Mel Buttle Offers Kip Advice On Bonding With His Baby As A Non-Carrying Mum

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to the Robin and Kid podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Our next guest is a stand up comedian and internet
sensation as everyone's favorite mom.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Lynn.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Never been on the Irish horses because they're tired. They
need to come on the plane. You be if you've
got the plane from Ireland.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Put your hands together for Robin and Kit with melbuddle, Hello.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
We love you, we love you. Hello.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
I mean that is that's still good advice as we
get towards Melbourne Cup. Never bet on the Irish horses.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
Hey, Lynn knows it's not silly or a gray horse.
When's the last time a gray horse won?

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Yeah, you're right, it's been a long time. It's been
a while now. I was talking yesterday Emmel about struggling
to bond with the new baby. Obviously I'm great with
Rafae not it. We also had yesterday was a momentary
accident and you know, Siena's four months, but you've got

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a baby at home and you you didn't carry, which
is what we're wondering whether maybe that made the difference
because Naomi's so well bonded. But for me, i'm sort
of you know, I'm sure it's going to get there,
but right now take to leave it interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
I had a similar thing where I couldn't calm Harry down.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
Nuram was the only one who could do it.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
And I went to my psychologist and I said, look,
he just doesn't like me because he wasn't in my tummy.
And she was like, you know what, Yes, it was
because when he's in the tummy, he's hearing her heartbeat,
her breathing, he sleeps, he's on a cycle. Everything that
comforts him is her body, right, and now he's just
on the outside. So she's like, yeah, of course he's

(01:34):
going to want her back because he doesn't know your heartbeat,
he doesn't know your breathing.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
Yes, And I was like, okay, still hurtful.

Speaker 4 (01:44):
I'm glad there's a scientific reason.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
However, Yeah, the.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
Other thing you can do and I did this.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
You know, sometimes there's kids that are a bit unusual
and to get the dog to play with them, you
put a lamb chop in their pocket or something. Yes,
I put on Nuran's shirts do to try and trick
him into liking.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
Yeah, okay, how do you do that?

Speaker 4 (02:05):
Please?

Speaker 1 (02:07):
The biggest sure.

Speaker 4 (02:07):
That Naomi's got perfume would do okay if she was Peru.
You know, if she has one particular sent I reckon,
that's a really good idea.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Actually, but what's what's why aren't you bonding, Kip? What's
the problem? What is she not texting your back?

Speaker 1 (02:22):
She's just not fun yet, that's the thing. You know,
she's getting there, he's not interested. I just know she
will be fun. I know that it happens. I know
that the fun time comes at about six months and
they start to do things. But right now it's just
a blob cheers.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
I get it. I get it. I think what you
need to remember in the back of your mind.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
You're not the favorite now, but you can always just
buy Sienna repeat.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
Wee fifty for a second birthday. He's going to be
a favorite then.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yeah, you're right. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:49):
Do you know what he did with raf is he
made him like just laughed at everything that Raphael did.
And Kip has this great relationship with his little boy,
except when he goes to daycare and gets in trouble
because all he wants to do is make people laugh.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
In his mind, that is the most important thing to
do in the world.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
I kind of agree with I'm not saying the problem
right exactly.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah, well, coming up in a second, I want to
play some audio of how I was able to settle
Seenna yesterday, and it kind of plays into your idea
of pretending to be someone else. She was crying and
so I faked being someone else, worked a treat, not Naomi,
not Naomi, but I have audio of it. It's a
little strange. We're getting a lot of help at the moment,

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which is great from Naomi's mum, Nanny Pearl, who has
actually done a few overnights and she's going to stay
the night tonight, so that Naomi and I we're going
to stay at the emporium after the champagneas and we're
having a proper night away.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Is this the first proper night away? How's Naomi's anxiety
going with that?

Speaker 1 (03:52):
I think it's through the roof. I think she's pretty stressed.
But even though Nanny Pearl's been there in the house
doing the overnights, is that she she's still not sleeping,
like she's still awake knowing that something's happening out there.

Speaker 4 (04:04):
Because it's like genetically programmed, and you'd be out like
a log, like a log, Yeah, I don't even start.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
I drive her crazy because I wake up. God, that
was pretty good last night, and she was like, are
you serious? How did you not know? So? But Nanny Pearl,
one thing I've noticed is that whenever she's nursing and
caring for Sienna is that she sings to her the
whole time or speaks to her the whole time, and
is not necessarily saying positive things about me and Naomi
because she loves her so much and wants to take

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her away. So what I discovered yesterday when I was
trying to calm Siena I was home alone, is that
if I impersonated Nanny Pearl that the baby would calm down.
And it worked a treat. And here's just a little
bit of me being Nanny Pearl.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
I'm here to see you from your mommy and daddy.
I don't love you as much as your nanny. I'm
going to take you to Nanny. We can be took for.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
Is that what she says. That's what she says all
the time.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
Did you dress up? Miss?

Speaker 1 (05:14):
And I set that on to Nanny Pearl. She loved it.
That's the best.

Speaker 4 (05:19):
So she literally says, I want to say.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
She'd be like, hello, you're my world, You're my whole world.
I love you. So you're the only important thing for
me in the world.

Speaker 4 (05:28):
Now what nationality is?

Speaker 1 (05:30):
She was born in India, been here since her twenties.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
Yeah, I think what we've learned, kidse babies like to
be spoken and sung to.

Speaker 4 (05:40):
Okay, So here's the experiment across the weekend. After you
come back from your amazing night tonight, I want you
to try and do it as Kip Whiteman.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
Oh gee.

Speaker 4 (05:49):
I want you to just like speak like the father
of this child and record yourself and see what happened.
So was she crying when you started to be Nanny
Pearl and then she stopped?

Speaker 1 (06:01):
Then she stopped?

Speaker 4 (06:01):
Okay, so you'll get a moment where she's crying. I
want you to be Kip.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
I'll just be me.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
Yeah, but saying the words Nanny Pearl would Okay, you
can do that.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
Take it away from your horrible parents.

Speaker 4 (06:12):
And the other thing I want you to do is, please,
at some point, can you record Nanny Pearl?

Speaker 3 (06:17):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (06:17):
Sure, yeah, well not the misdoubtful. You'll be amazed at
how close that I reckon. I knew I pretty much
nailed that in person.

Speaker 4 (06:27):
Okay, I'm going to text you across the weekend to
remind you to do that, because I want to see
on Monday what happens.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
All right, done, She's gonna scream, Yeah, it's not going
to work. It's not going to work anyway. If you
want to hear it, I'll try. It's Robin on brisbanees
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