OFF THE RECORD: Giving birth without meaning to

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In today's episode, Stace explains the build up to the birth of her second child. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the Flavor podcast network. You're listening to Stacissura and
Charlie's off the record. What's your record? Welcome to Off
the Records, Stacis and Charlie. When we talk about that,
So didn't go on the radio, like giving birth.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
To a baby when you didn't mean to. So my
daughter is sixteen on Thursday, and I worked for Flavor
first time round when she was born. I accidentally worked
until the day I gave birth to her. I hate
that's tough, silly. So she's our second child. So what

(00:41):
had happened is that Scottie was going to here to
do a live show or something. So we went, oh,
we'll just wait another week because we although we live
in Aukland, we have all of our kids and and
that was important to us because that's where we come
from and Auckland isn't such an ouque Paul. It's not
somewhere we connect to deep ancestrally. So we'd go to

(01:02):
to do it and I have my midwife there and
to do a beautiful two year and so we go
back and forth. And after the first child, I thought,
you know, I gave myself maybe a week or two
weeks there like time to get ready. But with this one,
I'm like, it'll be fine. So I don't know. But
so then she we sort of think one child comes late,
so maybe this one will too. No on time, well early,

(01:26):
and so it was like the last day of work.
And then so I must have been thirty nine forty weeks.
And then that morning at one o'clock, I was like, oosh, okay,
I'm getting some one o'clock in the morning, I'm getting
some like change kinder. And then they were consistent. I
was going, this is twenty minutes apart all the time.
Oh no, And so I made the call at three am,

(01:47):
and I said, I think we have to go to
to do it. So I bring up work and we
you know, my son was like one on eighteen months
or something, and so we'd put him in the car
and all change. I changed the sheets because our friend
was coming to just.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Oh my gosh, Stacy. And then we get in the
can because you have a friend coming over in labor.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
Yeah, it helps you cat need something to focus on.
And so we're going down there. You know. My biggest
consumer was I didn't want to give birth to a
baby on the side of the road. In Huntley. Oh no,
like because then we're trying to give this good booth story.
You know where you were, where you come from, and
imagine that.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Oh my mama had me on the dicker side of
the roaders.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Why's your name Dicker? Well, so this was when I
was working at Flavors. So Pete Palangy and doctor Fane
were on air and were they being nice to meet? No,
they were playing songs like Salt and Pepper. Push it like,
so push the baby out where you're on the way
down there? And so I was breathing through a day.
I mean I wasn't driving.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Because how long is the trip? Three hours?

Speaker 2 (02:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yeah, So the labor started at once and she won't
leave till three damn. And then it's three hours from there,
so you essentially had your entire labor journeying so like
to your midwife and was it just did you have
the baby straight away? Have baby straight away?

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Well, this is the other thing about my daughter. She's
just playing with me because then I got there and
the labour paying stopped. I'm like, are you kidding me?
And my mother in law literally said, well you have
to have the baby. Now You've just like just being
you made such a big day about the bed. Yeah. Yeah,
And Scotty had to have the day off work and
all of that, so we just went and he couldn't

(03:34):
do the live show he was supposed to do the
next day, so I was like, yeah, we definitely have
to have this baby. And so it started again in
the afternoon. Luckily I got a bit of sleep, and
then it was the night of the Beijing Olympics, because
I always remember, you know, this is the time she's
in that four year cycle of the Olympics being on
during her birthday. So that night I still didn't have

(03:54):
her untill about nine point thirty and had an unplanned
water birth. The midwife went, okay, you've got a couple
of hours. I was like, no, a couple of hours
because I do have no birth. I was like, no, no,
I don't want to have to take any drugs. As
soon as I got in the way atiki and the
thermal water. Five minutes later, I said to my husband
I'm gonna I'm gonna push, and he's like no, no, no,
no no. The midwife's gone out no, no, no no,

(04:16):
and I was like, well, I'm having a baby, right,
and she was like can you get out and went no.
She goes, okay, we'll have a water booth and so yeah, from.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
Were you actually in like a thermal bath?

Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yeah, because then do they have like the thermal pipes
are linked up to the hospital, so you've got like
a big birthing pool, you know, big pool and it's
just straight from the tap. So it's beautiful.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
So from I think, I'm sorry, I really I was
imagining you like in the river and wow, that's actually
crazy Parkius.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
Hey what is she doing the traditional thing of giving
birth in the park.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
That's just say Morrison having a baby.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
No, but I went from eight centimeters to birth in
five minutes. And that's my girl. That's how she has
She say no, no right now, right now, there's no
backing around, and this is my terms. And that's sixteen
years old.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
Happy birthday to go to work us. Thanks for listening
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