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167. MyMaine Birth: Krista's two birth experiences and the story of the Bar Harbor Lobster Pound · MyMaine Birth

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Krista: Honestly, we build everything around our kids.
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Krista: It's like, what makes life easier?
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Krista: What can the kids do?
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Krista: How can we keep them busy?
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Krista: Yeah, we built the whole thing with them in mind.
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Krista: We got like the little Kinect 4s and the ring toss and cornhole.
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Krista: And you know, when you go to a restaurant with kids, it's hard when they're at that young age just to keep them in the seat.
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Krista: And I used to have like coloring materials and stuff in my purse, just something.
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Krista: But it's nice that they can go run around there and they're not gonna get in trouble and they can go throw a frisbee or and mom and dad can just enjoy their meal, listen to music.
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Angela: I'm Angela, and I'm a certified birth photographer, experienced duela, childbirth educator, and your host here on the My Main Birth podcast.
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Angela: This is a space where we share the real life stories of families and their unique birth experiences in the beautiful state of Maine.
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Angela: From our state's biggest hospitals to birth center births and home births.
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Angela: Every birth story deserves to be heard and celebrated.
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Angela: Whether you're a seem-to-be mom, a seasoned mother, or simply interested in the world of birth, these episodes are for you.
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Angela: Hey everyone, welcome to episode 167 of My Main Birth.
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Angela: Today's birth story guest is my friend Krista.
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Angela: Krista is a fellow homeschool mom.
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Angela: I first met her a few years ago when she moved up from Florida.
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Angela: She came out to a few of the homeschool gatherings that I was hosting, and we just hit it off.
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Angela: What I didn't realize right away was that Krista and her family had bought the Bar Harbor Lobster Pound, a special little spot on MDI that had been closed for years.
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Angela: When my older two were much younger, we used to go there often after our adventures in Acadia.
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Angela: And to me it was just always such a special spot.
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Angela: And I've been sad seeing it empty for so long.
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Angela: I think it's been empty for seven or eight years.
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Angela: So when I found out Krista was the one rebuilding it, I was so excited.
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Angela: I went out to Acadia to do some photos for her the first year they were here, and that's when I realized it was the same place that I loved so much years ago.
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Angela: Krista's here today to share her two Florida birth stories, and she also talks about what it was like rebuilding the lobster pound while her kids were still so little.
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Angela: Even though her births were in Florida, she's very much a main mom now, and I think you're gonna love hearing her story.
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Angela: If you'd like to connect with me, you can do so through my website, mymainbirth.com, or you can always message me over on Instagram at my mainbirth.
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Angela: Our closing song is by Kate Sutherland.
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Angela: Kate's community songs and deep nature connection work can be found on her website, katesutherland.ca.
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Angela: Hey Krista, welcome to my main birth.
2:42
Angela: Hey! To get started, would you share a little bit just about you and your family?
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Krista: Sure.
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Krista: Currently, we have two sons.
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Krista: They are seven and eight, 15 months apart.
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Krista: Uh, we've been in Maine since we bought our house in Maine in 2021.
2:58
Krista: Moved here full-time in 2022.
3:01
Krista: That's when we opened up the lobster pound, Bar Harbor Lobster Pound.
3:04
Krista: We homeschool them.
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Krista: We buy all the lobster for the restaurants off of two commercial wharfs we have, one in Sister Bend and one in Prospect Harbor.
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Krista: We have a few Airbnbs.
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Krista: We have a house in Florida that we go to in the winter.
3:23
Krista: We are some of the busiest people you'll ever meet in the summer.
3:26
Krista: But in the winter we just chill and homeschool and spend time with family.
3:33
Angela: Amazing.
3:34
Angela: That's awesome.
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Angela: So yeah, now jumping into birth, would you start by sharing a little bit about how you found out you were pregnant for the first time and what your thoughts were on choosing your care?
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Krista: Sure.
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Krista: Yeah.
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Krista: So um it was shortly after Aaron and I got married in 2017.
3:51
Krista: Uh, I was 30.
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Krista: So I I kind of wanted to start uh trying soon.
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Krista: Clock was ticking, and so it happened relatively quickly.
4:01
Krista: And at that point, I was born and raised into a family where if if something was going on, you just went to the doctor.
4:10
Krista: And so I I read, you know, I didn't even know there was home births until I moved up to Maine.
4:15
Krista: It just wasn't a thing where I was from.
4:17
Krista: So um, for care, you know, I just immediately went to the doctor and just kind of went through all the hoops.
4:26
Krista: And yeah.
4:27
Krista: So how are you feeling when you found out you were pregnant?
4:30
Krista: Yeah, I don't think I really like thought it through till I was actually pregnant.
4:34
Krista: And then I was like, oh my gosh, I have to give birth to this thing.
4:36
Krista: Like it was so exciting to have, you know, think of your life with a child, but then the process was like a little terrifying.
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Krista: But no, we were really excited.
4:47
Krista: The pregnancy was kind of rough.
4:49
Krista: I threw up every day, all day.
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Krista: Um, I think until like the middle of the maybe the end of the third trimester.
4:57
Krista: It was it was pretty rough.
4:59
Krista: I don't know why I ever considered even having a second, because I would like drive around with a bag and always had, you know, bubbly sodas.
5:09
Krista: And just yeah, it was pretty bad.
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Krista: I mean, I wake up from a dead sleep and have to run to the bathroom and puke.
5:15
Krista: It just never stopped.
5:16
Angela: Yeah.
5:17
Angela: Oh my gosh, into the third trimester.
5:19
Angela: That is a long time.
5:20
Angela: That's intense.
5:21
Angela: Yeah, it was intense.
5:23
Angela: How are you feeling otherwise?
5:26
Angela: Just like mentally, emotionally, as your pregnancy progressed.
5:29
Angela: It was nice.
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Krista: I was blessed where I was able to stay home though.
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Krista: So I didn't really have to work at that point because I wasn't feeling well.
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Krista: And so I was able to take it easy and relax and and kind of get everything ready.
5:44
Krista: And it was a lot more exciting once I think I felt better and I could go shopping and start start nesting.
5:51
Krista: And we were kind of, you know, in a rental home at the time and and shopping for another home that we wanted to raise the family in.
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Krista: And so I was able to get out a lot more and yeah.
6:01
Krista: Awesome.
6:02
Krista: He was my he's my first.
6:04
Krista: I will say though, my husband though, when we got married, he had a 14-year-old.
6:09
Krista: So we did have a 14-year-old son, Bradley, living with us.
6:14
Krista: So my my husband had already kind of been through everything before, so it was just new to me.
6:19
Angela: So did anything else come up throughout your pregnancy medically, or were you just totally, as far as like in the doctor's offices, pretty normal?
6:28
Krista: Yeah, I felt so I was pretty shocked that when you go to the doctor, you get your f first ultrasound.
6:36
Krista: I guess I can't remember, is it eight or 12 weeks or something like that?
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Krista: And then you get another one at 20 weeks, and then you're like done, and you can't see your baby anymore.
6:45
Krista: And I guess maybe that's what insurance pays.
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Krista: So that's all you get.
6:49
Krista: But they have these boutiques down in Florida.
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Krista: I don't know if they have them here, where you can get like these really cool 3D images.
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Krista: So I went to one of those at 36 weeks, maybe it was 37 weeks, like right in there, right when they said, Oh, he'll be good and plump and he'll look great in photographs.
7:08
Krista: And when I did, the woman who was doing it said, Oh my gosh, this baby's breach.
7:14
Krista: And my doctor had never told me that, figured it out, like it was news to me.
7:21
Krista: And and she she also said, This baby's huge.
7:25
Krista: So at my next appointment, I went in and I told them, I said, Hey, I went and got these 3D photos, and they said this baby is breach.
7:34
Krista: And she said, Okay, well, let's schedule you for an ultrasound.
7:37
Krista: So they scheduled me and they said, Oh yeah, and he's measuring over nine pounds.
7:43
Krista: So he's probably not gonna flip.
7:45
Krista: So they're like, Okay, uh, we're doing a C-section next week.
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Krista: And I was just shocked because my whole pregnancy, I thought I was gonna have just a normal vaginal delivery, and it was like, okay, how about next Tuesday?
7:57
Krista: And he was like, Okay.
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Krista: So I was a little terrified.
8:00
Krista: I think I cried because I wasn't, I'd never done like a big surgery or anything like that.
8:05
Krista: But it was a Monday morning, it was the day after Easter, and you know, I was able to do my hair and my makeup, and I was like, oh, I'm gonna look great for these photos.
8:16
Krista: And I had to be there at 10 a.m.
8:20
Krista: And it actually was very a simple process.
8:24
Krista: And it was actually, I'm kind of a scheduler and organized, so it was nice to know exactly when I was gonna bring them home and when it was gonna happen, and when I could coordinate guests, and how far along were you at that point?
8:37
Angela: Like how many weeks were you when that you said 36, but what like weeks did they schedule this cesarean?
8:42
Angela: Was it like 37?
8:43
Angela: 38, 38, yeah.
8:45
Krista: Yeah, it was like 38.
8:47
Krista: Yeah, and he was a big baby, he was almost 10 pounds.
8:50
Krista: So maybe I was fortunate that it happened like that.
8:54
Krista: Uh, I remember his head would always like push out of my side and I'd push it back in.
8:59
Krista: And uh that's not a foot.
9:02
Krista: Yeah, it was not I it was my first time.
9:05
Krista: I didn't know that like wasn't normal, but yeah, I'd get like this big round circle and I'd push it back in to my ribs, like, hey, that's a head.
9:12
Krista: And but he was huge and he was so chill, you know.
9:18
Krista: I shared some photos with you, and you're welcome to share them on your website or podcast.
9:24
Krista: And you know, they took him out and he didn't even wake up.
9:27
Krista: He was still sleeping and chilling, and there was this huge baby.
9:31
Krista: And they, you know, he's like, is he okay?
9:35
Krista: He literally was sleeping when they pulled him out, and he didn't cry until they hit him with a vitamin K shot, I think.
9:44
Krista: And then he started screaming and he was very unhappy.
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Krista: So that was the, and then there were so many doctors in the C-section room, and I actually got two extra bills.
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Krista: I forget exactly what they said, but I saved him in the baby book because he was such a big baby, like there had to be extra people in the room.
10:00
Krista: And I used to be a pretty tiny thing.
10:03
Krista: I mean, I'm a little bigger now, but I was big.
10:08
Angela: Oh my goodness.
10:09
Angela: Wow.
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Angela: So it was a good experience for you overall, you'd say.
10:14
Krista: Yeah, yeah, it was a good experience.
10:17
Krista: You know, they give you some good pain medication and get you moving, and you're just so happy that, and you're numb at first.
10:24
Krista: I mean, the second day, I think it was actually even that night, they kind of say, Okay, you gotta get up.
10:31
Krista: You gotta start walking.
10:32
Krista: And, you know, that definitely burns a little bit in the incision.
10:38
Krista: But yeah, it was a good experience with him.
10:42
Krista: Now, I will say that one thing that really kind of upset me being in the hospital setting is that River was a very chill baby.
10:52
Krista: Like I said, he came out sleeping, he slept a lot, he was just a big sleepy head.
10:58
Krista: And he pooped like five times after he was born.
11:01
Krista: So he was like full.
11:02
Krista: I'm like, this kid, he wasn't really eating, but I'm like, he had just ate before he got born.
11:07
Krista: And the nurses made me feel horrible that I wasn't breastfeeding more.
11:11
Krista: They're like, you need to be feeding him like every two hours.
11:13
Krista: I'm like, but he's not hungry, he's not eating.
11:16
Krista: And he was sleeping, and they they started having me set alarms on my phone every two hours to wake him up in the night.
11:24
Krista: Um, and just making, you know, they come in and say, When's the last time he ate?
11:28
Krista: And I'm like, Well, he's been sleeping.
11:30
Krista: You know, it's been three, maybe four hours.
11:32
Krista: And oh no, he needs to eat.
11:35
Krista: And I'm like, What do you cry if he's hungry?
11:37
Krista: I think.
11:40
Krista: But yeah, so then I got him in this horrible schedule of waking him up every two hours to feed when he because you're a new mom and it's like this is what everyone's telling you to do.
11:51
Angela: So, like you get home, right?
11:52
Angela: This is what I'm supposed to do.
11:54
Angela: Like, did that kind of happen like that?
11:56
Krista: Yeah, like I literally was waking him up to feed him, and I was like, this does not seem normal, but I don't know.
12:01
Krista: I don't know the right answer, but I can tell you I did not do that with my second one.
12:05
Krista: I was like, sleep as long as you want, wake me up when you're hungry.
12:09
Angela: I'm here for you when you need me.
12:12
Krista: Don't think they're gonna starve to death.
12:17
Angela: He's full.
12:18
Krista: Seriously, things are working.
12:19
Krista: Yeah, he's pooped five times today.
12:21
Krista: I'm like, I don't know.
12:23
Krista: Oh my gosh.
12:25
Angela: And also, as far as like the C-section, like feeling good for you.
12:28
Angela: Do you feel like it maybe would have been like a different story if it had been like more of an emergency cesarean versus like, okay, like this is shocking because it's next Tuesday, but still it's like you have time to like wrap your head around it, like that week until next Tuesday or whatever, and then going in and you know, knowing like, okay, this is what's gonna happen versus like this is just possible whirlwind of just you know.
12:50
Krista: Right.
12:51
Krista: Well, my my second son, I wouldn't say he was an emergency c-section, but it was um he my water did break in the middle of the night, and uh, we did end up having to rush to the emergency room, I guess.
13:07
Krista: I don't know.
13:08
Angela: Oh, geez.
13:08
Angela: Okay, well, we'll come back to that in one second.
13:11
Angela: Yeah.
13:11
Angela: Oh wow, okay.
13:12
Angela: I didn't realize you had been through both.
13:14
Angela: I thought your second was a planned cesarean.
13:16
Angela: Just finishing up the postpartum with your first, how was feeding after you adjusted your schedule and everything and kind of yeah, settled into those like first few months with him?
13:26
Krista: So I never was a good breastfeeder.
13:29
Krista: And to be honest, when he was my first, and I had no idea what I was doing.
13:35
Krista: I took some online classes.
13:36
Krista: I mean, there's this great online program called Will I Ever Sleep Again?
13:41
Krista: And I had watched all the videos, and so I was trying to, you know, be perfect, but I am a stress starver.
13:50
Krista: When I'm like stressed, I don't eat, like I cannot eat.
13:54
Krista: I'm just not hungry.
13:55
Krista: So I wasn't producing because I wasn't really eating, I wasn't really drinking, I was just kind of up all night going through the motions.
14:01
Krista: And so we were just, I mean, I tried to pump, wasn't getting much, and it kind of made me feel like I could never get away.
14:13
Krista: Like I never, I always had my independence until I, you know, I got married at 30.
14:19
Krista: And all of a sudden I was, I know it sounds horrible, but I needed that alone time and I was not getting it.
14:24
Krista: And then when I did get it, I was pumping, so I didn't, I still felt like I was like on this leash.
14:31
Krista: So I just gave it up after like two weeks.
14:34
Krista: I was like, forget this.
14:36
Krista: I need to be, I need I need me back.
14:38
Krista: And um, I went for formula.
14:42
Krista: I did order, you know, special formula from Europe that is healthier, and but yeah, so I have formula babies.
14:53
Angela: That's okay, you know, like really everybody has a different journey, and the mom's mental health matters, you know.
15:01
Angela: Yeah, it matters, and even just like the whirlwind of just being a first-time mom can be like, you know, stressful, like like you like you said, yeah.
15:11
Krista: Yeah, I was stressed, and then you know, you give up you to give the baby to grandma or whatever, and you're supposed to get a break, and it's like I can't even catch a break because now I have to go pump.
15:20
Angela: There's no right way, there's no right way or wrong way, there's just different ways, and we don't actually hear a lot of stories like this.
15:25
Angela: So I appreciate you for sharing your your formula story.
15:28
Krista: Of course.
15:30
Krista: Yeah, and they're fine.
15:31
Krista: I mean, yeah, they never had any major illnesses or gosh, I don't even think either one of them ever been on antibiotics before.
15:39
Krista: I mean, they're very healthy boys and thriving.
15:42
Krista: Yeah, yeah.
15:43
Krista: The formula was okay.
15:45
Angela: I got the tested best.
15:46
Angela: It's not going to ruin their lives if you have to do formula, because for any reason, really, it's they're gonna be well.
15:54
Krista: I did make sure to, you know, for the first couple days to get that colostrum.
15:58
Krista: Yeah.
15:59
Krista: But then after that, it it just wasn't even enough to even mess with it.
16:03
Angela: Yeah.
16:04
Angela: So now how long was it?
16:06
Angela: And like what was sort of happening when you found out you were pregnant for the second time?
16:10
Angela: How did you find out?
16:12
Krista: Well, we knew we wanted a second one because I wanted River to have like a best friend built-in playmate.
16:19
Krista: Somebody had told me if you don't have another one, you will be the playmate.
16:24
Krista: And we live a pretty busy life, and I wanted him to have someone to just have a best built-in best friend.
16:33
Krista: So we we started trying, I think when River he was still pretty young, so they're 15 months apart.
16:44
Krista: So it was, you know, almost right after.
16:49
Krista: And um, it happened really quickly, and it was a really easy pregnancy, thank goodness, because by the time I was getting pretty big, I had like this walking child on my hands that I'm chasing around.
17:05
Krista: And so that was a little difficult.
17:09
Angela: But we tried to do stationary playing a lot.
17:13
Angela: Were you still not feeling good with this one when your pregnancy kind of started?
17:17
Angela: Or were you feeling a little bit?
17:18
Krista: Oh, this one was easy peasy.
17:20
Krista: So I thought it would be maybe a girl, but it was another boy, but it was a completely different experience.
17:26
Angela: Wow, that's interesting because sometimes I'm like, oh, some people are like really sick with like, you know, boy, and you get like a you know, a different type of reaction with another one.
17:35
Angela: It's a lot of people jumped with, oh, maybe it's a different sex, right?
17:38
Angela: Like, yeah.
17:39
Krista: Yeah, no, it was um the same, just a completely different pregnancy.
17:43
Krista: Yeah, it was it was nice.
17:45
Angela: Wow.
17:46
Angela: Oh, well, that's good to hear.
17:47
Angela: So yeah, how are things looking?
17:50
Angela: Like with your appointments.
17:51
Angela: Did they try to say since you had a C-section last time, you should probably have one again?
17:56
Angela: Or were they really supportive of like different birth like plans that you were maybe thinking about?
18:00
Angela: Or how was your what were your mindset around it after the first time going into the second time?
18:05
Krista: So I was a lot more chill the second time.
18:07
Krista: I didn't go to the doctor till I was like past three months to even do anything.
18:13
Krista: So then on my first appointment, they actually said, Oh, gosh, well.
18:17
Krista: Yeah, because I was 12 weeks at my first appointment, which maybe you're supposed to go a little sooner, not sure.
18:24
Krista: This was, you know, seven, eight years ago.
18:27
Krista: And that was I'm out of the baby game now.
18:30
Krista: So yeah, I went at 12 weeks and my first appointment, they're like, oh gosh, well, let's do the ultrasound.
18:36
Krista: And we saw the little pee pee, so we're like, oh, it's a boy right away.
18:40
Krista: And um, yeah, I was just a lot more chill.
18:43
Krista: The doctors, I guess at 20 weeks.
18:47
Krista: Now I will rewind and say, I don't know when we started having the conversation, but they did say because the boys were gonna be 15 months apart, that it did need to be a repeat C-section.
19:00
Krista: I don't really understand why.
19:02
Krista: I guess the uterus could rip open or something like that, which I was fine with because I had a really good um experience with it.
19:10
Krista: In fact, I didn't even mention, but my husband loves to tell the story.
19:14
Krista: Like when we got back from the hospital from having river, you know, you're not supposed to do any stairs or anything.
19:19
Krista: And I he they tell him that, and I just go like marching up the stairs, and he's like, wait, you're not supposed to go up the stairs.
19:25
Krista: And I'm like, the baby's up there, I have to.
19:27
Krista: And it was just I was fine.
19:31
Krista: Like, it just took two days, and I was really fine.
19:34
Krista: But so they said repeat C-section, and I was fine with that, and um, but I don't know, I guess all the running around and uh having to chase River because he's 15 months now and starting to walk, and it was July 3rd, and we're in Florida, and we're at a barbecue, and it's hot, and my husband is having fun hanging out with his friends, and I'm chasing a one-year-old, and like it is hot, it is July in Florida, and I am 70 pounds overweight, and my legs are chafing together, and it's this is just horrible.
20:16
Krista: And so, yeah, I think that put me into labor.
20:21
Krista: The July 3rd barbecue and the heat.
20:24
Krista: It was 4th of July, and he was born on so then that night, um, yeah, I was just worn out and hot and disgusting, and went to bed.
20:35
Krista: And I think it was already scheduled because I was 37 weeks, and I think it was for the following week.
20:42
Krista: And then at two in the morning, um, this baby was very active and he was very strong.
20:48
Krista: He was always kicking.
20:50
Krista: I'd be standing up against the counter and he'd kick and it actually like pushed me back.
20:54
Krista: Like he was very strong.
20:55
Krista: So in the middle of the night, he starts kicking, and I like hear it.
21:00
Krista: I don't know, like I hear this sound.
21:03
Krista: And I thought, oh, that's strange.
21:06
Krista: And I go, well, since I'm awake, I might as well go pee.
21:09
Krista: And so I hop up, and then you know, the fluid starts to fall out on the ground.
21:14
Krista: So then I wake my husband up and I'm like, Aaron, Aaron, my water broke, my water broke.
21:20
Krista: And he's like, Oh my gosh, oh my gosh.
21:21
Krista: And he's just like, you know, out of a dead sleep.
21:25
Krista: And he's like, wanting to throw me in the car and let's go.
21:29
Krista: And I'm like, what about River?
21:31
Krista: He's 15 years old.
21:33
Krista: And he goes, Well, just leave him home alone.
21:34
Krista: My mom will be here in a couple hours.
21:36
Krista: Like, no, what if the house catches on fire?
21:40
Krista: You can't leave him home alone.
21:42
Krista: So we had the the week before we had actually been interviewing nannies because you can't lift for six weeks, even though I felt great.
21:54
Krista: Lifting could be bad.
21:56
Krista: And you having a 15 month old, you need to.
22:00
Angela: Lift.
22:00
Krista: Yeah.
22:01
Krista: So we had kind of been interviewing nannies to be with me during the day while Aaron was at work to help with diaper changes and lifting out of the crib and things like that.
22:10
Krista: And we hadn't hired one yet.
22:13
Krista: But there was this one girl we had interviewed who she had mentioned in the interview, anything you need, just call me.
22:23
Krista: But then she also was um, and I can't even remember her name.
22:28
Krista: So she doesn't know my name, so she'll never see this.
22:30
Krista: But she was also kind of a hot mess because she was also crying in the interview.
22:35
Krista: Oh no, I didn't really think I wanted to spend every day with her.
22:40
Krista: But at two in the morning, I called her on the fourth of July and she answered.
22:44
Krista: And I was like, I'm in labor.
22:46
Krista: Can you come over?
22:47
Krista: And she was like, Yeah, I'll be right there.
22:50
Krista: And she shows up and uh I hand her a hundred dollar bill in the driveway.
22:55
Krista: And I'm like, My mom, my mother-in-law will be here in two hours.
22:58
Krista: And then um we head off to the hospital, and then my mother-in-law shows up maybe a few hours later, and she says the girl's just sleeping on the couch.
23:08
Krista: Nothing caught on fire.
23:10
Krista: Yeah, the house didn't burn down, but I still give them a hard time.
23:14
Krista: I was like, You tried to leave our 15-month-old home alone.
23:17
Angela: I'm sure there's just like thoughts out of a dead sleep of like, what's you know, what do we do?
23:23
Krista: So then we went to the hospital, and yeah, I mean, it was a totally different experience because I didn't wash my hair, I didn't do my makeup, I didn't have my stuff ready, I didn't have my doctor.
23:35
Krista: Oh.
23:35
Krista: I had to use the doctor on call, which was fine.
23:39
Krista: She was very nice, and she had even noticed that from my previous c-section, my scar, like half of it was keloided and half of it was in, which was weird.
23:49
Krista: And she was like, Oh, I'm gonna fix that and make it beautiful for you.
23:52
Krista: And she did a great job.
23:54
Krista: Awesome.
23:55
Krista: That's cool.
23:56
Krista: Yeah, and yeah, so then you know, by the way, he was born at like six something in the morning.
24:03
Angela: So it So, what was like the vibes when you got to the hospital?
24:06
Angela: Like, how did things kind of unfold as like making the decisions on what to do next?
24:10
Angela: Was it like a little bit of a panic, or was it just like, okay, we're just gonna go for the C-section now and I'm gonna make your stomach beautiful?
24:16
Angela: Or like, you know, is it you know?
24:18
Krista: Well, I was worried about how long do you have after your water breaks?
24:22
Krista: I guess your body continues to make more, but I wasn't sure.
24:25
Krista: But that's what she had told me, the doctor on call on the phone.
24:28
Krista: She said, Don't panic, find a babysitter.
24:31
Krista: Because that's what I told her.
24:32
Krista: I was like, I saw my other.
24:33
Krista: She goes, Don't panic, find a babysitter.
24:35
Krista: You you have time.
24:37
Krista: Take your time getting here.
24:38
Krista: Yeah, good.
24:39
Krista: And uh, so when we got there, then they they like test the fluid to make sure that's what it is, and it was, and then start like just wiping you down like head to toe, like sanitizing you.
24:52
Krista: And of course, like every time I'm nervous, I get a stomach ache.
24:56
Krista: So I'm having to go to the bathroom a lot, and I don't need, I have to go to the bathroom.
25:01
Krista: I turned to a hot mess.
25:02
Krista: And um normal.
25:04
Krista: And but then I mean it it was pretty easy peasy again.
25:11
Krista: Just and you know, we didn't have like a waiting room full of people, so it was just Aaron and myself, and so the water broke at like 2 30 in the morning, and then we had him around like 6 30 in the morning.
25:23
Krista: And then the family starts showing up, and he is like the tiniest little six-pound four-ounce baby I've ever seen, completely opposite of river.
25:35
Krista: Like he's so small, and he would not stop screaming, completely opposite of River.
25:42
Krista: Like, would not stop.
25:47
Angela: Oh boy, that's so interesting.
25:48
Angela: The different personality is the just so the differences in them both, right?
25:53
Angela: Like each child is like so different.
25:55
Krista: Yes, yes.
25:56
Krista: With River, all my pictures, he's just like laying there in the basinet, like sleeping perfectly, like not crying.
26:00
Krista: He's like, Oh, he's right there, he's just perfect.
26:02
Krista: And then this baby, you couldn't put him down.
26:04
Krista: And so we're tired.
26:06
Krista: We've been up since 2 a.m.
26:08
Krista: the whole next day, and now we have visitors, and we're tired, and now it's nighttime, and we're like really tired.
26:15
Krista: And I guess the policy at this hospital is that there's no nursery and they won't take the baby, which no, some people can appreciate, but I am so tired, and I just had major surgery, and I'm like, I have been up 24 hours.
26:30
Krista: I need somebody to take this baby, I can't just hold him all night.
26:33
Krista: Yeah, and Aaron was tired too.
26:35
Krista: So the nurses they were kind and they would switch off um holding him so we could get clue cat naps because it's like I'm not like after being up 24 hours and a major surgery, and I'm on pain medications making me even more tired.
26:51
Krista: Yeah.
26:51
Krista: So that was kind of hard having a kid in the middle of the night and then having all those visitors come.
26:56
Krista: Uh, the only thing that kind of upset me with that birth was we did choose to circumcise our boys, and so they took him away to circumcise him and they brought him back, and he's laying down, and of course, he's like fussing again.
27:13
Krista: And he starts spitting up this red stuff out of the side of his mouth.
27:17
Krista: And I'm like, oh my gosh, what's wrong with him?
27:19
Krista: Is he bleeding?
27:21
Krista: And they go, Oh no, that's the Tylenol we gave him.
27:25
Krista: And they never asked me.
27:27
Krista: And we are very much like an organic, no food dye kind of family.
27:32
Krista: Like my kids still don't have red dye 40.
27:35
Krista: And it's like they gave it to him and he wasn't even 24 hours old.
27:38
Krista: And they didn't ask me.
27:39
Angela: Why would they just use dye-free Tylenol if we have to do Tylenol?
27:42
Angela: Yeah, and babies you'd think they would use dye free Tylenol if you have to do it, right?
27:47
Angela: Or like ask consent for like the family.
27:51
Krista: That's I never would have known except that yeah, he was like spitting it up.
27:56
Krista: That was kind of that was kind of, you know, I didn't think that was right.
28:02
Krista: Yeah, that's that stinks.
28:05
Angela: Well, so how was the rest of your like kind of postpartum in the hospital?
28:09
Angela: How many days were you there with him?
28:12
Krista: So that one was kind of weird because they usually make you stay two, and it was two, but it just seemed like three, I guess, because we came in the middle of the night.
28:20
Krista: Like we were kind of ready to go.
28:22
Krista: But the first night didn't really count.
28:24
Krista: So then it was like two more.
28:27
Krista: But um it was good.
28:30
Krista: It was good.
28:31
Krista: You have a private room, so that's nice, and you know, you have friends that bring food, and yeah, he just required a lot of attention.
28:40
Krista: And my in-laws and people were over at the house uh watching River, and they did bring him to the hospital so he could see his brother for the first time.
28:49
Krista: We have the funniest picture of the first time he saw him.
28:52
Krista: He has this look on his face, and his eyes are like pointed to the side.
28:55
Krista: Like, who is that?
28:56
Krista: Oh, that's cute.
29:00
Krista: I did have like, I forgot to mention my pregnancy with Brooks.
29:04
Krista: I had like this never-ending UTI, like it just would never go away.
29:08
Krista: Every time I went, I had to pee in a cup, and then they would give me like a different antibiotic.
29:13
Krista: So I was on all these antibiotics like the whole time.
29:16
Krista: And Brooks was real fussy and he threw up all the time.
29:22
Krista: And I think it was maybe because of the antibiotics, he had stomach issues.
29:26
Krista: He would drink a whole bottle of formula and throw up the whole thing, and we'd have him to start all over.
29:32
Krista: And it was like every time, so much so that my babysitters and you know, the nanny that helped me, she would they would bring extra clothes.
29:41
Krista: It was so out of control.
29:43
Krista: Oh no, and he earned the nickname Spitty all the time.
29:49
Krista: You'd feed them and then it'd all come back up, and you'd have to start all back over.
29:54
Angela: Yeah, that's interesting.
29:56
Angela: I wonder if it is related to the antibiotics.
29:58
Angela: I've heard like a couple other moms, you know, share things like that when their babies have stomach issues and they had a lot of antibiotics, or were on the groupie strap and have the antibiotics during the actual birth.
30:08
Angela: And yeah, like they're noticing correlations between tummy issues and and that.
30:14
Angela: That's interesting.
30:15
Angela: You bring it up.
30:16
Krista: It was only for about the first year, well, maybe the first year of life, maybe a little less than that.
30:24
Krista: Maybe six months.
30:25
Krista: It was really bad, but he doesn't have those issues anymore.
30:29
Krista: And his nickname changed from Spitty to Smiley because once that stopped, he never stopped smiling.
30:35
Krista: But for a while it was pretty bad.
30:37
Krista: Nobody wanted to feed him.
30:38
Krista: Oh, it was like a towel, you were just ready for it.
30:43
Krista: Oh, and not out.
30:46
Angela: He had to rebuild all that good gut bacteria.
30:49
Angela: I think so.
30:51
Angela: I mean, this is just my guesses, but yeah, I think so.
30:53
Angela: Well, as the mom, you have you know that extra intuition, right?
30:58
Krista: Yeah, because it was pretty sour and yeah.
31:00
Angela: Oh my goodness, that's rough.
31:02
Angela: So then it got better and awesome.
31:05
Angela: Now they're growing boys.
31:06
Angela: So share with me about your move to Maine.
31:09
Angela: When did that kind of come into your vision?
31:14
Krista: Yeah, so Aaron owned, he started a company when he was 19 down in Florida.
31:18
Krista: And he, yeah, he had a problem night, baby.
31:25
Krista: So he had to get to work and you know, get started.
31:28
Krista: And it was just the business kind of became well, I'll rewind.
31:32
Krista: And then we vacationed off actually on our baby moon with Brooks to Maine.
31:37
Krista: That was our first trip.
31:38
Krista: And we went to Bar Harbor, and he was born in July.
31:42
Krista: We came in May, and it was very rainy and foggy.
31:45
Krista: It wasn't a great time to be here, but we loved it.
31:49
Krista: And what we really loved is that we saw we came the weekend before Memorial Day.
31:55
Krista: So most of the businesses were closed.
31:57
Krista: And we were like, are you kidding?
31:59
Krista: These people only work half the year.
32:01
Krista: I mean, and Aaron's like busting his butt seven days a week with his own company.
32:05
Krista: And it was like, wow, this is a really nice life.
32:08
Krista: These people live here.
32:10
Krista: So we actually ended up buying a home in Stewin, and we came up for a couple weeks, but we mainly used it as Airbnb until we could sell Aaron's business, which took a couple years, and sell our house.
32:30
Krista: But we had decided that we really like that way of life, and we were wanting more of at the time we were thinking passive income.
32:43
Krista: So we had bought this piece of land in Bar Harbor that we were gonna convert to a tiny house campground, which is actually behind the restaurant.
32:55
Krista: There's nine acres back there.
32:57
Krista: But between like the engineering and the permitting, and we we haven't been able to obtain the permits yet.
33:04
Krista: So we decided in the meantime, after Aaron's company sold, we sold our house, we sold everything.
33:12
Krista: People thought we were crazy, all our family sword in, and we're like, we're going to Maine.
33:16
Krista: And they're like, What's in Maine?
33:18
Krista: Not much, but it's beautiful.
33:22
Krista: And so there was like this old rundown, like I think it was a general store in the 40s, and then it was a lobster pound.
33:30
Krista: And when you walked in, it smelled like disgusting and like mold.
33:34
Krista: And it was so bad.
33:35
Krista: And we thought, well, let's throw a little money at it and bring it back to life.
33:39
Krista: And you know, in the meantime, we're trying to develop these cabins.
33:42
Krista: We'll have a restaurant.
33:44
Krista: We've never owned a restaurant, but Aaron is a phenomenal cook, he's really, really good.
33:50
Krista: And all the recipes are his, by the way.
33:53
Krista: So a year later, and a lot of money, we turned it back into the Bar Harbor Lobster Pound.
33:59
Krista: And the first year we opened, I don't know if you remember 2022, the month of June.
34:08
Krista: It rained every day.
34:10
Angela: I remember the opening party was freezing.
34:13
Angela: Yes.
34:14
Angela: It was fun stuff.
34:15
Krista: It was freezing and it rained every day the month of June.
34:19
Krista: Oh my god.
34:19
Krista: I think I cried almost every day the month of June.
34:23
Krista: Like, what have we done?
34:25
Krista: Because not many people were coming.
34:27
Krista: Yeah.
34:28
Krista: Because it the weather was just bad.
34:30
Krista: And we're an outdoor restaurant with seven indoor tables.
34:34
Krista: But then the sun came out again and people started to come.
34:38
Krista: And we just we keep building every year and we're getting great reviews, which I think bring people in.
34:44
Krista: And every year we add something or do something, just always trying to make it better and different.
34:51
Krista: And I think it's different from what a lot of the restaurants are around here.
34:56
Krista: We had noticed when we ate in Maine that we weren't in love with the food.
35:00
Krista: They don't use a lot of seasoning.
35:02
Krista: It's very bland.
35:03
Krista: And being from the South, we love seasoning and spice, and we really like to kind of do it up and sauces.
35:10
Krista: And Aaron is like a saucier, like he can just throw together the most amazing sauce.
35:14
Krista: So we make all our sauces in-house the aioles, the ranch, the um, you know, the chip dip we have now, uh, the tartar sauce.
35:24
Krista: Everything's homemade every day.
35:26
Krista: We have guys that come in at like 4 50 a.m.
35:29
Krista: They clock in.
35:30
Angela: But yeah, and it's been yeah, and we homeschool the boys, so it's a lot.
35:35
Angela: But we connected originally when you moved to Maine.
35:38
Angela: I had this like little homeschool group and you reached out and yes, yes.
35:43
Krista: I was yeah, I was trying to find some friends around here because that we literally don't have any family, no friends.
35:49
Krista: We just we were the crazy ones that moved to Maine.
35:52
Krista: But now everybody that comes up here, they're like, Oh, we want to buy a house in Maine.
35:57
Krista: All your Florida friends.
35:59
Krista: Yes, they all want to find houses up here now.
36:02
Krista: Yeah, vacation land.
36:04
Krista: Yeah, yeah.
36:06
Krista: And it was the best decision we ever made.
36:08
Krista: It was.
36:09
Angela: Yeah.
36:09
Angela: So how is that like with little kid doing that?
36:12
Angela: Did do you I think I remember you lived in an RV for a little bit?
36:16
Krista: Yeah, we did.
36:17
Krista: So our house, like I mentioned, we turned it into an Airbnb here because we still had a house in Florida and we were trying to sell it.
36:24
Krista: Well, it sold, but our house still had bookings.
36:28
Krista: So we lived in the campground across the street from the lobster pound for that summer.
36:34
Krista: And I mean, it was 50 bucks a night, and we were getting 500 a night to rent our house.
36:41
Krista: And we're, you know, we're trying to build the town, so it just made sense.
36:45
Krista: And yeah, so living in the RV with two kids, that was and a dog.
36:49
Krista: It was tight, but it made us closer.
36:54
Krista: It was fine until we all got COVID.
36:57
Krista: And then I was like, I need some square footage.
37:02
Angela: We were a little cramped.
37:03
Angela: Moving back into the house.
37:06
Krista: Well, yeah, yeah.
37:08
Krista: Well, we actually still had our house in Florida at the time, so I was just like, I I gotta fly home for a bit.
37:12
Krista: I cover.
37:14
Krista: Yes.
37:15
Krista: Yeah, yeah.
37:17
Krista: And we just so we did have contractors, but Aaron would go over there and do a lot of the work himself just to kind of expedite it because we were not gonna miss summer of 2022.
37:27
Krista: We had been building for a long time and we were like, okay, we are ready to open.
37:33
Krista: So get out there, Aaron.
37:35
Angela: I remember when we did photos back in 2022, I think, after we met through our homeschool group, and you'd mentioned that you were working on a lobster pound in Bar Harbor, but I didn't realize where it was or which one it was.
37:46
Angela: And when we did photos that day, I drove by before our session to check out some spots, and I saw a guy working with his tractor, and the whole place was all dug up, and he's out there all alone working on this hot day.
37:57
Angela: And I still didn't realize that was your place.
38:00
Angela: And I was like, oh, that's so awesome.
38:02
Angela: Someone's restoring the old Bar Harbor lobster pound.
38:04
Angela: It was the same spot I used to go to when my oldest and middle son were a lot younger, and we'd go out to Bar Harbor, go to Acadia, do adventures, and stop for food on the way back.
38:15
Angela: We'd always stop at the old Bar Harbor Lobster Pound.
38:18
Angela: And it had been closed for years, but when we went there so long ago, I remember it as the most magical piece of land.
38:25
Angela: And it had the same vibe that you guys have really brought back and kept, which I think is so cool because obviously you'd never been to it when it was open before.
38:34
Angela: But yeah, then later that day when I met you for photos, you gave me the address of the lobster pound, and I went to meet you and realized that you had bought that lobster pound.
38:42
Angela: So I was so excited to put it together that you'd not just bought any lobster pound in Bar Harbor, but that you'd bought that specific piece of property.
38:49
Angela: I just feel like that land is quite magical.
38:52
Krista: Yeah, it was such a coincidence.
38:54
Krista: It's crazy.
38:54
Krista: But yeah, I'm so glad that you did reach out and we connected that way and with the homeschooling and yeah, it's been awesome.
39:01
Krista: And we get to live like the maners now, where we only work half the year, and that was the goal.
39:06
Krista: Like, wow, you actually get all that family time in the winter, and it is so special like to have that time together, and we don't have like hardly any distractions, and that's part of our agreement because we do have you know other businesses and Airbnbs, but we shut them all down because we have this deal that we will not work winners.
39:26
Krista: That's our family time.
39:28
Angela: That's so special, so special and so important when you have little kids.
39:33
Angela: Most of the time you'll know your kids is when they're adults, and to be able to just take that time while they're little to you know, have a certain amount of time.
39:40
Angela: It's like we're just gonna spend time as a family, like so special that you've been able to.
39:45
Angela: It doesn't sound like it's been an easy journey to get here.
39:47
Angela: It's not easy.
39:48
Angela: You had to sacrifice and like live in an RV and like build you had to build it himself.
39:53
Angela: It's just such a cool story.
39:54
Angela: I love, I love your story.
39:56
Krista: I know at breakfast the other day, I you know, Rivers ate, and but we call him Bubby, he's seven.
40:01
Krista: And I told Aaron, I said, We only have 10 summers with them left.
40:06
Krista: You know, it's like, oh my gosh, gotta make the most of them.
40:10
Krista: Hopefully they'll stick around.
40:12
Krista: I mean, I already, you know, I'm kind of molding them, like, okay, what do you want to manage when you're yeah?
40:18
Krista: What job can we give you?
40:21
Krista: Yeah, exactly.
40:22
Krista: You gotta help us out.
40:25
Angela: Yeah.
40:25
Angela: Oh, that's so special.
40:26
Angela: And how has it been with them like growing up, like at the lobster pounds?
40:30
Angela: Because they're like almost second home, probably, right?
40:33
Krista: Yeah, they love it.
40:34
Krista: They always ask people when we have guests up here.
40:36
Krista: So, what's your favorite restaurant?
40:38
Angela: It's like a special question, isn't it?
40:42
Krista: Yeah, no, they they do love it.
40:44
Krista: They love going, they love the clam chowder, they love the clam chowder bread bowl.
40:48
Krista: Oh my gosh, they have to have it every day.
40:50
Krista: Unlimited ice cream, they love that.
40:54
Angela: But it's like one of the highlights to the lobster boat that you brought in that's like ice cream, blueberry pie.
40:59
Angela: And it's cool because it's completely separate from the actual restaurant.
41:03
Angela: So if you want to just stop in for ice cream, like after a photo shoot or something, you just stop in, have just ice cream, you know, or if you're hungry, you can just go over to the other side and get food too, you know.
41:14
Angela: And you've got like the bar and the back.
41:15
Angela: There's there's like a lot of cool different spots where you can get stuff.
41:18
Angela: So there's not like just one big line, I feel like is cool.
41:20
Angela: Right.
41:21
Krista: Oh, yeah.
41:21
Krista: And we have the gift shop.
41:22
Krista: Yeah, we have to um, yeah, we have to have a lot of staff on when we're open, just because there is so many different stations and called the crack shack where they pick all the lobster meat.
41:31
Krista: And but yeah, that lobster boat or the ice cream boat was an actual lobster boat.
41:37
Krista: It was we had to fully redo it.
41:40
Krista: It was really run down and abandoned at a storage yard.
41:45
Krista: And the guy said, if you'll pay the overdue storage fee, which was 500 bucks, he goes, You can have it.
41:51
Krista: We're like, Okay, sold.
41:54
Angela: Oh my gosh, that is so cool.
41:56
Angela: What a cool idea! It's just it's a cool experience, I feel like going there and it's awesome and it's set back from the roads.
42:03
Angela: It's super kid friendly.
42:04
Angela: Your kids aren't gonna like run out near the road.
42:06
Angela: There's games for the kids to play.
42:08
Angela: It's such I feel like it has that mom energy of the creation.
42:13
Krista: Yeah, that's honestly, we build everything around our kids.
42:16
Krista: It's like, what makes life easier?
42:17
Krista: What can the kids do?
42:18
Krista: How can we keep them busy?
42:20
Krista: Yeah, we built the whole thing with them in mind.
42:24
Angela: I love that.
42:24
Angela: And didn't you just add disc golf and some more extra space for parking?
42:29
Angela: And you just keep doing other new things each year.
42:31
Angela: It's awesome.
42:32
Krista: Yeah, we keep having to expand the parking lot.
42:34
Krista: And yeah, we got like the little Kinect 4s and the ring toss and cornhole.
42:39
Krista: And you know, when you go to a restaurant with kids, it's hard when they're at that young age just to keep them in the seat.
42:46
Krista: And I used to have like coloring materials and stuff in my purse, just something.
42:50
Krista: But it's nice that they can go run around there and they're not gonna get in trouble and they can go throw a frisbee or and mom and dad can just enjoy their meal, listen to music.
42:58
Krista: Exactly.
43:00
Angela: It is the best.
43:01
Angela: I completely love it.
43:02
Angela: It is my favorite spot to stop with the kids after like a day of adventuring, and they love it too, and settle right in because they've been there a few times now.
43:09
Angela: So they're like, go play the games and do this and that.
43:12
Angela: And it is just like as a parent, so relaxing to just be able to stop in and spend some time there and yeah, just enjoy life, you know, like just daily life for the kids and not be stressed out because I feel like a lot of restaurants you go into, you know, like these mainstream restaurants, and they've got literally like video games for the kids, like in the center of the table.
43:30
Angela: And I'm just like, oh, like it's not my style.
43:33
Angela: Um, I know.
43:34
Angela: I'm like, don't touch those, they're gross.
43:36
Angela: We're not using those.
43:38
Angela: But yeah, go out where the kids can be like a little, like, you know, around the table.
43:43
Angela: They don't have to sit at the table.
43:44
Angela: They can play the games and come back to the table.
43:46
Angela: It's just, it's so nice.
43:47
Krista: Exactly.
43:48
Krista: Go run around, do a lap.
43:49
Krista: Yes.
43:50
Krista: Yeah.
43:51
Krista: And we have free parking.
43:53
Krista: It's not hard to find a parking spot.
43:55
Krista: It stresses me out to go downtown because I'm already I drive a big vehicle and I'm like, where am I gonna?
44:00
Angela: Park and yeah, seriously, yeah, it's so nice because you're just a little bit outside of town, still like really close, but like far enough out where you have a lot of space, like that, just the land that you have there and the forest.
44:11
Angela: And I was there with a family last week, and she was like, This place is magical with the lights and everything.
44:18
Angela: Like that was her word to describe it.
44:20
Angela: She was like, This place is just magical.
44:21
Angela: And she had never been there before.
44:23
Angela: It's like her first time.
44:24
Krista: So yes, it's not just me.
44:26
Krista: We really appreciate your support.
44:28
Krista: We know you bring a lot of people.
44:30
Krista: I feel like every time I'm there, I see you.
44:31
Krista: Oh, there's Angela.
44:34
Angela: Yeah.
44:34
Angela: Oh, well, yeah, I love it.
44:36
Angela: And yeah, I'm so happy to have met you and that you're yeah, doing what you're doing up here in Maine.
44:42
Krista: Yeah.
44:42
Krista: And I hope that my C-section stories, you know, if mom does have to have one, it will ease their nerves because it really, I feel like it was very easy for me.
44:52
Krista: And recovery was easy.
44:54
Krista: And I don't know, maybe you're just so busy with a baby, you don't have time to think of yourself, right?
44:59
Angela: You don't have to be laying your head and you're like, oh and you can still have your autonomy and make your own decisions even throughout the process.
45:07
Angela: Yeah, yeah.
45:09
Angela: So as a final question, if you were to give advice to someone who's expecting or even new parents, uh, what are some of the biggest things you'd want to share?
45:18
Krista: Yeah, I think that you kind of hit the nail on the head when you said like mental health, because I was so concerned with trying to do everything right and what social media portrays as healthy.
45:32
Krista: And you really need to kind of take care of yourself.
45:37
Krista: And that's you know, because that breastfeeding feeding it really made me sad.
45:42
Krista: Like, like I can't do this.
45:45
Krista: Do I need to drink more water?
45:46
Krista: Like, why am I not producing?
45:48
Krista: But I also was back down to my original baby weight within two weeks.
45:53
Krista: Like, I just shed weight fast at that point.
45:56
Krista: I did because of stress.
45:58
Krista: And so my body just had nothing extra to that.
46:03
Krista: Yeah, the mobs metal health is the most important.
46:06
Krista: And if you know, breastfeeding, if you need that time and then don't do it.
46:11
Krista: It'll be fine.
46:12
Krista: Order the good stuff, you'll feel better.
46:15
Angela: Exactly.
46:16
Angela: You know, like what it looks different for every parent.
46:19
Angela: There's no right or wrong when you're like trying to you know, like you said, like trying to figure out the right way to do it.
46:24
Angela: There is no right way to do it.
46:25
Angela: There's only what's right for you, you know, and that looks different for everybody.
46:29
Angela: Yeah.
46:30
Krista: Right.
46:31
Krista: And like a lot of the people, you know, like co-sleeping and things like that.
46:34
Krista: And it it was like, no, I need my sleep.
46:37
Krista: You're going in the crib.
46:38
Krista: And which River was fine because he was such a great sleeper.
46:42
Krista: But Bubby had a very, very hard time with it, and he was crying, and I was up a lot in the night.
46:47
Krista: And I'm doing, you know, those online classes that tell me exactly what to do.
46:51
Krista: Sometimes I want to work.
46:53
Krista: And this he was like a wild child.
46:56
Krista: I mean, even though I had him in a sleep sack when he was just under a year, like when he started walking at like nine months, he would like throw his leg over the crib in the middle of the night, and he would, you know, be waddling out in the sleep sack, screaming, looking for me in the sleep sack at nine months.
47:14
Krista: Oh my goodness.
47:16
Krista: Yeah.
47:16
Krista: Like waddling out.
47:18
Krista: He he he was so strong and wild.
47:21
Krista: And um so I just started putting him in the bed with River.
47:25
Krista: Slept like a baby, and they still sleep together after all these years.
47:30
Krista: He just wanted somebody there.
47:32
Angela: Yeah, which is so normal.
47:34
Angela: Like as grown-ups, like we want to sleep with someone too, right?
47:37
Angela: Like, we don't want to sleep alone.
47:38
Angela: We don't sleep next to our husbands, and yeah, like it's normal for like babies to not want to be alone too.
47:44
Angela: Yeah, yeah.
47:45
Angela: But also to figure out what works so that you can still get sleep.
47:48
Krista: Right.
47:49
Krista: Yeah, because you know, and I may have let him stay in the room, but my husband was very much like, I have to work tomorrow, no babies in this room.
47:57
Krista: Like, I need sleep.
47:59
Krista: This is kind of your job, you get up, and and I respected that because he he was working and he did work really hard and he didn't.
48:08
Angela: Totally looks different for everybody.
48:10
Angela: Again, like there's no right or wrong.
48:12
Angela: Great.
48:13
Angela: So, what are the social media pages for the lobster pound and how can people find you?
48:18
Krista: Yeah, so just Bar Harbor Lobster Pound.
48:21
Krista: I think that's it.
48:22
Krista: I don't think there's anything behind it or anything, just Bar Harbor Lobster Pound.
48:27
Krista: We're next to Bets Western and Pirates Cove in there, and it's very kid-friendly of all ages, and yeah, it's a cool place to bring your kids.
48:37
Angela: Awesome.
48:37
Angela: I will link all of your info in the show notes.
48:39
Angela: And yeah, thank you, Krista, so much for taking the time to chat with me and share your story.
48:44
Krista: Of course, it's been a pleasure, and I always enjoy seeing you.
48:53
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