today, we're delving into
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  Speaker 1: part two of our interview with our mum, Linda. Now,
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  Speaker 1: for those who haven't heard part one, I would highly recommend.
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  Speaker 2: Going and listening to that.
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  Speaker 1: We will put the link down in the show notes
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  Speaker 1: to that episode.
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  Speaker 2: And thank you to everyone for the really lovely feedback.
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  Speaker 1: Someone said it was their favourite Mums Group episode yet,
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  Speaker 1: so mum was.
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  Speaker 3: Very pleased to hear that news.
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  Speaker 1: And if there is anyone else that you would like
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  Speaker 1: us to get on the podcast, please let us know,
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  Speaker 1: DM us. I've heard some whispers that potentially people want.
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  Speaker 2: Our husbands on.
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  Speaker 1: I think that might take some convincing, but I think
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  Speaker 1: it would definitely be a fun episode.
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  Speaker 2: Now let's get into part two with our mum.
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  Speaker 4: Moving away from the.
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  Speaker 1: Newborn stage, I want to ask you about triplet dynamics.
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  Speaker 1: When did you start to notice our personalities coming out?
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  Speaker 5: Look, it's a long time ago, but I would probably
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  Speaker 5: say about one-ish is when you started to show preferences for,
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  Speaker 5: you know, what sort of activities you wanted to do.
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  Speaker 1: Because a lot of people just assume that if you
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  Speaker 1: have identical triplets, they've got, you know, they look identical,
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  Speaker 1: they like identical things.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely not. As you would all know, Kate and Sophie
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  Speaker 5: shared a room for a very long time. I think
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  Speaker 5: we were 24. 24 and they used to play, not,
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  Speaker 5: you didn't play Barbies at 24, but when you were little,
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  Speaker 5: you'd play Barbies and maybe Amy might come in with
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  Speaker 5: her Ken doll, but she was more interested in kicking
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  Speaker 5: a footy outside or hitting a cricket ball. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: you were all sporty, but Amy was particularly sporty and
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  Speaker 5: you two girls would be sitting, maybe playing dolls or
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  Speaker 5: doing some sort of quieter activity.
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  Speaker 3: Cutting my own hair.
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  Speaker 1: I remember actually dad did an Ashes series and he
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  Speaker 1: and I played against each other and you guys came
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  Speaker 1: out and made the refreshments.
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  Speaker 3: Remember that? I remember.
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  Speaker 1: It was in the backyard, but at Galwa I used
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  Speaker 1: to go fishing with dad and you guys, it would
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  Speaker 1: be a you guys would plait each other's hair or
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  Speaker 1: you'd braid all of Kate and Soph's hair? Or when
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  Speaker 1: like we would, you guys would rotate your tickets to
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  Speaker 1: the Crows games and you would, it would be someone's
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  Speaker 1: turn to go. Like we take it in turns and
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  Speaker 1: it would be like, would you rather go to the
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  Speaker 1: football or have a happy meal?
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  Speaker 3: I remember always being like, yeah, happy meal.
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  Speaker 1: I reckon. Did you ever feel guilt for not being
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  Speaker 1: able to give us that one-on-one time?
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  Speaker 5: Actually, I don't. I remember I made a concerted effort
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  Speaker 5: to take you out individually to go and buy your
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  Speaker 5: birthday presents and your Christmas presents and we'd go and
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  Speaker 5: have a, Happy meal at McDonald's. But it was really
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  Speaker 5: interesting because most of the times all you wanted to
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  Speaker 5: do after you'd done your shopping and had your meal
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  Speaker 5: was go home and see your sisters. What are they
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  Speaker 5: up to? What am I missing out there? So you
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  Speaker 5: were really a team, although I never dressed you the same,
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  Speaker 5: tried to ensure people treated you as individuals.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, you hated when we were called the triplets.
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  Speaker 5: Hate that, hate that with a passion.
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  Speaker 1: One thing that I have noticed as I've got older
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  Speaker 1: and that I've reflected on is that I'm not a
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  Speaker 1: very independent person.
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  Speaker 3: And I, as maybe the youngest triplet, would always sit back.
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  Speaker 1: Like even if we go to a restaurant now with
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  Speaker 1: our best friend, I'll always wait for Kate to order
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  Speaker 1: for the three of us.
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  Speaker 3: And then you'll generally have the, like, you know, we'll
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  Speaker 3: order something to share or whatever. No, you copy my order.
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  Speaker 3: Or yeah, or I'll copy. I just, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I'll just get whatever she's having.
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  Speaker 1: And I've always wondered if I wasn't a triplet, would
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  Speaker 1: I be a bit more outgoing or like how much
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  Speaker 1: that shaped my personality?
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  Speaker 5: I think it probably has shaped it a lot because
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  Speaker 5: one thing I will say about having triplets is you
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  Speaker 5: just certainly know how to share. And you are considerate
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  Speaker 5: of each other's feelings most of the time.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, God, that's generous.
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  Speaker 5: And, you know, you're not always thinking of yourselves. There
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  Speaker 5: are ramifications of something that you do. You do think
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  Speaker 5: of your sisters.
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  Speaker 1: I want to know who was the hardest and easiest
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  Speaker 1: triplet to take care of?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, goodness. Maybe we should get Dad answering that one.
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  Speaker 3: I already know what his.
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  Speaker 5: Answer would have been. No, you all had your– sometimes
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  Speaker 5: you were tricky and sometimes you weren't.
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  Speaker 1: What about in adolescent years? I could tell by mum's face, though,
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  Speaker 1: that there was someone that was a bit tricky.
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  Speaker 3: No, truly not.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely not.
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  Speaker 1: See, I feel like Amy was a bit tricky, I reckon,
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  Speaker 1: as soon as you got to eight, nine, ten.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like you were a bit rebellious.
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  Speaker 4: There was one Canberra trip, I think, where I was
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  Speaker 4: a bit naughty.
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  Speaker 3: Remember, there was a vision of... That was really nothing.
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  Speaker 3: You more so butt heads with dad, I think.
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  Speaker 5: More than me.
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  Speaker 3: Whereas, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Let's move on.
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  Speaker 3: Well, can you tell us who was the ringleader?
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  Speaker 5: Well, the advertiser came to our place... when you when
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  Speaker 5: you turned one and as the Adam reporter was leaving
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  Speaker 5: she just asked me off the top of my head
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  Speaker 5: who were what were your personalities like and I said
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  Speaker 5: Kate you are the boss that.
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  Speaker 3: Is true or was it bossy or the boss.
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  Speaker 1: I can't remember well it was quoted as bossy which
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  Speaker 1: has stuck by me but I like the boss the.
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  Speaker 5: Boss and Sophie was placid and Amy what did I
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  Speaker 5: say about you's gentle and Yeah. So it's actually a.
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  Speaker 1: Good way to describe our three boys, though, if you
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  Speaker 1: think about it. Jack's the boss because he's the eldest.
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  Speaker 1: And I would say that Luke is very placid and
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  Speaker 1: Harry's a gentle giant.
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  Speaker 3: So it's kind of funny, isn't it?
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  Speaker 5: There we go.
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  Speaker 4: How did you deal with fairness as we got older?
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  Speaker 1: Because I've just got this flashback to when we used
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  Speaker 1: to play netball and you were the coach and it
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  Speaker 1: was your job to decide who got the award, remember?
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  Speaker 4: And having three kids.
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  Speaker 5: That was very tricky. In fact, I think I think
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  Speaker 5: there was another lady that had some input as well.
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  Speaker 5: So it wasn't only me, but it was very, very tricky.
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  Speaker 1: You ended up getting the umpires to decide and give
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  Speaker 1: their vote to you each week.
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  Speaker 5: And that's how I did it. And I just didn't
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  Speaker 5: want to do that because that would just seem to
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  Speaker 5: be favouritism if one of you won some award.
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  Speaker 3: You've always tried to be very fair.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, even now for our birthday messages on social media,
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  Speaker 1: you will write the exact same message to each of
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  Speaker 1: us because you don't want to be perceived as, Favouring
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  Speaker 1: one over the other.
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  Speaker 5: And everyone gets exactly the same amount of money to
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  Speaker 5: the cent. So if you get something that's not worth
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  Speaker 5: as much money, so if you still get $ 10 in
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  Speaker 5: a card, you've just got to be fair.
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  Speaker 1: I know you said that you were too tired to
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  Speaker 1: feel an impact to your identity. Like you were obviously
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  Speaker 1: in survival mode. But I feel like a big deal
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  Speaker 1: for you, and I'm actually so proud of it now
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  Speaker 1: looking back, was the fact that when we were eight
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  Speaker 1: or nine years old, you went back to university to
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  Speaker 1: become a teacher.
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  Speaker 2: What was that like?
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  Speaker 5: I think I always wanted to be a teacher and
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  Speaker 5: I think I got talked out of it and was
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  Speaker 5: suggested to do dental therapy because it was a two-year
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  Speaker 5: course and there was a teaching component in it and
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  Speaker 5: you're working with children. But also you got a scholarship
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  Speaker 5: back then, you got some money to do it and
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  Speaker 5: they assured you of a job. And I think back
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  Speaker 5: in those days people thought, oh, women just had children
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  Speaker 5: and stayed at home forever. So I was pushed into it,
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  Speaker 5: I think, a little bit. So when you were eight,
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  Speaker 5: I was I still did dental therapy for a couple
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  Speaker 5: of days a week and did university. I did my
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  Speaker 5: teaching degree over part-time over five years and loved every
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  Speaker 5: minute of it.
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  Speaker 1: After sacrificing so much for us, was that kind of
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  Speaker 1: a pivotal point where you finally were doing something for
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  Speaker 1: yourself that you were really passionate about that you wanted
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  Speaker 1: to do?
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  Speaker 5: I think so. I think I'd always wanted to be
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  Speaker 5: a teacher and I think if I hadn't done it,
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  Speaker 5: I would have been disappointed. in myself for not actually
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  Speaker 5: pushing myself to do it.
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  Speaker 1: I think going and seeing you pursue your career has
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  Speaker 1: always made, I think, the three of us think, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it was really important to choose a job that you
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  Speaker 1: love and that the sky's the limit. You should always
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  Speaker 1: be pushing yourself to do more. Was it interesting for
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  Speaker 1: you to go and see us all study the.
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  Speaker 3: Same thing and be really passionate about journalism?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I loved it. You did the same thing. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: people say, oh, they're doing the same thing. I'm thinking, well,
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  Speaker 5: they're identical triplets. It's not weird to me at all.
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  Speaker 5: You have the same passions and it was just very,
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  Speaker 5: very enjoyable to see you go and do your degree
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  Speaker 5: and then do a master's and then get into jobs
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  Speaker 5: that you were really, really happy with for a while.
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  Speaker 1: When you look back, what are you most proud about
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  Speaker 1: in how you raised us?
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  Speaker 5: I think your father and I are most proud that
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  Speaker 5: you are very kind, you're confident, you've done an amazing
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  Speaker 5: job in your careers and now you've had an amazing
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  Speaker 5: job looking after your boys and continuing to work. It's
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  Speaker 5: not easy. I'm just proud of everything you do.
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  Speaker 1: What's it like seeing us now as mums?
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  Speaker 3: Is it weird?
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  Speaker 4: Is it kind of, oh?
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  Speaker 5: It's not weird at all. It's just amazing to see
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  Speaker 5: how kind you are with these beautiful little boys going
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  Speaker 5: around and how much time you put into them because
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  Speaker 5: you you know, this time between now and school is
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  Speaker 5: actually very short and then they're off and you won't
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  Speaker 5: see them as much. So I think by doing the
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  Speaker 5: hard yards now, looking after your boys so beautifully, we'll
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  Speaker 5: actually reflect in them later in their life. And I
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  Speaker 5: think they're going to be besties as well.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 1: If I reflect, I actually think we're all just mimicking
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  Speaker 1: your parenting style. So we're picking up bits and pieces
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  Speaker 1: of what you did because a lot of people, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, I feel like a lot of people said, oh,
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  Speaker 1: you're doing.
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  Speaker 3: This and that. It's mimicking mum.
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  Speaker 1: You know, again, everyone's in a different situation when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to their work and we're obviously lucky that we
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  Speaker 1: have a flexible job at the moment that we can,
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  Speaker 1: you know, work around when our sons sleep or when
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  Speaker 1: we have babysitters. And as I said, not everyone's that lucky.
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  Speaker 1: But I think hearing the fact that you sacrificed so
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  Speaker 1: much of your time and invested in us, I just
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  Speaker 1: want to be able to do the same for our
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  Speaker 1: kids and give them you know, the most magical childhood
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  Speaker 1: that you and dad gave us. So, I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: just feel sad not being able to, you know, again,
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  Speaker 1: obviously everyone wants to see their kids all the time,
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  Speaker 1: but I think that not everyone does invest the level
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  Speaker 1: of time and energy that you and dad did.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and also investing time as a nana because we
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to do this podcast without mum. Like
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  Speaker 1: I remember.
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  Speaker 5: the.
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  Speaker 1: Only person I wanted at my house when I had
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  Speaker 1: Jack was mum because, you know, there's nothing like having
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  Speaker 1: your mum there in your most vulnerable state and mum
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  Speaker 1: was like my little bestie. I remember Amy and Sophie
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  Speaker 1: were quite jealous because mum was at my house a lot.
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  Speaker 1: We also found this vision of when I'd just given
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  Speaker 1: birth to Harry and you guys all came in and
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  Speaker 1: mum's like, look, I'm going to leave, we're going to
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  Speaker 1: leave in a sec so you can just be with,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Dale and Harry.
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  Speaker 2: And I was like, but I.
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  Speaker 3: Don't want you to go. But also what I noticed.
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  Speaker 5: That was very cute.
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  Speaker 1: What I also noticed was that instead of rushing in
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  Speaker 1: to see the baby, I think each time you came
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  Speaker 1: to see if we were okay as well.
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  Speaker 5: I was worried. You had major abdominal surgery. Make sure
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  Speaker 5: you were okay afterwards.
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  Speaker 1: If you could go back and tell your younger self
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  Speaker 1: one thing, knowing all that you know now, what would
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  Speaker 1: it be?
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  Speaker 5: I think don't sweat the small stuff and work as
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  Speaker 5: a team if you're lucky enough to have a partner. And,
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  Speaker 5: you know, the sun will come up tomorrow. Nothing is
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  Speaker 5: too difficult to get through.
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  Speaker 1: When I first gave birth to Luca, I saw so
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  Speaker 1: many TikToks saying that the days that you're struggling in now,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to be some of your most favourite memories
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  Speaker 1: to look back on when you're older.
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  Speaker 3: Is that true?
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  Speaker 1: Like, do you now wish, oh, I wish I could
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  Speaker 1: have another day with you guys as newborns or.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe not newborns, but I think, yes, definitely. I loved between, well,
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  Speaker 5: maybe not zero and five, but that sort of age
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  Speaker 5: before you went to school. Probably around kindy age was
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  Speaker 5: probably the age I loved the most because you could
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  Speaker 5: walk and talk and out of nappies, that sort of stuff.
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  Speaker 5: But you're also so inquisitive, so wanting to know everything.
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  Speaker 5: And I just loved that stage.
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  Speaker 4: What was the reaction when you went out in public
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  Speaker 4: with triplets?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, please. Now, if you ever see triplets, twins, quads, whatever,
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  Speaker 5: multiple births outside, do not go and attack those poor parents.
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  Speaker 5: It got so bad at one stage. My husband was
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  Speaker 5: planning to hand out pamphlets when we went out walking
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  Speaker 5: because we just got bombarded all the time. And you
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  Speaker 5: don't want to be rude to people. I know people
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  Speaker 5: don't get it, but we're just taking our kids for
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  Speaker 5: a walk. We don't want to be asked... Were they
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  Speaker 5: naturally conceived? Are they IVF children? Where did you have that?
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  Speaker 5: Just really personal questions. Do not. If you see someone
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  Speaker 5: with multiple, just smile at the mum or dad and
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  Speaker 5: just nod and keep going.
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  Speaker 1: I remember you, because we hated it when people were like,
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  Speaker 1: are you triplets or referred to us as the triplets?
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  Speaker 3: And you would always say, this is when we were
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  Speaker 3: at school, well, just tell them that they're a singleton.
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  Speaker 1: And it always made me laugh because I actually had
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  Speaker 1: never heard of that word before and never thought of
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  Speaker 1: kids in that way. Obviously technology is so different now
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  Speaker 1: and everyone is on social media. Do you think if
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  Speaker 1: you had had us in 2026, would you have done
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  Speaker 1: what a lot of other multiple birth parents do?
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  Speaker 4: And would you put us on Instagram? There's a lot
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  Speaker 4: of accounts that go viral of triplet mums.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, that's a good question. I'm not sure. I know
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  Speaker 5: back in the day there was the RAA contacted me
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  Speaker 5: because they wanted to do an ad with car seats,
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  Speaker 5: I think it was. And I got you all ready.
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  Speaker 5: You were about well, below one, got you all ready.
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  Speaker 5: My mum was there helping, took you to a place.
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  Speaker 5: And they said, oh, sorry, we're doing the filming tomorrow.
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  Speaker 5: Can you come back tomorrow? I went, no, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: That was our big break. We could have been a
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  Speaker 3: big break.
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  Speaker 5: It could have been.
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  Speaker 1: But how rude of them, like the amount of effort
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  Speaker 1: it would take to get three babies ready.
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  Speaker 5: No, sorry. That was it. Do it now or you
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  Speaker 5: don't do it at all.
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  Speaker 1: It shocks me that they actually legitimately wanted to use triplets.
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  Speaker 1: I suppose because they didn't have the technology back then.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, no, they wanted identical triplets so that if one
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  Speaker 5: baby cried while they were filming, they put the other
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  Speaker 5: one in.
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  Speaker 4: Just on the topic of.
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  Speaker 3: Technology.
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  Speaker 4: Do you think that we've got it so much easier now?
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  Speaker 1: Because we were talking before off mic about Uber Eats,
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  Speaker 1: Woolworths delivery, that kind of, also even just having social
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  Speaker 1: media groups where you can connect with other mums.
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  Speaker 4: Do you wish you had that when you had us?
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  Speaker 5: Certainly Uber Eats would have been great because my mum
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  Speaker 5: used to come down on a Thursday morning, I think
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  Speaker 5: for a couple of hours, and I just used to
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  Speaker 5: run around to Woolies and do my grocery shopping. There
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  Speaker 5: was no way I was taking three children out to shop.
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  Speaker 5: It was just impossible. I was really lucky, as I
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  Speaker 5: said before, with my group of friends and I started
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  Speaker 5: to offer at kinder gyms and pre-kindy. They let us
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  Speaker 5: come in early because I was a mother with special needs,
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  Speaker 5: they told me. So I was allowed to put you
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  Speaker 5: into kindy a term early. I don't think I'd change
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  Speaker 5: anything that I did.
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  Speaker 1: Mum, do you have any advice that you can share
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  Speaker 1: for parents of multiples?
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  Speaker 5: You need to go with your gut. I think you
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  Speaker 5: just have to be really organised. I think if you
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  Speaker 5: get offered help, you accept it and enjoy it because
• 14:56
  Speaker 5: it really doesn't last that long. When you're in the trenches,
• 14:58
  Speaker 5: it seems like it will never end, but it does
• 15:01
  Speaker 5: end and you end up with the more you put in,
• 15:03
  Speaker 5: the more you get out with your kids.
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: OG Outspoken listeners will know that we sometimes refer to
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: you as Kris Jenner, KJ, because you were just our
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: biggest supporter in everything that we do, whether it was
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: when Amy and I worked on the news, you'd share
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: our stories or whether Kate was doing an activation for
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: the Thunderbirds.
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: You put it all over your Facebook.
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: I think that nickname actually came about from mum being
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: down at Netball.
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: Well, now that we've got the podcast, I think, again,
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: you sometimes listen to our episodes twice just to make
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: sure that we get the ads revenue. You'll make sure
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: the ads pay in full. Even on the weekends, we
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: always manage to fit in a Marion shopping trip together.
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: Is it really special to have such a close.
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: Relationship still now, obviously, with your kids, even though we're
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: adults now?
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: We've got our own families.
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: We're all best friends.
• 15:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: Dale says that you're the fourth triplet.
• 15:50
  Speaker 5: Oh, bless. Absolutely. I just love going shopping on a
• 15:56
  Speaker 5: Saturday afternoon with you girls at Marrying Ended Up with
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: a coffee and the little boys are often there with us.
• 16:01
  Speaker 5: It's just so special.
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: What's it like comparing three little boys to three little girls?
• 16:07
  Speaker 5: I absolutely adore my three little grandsons. They are just
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: so beautiful. I've got a new respect for cars now
• 16:16
  Speaker 5: and I love the way that Jack comes to our
• 16:19
  Speaker 5: house and just goes, Grandpa Hugh, car mat. and we've
• 16:22
  Speaker 5: got to line them all up and he looks at
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: them so carefully. He's trying to learn to share with
• 16:28
  Speaker 5: Harry and Luca and I love the way that they
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: just look up to each other and love each other
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: and now play with each other. It's so beautiful.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: Because people seem to really think it's funny that you
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: had three girls and now you've got three grandsons.
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: Like for some reason people seem really fixated on that fact.
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: I had three brothers. I've grown up with boys. I
• 16:48
  Speaker 5: know what they're like. They're certainly more boisterous.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: In hindsight, are you pleased that you had three girls
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: instead of three boys?
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: Do you think triplet.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: Boys would have ruined you?
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: Oh, I think I would have been even more tired
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: with triplet boys.
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: That being said, you had triplet girls who were teenagers.
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah. That was probably the most tricky time.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember finding a book on your bedside table
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: and it was called Princess Bitchface.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: And in hindsight, fair enough.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: I also remember you always would be like, oh, you
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: guys are going through puberty whilst I'm going through menopause.
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: And I was like, they really, you know, society, well,
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: Mother Nature doesn't pair that up.
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: Very well, do they? No, they don't.
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: They didn't.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: No. Now let's get into iconic or unhinged.
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: And Mum, you've got a special one for us.
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: I want to ask the listeners, was it iconic of
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: me or unhinged of me to do cloth nappies for triplets?
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: They had probably eight on average, about eight nappies a day.
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: So eight threes of 24. We had our laundry behind
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: a couple of doors in the kitchen. So not a
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: big laundry, a small sink with a bucket underneath that had,
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: I think it was Milton's solution or something to clean
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: the nappies before they got put into the washing machine.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: Were you using the dryer?
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: No, because that's so expensive. No, I would have, I
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: had a friend of mine said, now when you do
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: your nappies, put your pegs on your line the distance
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: away from hanging them up. Does that make sense?
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: So pre-peg.
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: The pegs would be there at the distance for the nappies.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Jesus.
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: I know. It was just sensational. But is that iconic
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: or is that unhinged? I'm sorry, Mum.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: That is unhinged, especially because you had disposable nappies. I
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: know they're a bit more expensive, but maybe you could
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: get away with doing it for one, but for triplets.
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: You know what? Good for the environment, though. Good on you.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: That was fantastic.
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: We had no money back then. We were very poor.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: Well, nappies are so expensive. Like I can't get over
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: how ridiculous they are.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: And was there some sort of service that helped out
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: with that as well?
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: We were lucky enough to be gifted from the Queen Victoria.
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: I think it was six months of stalk nappy hire.
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: Hashtag gifted.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: Yes. Yes.
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: And so what would happen is One day they would
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: bring you a whole lot of clean nappies.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: And you would leave your filthy, smelly, wet.
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: Sort of nappies out on the veranda and they would
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: kindly take them away and put them in the industrial
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: cleaner and then bring them back. It was fantastic.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: So I remember hearing that our grandma and grandpa did
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: help out and they occasionally bought, you know, the normal
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: nappies and they were good old black and gold.
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: Yes, they were for overnight for special occasions. We'd put
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: you in the black and gold. nappies. Sorry, but they
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: weren't great.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: We were hearing that they'd absolutely be hanging off you by.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: The end of the morning.
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: I was sodding.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: I wonder if this is why I have such a
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: hang up now about being comfortable. Maybe I was so
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: uncomfortable as a child that now I'm like, I can't
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: wear jeans.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: It's too uncomfortable.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Well, mum was telling me about this before recording and
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: you gave the most perfect avatar for Huggies I did
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: yeah you were saying yeah are.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: We trying to get them as a sponsor.
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: Well that sorry the black and gold when I used
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: to go and get you out of bed they were
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: sodden saturated the sheets would need changing they were not
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: great I'm sorry I don't know if they're But when
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: we were lucky enough, we got some huggies, and honestly,
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: they were a godsend. Thank you, huggies. They were not gifted.
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: They were bought.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: But you won a competition for milk.
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: I did. The Messenger local paper had a year's supply
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: of milk, which we won, which was very advantageous because
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: you were one. And just onto milk. So that was great.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: They're probably just like, this poor bitch, Jo. No, as
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: a journo, they would have been like, wow, this is
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: a great photo op.
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: And actually, I've got a picture where I had to
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: take you to have a picture taken at the Messenger
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: place with a pile of milk cartons around us.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: Well, Mum's Group, let us know, was Mum iconic or
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: unhinged for that? Well, thank you so much, Mum, for
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: joining us for this Mother's Day special. It's been so
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: lovely to have you on the show.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: Can you give us a bit of a hint what
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: you want for Mother's Day or what's a good present
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: that we should be?
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: All I want for Mother's Day, actually, just having said that,
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: the best Mother's Day things you can get are little
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: tiny things that are made at school for you. And
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: I've still got some in a little shoebox. When I teach,
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: I say to the kids, you know that this thing
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: that you're doing for your mum is going to be
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: so precious. And she's going to put it away and
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: keep it forever.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: Can I make you something this year?
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: Yes, please.
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: Maybe I'll do like some handprints of Lucas.
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: I need nothing.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: How beautiful.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: Is that until you're 37 and your mum decides that
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: she's having a cull and we keep getting photos of.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: Do you want this? It's like, no, it's a gift
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: for you.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: Well, I think that's where we're going to leave things today.
• 21:42
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• 21:44
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• 21:45
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• 22:16
  Speaker 1: This episode was recorded on the traditional land of the
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: We pay respect to elders past and present.