Push It Real Good! Preparing For Poppy Pearl

Hey Lifers!

It’s officially Laura’s last episode for a few weeks!
What ‘pet’ term do you hate? Babe, bub or hubby? Did you ever say one ironically and then it somehow entered your vocabulary?

Do we have a ‘maternity leave’ plan for Laura? No, no we do not. In a move that will be very unsurprising, we are just going to roll with it and see how Laura feels! Laura has a bone to pick with Matt about their health insurance. 

Britt is constantly asked how married life is going but she doesn’t really know because she hasn’t seen her husband in 12 weeks! She’s over in Italy now and shares some of the tricker parts of being in a long distance relationship.

We then jump into all of Laura’s birth plans. We speak about whether Laura has a birth plan, how she’s feeling quite unprepared and how the baby is in a bit of a complicated position. Laura also speaks about her previous ‘traumatic birth’ with Marlie Mae. We ask her who is going to be in the room, what she’s doing with the placenta and whether they will live stream it/post on socials?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This episode was recorded on cameragle Land.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Hi guys, and welcome back to another episode of Life
on Cut.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
I'm Laura, I'm Ernie Bretney. Well not yet, we don't
know what I am.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
You got two other kids, but like almost almost three.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
I do feel like we need to preface this episode
because we don't know when it's happened in the timeline
of Life on Cut. So we're recording this early tonight.
I'm going in for a stretch and sweep. Tomorrow, we're recording.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Last week's episode, and then this is coming out.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
I'm assuming, I'm assuming hopefully I have a baby, because
if I don't have a baby by the time this
episode comes out, it's overcooked. But I think you're over
cooking that statement when you're like, this is so early,
we've only recorded this. This is I think this would
be less than or just on two weeks early, which
isn't that much.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Not too no baby, it's one week, ten days. Sorry
to put your baby. That was so weird. You actually,
hey babe.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
Laura messaged me yesterday and wrote hey babe, and I
wrote back, no ware's babe, and she was like, we
vomited and it was we don't don't baby han do
everyone harm?

Speaker 1 (01:12):
Yeah? Sorry?

Speaker 3 (01:13):
I unfortunately used to use babe like ironically, and then
it became a part of my voc cabin.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
I really hated about myself.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
I think some people do it well. I don't do
it well. And so when I say baby, I don't
know anyway. I'm so sorry that I offended you so deeply.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Do you know what word I can't stand?

Speaker 3 (01:26):
And I get the biggest ink for couples bub when
they use it to call each other.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
People still do I think they do? They do well? Look,
just going back to the timeline.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
Of hang on, I want to sit in this. Okay, Keisha,
I agree with you.

Speaker 4 (01:40):
How do you feel about hubby?

Speaker 3 (01:41):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Hang on? But bub?

Speaker 3 (01:43):
So bub is like that term. This is the weirdest,
this weird that you brought this up. I detested. Ben
has never called me that ever, and then the other
day in a message he said it, he said thanks bub,
and I.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
Was like who, I was like what? Bub? Doesn't offend me?

Speaker 2 (01:59):
That? I mean, don't call matter That's not part of
my vote.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
They do call him daddy, not ironically either. O.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
All right, okay, back to the timeline.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
Okay, so I know you said two weeks.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
No, we're recording this one week out from when this
episode is going to play, So technically it's actually not
that far ahead. In the world of podcasting, most people
record much further ahead than us.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
We do one day usually.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
Yeah, thank you that you're just proving my point. You
were like, oh, this is so advanced.

Speaker 5 (02:24):
I'm like, we have waited as long as humanly vaginally
possible possible.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
But the reason why is because we're so used to
doing everything in as close to real time as possible.
And it's weird talking about the fact that I'm like,
this is the last episode I'm going to be on
for a little while, guys, and I.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
Feel emotional and I'm going to leave you all.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
I'll be back in like three weeks. I doubted that
I never take ptnial to leave.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
So let's be real.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
It gets pomo, I think, and you know, that's what
we can get into. But Laura, there is not really.

Speaker 5 (02:54):
A plan, Like, we just know that you're gonna have
as much or as little time as you need. So
for all the life that are saying, what's happening, how
long will you be away?

Speaker 3 (03:02):
When we don't know, we don't know at this point,
we don't even know when the baby's coming.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
We don't know if it's a girl. We do know
it's a girl.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Now everyone knows its name is Poppy Pearl because Matt
keeps talking about it on his podcast, so in case
you were curious, and Matt outed the name ages ago,
and it's all, yeah, there's no secrets anymore.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
I love Poppy Pearl, but she's just gonna get pipe.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
That's okay. I'm cool with that. Kids are gonna get
teased for something. It might as well be their name.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
Might be their name that I've set them up with
for life.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Well, I went through all of the options of like
how she could be teased, because I feel like when
you pick a name, you're like, you know, Marley. Then
you go through all the different variations of how a
kid could tease that child with that name.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
And I was like Poppy.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Then I was like floppy Poppy, Sloppy Poppy, Poppy Pearl, Peepee,
and me pop I know. But then I realized, actually,
the kids aren't mean it's just me. I'm doing it
to my own child. No one call my child sloppy Poppy, please,
because that will really upset me.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
Daily mail. Fuck off.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
People wouldn't have thought about it, and now you've just
planted that in their head.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Well, okay, So the way this is going to work
is I probably already have a kid by now, which
is insane. So originally my induction was going to be
around the twenty fifth, but there's no space for me
to be induced on the twenty fifth. I should be
being induced either the twenty second or the twenty third
of this month, which you know, as you guys know,
was like yesterday or the day before. So if you're
listening to this, there's a good chance I had the

(04:20):
baby yesterday.

Speaker 5 (04:21):
So what is the general timeline then from a stretch
and sweep at this point to like trying to bring
on the birth.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
So I went to forty two weeks with Marley, and
I've had so many I had like a stretch and
sweep every forty eight hours or something, and it did
absolutely nothing for.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
Me really hoping it was going to come before I left.
I don't know what's worse if the fact that I'm like,
oh damn, I miss the birth, or if it's worse
that I'm like, yes, have it early so I can
see it then be like that's just leave you.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
No, that's fine, that's good. I actually would prefer no one.
I don't know a lot of people. I don't want visitors.
I just want to be by myself for five days.

Speaker 5 (04:57):
So do you hear that, kishm Matt pop off, We
are uninvited from Laura's house.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
But this is I guess this episode's going to be
a little bit different because I know some of you
were probably sick of hearing about pregnancy, and trust me,
this will be the last episode, but we were kind
of going to cover off some of like the pre
pregnancy birthing plan stuff on this episode, and then the
next time you hear from me, which will be in
a few weeks time, it will be like what happened
during the birth.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
Hopefully I survived to tell the tale.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
Well help well.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Childbirth used to be the biggest form killer and women
not anymore. Though now you're private health insurance. I don't
that's the problem. We don't talk about, Okay, I conducted
like the.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
Other day I had to send through our private health
cover to the hospital.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
So this time we're going private.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
We've always been public before and I've never had to
do like the whole process of private. Anyway, I had
to send off some of the forums, and I was
a little bit late sending them through, and then I
got this email saying that there was a mistake with
one of them, and I was like, what's going on?

Speaker 1 (05:56):
Anyway?

Speaker 2 (05:58):
I am not the one who set up our health insurance.
Matt is the one who takes care of health insurance.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
Like he's across it my gas and stuff. Yeah, No,
I'm across.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
Your gas, which is currently overdew And I have gotten
a notification saying that we're in arrears, so give me.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
A bad credit? Can you pay it?

Speaker 2 (06:12):
I will give myself a bad credit, but you'll have
no gas.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
He's the problem. It's a problem for multiple people.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
So I asked Matt. I was like, hey, can you
send across like the confirmation of our insurance so that
I can at least know what kind of cover we
have and who we're with and all that sort of stuff.

Speaker 3 (06:29):
Can I afford the anesthetic or do I have to
go gas?

Speaker 1 (06:31):
Yeah? Like, am I allowed to get an EPI dural?

Speaker 3 (06:34):
What level am I at?

Speaker 2 (06:35):
So I asked him for it and he took a
while to send it through, and then I had to
remind him, and I reminded him again, but I knew
he was looking. It wasn't like he didn't look for it.
I was like, why is this taking so long? Should
just be an email? Anyway, last night I was like, Hey,
I need to submit those papers this morning because it's
one week until the baby's jew and we're currently not
booked in for the hospital. And he was like, yeah
about that, I don't know if we covered hey, And

(06:57):
I was like sorry, what and he's like, I don't
know if covers up to date? And I was like,
what gives you the impression that the cover's not up
to date? And he goes, oh, just the last email.
He goes the last email I received, and I was like,
show me the email. And the email says your cover
has expired. Pay now or you will not be covered.
And that was in February.

Speaker 3 (07:17):
Matt, but I don't think we're covered.

Speaker 5 (07:21):
You're definitely not covered, so you're not covered.

Speaker 3 (07:24):
So Laura's like, hey, we're public this time I'm going private.
She's like, actually, no, this time, we're not going private.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
We're back to public. So yeah, we're fighting, but it's fine.
So I haven't seen Matt in three days.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
I don't know where he is. That's so bad.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
I want to know.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
It's so bad.

Speaker 3 (07:41):
It's funny, but then it's actually not funny if you
break it down.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
Yeah, Unfortunately it lapsed during the time that he was
in the jungle and I wasn't across his emails, but
there were multiple emails prior.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
But you can also cut this out, but won't you
guys the ambassador for the health issue, so cind you
were like the face of it.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
Guys, we've no for so long, like as in like okay,
so maybe like three months and it's Booper. They're great, Okay,
I have it's not about Booper.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
Booper is amazing.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
For three months of this year, we were like ambassadors
for Booper on this podcast.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
Were like signed up.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
I was like, yeah, this is who we choose. We
choose Booper and we weren't even like anyways sign up
to Booper. I highly recommend just don't let your don't
let your cover laps.

Speaker 4 (08:30):
Mine's rolling. Mine just rolls over.

Speaker 1 (08:32):
I wish mine was.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
I think you have to like sign up to the
direct debit so that they have the allowance to just
like charge back.

Speaker 3 (08:38):
I probably assumed that I would forget to cover, and
then you have to pay the extra tax and all
the levees.

Speaker 1 (08:44):
And all that shit.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
I'm waiting for that Medicare levee to hit me in
the next tax return. It reminds me, though, of so
like this happens so many years ago, But it reminds
me of my ex boyfriend from a million years ago.

Speaker 3 (08:57):
My new current birth reminds me of my who never
would have let health insurance.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
No, the opposite, the opposite. So I think we were
together for like three years, like we lived together.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
It was very serious.

Speaker 3 (09:09):
Oh man, he felt like it was serious with all
the other women he was with as well.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
No, he never cheated on me. He was a good one.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
He was.

Speaker 1 (09:15):
Here's a good one. No, he was just disorganized.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
Just take us back to which one this is bet
on the floor fucking the leg? Which one we need?

Speaker 2 (09:21):
Like the reminder, He's probably not one that I speak
about very often because he was actually relatively great musician.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
No, no, no, I speak about him. That's bet on
the floor.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
Okay, So this guy was great, except he was really
bad at any paperwork. I would one hundred percent think
that he probably had some sort of undiagnosed ADHD like
you'd just forget things.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
He could hyper fixate on.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
Work and like loved design and like that world of technology.
But then when it came to anything else, like he
hadn't done his tax in like seventeen years, and I yeah,
and I was like really worried that we were going
to get arrested for tax for all at that time.
So we went away on a holida and I'd been
overseas in Bali for two weeks, and then we went
to Mexico together.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
And we came back from Mexico.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
So I've been away from the house for about a month,
and he'd also been on a work trip for two
weeks and then had come to Mexico and we'd spent
this time together. So four weeks, no one had been
in our apartment. And we came home from this trip
and I opened the front door. I was like, oh
my god, did you not give the cat to the neighbor?
Like what has died in this house? And then I
went to turn the lights on and there was no electricity,
and I was like, Okay, that's weird, and then I realized.

(10:30):
I went to the fridge and all of the meat
that had been stored in the freezer had defrosted weeks
earlier and had dripped out of the freezer and had
rotted down the fridge. And I was like, how has
this happened? He's like, I got no idea, that's crazy.
I got to get to work. So I got left
with this rotting fridge situation. And then I found out
two hours later he just had not paid the electricity

(10:50):
bill and we had been cut off.

Speaker 4 (10:52):
Oh I would just move.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
And do you know how many warnings you get about
paying your electricity bill? Like that is a daily like, hey,
before we cut your electricity off. I just want to
remind you every single day.

Speaker 3 (11:02):
Okay, well, knowing that if I lose my gas.

Speaker 1 (11:04):
I know I have been reminded so many times to
pay your gas killb So sorry, Laura.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
Do you know what the difference with Laura and I?

Speaker 1 (11:10):
This is our relationship.

Speaker 5 (11:11):
I get a message from Laura, Hey, Britt, your gas
is toe. I'm like thanks, Babs.

Speaker 3 (11:14):
Next day I'm like, hey, Laura, Miley needs a vaccination.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
Because I get all the hurt.

Speaker 3 (11:18):
I get all her health emails and all her health
letters sent to my house to.

Speaker 4 (11:22):
Fault that your health insurance lapsed.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
Maybe all the data is being in me.

Speaker 2 (11:27):
I do want to I know that you guys, most
of you know this if you've been a lifer for
a long time.

Speaker 1 (11:30):
That if you're new to this situation, I.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
Look after Laura's kids' health.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
Yeah, look at Brittany's my pa.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
No, if you're new to this situation, this might sound rogue,
as britt lives in my old apartment and I never
updated any of my mail, so she still receives all
of my mail and we just kind of like have
this mutual agreement that I pay for things that you use.

Speaker 3 (11:49):
That Yeah, I have the shorter end of the stick
because you just have to pay like three monthly, you
pay a gas bill.

Speaker 5 (11:54):
I'm looking after your fines, Matt's fines. I'm looking after
the girl's vaccination record, health record.

Speaker 3 (12:00):
Every time you have to pay for your electoral because
you haven't updated that. I'm doing it all. I'm like
a proper family pa, And I'm like, mate, you.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
Can never leave that apartment because I'm never updating that shit.

Speaker 1 (12:12):
You're gonna have to.

Speaker 3 (12:14):
You're going to have to. I even get I get books.
I think you're sign up to a book club.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
I don't know. I get books from Laura every second week.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
I'm like, I don't want another book.

Speaker 1 (12:20):
I think it's to be our agency that thinks I
still live there. Send me something good. All right.

Speaker 5 (12:27):
Well, as much as I know these episodes about you,
and I'm all for it, let's just like, sit on me.

Speaker 3 (12:31):
Let's give me two minutes.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
You can have as many minutes as you want, right twenty,
Let's go the rest of the episode.

Speaker 5 (12:37):
You're having a baby, and I am probably trying to
make a baby. I am in Italy, Okay, so I
would have been in Italy for two days maybe, like
I would have only just got there, I think so
at the time of recording, I'm leaving in one more
week's time. And I have not seen Ben in twelve
weeks basically since the wedding we got married. We had

(13:00):
I think he came to Australia for two weeks after
and we had those little mini moons and then I
haven't seen him in twelve weeks.

Speaker 3 (13:05):
So it's like, I cannot, I cannot tell you.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
How I am married life going for you, guys.

Speaker 3 (13:11):
It's so funny because people keep saying that to me.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
People are like, oh my god, Grads has married life
and I'm like, I don't know what I even see you.

Speaker 3 (13:17):
I haven't seen him since we need I was like, great,
I think I as much as I feel married, And
I said, it feels different. I can't experience it because
we just still talk on the phone. I'm like, well, like,
how nightly conversation is still good?

Speaker 2 (13:30):
You were just saying before, and like, I think that
it's the thing that everyone whoever has ever done long
distance struggles with. There's like a period of time that's
fine and easy, and then the close you get to
seeing each other, the longer it's been, it's kind of
like that three month period. Yeah, the longer it's been,
that's when you get to a point where you're like, Okay,
this is actually really hard.

Speaker 1 (13:47):
Now there's nothing left to talk about.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
We've talked about the day to day stuff every day,
and it's quite hard to keep that conversation.

Speaker 1 (13:53):
Going when you're not having any more moments together, you
know what I mean? Yes, like building more memories.

Speaker 3 (13:58):
I've said it before in the past is so accurate.
It's like, I'm fine with.

Speaker 5 (14:01):
Long distance, but I think long distance needs to be
like max.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
Eight weeks.

Speaker 3 (14:06):
It's coming up to three years we've been doing it,
so I've got the experience.

Speaker 1 (14:09):
Now.

Speaker 3 (14:10):
I think you could see a partner every four five
weeks great, But for us, eight weeks seems to be
where it switches from being fine, you're hustling, you're busy, whatever,
You're still like frothing talking to each other, and then
from like the nine, ten, eleven, twelve weeks, it's just
it gets hard. It's so hard and not hard. Nothing
changes other than you have exhausted the normal conversation. It

(14:34):
just becomes very monotonous. So it's like, how is your day?

Speaker 5 (14:36):
And one of you is just waking up so they've
got nothing to talk about them and it's sleep great hours.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
How's your day great? What'd you get up to this?
What you got planned?

Speaker 5 (14:43):
You know, I'm also a creature of habit, so my
days look the same, Like I go to the same
dog parks, I go for a swim at the same place,
I go to the same cafe, like so very rarely am.

Speaker 1 (14:53):
I like, oh I went on a y'ach.

Speaker 3 (14:54):
It's like, you know, it just becomes monotonous, and I
think that's when I poor band. But I to get
a bit like short and I know it like I
just get short with him, and it's because I'm not
frustrated at him. I'm frustrated at the situation. It gets
to the point and this last week has been really bad,
and he knows. I haven't said it straight up, but
he knows. But this past week I have sacrificed one

(15:19):
of our calls a little bit. So like we talk
in the morning and night, and they're both quite you know,
like maybe half an hour or to an hour, depends
how much time we've got. I've started to shorten the
night time one because I need to finish the summer.
I Turn Pretty, which is the show I have been
being watching, And it got to the point where I'm like, Okay,
I know nothing new is going to come from my
conversation with you. No, but it's in a nice way.

Speaker 1 (15:41):
I think you might come from Amazon Prime.

Speaker 4 (15:43):
Because you're talking because you talk about the same stuff.

Speaker 3 (15:46):
So I don't sacrifice the call. We still catch up,
but then quite often we just we just hang out
on the phone, so you'll hang out and cook dinner,
you're just watching each other on FaceTime. You're doing your
day to day stuff. But now it's to the point
where I was like, Babe, I've got to go.

Speaker 5 (15:58):
I was like, I've got four episodes to get through
tonight if I'm gonna make it on time for the finale.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
It's like when you listen to a podcast you put
on two times speed because you just.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
Want to get through it. That's you and your relationship
right now. Can I also just one thing? Remember that's
just so funny.

Speaker 3 (16:13):
Do you remember when a life eroding a review to
us personally and it was it was like quite offensive,
but she was like, I used to love you guys,
but you speak too quickly. Now you get a message
at least once every three days. This is a bit
of a word of warning if you're listening to this
right now and we sound like hamsters, or we sound
like we've done far too many lines of an illegal
substance where I'm toe point five speed. Yes, you can

(16:34):
change your playback speed on your podcast, and it's probably
on one point two five or one point five. I
know we speak quickly, but we don't speak ridiculously quickly.

Speaker 1 (16:42):
And it happened.

Speaker 3 (16:44):
Happens also two days ago would have been the most
recent time. And I just say to people, I'm like,
what app are you listening on? I'll show you how
to check. Alternatively, if you want us to sound like
we're stoned on marijuana, put it on last speed.

Speaker 4 (16:57):
If you've got a three hour drive in the podcast,
is only two?

Speaker 1 (17:00):
Else? Oh everybody?

Speaker 3 (17:02):
Anyway, that's my update. I am with Ben Agan. We're
only together for ten days, but it's going to be
hopefully ten blissful days. I will probably bombarde you with
social media.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
We loved up stories, not that I've stopped. I'm here
for the aparol sprits content aprol sprits. I saw you
one from me. It's a Laura wants right now. She
doesn't give a suck how Benny is.

Speaker 3 (17:23):
She's like, yeah, I'm ready for it. Send me the aparol,
Come on.

Speaker 1 (17:26):
Me, send me photos of aperol sprits and oysters. That's it.
It's all I want to see.

Speaker 3 (17:30):
You'll be able to do both of those things express
day one.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
Have it?

Speaker 3 (17:33):
Aparol?

Speaker 1 (17:33):
You're good? Yeah, I don't know. I don't know how soon.

Speaker 2 (17:36):
I feel like it might be poo pooed if you're
bringing alcohol into the hospital.

Speaker 1 (17:40):
Yeah, too soon, but it would have happened.

Speaker 5 (17:42):
Okay, Well, let's get into the episode that you're all
here for pretty in.

Speaker 3 (17:47):
Aren't we no the questions, Let's let's talk about the birth.

Speaker 4 (17:50):
Speaking of a birth plan, are you planning on taking
any alcoholic?

Speaker 3 (17:53):
No?

Speaker 2 (17:53):
But I do want someone to smuggle in some champagne.
I have kind of asked a few people. I want
like a post birth shampas. Is that okay? I don't
know if it is. You're not a medical doctor, and
I feel like medical doctors and midwives would say probably
not advised.

Speaker 5 (18:06):
No, I think you are allowed a little bit because
I don't I think it needs an X amount.

Speaker 3 (18:10):
Again, I'm not a doctor. I'm not gonna say this.
There's no safe limit. Okay, I'm going to be the
responsible one. There is no safe limit.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
I just I just really want to. I want to
celebratory shampus.

Speaker 4 (18:20):
Why don't we get alcohol free?

Speaker 1 (18:21):
Videographer said yes, because.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
It tastes like like, okay, Laura just look at me
like you disgusting slush.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
Do you know why?

Speaker 2 (18:28):
Because I went out for dinner recently and I ordered
an alcohol free wine, which, don't get me wrong, alcohol
free beer amazing like it is.

Speaker 1 (18:35):
Heap's normal is drink beer. I love a beer on
like a warm day. She's a cool girl. I'm gonna
pick me. I'm just doing it so that men like me.
I'm only drinking alcohol beer.

Speaker 3 (18:44):
I love beer at the rugbyer.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:46):
I love watching the football and drinking alcohol free beer.

Speaker 4 (18:48):
Do you love the football?

Speaker 3 (18:50):
I didn't know that about you.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
How we got this? I didn't.

Speaker 5 (18:53):
I've never seen you drinking beer since I met you.
You're always on a margi or a veno.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
Yeah, because like I would never get it.

Speaker 3 (18:59):
Want to pick me?

Speaker 2 (19:00):
No?

Speaker 1 (19:00):
Because I never would choose a non alcoholic margarita.

Speaker 2 (19:03):
I'll just have a juice or a non alcoholic me
heat or whatever.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
Do you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (19:08):
Like they don't taste the same, but a non alcoholic
beer tastes exactly the same. And if I'm only gonna
have like a drink at a barbecue or something, then
I have non alcoholic beer as fine.

Speaker 3 (19:16):
We're at a barbecue, now, was it when on the weekend?

Speaker 1 (19:19):
Oh? Okay, but the non alcoholic wine was not good?
Oh so My issue with non alcoholic wine is that
it is so it's so expense, is that there's no.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
Point It's not that it's so expensive, like I think
it cost me fifteen or sixteen dollars for a glass
like it cost me the same price as what a
normal glass with alcohol, and it tastes it was a
charraz that had been deacalyzed, and it legitimately tasted like
grapefruit juice like it did not taste It would be
okay if it tasted like a wine and the alcohol
being taken out of it.

Speaker 1 (19:50):
But I'm yet to find one where you try it and.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
You're like, yes, I feel like that's suspiciously wine like
tasting to me, it doesn't.

Speaker 1 (19:57):
It doesn't hit the same, so not the same as it.
I don't get a buzz, but it doesn't taste the same.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
And also, like my other gripe is just that mocktails
and everything else cost the same amount as an almost
a real cocktail. It's like fifteen dollars and it's just
juice with some fucking passion fruit pulp at bottom.

Speaker 3 (20:12):
You know what I don't understand about this is there
a reason in Australia that alcohol is so expensive is
because there's such a high tax on it.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
So then why are your mahidos so expensive?

Speaker 3 (20:20):
Guys really talking about the cost of living on nearly
every episode that we've done recently.

Speaker 4 (20:24):
But it doesn't make sense your fault.

Speaker 3 (20:27):
Because sorry not to victim blame me.

Speaker 2 (20:29):
No, No, I think it's I think it's Pregnanty's fault because
I can't I can't drink during pregnancy.

Speaker 1 (20:33):
No, I mean, let's blame Poppy.

Speaker 3 (20:35):
Poppy pil Let's blame sloppy Poppy.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
My poor child.

Speaker 3 (20:39):
She's not even born yet.

Speaker 1 (20:41):
I'm already trolling her. I'm gonna be a great mum.

Speaker 5 (20:44):
I'm gonna put your announcement. You know how people used
to put the announcement in the newspaper. I'm gonna say,
welcome to the world, floppy, slippy Poppy.

Speaker 2 (20:49):
What if I say it was sloppy and here is
poppy about the birth?

Speaker 3 (20:54):
Barcon Hell, let's talk about the birth. How are you feeling?
Because it is go time baby, like for us recording wise,
it doesn't get this will be like the last big
recording before it pops out, So like, how are you feeling?

Speaker 2 (21:07):
I think I'm in denial, to be honest, still a
little bit. And I think I've pushed the disorganization to
a point where it's actually now just a bit ridiculous.
Like I realized the other night, I was in bed,
and I started to get some weird feelings like cramps.

Speaker 1 (21:19):
I'd also had Like there's probably.

Speaker 2 (21:21):
Too much information, but at the time, so two days ago,
I had quite a bit of blood, like mucasy blood,
which sometimes can mean like babies on its way. Right,
So then that night I had like lots of bracks
and hicks, and I was laying in bed and I
just had this moment where I was like, I don't
know why I've done this to myself, And I don't
know what about me being disorganized, Like why have I
had this resistance to kind of packing a baby bag

(21:43):
or anything. Yeah, but like I don't have tracksuit pants
that I could wear in the hospital. Like I haven't
bought anything. I've got one pack of Tom's maternity pads.
That's literally it last year about a day. I don't
I just don't have anything planned. I haven't set up
the bassinette still, I haven't like nothing thing. I've got
a couple of onesies that one of my girlfriends when
it was like you know, baby shower time that my

(22:05):
girlfriend's got for all my group of girlfriends got for me.
And I don't know why I've been so apprehensive to
get organized. I think partly it's because I had this
resistance where I'm like, number three doesn't we don't need stuff,
like we know that we can manage three.

Speaker 3 (22:17):
It doesn't matter, No, it does.

Speaker 2 (22:19):
But I know that I can manage with very little
in comparison to I felt over prepared for the first time.
But I don't know why I haven't at least gotten
myself slightly organized so that if I do go into
spontaneous labor, I can actually take a bag to the hospital.

Speaker 3 (22:31):
Do you know what this is reminding me of? I
saw this a couple of months ago on Grace Beverly's Instagram.
I think that her friend had had a baby and
it was quite young. There were like three or four
of the friends. They were all really close, and they
went over one day. They all had a bucket of
cleaning supplies, they had gloves and everything, and they cleaned
her entire house.

Speaker 1 (22:50):
They organized her cupboards.

Speaker 3 (22:51):
They that's amazing, and I thought it was just such
a kind thing to like do for a friend. You're
a very hard person to buy for because you're not
very materialistic, and you like.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
You want to come over and clean.

Speaker 4 (23:02):
I've got my drills, I've got my steelcats. I will
come on the person.

Speaker 3 (23:06):
Hear me out. I will pay for a cleaner. That's
my gift to you. But I am not I'm not
coming on all floors. I'm not coming to grab your floor.
I have seen that floor. I will pay a cleaner.
I'll bring you her with me. She can just sit
there for entertainment. I will come and organize you. But
I think the thing is you've I get it.

Speaker 1 (23:24):
I get it.

Speaker 5 (23:25):
I am like this in every other aspect of my
life too, where you know doing something simple is going
to help you so much, but you can't bring yourself
to do it.

Speaker 3 (23:34):
You wait until.

Speaker 5 (23:35):
Like I've talked about, this is obviously not similar to
giving birth, but like even when I pack for overseas,
I will pack an hour before I have to go,
when I could have had a week off and I
will not.

Speaker 3 (23:45):
And I don't know what the science is behind.

Speaker 5 (23:46):
It probably has something to do with ADHD, I would say,
And I'm not saying I am, but I'm like I
think for you, Laura, probably.

Speaker 1 (23:52):
I love that you love to diagnose me on every
episode diagnosed.

Speaker 3 (23:56):
But it is something, but like I think it's quite common.
It's just a procrastination tool. And I don't know why
people do it. I don't know why I do it,
don't know why we all do it.

Speaker 5 (24:03):
But also having said that, I think that you have
been in charge of literally growing this child and you've
had no time off. Matt can also put a bassinet together.
I think if he's got a job, it's to get
his drill and bassinet.

Speaker 2 (24:13):
That yeah, and he will, don't I guess the thing
is sometime f well, it is. The thing that's reassuring
is like, I'm going to end up at the hospital
and then I'll be there for I'm going to stay
for as long as I possibly can. This time, he
will have time, so like if I have a baby,
he can go home and put a prem together and
put a basinet together and lots of stuff. But I
also think it's truofold. I don't think I'm just living
in denial about it. I have never gone into spontaneous labor.

(24:37):
Mary was induced and she was two weeks late. Lola
was induced. And I think because I've always been induced,
I've just convinced myself that I'm not going to go
into spontaneous labor. And so I've convinced myself like, well,
I know I've got another week, but realistically, it could be.

Speaker 1 (24:50):
Tomorrow, it could be any day.

Speaker 2 (24:51):
But I don't think I've gotten my head around the
concept that actually a spontaneous labor could be a possibility
for me.

Speaker 3 (24:57):
Is it the case that if you have a baby,
let's say that you had a baby at thirty eight weeks,
you'll consistently.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
Have a baby at thirty eight weeks or is it
a little bit more random.

Speaker 2 (25:05):
It's all different, and I feel like there's nothing especially
with number three. I feel like number three can be
a real wild card.

Speaker 3 (25:10):
Like I think it depends too. So. I know my
sister Sherry, who went five weeks early. They've said to
her that for different health reasons, the fact that she
went early, she's likely to always go early, right, But
I think that ties into things like having pre clamsy
here and different stuff like that. But there can be
specific things like I'm not saying it's just a normal,
healthy pregnancy, but there are specific things that make people
more prone to like being earlier.

Speaker 1 (25:32):
Yeah for sure.

Speaker 2 (25:33):
But for me, I've always been late, so like I
just assume I'm going to be late.

Speaker 3 (25:37):
Is the lack of preparation making you feel more anxious
or do you think that you're just like procrastinating because
you've got so much work to get done.

Speaker 1 (25:42):
No, I don't think I'm anxious at all.

Speaker 2 (25:44):
And I think the procrastination part it absolutely does come
down to the fact that, like work has been so busy,
and I know I kind of feel a bit annoyed
it myself, because I know last time I was like, well,
I'll never do it like this again. And now we're
back here a week out from having a baby, and
there's still like multiple days.

Speaker 1 (25:59):
Left of work and lots to do.

Speaker 2 (26:01):
But the reality, I think it's just a very harsh
reality of when you run your own businesses, when you
know and when when like doing this podcast is so
important and it also is our business, and you know,
we have employees and everything else, and then also there's
Tony By and then there's radio and trying to like
align things so that it this sounds so bad to say,
but so it doesn't inconvenience anyone. Like doing work in

(26:23):
a way that makes it the least pressure on the
rest of the team just means that like that has
to get done first, and then and when you have
two kids already. You're not like laying in bed being
like is that a kick?

Speaker 1 (26:33):
Ah?

Speaker 2 (26:34):
Like enjoying the small moments of like being.

Speaker 3 (26:41):
It used to be like is that a kid goes
that flatulence?

Speaker 2 (26:43):
Now just like No, It's the thing is is with
the first and second. The first you have so much
more time to feel connected, I think because it's just
you and being pregnant. H. The second time you have
a little bit less time to feel connected. You still
have those moments, but you are not as busy. The
third time, I found I'm so busy taking care of

(27:04):
two humans that are already alive and then doing all
the other.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
Stuff in life.

Speaker 2 (27:07):
I just haven't had moments to sit there and like
revel in the joy of pregnancy. And so maybe that's
what's made me more of a realist about this one
rather than it feeling I'm so conscious about you, she's my words,
but like it doesn't feel as magical because I haven't
had time to feel connected to the magic of it all,
you know, quote unquote Yeah, But.

Speaker 3 (27:27):
I think that that relates to anything in life. It's
like any new first experience is always going to be
something that you remember more or connect to.

Speaker 1 (27:34):
More or it always hits different.

Speaker 5 (27:36):
First in anything, first love, first sex, first trip, first holiday,
first girl's trip, first whatever, it's like any.

Speaker 1 (27:41):
First No magic in my first sex. Yeah, I don't
even know why I said. I tell terrible, tell us, okay,
show to that go down.

Speaker 3 (27:47):
No one is having magical first sex.

Speaker 1 (27:49):
Now, I need to know how was that?

Speaker 4 (27:51):
It was fine? It would probably lasted only a couple
of minutes.

Speaker 3 (27:55):
Was the boyfriend or was it a huge It was
quite late, surprisingly for how you know on fifteen by
twenties ten, I was nearly eighteen.

Speaker 4 (28:03):
I think Laura was late too.

Speaker 1 (28:05):
Well, I'm not late.

Speaker 4 (28:06):
I was late for the school I went to.

Speaker 1 (28:07):
I love that you said fifteen, and that's late. I
was seventeen. I was. I was seventeen, but I was
like just finishing school when it was my boyfriend.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
As well, And it was you were really bad because
my mum sent me to school when I was four
and way too young. She wanted to get me out
of the fucking house. But I need to know about
your first time now.

Speaker 5 (28:24):
Oh, my first time was with my boyfriend of a year,
and I waited till we'd been together.

Speaker 1 (28:31):
For a year. Oh, that was his anniversary present.

Speaker 3 (28:33):
No, wait, I wait until we were together for a
year to make sure that he was like in it
for the right reason, and then we had sex. When
you dump me, you can't even ride it, and that
is what started the rest of my dating his yea.
Oh wow, Okay, So you don't feel now do you
feel a level of like nerve or anxiety knowing? Because
I imagine like someone that hasn't given birth, but birth to me,

(28:57):
because I haven't experienced it, I feel like i'd be
quite nervous about it, like what how it's going to
go down? The pain of it, the exhaustion people talking
about it goes for days, and like you know, you hear.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
All these Not to terrorize anyone who's already pregnant, no, but.

Speaker 5 (29:12):
It's like, you know, I mean a woman is if
you go in and having a vaginal birth, there is
whether you have drugs or not, there's a baby coming.

Speaker 3 (29:19):
Out of you. Is that Well, it's like, how can
we not have a level of like fucking how is
this going to go down? Like for me, I feel
like I would feel really nervous, But yeah, you have
tried and tested now.

Speaker 2 (29:31):
So I mean I feel like there's been so much
downstairs destruction that I'm just gonna cough this baby out.
I hope so Ol sneeze one day violently and I
think I wet myself with the babies on the floor.
Do you think you like have those you have all
those pregnancies where people like I didn't even know I
was pregnant and then out the baby came. I'm like,
how did you not know? There were signs? No, Look,
I don't have a lot of anxiety about it this

(29:51):
time at all. It'll be what it will be. And
maybe that has been my perspective going into most of
my birth. I don't have a birth plan. I don't
have a concept of how it's going to go. I
assume I'm going to end.

Speaker 1 (30:04):
Up being induced.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
And I had a call with my obstrition the other
day because I was like, hey, I haven't really thought
this through. What do I do if I'm not induced
and I go into labor? And he was like, oh, yeah,
you've got to call the maternity ward. And I was like,
that's information you probably should tell me, because I don't
know what to do if I just go into spontaneous labor.
At this point, I haven't really be in my bonnet

(30:26):
about this.

Speaker 3 (30:27):
I have two So my sister in law and one
of my friends both had planned sea sections because they
had a breech shawl like upside down or whatever the
different things are. They knew that they were going to
have to have sea sections. And my partner is involved
in sea sections quite a lot. It's a big part
of his job. And so before both of those berths,

(30:48):
I was like, Oh, do you just want to like
jump on a call and with us, you know, and
we can chat through any questions that you have. I
could not believe how little they knew about the process
that they were about to go into. I genuine I
still to this day. I've got a friend giving birth
a day or two around your time, Laura, and we
had this same conversation only two weeks ago, and I
was like, the most amazing thing that I found out

(31:09):
about was that if you do have a C section,
you don't feel nothing from the waist down.

Speaker 1 (31:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (31:15):
I've heard that it feels as though someone's doing dishes,
like doing the dishes in your belly.

Speaker 1 (31:19):
Wow, that's amazing.

Speaker 3 (31:20):
Yeah, apparently you can still feel pressure, you just can't pick.
And I was like, why does no one talk about this, Well.

Speaker 2 (31:25):
That's the same as like having an epidural, having every
driel you can still feel stuff. You don't just like
completely dead from the waist down.

Speaker 1 (31:32):
This might be really naive. I didn't know that.

Speaker 3 (31:34):
But you don't feel pain, you feel pressure, you feel pushing. Yeah,
it's a really odd sensation. It's so strange to me, though, like,
surely there's a video. Surely they just send a YouTube
link and go, here's some things that you have to
know before you're about to go through. This is women's health.
Why would you think that the would be an education Arama. Also,
I hope that this does not sound at all like

(31:54):
I'm shitting on healthcare workers. You guys are incredibly unhostile.
Absolutely did not mean it like that. I mean that
it's a rising to me that there's not like a
government program where there's like a website with I think
frequently there absolutely is.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
I think the problem is, though, is that you don't
know what you don't know, so you don't know to
ask the questions. And often it's assumed because when people
do the same thing on repeat themselves, they're like, how
did you not know this? Like it's such an obvious thing.
To know, and so then there can be a gap
in the information. So for me, you know the fact
that I've had three babies, well this is my third.

(32:29):
My obstetrition was like, how do you not know what
you do? If you go into labor? You call the
delivery suite? But I didn't know because I'd never done
it before, and so there was a gap there, you know, So.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
What is the plan? Like you think if you are
induced you to have epidurals? Do?

Speaker 2 (32:42):
Yeah, I'm gonna get into the hospital and I'm going
to say, please give me the drug selection menu and
then I'm going to look through it and.

Speaker 1 (32:48):
I'll be like, and when is the champagne coming? General anaesthetic? Please?

Speaker 2 (32:51):
No, I will have an epidural, I'm pretty sure. Also,
I found out that the baby's posterior posteria means that
her spine goes against my spine, So it's a pet
a chilly, painful and uncomfortable birth.

Speaker 3 (33:02):
So she's head down.

Speaker 1 (33:04):
She's head down.

Speaker 2 (33:04):
So when you give birth, the baby's face is supposed
to be facing your buttthole right like, it's supposed to
be facing that way, So the spine is supposed to
be against your belly instead of bone on bone, whereas
when she comes out, her head is back to front,
so she's going against the canal and her back will
bend against my tailbone.

Speaker 1 (33:21):
I wait to swill her.

Speaker 2 (33:22):
Not really at this point. She might swivel herself, but
Marley was posterior. She didn't turn, So I'm probably in
store for a more uncomfortable berth, or like a lot
more uncomfortable birth than if the baby was the right
way round.

Speaker 3 (33:34):
Yeah, so drug up, yeah, yeah, to the eyeballs, yeah,
because then it's not that uncomfortable.

Speaker 1 (33:38):
She keeps topping up.

Speaker 3 (33:39):
Is someone tugging who knows what's going on down there?

Speaker 1 (33:41):
Like that's what you want, right?

Speaker 2 (33:43):
I think the thing that I'm the most scared about, though,
is like having another episiotomy or tearing. So like I've
already I've had an a pisiotomy each time, and I don't.

Speaker 1 (33:52):
Really want to have another one.

Speaker 2 (33:53):
And the problem I had with Marley, which was, you know,
obviously years ago, she was not a particularly nice berth,
and I had.

Speaker 3 (34:00):
Got caught in your flap.

Speaker 1 (34:04):
She's seizing it like a burrito. We couldn't undangle it
from the flat.

Speaker 2 (34:08):
No, my epidural had an epidural failure, so my epidurol
stopped working and no one would believe me. So it
was fine, Like I was at the very end point
of getting her out, so I was handling.

Speaker 1 (34:19):
It wasn't that I was handling the pain.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
I was in a lot of pain, but I wasn't
bothering with the epidural at that point because she was
so close to being out. But then they said that
they needed to give me an a pisiotomy and I
was like, but I can feel everything, and they were like, no,
you can't.

Speaker 1 (34:32):
You have the epidurol, and I was like, yes, I can.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
And we had this moment back and forth where I
was like, I can feel everything, and it was very
rush because she was stark, and it got very stressful.
They need to get her out quickly, and they were
kind of like, you're fine, and I thought they topped
up my epidural at least were going to before they
gave me a pisiotomy. And then they cut me and
I could feel everything and I went into shock.

Speaker 1 (34:55):
So it wasn't able to push anymore.

Speaker 2 (34:56):
So obviously don't want to frighten anyone, but I was
so over whelmed in that experience because I'd never done
it before. And also I just assumed that they were
going to fix the problem before they gave me the episiotomy,
but I didn't really know what was going on, and
by the time they started, I was screaming, like it
was it was a horrible, horrible experience. That Molly came out,

(35:17):
she was fine. Everything was fine. I wasn't fine, but
she was fine.

Speaker 1 (35:20):
And then it was.

Speaker 2 (35:21):
Such a weird and kind of like surreal period afterwards
because everyone was apologizing to me, so I knew that
something had gone very wrong, had a lot of apologies.
They'd obviously then like up to the epidural and whatnot,
and they were trying to like numb.

Speaker 3 (35:33):
The area mate the baby's out.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
Yeah, but then they kept coming to me and being like,
you have had a traumatic birth experience. And it was
said to me so many times because you have to
go through like there's a series of discharge things if
you're considered to have a traumatic birth. But like, I
didn't know what constituted a traumatic birth because I've never
been through it before. So being told this was a
traumatic birth experience was also like a really weird thing
to try.

Speaker 1 (35:56):
And yeah, anyway, So then I.

Speaker 2 (35:57):
Had Lola, and Lola was fucking easy, and it was easy,
and it's with the same obstric so like, I'm really
like looking forward to going into this because I really
love who my obstration.

Speaker 3 (36:05):
Is and they will have all of that on your
file now, totally extra careful with making sure.

Speaker 1 (36:10):
That'll be like tickling your feet, but can you feel anything? Literally?
And he was amazing with the last one.

Speaker 2 (36:14):
So I'm genuinely not worried because I feel like I've
done this rodeo before. But that's probably my only anxiety
is around having another fucking cut through the side.

Speaker 1 (36:23):
I'm like, oh, are.

Speaker 3 (36:25):
We going to set some rules and parameters around Matt
and when he can and can't go and eat a shandwich.

Speaker 1 (36:30):
Can go And my sister's going to be there in
the room. So my sister's coming.

Speaker 3 (36:33):
She her seat next to me, and if I go early.

Speaker 1 (36:37):
You're coming.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
So at the moment, we've got Alicia potentially brit if
she's here in the country.

Speaker 1 (36:43):
I wanted to live.

Speaker 4 (36:43):
Stream and you you were talking about maybe doing it.

Speaker 1 (36:46):
Let's just She's just like, how do I get left
out of this equation?

Speaker 3 (36:51):
I'm not fomo you can come if you wanted. Nes
want to come to case. She's in there with the
not a lapel mite. What's some big boom mics?

Speaker 4 (36:58):
You know how to hold it and making sure you
lip from both sides.

Speaker 2 (37:02):
I did just buy one of those nee War beauty
lights that you can clip onto your phone, so please
make sure you get a really like, I want the
video of the.

Speaker 1 (37:08):
Baby coming out and exiting on social media.

Speaker 3 (37:10):
Can we just take a walk back memory lane when
I bought that light and you gave me so much
shit for having it's in my bag right now. I
carried around with me. It's a phone light and Laura
gave me so much shit. Then like a week ago,
she's like, hey, what was the name of that life?

Speaker 1 (37:22):
I literally bought two of them on Amazon.

Speaker 2 (37:24):
It's like the time that you gave me ship for
having crocs and then you bought Gucci ones.

Speaker 1 (37:28):
Ben bought them and they Gucci fuck you. I also
have normal crocs. Okay, that's so good. What are you
doing with the placenta?

Speaker 3 (37:37):
I shockeduned it bat.

Speaker 1 (37:38):
I've made it.

Speaker 2 (37:39):
Into tablets so that Britt has some beauty tablets to take.

Speaker 1 (37:43):
It's really good. It's really good.

Speaker 3 (37:44):
For giving young, so I have bought them from a
good price friend.

Speaker 1 (37:47):
I'm also selling my breast milk for anyone who wants
it as well. I took that as well. I'll take
on again to say young, No, you're not.

Speaker 2 (37:55):
Doing anything with it. I'm not doing anything with the
with the placenta. I mean, I thought about it for
a while and then I realized I was only.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
Doing it for content. I don't want to eat my
own placenta. It's not for me. It's actually I want
to champagne with the dashtag Earth mother, look at me.
Go the difference for me?

Speaker 3 (38:11):
Laura's like, someone take my placenta away so I can drink.
It's supposed to be really good for you to make
it into tablets and consume, like, apparently the recovery is
sped up, so you might want to think about it.
I just feel like all of the comments about that
are probably made from the companies that make it into tablet. No,
there is a lot of research.

Speaker 2 (38:27):
No, I know there is, and I know a lot
of people like, well, animals do it, so the humans
should do it too, because it's so enriched with nutrients
and everything else. But I also kind of think animals
do it so they don't get eaten by other animals
in the wild, Like so that you don't have this big,
bloody mass sitting next to your babies and then wolf
comes along and sniffs it.

Speaker 1 (38:42):
Out and eats it.

Speaker 3 (38:43):
No, I think it's recovery.

Speaker 2 (38:44):
My girlfriend told me the most funniest story actually probably
wasn't funny for her at the time. But she had
like a you know, a not great experience, and she
had a lot of blood loss during birth, and so
after her baby came out, people were like rushing around
and it was really stressful.

Speaker 1 (38:57):
And she's just said, she just has this.

Speaker 2 (38:59):
Memory of being really twilight, in this daze and hearing
this like clang, like this big bang happen. And she said,
I just rolled to the side and looked and someone
had just knocked my placenta off the table, off the tray,
and it had slid across the floor. She's like, I
was just sitting there watching my plus center on the
ground as everyone was running over.

Speaker 3 (39:16):
It just disgusting.

Speaker 1 (39:18):
Is that roadkill?

Speaker 2 (39:20):
Like a Jellyfish's so bad? So I have no birth
plan at all. I'm going in like whatever, rodeo, let's
do it. I will happily take the drugs, especially if
it's induced.

Speaker 1 (39:30):
I'll try the drugs.

Speaker 2 (39:31):
If I go into spontaneous labor, who knows, I'll see
what happens, but I probably will still take the drugs.
And we talked about it on last week's episode, but
it's like now it's got a bit of gusto behind it. Playlist.
I don't want your normal birthing playlist. I want what
do we call it?

Speaker 3 (39:46):
Push it all, push it real good life on cut
I tried for a different name.

Speaker 1 (39:50):
I've added the first song to it, and it's Diana Ross.
I'm coming out fucking hell. That's how I'm coming out.
What the well to no song?

Speaker 4 (40:05):
Who knows?

Speaker 3 (40:05):
I know? I still vote. I wanted to call the
playlist life is Giving Life.

Speaker 1 (40:10):
That is in the description.

Speaker 3 (40:11):
I put that in there for you so that you
were included, but I thought it was a bit too
Let's make Brittain feel included.

Speaker 2 (40:17):
Very earth Mother is so we we have created this
is a gift to you if you also don't want
a conventional, calm birthing playlist and you want something that
feels fun and upbeat.

Speaker 1 (40:27):
This is what this is meant to be. But we
want it's the anti birth list.

Speaker 5 (40:30):
But think outside the box, Like obviously there's like salt pepper,
push it. There's a really obvious ones which obviously we're
gonna include, but think outside the box, give us the good.

Speaker 2 (40:38):
It also doesn't need to be exactly birth related, like
it just could be.

Speaker 1 (40:41):
I don't know. I can't even think of one at
the moments. One shot your pasta mum spaghetti. I could
give birth to that. I could do that, I would too.

Speaker 3 (40:50):
Okay, so question, I'm not here, I've gone away. You're
going to birth.

Speaker 5 (40:53):
Are you going to let me know live like an
update that it's happening, or are you just going to
surprise me.

Speaker 3 (40:58):
With the photo of a baby? No, I mean a
you know live.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
I also was considering.

Speaker 2 (41:01):
I was like, do I just post on social media
like on my stories and I'm going into labor?

Speaker 1 (41:05):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (41:06):
I actually feel so differently about number three than what
I did about number one and two one and two.

Speaker 1 (41:10):
I was like, it's a secret. Number three. I'm like,
hey everyone, I don't I'm crowning.

Speaker 3 (41:14):
Like I just don't I feel really, I just chap
myself everyone. No, I don't think we need those updates.
I reckon, update your your people and then update. I mean,
do whatever you want. I'm not in control you, but
this is my thought, and then update it once you've
had the baby. Because like I say this nicely, but
not everything has to be social media. I don't think
it has to be like, hey everyone, I'm giving birth, Like,
just go and have that experience, let us know. But

(41:36):
I think you can just let me think.

Speaker 1 (41:37):
That's a note to the live stream.

Speaker 3 (41:39):
Unless we're gonna make bank off the live stream. But
like Britney was, all the.

Speaker 1 (41:42):
Least we can commodify it.

Speaker 2 (41:44):
Brittany was all for the live stream when there was
a potential that it was going to be monetized via
life on cut, and then when it wasn't, she was like,
that's a terrib lady.

Speaker 3 (41:50):
Let's well when I heard that, just you wanted the
funds and I wasn't going to get any No.

Speaker 1 (41:53):
I'm just to be clear. I was We make a
lot of jokes.

Speaker 2 (41:56):
I was never live streaming the birth and I was
monetarily getting people to sign up for it.

Speaker 1 (42:01):
No, I never wanted to.

Speaker 3 (42:02):
Take your money from the entangled the carrot in front
of me like, let's.

Speaker 2 (42:06):
Sure it was a legitimate question why because I look
back on people like Sarah's Day, but maybe Sarah's a
didn't live stream it to her credit, but she did.
She was kind of like one of the first people
to really like show the entire birth experience as someone
who is a social media influencer person. And I remember
at the time being like, that's nuts, like why would
anyone do that? And don't get me wrong, I am

(42:28):
actually not doing that. That is not my intention.

Speaker 1 (42:30):
But now I.

Speaker 2 (42:31):
Don't feel as I just don't. I don't hate it
as much in terms of like I don't feel as
offended by it, like and I get that it's very
sacred and whatnot. The thing I don't like about it
is if someone's using it as a way of like
growing their audience and they're thinking strategically at the time.

Speaker 3 (42:46):
But to me on this conversation, I don't remember how
much we spoke about it on the podcast, but it
came up around the time I was getting married. There
was it was like the first TikToker that basically like
live post. It wasn't live, but she posted so much
of her wedding as it was happening, so it was
she was live posting, but not necessarily live streaming. They

(43:08):
didn't do a live stream when they're getting ready and
straight after and stuff. But she even put up that
thing where she was like, you guys are like because
she was an influencer. She was like, you basically paid
for this wedding, so you should be a part of it.

Speaker 4 (43:19):
I remember us talking about it, being like, what is
the deal? You know, what's the exchange?

Speaker 3 (43:24):
I just think, and it's exactly what I just said
about the birth.

Speaker 5 (43:26):
People can do what they want, like I'm not going
to judge you, and if you want to post your
whole birth or I'm not going to judge.

Speaker 2 (43:31):
But I really wanted to be clear because I feel
like I've made a lot of jokes on this episode
that people are going to think I'm a horrible person.

Speaker 3 (43:37):
But this wedding and I went and watched it after it,
and I just thought you were not as much as
it was so cool to be taken into her story
and she's an influencer and she would have got so
many more followers.

Speaker 5 (43:48):
I was like, you just haven't even you cannot. I
don't care what anyone says.

Speaker 3 (43:51):
You cannot be present fully if you are like just
thinking about the content quickly, making sure that content is
okay to upload, spending the uploading it. Like I just
for me, It's just that there are some times in
life that I think it's okay just to go quiet,
and like I didn't think I posted one thing on
my wedding day or the next day, or I just
think I just sat in it for a three years.

Speaker 2 (44:12):
Because the thing is is that it becomes a job, right,
So like if you're someone who's sharing your wedding and
even though you know this influencer who said, you guys
have pretty much paid for this wedding, so I want
to bring you along for it, well, then you're still
looking at your wedding as though it is a financial
it's a job because at the end of the day,
all of those things, the posting, the curating, the creating
the content, all of that takes time, energy and effort,

(44:34):
and then therefore you're not actually experiencing the life thing
that you put all this money, in time and emotion
into as well.

Speaker 1 (44:40):
Yeah, I get that completely.

Speaker 2 (44:42):
And look, I mean I know I say like I
don't feel as connected in terms of like I'm not
as prepared and stuff for this, but I think the
thing that I'm most excited about is like how excited
the girls are about having a baby sister, And like
it's their excitement that gets me super excited. Like I
feel very pragmatic and realistic about I know it's to
be hard. I know there's gonna be hard sleep, I
know it's gonna be a transition. I know we're going

(45:04):
back into the trenches. But like seeing their utter joy
and now they've got a calendar for the countdown and
they're just so excited, And it's them who has been
able to make me feel like I'm actually connected and
excited to it, yeah, whereas like I've just been so
caught in the busy that they're little like and even Lola,
anytime she's having like a hard moment about anything, I'll

(45:25):
be like, how many.

Speaker 1 (45:26):
Days do you think it is now until poppies here?

Speaker 2 (45:28):
And it just like takes her straight out of that
and you can ask it anything like this morning she
was had a terrible mood after getting out of bed,
and I was like, do you think Poppy's gonna have
a bottle or do you think where do you think
Poppy's gonna get her milk from? When she comes out
and Lola straight away is like your boobies. You know,
everything is so exciting to her, and then she'll start
talking about like and then she's gonna need a high

(45:49):
chair and she's gonna need a pram And I was like,
do you think Poppy can crawl when she comes out?
Like their excitement around being big sisters is just the
sweetest thing.

Speaker 5 (45:59):
Again, it's not about but I am also in denial.
It is weird that we've gotten to this point and
it's within reach. Like the whole time you've been sitting here,
I've been trying to look at you with a baby
in your arms, and it just.

Speaker 1 (46:10):
Took me back.

Speaker 3 (46:11):
Like when we started this podcast six and a half
years ago, nearly there were no children earthside, but.

Speaker 1 (46:17):
I was eight months pregnant with money.

Speaker 3 (46:19):
You were about to pop. But it's like it's just
so many of your life as have come with us
on the journey since day one, which I think is
really special. It's like you've seen the evolution of well,
Laura's had an evolution. I'm still here with no kids,
but you've seen Laura pop had an evolution.

Speaker 1 (46:32):
You dated everyone and now you're married.

Speaker 3 (46:34):
We've had different evolutions, but it's wild to think how
far we've come in this time. And you know what,
the cause parties, I've said it before, Creating this podcast
means we have like such an in depth diary of
our life forever, Like we can look back on so
many things and experiences and times, and that is such

(46:55):
a spectacular thing to have, and it's it's rare because
not everyone gets to do it.

Speaker 1 (46:59):
It's like a time caps of like the last six years. Also,
I the kids listen to it. Though I do regret
some things I've said. We all do.

Speaker 3 (47:06):
We all do.

Speaker 2 (47:06):
We all regret them things you said, Laura one hundred percent.
And also like going from having Maley and Lola and
like bringing them into recordings and like, as I said,
obviously I'm having some time off for quote unquote maternity leave.

Speaker 1 (47:20):
What that looks like it could literally be just a
couple of weeks.

Speaker 2 (47:22):
I'm going to come back and have an episode and
update you guys all on how the birth actually went.
Keisha's going to be filling in for me. Keisha like
straight up to the plate, brick goes on, I'm a celebrity.

Speaker 1 (47:32):
Keisha's there, Laura pisces off.

Speaker 4 (47:34):
Yeah, like a TV on a rainy day.

Speaker 1 (47:36):
We love you and I'm so grateful.

Speaker 2 (47:40):
I'm so grateful that, like you're such a part of
all of this that you know it's yeah, no one's
going to miss it.

Speaker 1 (47:46):
I'm gone.

Speaker 3 (47:46):
I'm really grateful too, because I mean it's a little
bit of a momentous thing because when I first met you, guys,
it was my distance.

Speaker 1 (47:52):
We didn't even meet in person.

Speaker 3 (47:53):
We didn't about on the Micoll camera.

Speaker 1 (47:56):
You were about to do birth Lola.

Speaker 3 (47:58):
So I remember getting one of my first emails from you,
and Laura had literally gone into labor and she was
still emailing me from the hospital. You were like, I've
got some hours to kill, you know. And that was
when I first started working for you.

Speaker 2 (48:08):
So it's a pleasure, yeah, And I I mean, I
know we've kind of touched on this before when we
talked about the whole maternal leave aspect and stuff, and
I've said in the.

Speaker 3 (48:16):
Past, I'm not paying you maternal Yeah, we don't.

Speaker 1 (48:19):
Life cut if we don't have maternally no.

Speaker 2 (48:21):
My I guess like my biggest regret was not being
able to slow down right and that I said, you know,
if I have a third baby, I'm going to slow down.
It's almost impossible. And I know that some people will
be like, but it's not. It's really really a different
experience when you run your own businesses because the wheels
don't just stop turning. And also it's something I love

(48:43):
doing as well, and it's very hard to step away
and have confidence that everything is just set and it's
going to be fine without you.

Speaker 1 (48:49):
And I don't mean that in a life uncut sense.
Ye okay, I think that was directed at us. No,
I know you guys.

Speaker 2 (48:54):
Will be fine, But I mean in a tony masense,
like I'm such a critical part of the business and
so so like I know that I will still go
to work, and I know I'll take the baby to
work like I always did. And I'm sure six months
time down the track, I'll look back on it and
I'll say, God, I wish I had more time of
having time off and having maternity leave. But Britney twenty,
I think Britney twenty they make Kesha twenty where everyone's

(49:15):
got discount codes at laugh on cut twenty.

Speaker 5 (49:17):
But it's funny you say that because the other day
Laura and I were just having a conversation on the
phone and she's like, guess what time I've got to
be at work tomorrow for twenty May.

Speaker 3 (49:24):
She's like, we've got to shoot. She goes four fifteen
for makeup. She's like, I cannot deal with this anymore.
And I was like, Laura, you know that you're the boss.
I was like, you set that time, like you booked
this shoot. She's like that's a valid point.

Speaker 1 (49:36):
I was like, this could have been.

Speaker 3 (49:37):
A mid day shoot, like I could paved my boss,
could have been a sunset shoot.

Speaker 2 (49:40):
I was like, you chose to four fifteen. It's true,
and you know, I'll complain about it a bit. But
the thing is is, I think you always look back
and you think about the things that you would do differently.

Speaker 1 (49:49):
But also like, I love what I do for work.

Speaker 2 (49:51):
I'm so lucky that I get to do this, And
I'm also so lucky that my job, in the capacity
for my work allows me to bring a baby to
work and still do it. Like most women don't have that,
and so you know, having maternity leave is critical for
them to be able to do both.

Speaker 3 (50:04):
I had that conversation with Ben this morning on the
way to work. We were talking about, like, how many
people do you think in life would want to do
a different job? And he was like, what job would
you want to do if you won the lotto? And
I was like, I would do this job.

Speaker 5 (50:16):
I said, I genuinely feel like the luckiest person in
the world to get to come to work with my
friends and speak and have this community. And I was like,
there is nothing else I would rather do. And that
was like a really heartfelt moment. And I am getting
my periods, so hormones were heart.

Speaker 3 (50:29):
But it was like a really heartfelt like I was like, Wow,
I'm I'm living my dream job.

Speaker 1 (50:34):
I feel so lucky.

Speaker 2 (50:35):
Yeah, And like, guys, I want to say, I'm so grateful.
I've received so many messages from life as over the
last couple of weeks, well wishes into giving birth, just you.

Speaker 1 (50:43):
Know, camaraderie with people who also piss themselves.

Speaker 2 (50:46):
Yeah, so many messages from people who are at the
point of sneezing where you hold your vagina and not
your nose, like vagina blue vaginas, like you guys are
just the absolute fucking best. And I know I have
spoken a lot over the last couple of weeks about
being pregnant. It has consumed my entire life. Like I
think for anyone who has done it, you kind of
get to this point in pregnancy and it's like, yes,

(51:06):
you can talk about other things, but you're always thinking,
oh my god, I'm pregnant, IM getting kicked in the vagina,
I'm getting you know, my nipples hurt, Like there's always
something going on that's distracting.

Speaker 3 (51:14):
Wait till I have mine. You're gonna be like, oh news,
shut up. I'll like, guys, I got this flatter You've
like in there, done that?

Speaker 1 (51:21):
No, not at all.

Speaker 2 (51:22):
It would be a relief for someone else to talk
about the same shit for a change.

Speaker 5 (51:25):
And Also, I don't know if we've mentioned it, but
Matt is going to be feeling in on radio.

Speaker 2 (51:30):
Yeah, so the one thing I am taking maternially from
is radio. So I've got the rest of the year
off pretty much. I think I'm coming back for a
week in December.

Speaker 3 (51:36):
Must be nice.

Speaker 2 (51:37):
I know I left your hind right, I gave you
my husband. So Matt's gonna fill in on the pick
up radio show. So that'll still go in the Sundays.
You'll still hear the normal radio show, and I will
hear the best of too, and it'll be Britt and
Matt just doing it together.

Speaker 3 (51:50):
I guarantee you'll be on that. You'll get so much formo.

Speaker 1 (51:53):
So if you'll just turn up.

Speaker 3 (51:54):
One day, you'll be like, I just wanted to come
in and do a break.

Speaker 1 (51:55):
Do you know what I'm worried about? Though?

Speaker 2 (51:57):
My big, my biggest fear is that Matt is going
to tell every story like he's gonna share. So, Okay,
I'm having a couple of weeks off post birth and
then I'll come and tell you, guys, Matt's on lockdown.
He is going to go on two dotting Dad and
don't tell everything.

Speaker 1 (52:12):
He has to be on lockdown.

Speaker 3 (52:13):
He gave way BRIT's wedding date, he gave away poppies
names middle first, No, Matt, Matt's mud on lockdown.

Speaker 1 (52:22):
And you know what he said to me?

Speaker 2 (52:23):
And he said this so casually, and he was like, god, babe,
you know what our downloads have been so up recently.
And I was like, yeah, because you keep giving away
things that are not yours to tell. And he goes,
he goes, you know what how most downloaded episode was?
And I was like, which one is? Like the one
where people think that we gave away the date of
BRIT's wedding, but he he did edit it like it
did get edited out, but people still go looking for

(52:45):
like what he said.

Speaker 1 (52:46):
I actually got a couple.

Speaker 3 (52:47):
Of messages about this because back when Matt and Ash
started the podcast, I did do their audio edits, but
I haven't done that for I'd have to be like
a year and a half now.

Speaker 1 (52:54):
And so some trader like, why didn't Kisha flag this?
Why didn't Keisha cut it out?

Speaker 2 (52:58):
Like?

Speaker 3 (52:58):
I got messages personally being like, why didn't you cut
it out? Though, like you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (53:03):
So you're not to blame. You're not to blame. Thats
does still work on the video edit. So now I'm
like hoping that anytime he does say something that could
be on the nose, that Nessa's going to give me
your heads up.

Speaker 3 (53:12):
No, No, Matt needs to understand right now, I run
this show and I am the boss. He's a feeling.
He is a substitute. I call the shots, and he
will not be giving anything away. Trust me, you have
that on record. I'm running the shot.

Speaker 1 (53:26):
You know, he has his own podcast. He's going to
tell the stories on It's not well, he can do
any one here.

Speaker 3 (53:30):
I can't control that, obviously because he gave me away
my wedding, But I can control the radio show. It's
a zone. Laura.

Speaker 1 (53:38):
We love you. We're so happy for you. I'm so
happy out laugh. He's about to turn up.

Speaker 3 (53:45):
I cannot wait to meet Sloppy Poppy Bobby.

Speaker 1 (53:48):
I'm really excited.

Speaker 5 (53:48):
Please please cannot wait to meet Poppy Pearl. We cannot
wait to meet her. It's huge news in our little
life Uncut family. We are making another edition and I
can't wait to hear the news. Are we patiently looking
in my phone every morning when.

Speaker 1 (54:00):
I wake up on do not Disturb? Can you if
it came?

Speaker 3 (54:02):
No?

Speaker 2 (54:02):
Can you please stop putting your phone on do not
Disturb just in case I need to call you.

Speaker 3 (54:06):
No, you can just call twice or push the notification.
You know you're a labor Just make sure that you
call twice.

Speaker 2 (54:11):
And I did call brit On like a Saturday night
at ten thirty and she did not answer or call
me back, and I was like, this is your an
unreliable birthing partner.

Speaker 1 (54:19):
She's been watching the summer. I turn pretty sorry. I
don't even end up being going then.

Speaker 2 (54:24):
I know I already said it, but I just want
to say the biggest thank you to everyone. I will
be back shortly. Thank you for a lot of the
whirl wishes. Hopefully everything goes well and I will have
a tool tale to tell in the next couple of
weeks and Keisha.

Speaker 1 (54:37):
Passing the baton. You'll be sitting in this chair that
I've said several times in a week or two. Can
we call that? Is that the episode title?

Speaker 3 (54:44):
Can it be a tall Morris tall tale to tell
a birth?

Speaker 1 (54:47):
That will be next? That's the next episode I'm on.
This one's just like see you guys. You know that's
what I mean. The next one, this one we're calling
push it real good. Yeah, all right, you know the drill.
Okay to mompay dot dot dott your friends and share
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Speaker 3 (55:03):
Members.