Dear Pregnancy, We Have A Few Complaints

Pregnancy might be a miracle, but it’s also full of not-so-glamorous moments, and we’re here to vent. From the aches and pains to that relentless fatigue, we’ve got a list of complaints to unload. Plus, Kee spills on her unforgettable hospital saga and let’s just say this episode really gets to the bottom of things.

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Kelly McCarren ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@kelly_mccarren⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Kee Reece ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@keereece⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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Madeline Joannou - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Mylk Media⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
We acknowledged the traditional custodians of the land we're recording
on today.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
It got worse.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
I was like laying on the tiles basically screaming, and
I said to him.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
You have to call an ambulance.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Go because there is nothing that I can do that
is making this pain go away. Like I am starting
to panic because I can't get a handle on the pain.
I was like, it's not a good pain. It's a
bad pain.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Hello, and welcome back to Eat, Sleep, Shit, Repeat, a
wildly unhinged podcast about the madness that is motherhood and
everything in between.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
I'm Kelly McCarran and I'm Key Resells. And Monday happened
to be our Kingshitter's birthday.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Oh yes it whah. I am now at the same
age as you, so you are no longer older and wiser.
No comeback for that, abosltly, no come back? All right,
come back? Well what are we talking about today? Today's
episode is a bit of a funny one. We've covered
some pretty heavy thing but drenched them in humor. And

(01:02):
there is no better way to kick things off than
a tale about your pit involving an awful lot of
packed pooh oh.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
God forgot about this. So last week we spoke about
your hospital and.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
We click baited, we click baited a little bit and
someone else being in the hospital the exact same time. Yeah,
sosent represented the go go anyone else in there at
the same time. Oh my god. It was actually wild
to hear that.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
You were like I called you being like, hey, I'm
in hospital, and you're like so was I. Anyway, let
me take you back. I woke up on a couple
of Saturdays ago. Charlie has had such a bad back
since Europe, just with all of the lifting and carrying
that he had to do because I was pregnant, and
he woke up with terrible back pain. We've been back

(01:51):
for about a week, and I said, I'll get up
with Rue. We'll make pancakes. You know, I'm trying to
be like good mom Aaras Smith exactly, Glenorousmith.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
And then we poured the butter into the pan. Anyway
of this, so I said wait one minute, and they.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
But so we made pancakes and Rue loved it. I
was like yeah, and then kind of sat down to
watch cartoons or something on TV, and I was like, oh,
I kind of need to do a little poo. So
I decided that I would go and do that and
started to you know, push, and then I started to

(02:31):
get really really hot.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
It was like a cold sweat.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
So I stripped off, like completely naked on the loo
and then I was like, oh oh, I felt like
my blood pressure had dropped, and I was like, I
need to like lay down. So then I lay down
on the tiles of the bathroom.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Flooring better when you're feeling that dizzy, and those cold
tiles so nice and even like when you're prenant on
your bellies.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
And then this pain all of a sudden started and
it was a really sharp pain.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
It was constant.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
I did not get a reprieve from it, and it
felt like something inside of my stomach had twisted.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
You know.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
I'm trying to move positions to see if the pain.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Eases, like just to pain. E run a picture Charlie's
in bed, You're naked on the tiles.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
Rus watching TV.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Thank God, what did we do without TV?

Speaker 1 (03:21):
Honestly, honestly, And then I'm just like, oh, oh, God
or God, and like, I have had some pretty intense
pain with this pregnancy, and my obstetrician who I'm no
longer working with, but we'll get to that in a
couple of episodes.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
She had said that her Bye Mike, she had said.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
That I have really tight ligaments and that ligament pain
can be excruciating, and said that that's what my pain
had been. And I'd already been to hospital once with
this pain. This was not the same pain and a
completely different spot. This was on my lower left where
my digestive system is. So we're piecing it together. But
I had thought maybe the this is ligament pain, and

(04:01):
so with that, I got myself up off the tiles
and I went and got into bed, thinking, okay, I
just need to kind of let it pass.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
Is Charlie still sleeping.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah, he's still sleeping. I get into bed and I'm like, oh, babe, bye.
I am like not well, like something's going on.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
I've got really bad pain.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
And then I just started moaning from the pain because
I did not have a reprieve and it was like
a ten on the pain scale. Right, I feel like
my pain tolerance is a lot higher than it used
to be. And it scared me because this did not stop,
and I could not get into any position and I
was just like, oh my god, Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
And then Ruth.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
Started coming in and she's like mommy, mommy, trying to
calm me. But I was like, Charlie, you've got to
get her away because I need to focus on whatever
this is. She's like, okay, I'll take her out and
just like let me know if it gets worse. He
didn't make it out the door because basically it got worse.
I ran back to the bathroom. I tried to push again.
That didn't work. I was like laying on the tiles,

(05:00):
basically screaming, and I said to him, you have to
call an ambulance because there is nothing that I can
do that is making this pain go away. Like I
am starting to panic because I can't get a handle
on the pain. I was like, it's not a good pain,
it's a bad pain. So he called the ambulance and
thank god, it was like two female paramedics arrived.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
Because I was like, we still butt naked. I was butt.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
Naked on the floor in the weirdest position. Like they
saw it all right.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
They would have seen it before, and they were so nice.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
I would just like ask me all the questions, you know,
and they came really quickly because obviously the triples are on.
Knew that I was pregnant and we weren't sure what
the pain was, so that was good. And then they said, okay,
we're going to give you the green whistle, and I
was like in my head, fucking yes, I'm going to
get some help here. The pain's gonna go away a
green whistle. It's an inhaler and they're green, that's why

(05:51):
they get it. The actual name is metha methioxi fluorine
and it's a non addictive, non narcotic, and it's very
safe to use, so it beats out other analgesics such
as nitrous oxide and morphine in that it's fast acting,
so it is instant. But do you reckon it did anything?

Speaker 2 (06:11):
And you were like, no, betting. You were sucking on
that green whistle like you suck.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
And the thing is She's like, it's going to taste
a bit gross, and so I couldn't even like inhale
it to begin.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
I was like coughing up.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
So I was like, oh my god, this fucking thing
on TV. They make it look so good. Just chemicals,
Oh yeah, chemically gas anyway, so I make it down my.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
Thirty eight stairs, which can.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
You imagine in a ten pain because I've got to
get out of the apartment. I would have thought they
stretched you if I had been completely immobile, Yes, but
it was too dramatic.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
Yeah, so I'm like walking.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
I mean I thought they were going to but when
I realized we were walking, I was like, all right,
keep it moving, keep it moving.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
I hope you put clothes on. Yeah. They were like, okay,
so let's get dressed. I was like, yeah, let's get dress.
It's so embarrassing.

Speaker 1 (06:59):
After I got down the third eight steps and took
this giant step into the ambulance, I'm like laying there.
By this time, the adrenaline's kicked in and I'm like
shivering and shaking and trying to suck on this green thing.
And like it's also a bit trafficky because it's a
Saturday morning.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
To get the sirens on. They didn't have the sirens
on because they know it's not but I come on,
you're in pain and you're pregnant. I would use your light.
I would have loved that.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
So they take me to ed at the Royal and
this is the thing, right, they get me out, we're
walking into ED and then they're like, oh no, no,
she's pregnant. You have to take her to the Royal
Women's Hospital.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
They're all bloody joined.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
It's so confusing. So then I had to walk all
the way back to the ambulance and we had to
know with the paramedics.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
And then we had to drive to the around the corner.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
Yeah, but they stretched me. I was in a stretcher,
so that was fine.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
Year.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
So they stretched me to ED and they're like no, no, no,
You've got to go to the delivery suite. So then
they Richard me there and I.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
Was just saying he would have been panicking at that point,
like I'm not ready to deliver. Oh I know. And
actually when I called Charlie, I'm.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
Like, I'm in a delivery sweet. I didn't give details
because I wasn't thinking about that. But he gets to
eat in They're like, oh, she's in the delivery suite
and the guy's like in the lift with him taking
him there, like one of the nurses and he's like, oh,
so big day having a baby, and Charlie's just like,
I hope not. I couldn't even speak so concerned about

(08:27):
you know, whether like we can't have a baby, like
it's way too early.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
But anyway, I get to the delivery suite, the midwives
come in and they're kind of treating everything and just
doing a once over, like my belly. They're like, okay, well,
your belly's nice and soft, so we're not too worried
about baby. We'll do a dop bler to check the heartbeat.
Heartbeats all good. We're going to give you some pain relief.
And I was like, fuck yes. By then, it's probably
been an hour of this pain. And they're like, we'll

(08:52):
give you some codeine because that's pretty much all we're
comfortable with giving you while you're pregnant. And I was like,
I can't have codine, like honestly, like I had that
really bad migraine at the beginning of the pregnancy and
codine did basically fuck all. So but gradually I take
the coding because obviously I'm in a lot of pain.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
So by them when they're like feeling my bows and
being like oh wow, okay, it feels like you're quite
backed up, blah blah blah.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
Oh so they've diagnosed you by this point.

Speaker 1 (09:21):
Well, they've done a check and they've felt my bows
and they can feel where it's tender. They're like, there's
this tender and it's only tender on one side. They're like,
we can feel it, we can feel it, but will
wait till the doctor comes or whatever to do the
actual diagnosis. They're like, we're not worried about baby, but
when did you last do a movement? And I said, oh, well, I.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
Love the language that they use. Can they not just
say shit?

Speaker 1 (09:40):
Yeah? When do you take a big shit?

Speaker 2 (09:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (09:42):
Well it had been a while and when I thought
about the frequency of my bow movie.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
You don't often think like, it's not like you notes
down your poos right well, and if you weren't feeling
uncomfortable up until that point, well that's the thing.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
And typically I have I'm not a good power and
I have a really lazy bow. So for me to
go once a week is actually pretty normal. They had
given me the gas.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
Sorry.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
When I got there, the gas was amazing. It just
took the edge off. But then before the doctors came,
they said, okay, so the doctors want you to stop
using the gas because we need you to be coherent
when they're here to you.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
Basically weren't responding in any sentence.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
No, I was high as a kite and I was
fucking loving it.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
Yeah that much.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
I can still feel the pain, but it took the
edge off. And then as soon as I stopped the gas,
the pain was back and forth. Anyway, So we got
through that, got through to concert with the doctor. I'm
taking them of a cole. I talk about six sashets.
I've taken the laxatives and at some point I fall
asleep for a few hours.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
Awake up about.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
Six pm and nothing had come out by this point
by any means, but I think it had kind of
got things going anyway. They're like, yep, doctors don't need
to see you with just double checked the happy for
you to be discharged.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
I was like, amazing.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
We start to get out of bed and I'm like
just getting dressed again, and then i feel a faint
bit of pain and I'm like it's okay.

Speaker 2 (11:07):
It's fine, it's awkwod, don't worry about it.

Speaker 1 (11:09):
Say goodbye to the midwives. One of the midvies was
so cute. She wrote me like a little thing like
warm limb and water with every meal, like stewed fruits.
So she was like you know you need to do this.
This is really going to help prepare. Yeah, and I
was like, hey, so the birthing Sweet to the emergency department,
which is where Charlie parked, is probably a ten minute walk,

(11:31):
and it's just like down in the lifts across down
in another set of lifts. At the end of that
ten minute walk, I was hunched over and Charlie's like,
you wait here, I'll take Rudy to.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
Get the car.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
The car was five minutes away, like in the garage.
And in that five minutes, I had walked myself back
into ED and I just said to them, Hey, I've
just been discharged, but do you mind if I just
sit here. I'm not feeling very well. My pain I
think is coming back, and could you get me some water?
And he was like, yep, absolutely. Anyway, in the two
minutes that it took for him to come out from

(12:03):
behind the glass, I had started vomiting.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
I was on all fours, so I was on my knees.
Was it a pack to ED?

Speaker 1 (12:10):
It wasn't as packed as I've seen it, but there
were people. People were like, are you okay?

Speaker 2 (12:14):
And I'm like, no, God, the drama I know I.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
Was on my knees vomiting into a bag. This nurse
comes out and she says, do you have a virus
like a U okay? And I said no, no, no virus.
And she's like, are you in pain? And I said yes,
I'm in pain. And I was like, I've just been discharged,
and so she like and I put my wrist out

(12:38):
and she like scander it or whatever. Anyway, they basically
took me and readmitted me. So I got admitted into
the emergency department.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
And short stay.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
Not having short stay, this was like the examination area, okay.
So I went in there and by this time, so
Charlie had come with Ruber.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
He's like, where'd you go? She's like, shit it Charlie
come heah? Is that her?

Speaker 1 (13:04):
I am streaming like from the pain on all shill chills.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
I'm like to Charlie, do something.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
You have to help me, like you have to make
them help me, like this has like been twelve hours
at this point, like with a little bit of you know,
what's through doing. She looked concerned the whole time, because
I was just like, fuck, this is probably gonna star.

Speaker 2 (13:25):
And I know if kids are psychopass, she probably would
have thought it was funny and you were playing a game.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yeah, so true. But there was this really cool doctor
on the ward and he said, was it doctor Matt?

Speaker 2 (13:36):
I don't know if it was.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
That's the thing.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
I don't photo. Oh you've got a photo, of course
I do. I love him.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
Shut up, that's so funny. I didn't take any photos,
and helpless I had take a photo. I just googled him, like.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
Okay, that gay, we'll look at that. So so basically they.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
Come in and he's like, we're gonna get you pain relief.

Speaker 2 (13:59):
And basically it sounds like doctor Matt. I reckon, it's
doctor Matt. It does.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
And in two seconds, this amazing female doctor comes in
and she's like, so, what's happened today? And I said,
I cannot talk Charlie.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
So he quickly told her and are you cranky at
this point? No, I wasn't.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
Cranky at this point. I was calm. I was calm
because I'd been helped.

Speaker 2 (14:18):
Yeah, but as you said, it's been twelve hours, you're
still there.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
Nothing's moved, nothing's moved, and I'm just like, I just
don't want to feel pain. I was just tired anyway.
So She's like, Okay, we're going to put an r
iv in and we're going to give you morphine. And
it was like music to my ears because morphine is
just fucking an instant.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
You know. Wait, can I just quickly show you? Yeah, yeah,
show me. That is him. I'm not even kidding.

Speaker 1 (14:41):
That is him. He is the one who was like,
we are getting you pain relief. Oh my god, I
actually could cry that to find Doctor Matt and just
tell him that he is the best doctor in the
whole world. He was the only one who saw me
as a person in pain, I say, and.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
The only one that actually cared for you.

Speaker 1 (14:59):
Yeah, I think, and I get it. We do care
about the baby, but at this point it had been
so long. So yeah, after he was like, we're going
to get your pain relief, she came in, had to
quick chat with Charlie. But as she's chatting with Charlie,
she's putting a canula into my veins and within I
reckon less than ten minutes, I got a dose of morphine. Yes,
and it was instant, and I just lay there being

(15:22):
like this is good. This is like the best I
felt all day. And then Dr Matt now we know
it's doctor Matt, which is fucking insanems and he goes,
no one should be in that amount of pain.

Speaker 2 (15:33):
That's not okay, are you talking about this? I knew
that you must be talking about my maid, so that
our saviors were the same guy. I'll save you well,
you know what. It's also someone will know.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
We need to send him a bunch of flower saying
how are you.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
Doctor Matt da You do not remember us, but we
actually have a podcast together and we're in this hospital
on the same weekend, and you helped both of us
when not really listening to us.

Speaker 1 (15:56):
And I also just I could hear the consults that
he was doing and he was kind, so kind, so kind, calm.

Speaker 2 (16:04):
And acting Director Prince of Wales Emergency Department. What a legend.
Why do I know that donuts? Yeah? Have I googled
him extensively since yes you have?

Speaker 1 (16:14):
Yeah, yeah, shout out to him. If anyone knows the
moves listening, just let him know you've got two fangals.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
Honestly, just like it makes such a difference when someone
shows you that bit of compassion, and yeah, yeah it is.
That's so weird though, that we're both talking about this.
I know what are the cancels.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
So I got the morphine and by then it's probably
like a thirty and I just said to Charlie like, look,
you go home. There's no point and you're staying here
with Rue, like you go home. So they left and
I was like kind of relieved because I was like,
you guys have been there the whole day, and.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
Ru was so good.

Speaker 1 (16:49):
She just was so chill the whole day. When I slept,
she had a little sleep with me on the bed.
I sent you the phone.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
It's actually so sadly. It's not cute, it's sad. It's
really sad anyway.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
So then they were kind of like, all right, we're
going to move you to short Stay soon, and we
need you to do about movement before you leave.

Speaker 2 (17:07):
Once again, because we need you to say.

Speaker 1 (17:09):
We need you to shit, we we.

Speaker 2 (17:11):
Need you to move that pooh, we gotta go.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
So they moved me to short Stay and I said,
am I going to be here overnight? And they said, yeah,
you're going to be here every night, so prepare for that.
So I was like, okay, so cool, Chyler that tomorrow
it's all good. And the morphine it lasted so long,
like I was like, I'm sitting in burd being like
I'm cured, Like the pain, what pain is gone?

Speaker 2 (17:30):
It's completely gone.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
I'm so fine now, mother, cool, Yeah, I'll take another
sashet mabicore give it to me.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
How many sachets have you had at this point?

Speaker 1 (17:38):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (17:38):
So many?

Speaker 1 (17:38):
I reckon I had twelve, supply, it was so much.
They were kept checking on me, how have you done
a pooh? And I'm like, nothing is moving. Nothing's moving.
I don't know what to tell you anyway. So I
go to sleep and I'm like, well, hopefully something gets
moving in the morning.

Speaker 2 (17:54):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (17:55):
And then I wake up at four twenty two and
the pain is faint, and I go to the bathroom
because I'm like, maybe the pain is good pain signal.

Speaker 2 (18:03):
Hey, go to the toilet.

Speaker 1 (18:05):
Tried no, So I knew that I probably had a
space of ten to fifteen minutes for them to get
some pain relief ready for me. Otherwise I was going
to be in pain again, because that's how quickly it
came on after lad I had that big rest. So
I go back to my bed, I ring the buzzer
and I'm like, hey, my pain's coming back. Can I
please have some pain relief? And they're like, yeah, that's fine.

(18:28):
We need to get the doctor to come and see
you to talk to you about that, and they'll like
write up the pain relief. So it wasn't too long
after that the attending came.

Speaker 2 (18:37):
And saw me.

Speaker 1 (18:37):
She was really lovely. We just want to double check
with the obstetrics team to make sure that they're okay
with whatever we give you, and we want you to
do an ultrasound and I was like, okay, cool, easy,
So I wait, I wait. The obstetrics team come, they
do another little scan. Babies all good.

Speaker 2 (18:57):
Can they see the pooh?

Speaker 1 (18:58):
They can like see the mass there. Yeah, so they're like,
there is a mass there, but we want to confirm
it on a proper ultra sound because they've just got
like a shitty one and ned and they're like, we're
not going to give you any more morphine because.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
We've already had it.

Speaker 1 (19:10):
We don't want to give that to the baby. We
want something a bit small, slow release, so we're going
to give you end don And I was like, fine,
I will take whatever you will give me as long
it is is actually something that's substantial. So that was
maybe like five thirty, so it's probably been an hour
by then. I then waited two more hours and.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
To get pain relief. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's.

Speaker 1 (19:32):
A three hour mark. So they're all rushing around. That's fine,
and one nurse came up to me and said, are
you okay, like how's your pain? And I'm like, well,
I'm still waiting on the pain relief and she's like, okay,
well we'll get you some morphine. I was like, well,
the obstetric scene was just here and they said no
morphine that they were going to give me end Don.
She's like, oh, En, don't, okay, I'm gonna go get
you end Don. Then she didn't come back for half
an hour, so that took me to three hours. And

(19:55):
I am in pain by this point, like I am
like keeping it together, but I am in severe pain.
And then the nurses start doing their handover. So I
can hear the nurses doing their handover.

Speaker 2 (20:06):
So which isn't their fault, like of course. And then
so I have.

Speaker 1 (20:09):
So many friends that are nurses, so much respect for them.
I understand what they're doing. The short though exactly end.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
Of the shift.

Speaker 1 (20:15):
I get it, so I let them do the handover,
and then after the handover was done, there was nothing.
I was like, when the hell is the check in
right now? I'm waiting for pain relief. And by this
stage I've started.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
Moaning or screaming again.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
I need to go to the bathroom. So I'm literally
attached to so they've had me on like saline, like
ivy or whatever for my fluids, and I'm like inching
the thing forward by and I'm walking it's like across
the hallway to the bathroom. But by then I'm like screaming,
so I'm like hobbling to the toilet and she's like,
are you okay?

Speaker 2 (20:47):
Do you need help?

Speaker 1 (20:47):
And I was like I needed help three hours ago.
I have had no pain relief. Did you say that
for three hours?

Speaker 2 (20:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (20:54):
I was like, good, I need to go to the bathroom. Anyway,
I go to the bathroom, I come back out. I
am crying, like I'm in so much pain. I'm frustrated
no one is listening to me. I'm like I have
reached my absolute limit of what I can physically and
mentally handle it. This pain is like pain I've never experienced,
way worse than my labor pain. And remember my epidural

(21:16):
did not work during like yeah, but at least with
labor like not everyone, but I had like reprieves like
it would exactly. And I was like, this is fucked up.
And I called Charlie.

Speaker 2 (21:27):
Say when you said that.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
Well, when she came back, I was like on the
bed on all fours again because it was like the
only kind of position I could get into where I
could like rock back and forth. It didn't do anything,
but like you know, little things are trying to help distract. Yeah,
And she's like, oh, how can I help me? And
I was like, I don't want you to help me.
I need to have another nurse, like I have been
waiting for so long.

Speaker 2 (21:49):
She's like, we did.

Speaker 1 (21:49):
Handover and I'm like, I know you did handover. I
listened to you do your full handover and then I
waited another half an hour for you to come, like
I want a different nurse please. And then I called
Charlie and I was like, I need you in the
hospital right now.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
To help advocate for you.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
Yeah, I'm like they're not listening to me. I need
you to advocate for me, Like they're not taking me
seriously with the amount of pain that I'm in The
doctor came back, but it was probably about ten or
fifteen minutes, and it's the doctor that I saw at
four thirty in the morning, and she goes, hey, are
you okay? And I'm like, oh my god, I'm so
relieved to see you. I'm like, I haven't had any
pain relief. And she goes, you haven't had any pain

(22:25):
relief since I saw you this morning, And I was like, no,
I haven't had any pain relief since I saw you
this morning. Like I was so upset and frustrated, and
I just was like, thank God that this person like
believes me. By then they're like, realize how long it's been.
And then so what do they give me? Morphine in
the canula And I'm just like so it was instant,

(22:49):
which was fine, like, but fuck, like, and I know
your short stuffed. I know that there are a million
things that you're working against, but like, I don't know.
It just made me think, like the system is.

Speaker 2 (23:02):
It's so broken.

Speaker 1 (23:03):
And also I know statistically, as a woman of color
in a hospital, well.

Speaker 2 (23:07):
That's what I was just thinking.

Speaker 1 (23:08):
I'm not always taken serious.

Speaker 2 (23:10):
You have dealt with racism several times, so yeah, that's
like would have been upsetting as well, because you're like,
I don't want to be the angry black woman or
the black woman that's asking for the drugs exactly.

Speaker 1 (23:21):
And it was a really difficult moment for me because
I was like, even when I'm at my most vulnerable
a pregnant woman and excruciating pain, now it's still some
level of not taking me seriously. And I was just
like really frustrated by that because I had been calm
all the way through when I felt people were listening
to me.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
But it's like I.

Speaker 1 (23:39):
Don't want to have to like demand a new nurse
to make a point about like I need help.

Speaker 2 (23:45):
And I need you to take me. So what time
is that?

Speaker 1 (23:47):
So four point thirty five, thirty six thirty seven thirty
I got parently for eight am. So then they took
me for the extent of ultrasound and it confirmed that
the ultrasound lady was like that is a giant pooh,
and I was like I'm away and she's like really
good luck with that. Good luck, but baby's all okay.

(24:09):
That was like my main thing. I kept being like,
is baby Okay's baby okay?

Speaker 2 (24:13):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (24:13):
I forgot to say in a monst that like when
I'd had the morphine and the short stay and stuff,
they had done three different types of enemas, so they
had put like, yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:25):
So you've just had a moving things up your button, yeah,
down your golob to try to help things move, and
nothing's moving. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
And by this time I've messaged my girlfriend's being like, hey,
your best friends got a huge pooh stuck in her
like what do you who? Were nurses who, what do
you guys recommend? And one of them mentioned a fleet enema,
And so I kept hearing about this fleet enema. But
then the thought was maybe the pooh was up too
high because the actual enemas that are kind of down
in your lower boughs.

Speaker 2 (24:51):
Oh I forgot. Also, the doctor put.

Speaker 1 (24:53):
Her finger at my bum to try and break the
pooh mass, but realized there's actually no poo down in
my lower bow, that the obstruction's up my upper bus.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
So she was just fingering, you're a noose and she's like, no,
there's nothing there.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
Ding. It was the end of her shift, and she
was like, do you want me just to go in
there and break it up? And I'm like, do you
want to do that? Like you're just about to leave,
like the fact that you've offered that to me, like
she's a kind, you are a kind?

Speaker 2 (25:14):
No, doctor, I can't doctor. I was like yeah, And so.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
That was pretty confronting and uncomfortable. But the fleet anime,
everyone saying it's probably not going to work because it's
too far up. Imagine like a popper do you call
them that? And Queensland like, do you know the little
juice boxes? Y?

Speaker 2 (25:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (25:30):
Yeah, okay, so imagine juice box size, not that shape,
but that size basically of like salty water. It's like
a saline solution and they squeeze that bottle.

Speaker 2 (25:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (25:40):
So she goes, Okay, what I'm going to do with
I'm going to put your bed on an angle because
gravity really helps. And I said, okay, well, how long
do I need to keep you know, this solution in
my ears? Basically, she's just like squeezing this whole bottle
of saline water up my ass and then I have
to clench and hold it for as long as possible.
But of course all you want to do is like
push it out, push it out, because it's like anyway,

(26:03):
She's like, well, fifteen minutes is ideal but I don't reckon,
you'll get past three. And I was like, okay, well
I'm going to try for three minutes, because if you're
saying you don't reckon, I'm going to get to that
three minutes. And yeah, I got to three minutes and
I had.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
To hurt going in. It was just really uncomfortable, really
really uncomfortable, like anything in my butt. I don't typically either,
it's not my mind. I'm going to be fair in
this circumstance. You're probably please.

Speaker 1 (26:28):
I was like, put a hose up there and suck
it out literally like one of those like a colonic Yeah. No,
I wish that I had something like that.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
I did ask. I was like, do you have anything
like that?

Speaker 1 (26:38):
No? So then I went to the bathroom, and to
be honest, it was just really the water that came out.
But then afterwards I felt so ill because it had
basically stirred everything up, but it did what it was
supposed to do, right, because that was the big thing
that kind of got everything moving. And because I felt
so sick, I went to sleep and then woke up

(26:58):
like quite late, had a little bit of something to eat,
and then went back to sleep overnight and I was
waking up just going to the toilet and just kind
of loose stool was coming out. Nothing substantial, but things
were kind of slowly coming out. And then yeah, in
the morning, they were like, okay, well things are moving.
You've had a few movements. Now, like we're fine to
discharge you. We just need you to like continue with

(27:18):
the Well now I'm using the omnilax and the lact
low so I was like taking shots of lactolos the
whole time, which is like that really sweet syrupy laxative
that you can give to kids too. And yeah, they
sent me home and I got home and burst into
tears because I was just like what the fuck that
was gonna be my weekend to like prepare and get

(27:40):
back into work, Like my first work day was meant
to be the Monday, And I was just literally beside
myself because I was like, this is ridiculous that I
can't shit, and it's really messed up my whole life.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
You were in hospital for several days because you could
not you were actually full of pooh exactly.

Speaker 1 (27:57):
Yeah, and then like eating, I was scared to eat, yeah,
because you know, eating the pancakes is what brought the
Pooh thing on. So I was like eating tiny, tiny
bits of food and it was honestly the worst pain
I've ever been in my life, and the worst like
it wasn't about experience. Everyone was so lovely. Obviously there
was that little annoying mix up thing in the short stay,

(28:19):
but I was just so thankful that I was able
to have help with it, because had I not have
called that ambulance, I wouldn't have been able to drive
there with Charlie.

Speaker 2 (28:28):
True, there just would be no way, Like I have
you been pooped like on the rig.

Speaker 1 (28:33):
Well it's now a week later or two weeks, like
two weeks today, and I had my first proper bowel
movement where.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
I like pushed yesterday. Oh my god.

Speaker 1 (28:46):
Everything else has just been like soft stool kind of
coming out fine, but not anything like substantial and like together.
And like the first time I had a proper one
was yes Sunday. Thank God, I know, but I'm just
so scared it's gonna happen again. So now I'm eating
chea seeds left, right and center. I'm trying to eat
lots of fibrous foods, trying to drink In fact, that's

(29:07):
just reminded me to drink some water. But any mums
out there suffering from severe constipation while you're pregnant, do
not sleep on that. Like, really get yourself in a
good position and get a good system going with the
move cole on the lux that's my favorite because it
doesn't have any kind of taste. It's so much better.
And make sure that you are drinking as much water

(29:29):
as you can. I know it's hard. I really struggle
with drinking water as well, But you do not want
to be in that pain.

Speaker 2 (29:37):
Ever, you do not as nice as doctor Matt is.
You don't want to meet him. No, what's your peak?

Speaker 1 (29:44):
I got out of hospital on the Monday, and then
it was the long weekend in New South I was,
but also Queensland that following weekend, and I began the
week being like, I'm not going to be out. We
have planned to go to Bangalow and then my two
best friends and their husbands and kids come and stay
with us at the bangalo and I was just like
I can't get through this, and I was really umming

(30:04):
and hurrying about canceling it. The girls were like, if
you need to cancel, that's fine, But I really wanted
to see Charlie's sister and Charlie's dad, so we ended
up going, and thank god we did because I feel
a lot better mentally, so nice having seen them. It
was just really cut feeling, like being with your friends
who know you. You don't have to like say anything

(30:26):
around like they just know, they know when to give
you a bit of a heartbug.

Speaker 2 (30:30):
Yeah, exactly. And it was just so beautiful.

Speaker 1 (30:32):
The kids are playing like it was just nice, like
seeing everyone together, seeing the husbands together, seeing my gorgeous
sister in lawd Georgie, who's also pregnant. She's ten days
behind me, so we're kind of going through this together,
which is really lovely. No, she's fine. I mean, I
don't want to out her constipation, Allline, but she has
been taking care of herself, That's what I'll say. But yeah,

(30:52):
I think it was. You know, sometimes you are like,
I can't do that. I've been through something really traumatic
and painful.

Speaker 2 (30:58):
But sometimes the best thing that you can do is
just power on through and then you're like, oh, you
never regret doing those things exactly. Now, before we get
into today's episode, we do want to acknowledge the privilege
of being pregnant, and just a warning if you are
struggling at the moment with your fertility, this episode might

(31:20):
not be for you because it might seem a little
bit silly and insensitive. Yeah, definitely.

Speaker 1 (31:27):
Pregnancy. Many many women fall pregnant at some point in
their life. Not everyone wants the pregnancy or is able
to keep the pregnancy, but if we're generalizing, an awful
lot of the XX population will experience it, and I
am currently one of those experiencing it as I am
with child.

Speaker 2 (31:44):
And I'm currently very glad that I am not with
child because what sort of fresh hell is it where
you end up in a hospital full of your own face?

Speaker 1 (31:52):
Is?

Speaker 2 (31:52):
Shush you?

Speaker 1 (31:54):
So we thought we'd have a little complaint sesh today
about pregnancy and all the woes we have trying to
bring a charm into the.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
World, including almost self combusting with poop. All right, I'm sorry.
We've passed the pit part of it. Now it's just
time to make fun of you.

Speaker 1 (32:09):
Right, Well, I'm slowly getting to the humor part of it.

Speaker 2 (32:12):
She pregnancy complaint number one. Yeah, nausea and vomiting, Yeah,
what the fuck?

Speaker 1 (32:22):
Yeah, it's pretty annoying. I didn't have that the first
time around, but you bet you I've got it this time.

Speaker 2 (32:28):
Of course you do. Of course you do now with
the toddler and toad as well.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
The nausea is just so insane, isn't it, Like you
just constantly feel na She's like if I moved too quickly,
or like I was packing for Bangalow and had a
little vomb and it was just because I was bending
over packing and stuff feeling nauseous.

Speaker 2 (32:47):
The vomiting, like never before in my life have I
just vomited, Oh, different things, like even when I was
past the proper morning sickness, except it's not morning sickness,
it's just all day yeah sickness. We really need to
update that, Like just randomly different other points of my pregnancy,
I just vomit. Oh you ate too much? You tell

(33:08):
me to full vomit. Yes, that didn't agree with you. Your
vomit Yeah, like you move too weird vomit. Yeah, it's
very weird and most like not many people enjoy vomiting.
It's very physical. It's very violent.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
It's so physical, isn't it, Like you're literally like.

Speaker 2 (33:23):
Like a catt that's gross. Every now and then I
meet somewhere that's like a dainty throw opera where they
just go and it comes up. Those people are violent.

Speaker 1 (33:36):
Yeah, I'm like my eyes are watering and popping out
of my head.

Speaker 2 (33:39):
Mine was so bad through five to sixteen or seventeen
weeks no caffeine because I was that sick. What did
you do? It was awful? And so then I started
taking the tablets and I had alarm set on my phone.
I've got like some of the funniest, saddest videos of
Luke filming me at like three and when I've said
an alarm to wake up to eat something like, I

(34:01):
had crackers and stuff next to my bed, so my
tummy was never empty.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
I have been feeling that mine is bad, but it's
never woken me up being nauseous. You about it, but yours,
I think yours was really severe. I just had to
like be on top top of it. And it's crazy because,
like I.

Speaker 2 (34:18):
Mean, luckily it was during COVID, but it's wild that
you're the sickest you've ever been. You can't tell people
about it, you're not supposed to tell people about it.
But during that period is when you're so.

Speaker 1 (34:28):
Sick and you're still got to work and do all
of the things I.

Speaker 2 (34:30):
Just men could never. Men could never. I think they
know that they could never complain. Number two pregnancy tidness.

Speaker 1 (34:37):
Well, this one I've got a real bone to pick
with because first time around, didn't get that tired, like
a little bit ti oh, I might have a little
nap because I've got no other responsibilities. This time around,
it was the most debilitating time. And I feel like
it's only.

Speaker 2 (34:53):
Just just ease you've stopped having to need the nap. Yeah,
it'll start up again. I will warn you.

Speaker 1 (35:01):
Well, I was just gonna say, if we have a
big day doing something like in Bangalore, we had it.
We went to the farm, so we just went out
to the restaurant in the morning for breakfast. But it's
a farm, so the kids are running around. I was
a bit hot. I napped for the rest of the day. Yeah,
didn't I But I never realized how debilitating the tiredness
could be. It was, and the first trimester we joked
about it on the podcast, like I could work from

(35:21):
like nine till twelve, and then I would have to
leave because if I didn't get home for a nap, she.

Speaker 2 (35:26):
Would be upset or she'd have to have a nap here,
but all my.

Speaker 1 (35:29):
Eyes would just shut and I would be asleep. So
it was really dangerous, like driving that kind of thing.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
I just didn't.

Speaker 1 (35:34):
Realize how debilitating the exhaustion could be.

Speaker 2 (35:39):
It's so much worse than postpartum tightness.

Speaker 1 (35:43):
Yeah, it hits differently, because.

Speaker 2 (35:46):
I think postpartum tightness is worse mentally, but physically, yeah,
you just it's because you've got this human and you
would just never I remember when my sister just kept
saying to me, I promise you it ends as soon
as you birth the baby. You're not feel this tired,
Like every single bone in your body feels tired. And
mine also eased up in my second trimester, but then

(36:08):
it came back with a vengeance in tremester three. But
I was working for myself and it was during lockdown. Yeah,
but like literally every afternoon, you could be like you're
going to field nap, yeah, and I'd go for a
little nap, and I just have the best nap every
afternoon because later on any pregnancy, you also can't sleep
that well at nighttime.

Speaker 1 (36:27):
Yeah, so it makes sense that the afternoon nap was
heaven for some reason. I could always sleep so well
in the afternoon, but then at nighttime it was like
tossing and turning. Insomnia, isn't it. Yeah, that's also a
complaint that's coming up.

Speaker 2 (36:40):
So pregnancy tiredness. Oh not not happy. Complaint number three?
What the fuck is sciatica? And why does my whole
body hurt? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (36:49):
I haven't had sciatica specifically, but the whole body hurting, Like,
why am I hobbling around.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
Because all of your joints and ligaments are moving as well.
It's horrible. It's honestly like horrible. Pregnancy is absolutely wild.
I used to just have to get into the on
all fours to stretch out my back because that was
the only comfortable position I would be in, and I
got psiatica so bad in one hip, that's awful. I
would literally I walked with a limp for several weeks

(37:18):
at a time, and my friends I'd go and do
the Centennial Park walk and because it was lockdown and
that's what I could do, and they'd be like, you're okay,
and I'm like, yep, just ignore me, just ignore me.
That's not just hobbling around a Centennial Park with a
big old limp pond. It was awful. Complain Number four,

(37:38):
the huffing and the puffing.

Speaker 1 (37:40):
I can tell you that's already started. I noticed it
on the weekend. I was very short of breath.

Speaker 2 (37:45):
Why why because.

Speaker 1 (37:47):
You sitting on my lungs smushing them, smushing them to
make room for their little baby body.

Speaker 2 (37:53):
You don't realize that. You're like, well, yeah, like breathing
is such a struggle, and you sound like an elderly
man that's been smoking three packs a day.

Speaker 1 (38:04):
Oh yeah, you're full up to like, yeah, you know,
your shoulders almost.

Speaker 2 (38:08):
And everything's a struggle. I can't believe that people let
me podcast up until the day I gave burn.

Speaker 1 (38:13):
I know, that was pretty funny.

Speaker 2 (38:14):
Why would you let someone podcast when they're like and
then this, Yeah, that wasn't good. That wasn't good. The
shortness of breath is not cute. Number five is constipation. Well,
I think I've covered that one, haven't I just a
little bit. My pooing is I'm a good poo But
every single day I had to have a shot of
thinking because it was just so like I was still

(38:37):
so backed up during where pregnancy. It's a very common
pregnancy symptom.

Speaker 1 (38:40):
Yeah, so then imagine if you don't pooh normally, just
he's dire literally backed out. Moving on. Complaint number six
is reflux. Why am I insidees burning?

Speaker 2 (38:51):
I forgot about this until I was researching.

Speaker 1 (38:54):
Yeah, no, no, no, as you started, No, it hasn't. I
mean I've had like a sporadic here or there, like
maybe twice.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
That's it. Another reason for the random vomit. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
If the reflux gets too bad, it's horrible, honestly.

Speaker 1 (39:07):
And like I was with Beck because she's recently had
a bud but in her like last trimester and she's
just about to give birth, she just would stop me
in conversation and grab out the old gavesol and pop
one and just be like, sorry, my fucking heartburn reflex.

Speaker 2 (39:22):
It's so bad. It feels like something's just raising your
throat burning. I used to pop those like candy. Yeah, yeah, exactly,
exactly one. It's like, no, you cannot. Next up is
you're full all the time. Like you're supposed to be
eating more, well, not as much as what people like

(39:44):
to eat, but yeah, you're supposed to eat normally at least,
well you're supposed to eat regularly.

Speaker 1 (39:49):
So I think a lot of us probably don't eat regularly,
or we can skip meals if we've got a meeting
or whatever.

Speaker 2 (39:54):
But when you're pregnant, you need to eat. But the
issue is it's not a room for the food that
you need. No room. I am a big eater, and
I who usually could smash a pizza. Towards the end
of my pregnancy, I'll never forget because it was just
a horrible thing. I could eat Max two slices.

Speaker 1 (40:12):
Oh yeah, I was like a half burger, like and done.

Speaker 2 (40:15):
Charlie loved it. Yeah, actually he would. Luke actually probably
did too, because he was always.

Speaker 1 (40:19):
Like seconds and I'm like, oh, And as soon as.

Speaker 2 (40:22):
The baby came out, I was like, give me that
Jack that room again. In fact, I got some more
room because my organs still haven't shifted back into please.
Like sometimes I still think when I am finishing off
my pizza, I still am thinking, how did you only
eat two slices? Max?

Speaker 1 (40:40):
I mean your stomach there's just no there's no room,
no room.

Speaker 2 (40:44):
Where are you supposed to put this food that you're eating.

Speaker 1 (40:46):
Yeah, I don't know, it's not like the baby's taken
any And.

Speaker 2 (40:48):
Then if you get g D. You can't eat so
many different things.

Speaker 1 (40:51):
Yeah, I've never had that, Thank goodness, I'm not over
the hump yet. But bloody hell, that sounds stressed. No, No,
I haven't done it yet.

Speaker 2 (40:58):
You probably know. Oh I don't know. I think you know.
Complaint number eight mental health goes to the toilet. Oh.
Then in my notes so I put I'm like.

Speaker 1 (41:06):
Key, Yeah, I didn't have bad mental health for my
first pregnancy.

Speaker 2 (41:10):
No, the mental health goes to the toilet. I'mlike key,
Oh that it was just another poojo.

Speaker 1 (41:17):
Can I just say though, in the second pregnancy, my
mental health has.

Speaker 2 (41:21):
Been so bad. Oh, it's been awful, so bad, and
like you are like unhinged.

Speaker 1 (41:27):
I just have been so like I can't do this.
And I remember actually saying that in the hospital, like
when I was in the birthing suite when they were
doing their assessment and stuff, and I remember just like
not pleading, but like saying to Charlie like I can't,
like I can't go through with this pregnancy, Like I
can't do this.

Speaker 2 (41:47):
It's so hard.

Speaker 1 (41:48):
The whole pregnancy has been hard. And one of the
midwifes is like, we're not delivering the baby today. Does
she know that? And I'm like, no, the pregnancy woman,
it's been really hard, okay, yeah, but like.

Speaker 2 (41:58):
And it's also been a really hard year.

Speaker 1 (42:00):
Yeah, so just shout out to anyone who does have
bad mental health through pregnancy. It makes it a lot
harder than you can imagine. You just feel really defeated.

Speaker 2 (42:10):
And you feel very alone as well. Yeah, and every
like physical things and working becomes so much harder. So
than you're feeling like useless at different things.

Speaker 1 (42:21):
It's you just don't feel particularly good at anything. And
I don't even feel good at making the baby because
you're so ill and uncomfortable.

Speaker 2 (42:30):
Yeah, even though the baby's happy as anything inside.

Speaker 1 (42:33):
Just bouncing around, don't feel that. It's really difficult. And
I think having a really dreamy pregnancy first time around
and then having this pregnancy, the comparison's been really hard,
night and day. It's been really hard to kind of
live through that because we made the decision to have
a second and everyone tells you this, it might not
be the same, and you're like, yeah, that's fine. Had
we not had a big grief event it happened at

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the start of the year, I probably would have been
able to navigate. Maybe this pregnancy is easy, but it's just.

Speaker 2 (43:01):
Hard because you're getting physical symptoms as well, and it's
just so hard. And even though it's like a common
thing that lots of people do, just because it's common
doesn't make it any easy, right. I just never had
felt lonely in my time. I mean I was lockdown
when I was pregnant, but I just was so alone. Yeah,
even though my sister was pregnant at the same time,

(43:22):
so it's like I could literally it doesn't help when
other people. Sometimes I just still just feel really lonely
because you're actually the only one that is growing this human.

Speaker 1 (43:31):
Yeah, And I think a lot of a lot of
my mental health during this time is how reliant I've
had to become on Charlie, on you and Lucy as
my business partners, like just having to.

Speaker 2 (43:42):
Pick up slack, like you just feel like the shittest.

Speaker 1 (43:44):
Person because you just cannot excel in any way, and
then that it's like this vicious cycle of kind of
self loathing and.

Speaker 2 (43:52):
Yeah, it's awful, which then makes you just want to
stay in bed and yeah, exactly. But then I've also
a lot a toddler that's like once like, as you
just said, it is something that everyone goes through, but
it still is like you're experiencing it. You are excelling
at growing human.

Speaker 1 (44:10):
Yeah, well, thank god, that just kind of baby kicking along.

Speaker 2 (44:16):
Just do do do pushing that pool out of the way,
get out of here, mom, and it's please for goodness sake,
have you been regularly seeing your therapist.

Speaker 1 (44:28):
I missed my last appointment because I was in the
hospital with DODR Matt.

Speaker 2 (44:32):
Pretty legit excuse, but yeah, I've got to rebook that.
Thank you for reminding me. Good because I know with
you it definitely makes a difference. It does.

Speaker 1 (44:40):
It's like a little you know what, she's my morphine.

Speaker 2 (44:42):
If she will take that, she is your morphine. Complaint
number nine the admin. Yeah, I am not an admin person,
neither of I hate admin. The millions of appointments that

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you have to go to so irritating. I used to
ask it was so long. My sister would be like,
have you been to see meal wife? I was like no,
She's like, why am I I don't want to? Then
I have to drive.

Speaker 1 (45:13):
There's a lot of time.

Speaker 2 (45:15):
I just I could not be bothered. I hate admin.
I hated the paperwork, and I hated that it was
all on me. Look went to one ultrasound.

Speaker 1 (45:25):
Yeah, that was the same with Childie because it was COVID,
so it was really limited in what he could go to.

Speaker 2 (45:29):
Still irritating, Oh don't mind me, I'll put off work
for the morning because I've got to go get this
baby scanned. Or I've got to go get this blood test.
Oh they can't get blood. I've got to go get
this irritating.

Speaker 1 (45:40):
Yeah. I mean it's your first kind of taste of
the inequities of raising kids, isn't it. Like first's the
first mental load part of it, which as the woman
or the primary kera. Unfortunately that does come down to.

Speaker 2 (45:53):
You and then you generally are the one that thinks
about everything that you need, like oh what pram, what
cot what? Yeah, all of those little things Like you
just don't realize how much admin there is involved. And
it's irritating. Yeah, and time consuming, it is. It is.

Speaker 1 (46:09):
It's very time consuming. I mean it consumes you as well.

Speaker 2 (46:13):
You know the smells do you go on like how
sensitive your nose is? Oh my god, yes, it's fucked.

Speaker 1 (46:24):
I mean I have a sensitive nose to begin with,
and I am supersonic. It's so bad that there have
been times I've asked Charlie to.

Speaker 2 (46:34):
Shower or.

Speaker 1 (46:38):
Like remove a piece of clothing because there's a smell
on it or something like. That's how crazy I've gotten
with it.

Speaker 2 (46:44):
Luke puts like cologne on to go to the gym.
Oh yeah, yeah, it's so aggressive and it's such an
like it's a beautiful smell. But now I hate it
because he just wears it too often. He goes oily
spread once. I'm like, it's too much. Yeah, it's spray
half half when for special occasions not to go to

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the gym.

Speaker 1 (47:04):
You know what would really be like like I would
want to cry is when I got into like an
uber and that fresh of things hanging there and I'm
just like fucking yine.

Speaker 2 (47:14):
But my nose never went back to what it was
pre pregnancy. Like I used to have a really good
like I loved fragrance, I loved perfumes. I did like
a short course like yeah, and now I just most fragrances.
I'm just like yuck too much. Definitely.

Speaker 1 (47:27):
I found also like my allergies to do with scent
have gotten really bad. Yes, So when I was pregnant.
We're going to get to this a little bit later.
And the complaints that I got from the shitter is,
but my sinus is when I'm pregnant, like the inflammation
in my my sinus means well, no, I get so blocked, right,
and then sense really sent me off. So just that

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whole area, I feel like it's pretty fucked up from pregnancy,
and it never really went back. You know, some people's
like feet grow a whole size.

Speaker 2 (47:55):
Oh thank god, that wasn't my whole size all.

Speaker 1 (47:59):
No, it's I mean, the lips do, but they always
go back down. But the nose growing a whole size.

Speaker 2 (48:04):
I don't know if maybe that is just an all
wives tell No, it's not an old lives. Well, everyone
gets a bit swollen, but it goes back down. Well,
some people go back down, some people don't. Okay, if
anyone's never went back down, please send us a photo
only before and after, Yeah, before and after. All we
can do is just do the nose like we want
to share it. I just want to see if I
just want to.

Speaker 1 (48:23):
See it for the shells, might want to see.

Speaker 2 (48:25):
Complaint number eleven. The vagina gets more vaginery, But you
said that you think that maybe that's just because your
scent is more heightened. When I say, I just want
to say this because I don't want anyone at home
thinking that they're alone in their vagina smelling more vaginery.
I don't mean it in a bad way. No, I'm
not saying it's a bad smell. It's just and more

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odorous and thicker smelling.

Speaker 1 (48:51):
But can I say not once have I ever smelt
one of my pregnant friends vaginas. That's why I think
it is your sense of smell is heightened, And definitely
I think you have a like a not you as
in generalizations, we know our scent more than others, Like.

Speaker 2 (49:08):
Vagina just smelled pretty much same, unless it's like got
an infection.

Speaker 1 (49:12):
I don't know, Like I just well, why haven't I
smelled my pregnant friends.

Speaker 2 (49:15):
I've smelt my friends sometimes when they've got periods.

Speaker 1 (49:18):
Yeah, I think that's it's not blood, that's bloody. That's
like a universal smell. I think everyone has like a
slightly different sound, like different pheromones and things like that.
But I don't want anyone to freak out because I
don't think that other people are smelling yourself.

Speaker 2 (49:31):
So ry. I never ever thought, my gosh, that pregnant
friend has got a smelly vagina, like an odorous, odorous,
odorous smelly makes it sounds bad. It's just odorous. Yeah. Yeah.
It also gets puffy. Everything gets puffy. But it's funny
when your vagina gets puffy, A puffy muffy. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (49:48):
I didn't get that the first time around, but you
bet you.

Speaker 2 (49:51):
My puss is so puffy right now. I got a
puffy puss When we were in your pokey, like is.

Speaker 1 (49:57):
It yeah, phaps are just bulbous, like what's happening.

Speaker 2 (50:03):
It looked like looks like there.

Speaker 1 (50:07):
Was something I was packing heat. That's what it looked
like in Europe. And I was just like, and then
the bump's covering it. So I'm just like trying to
see over the bump and I'm like, oh, yeah, you're
look in the.

Speaker 2 (50:16):
Mirror and you go, dear lord, I've got two big sausages.

Speaker 1 (50:18):
Also, the throbbing, because of the reason Robby muffy is
because there's a lot of blood rushing to that area
and the throbbing from it. It was just so weird,
so weird, so weird. Actually, that's just reminded me of
one I didn't have on the list, which I've never
spoken about.

Speaker 2 (50:35):
Admit it. The orgasms I have when I'm pregnant. I
was gonna I was thinking it, but you've said it.
I didn't have that, But tell me about it, because
some people get like really horny when they're pregnant. Yeah,
it's weird.

Speaker 1 (50:49):
Like I was just orgasm in my sleep all the
time and have constant orgasms through the night. It's very strange.

Speaker 2 (50:57):
But it's a thing. What do you mean, I don't
So you're lying in bed having like.

Speaker 1 (51:02):
It's like my vagina is so much more sensitive and
tender because it's fatter.

Speaker 2 (51:08):
Maybe that's wine. Maybe because your clip's gotten puffy or too.
It just drops on the flap a little bit and
you just orgasm in your slick.

Speaker 1 (51:14):
I don't know, but I'll like often wake up from
it and I'll be like oh oh, or I'll be
out and it's just a little bit.

Speaker 2 (51:21):
Like oh tingly yeah, and I'm just like, oh, this
is what have you? Oh my god, You're turning into
one of those patients that it's on Gray's amatom where
they just have like involuntary orgasms. Yeah, yeah, that's you.

Speaker 1 (51:34):
Well, I'm not having involuntary ones when I'm like out
and about better. But it's like tingly. I mean, they're
no different, They're just kind of the same as if
you were.

Speaker 2 (51:42):
Are you having more orgasms when you have sex?

Speaker 1 (51:45):
Well, I haven't been having sex because this pregnancy has
not been great for me. Also, like and if I'm
getting i'm getting off, I'm asleep by myself.

Speaker 2 (51:54):
Yeah, actually got no knee, but yeah, it.

Speaker 1 (51:58):
Is very strange. And I got this germ first pregnancy,
so it is like it is.

Speaker 2 (52:03):
Because you've got one good thing both pregnancies.

Speaker 1 (52:06):
It is just a bit weird though, because then you're
just like, why am I such a sicko? Like, no,
there's no sick there's no wrong, nothing wrong with it.
But I'm just like, how many orgasms this one need
to have?

Speaker 2 (52:17):
Well, apparently a lot. It's maybe it's trying to help
you with the poo.

Speaker 1 (52:20):
Yeah, probably complain number twelve.

Speaker 2 (52:23):
Boobs so tender and not in a good way. I
think some people might get it in a but I remember,
like I had to put my hands on my nipples
when I was under the shower because just the feeling
of the water on my nipples was burning.

Speaker 1 (52:35):
That's how I knew I was pregnant the first time,
because I had this weird feeling sensation on my nipples
that I'd never felt before, just from water hitting my nipples.
And I'm like, I've never even felt my nipples feel anything.

Speaker 2 (52:45):
You know some people in nipple people, I'm I just
would rather mind, Like honestly, sometimes you could be playing
with them and I'd be like, oh, like, I'm not
a nipple person, so it's weird. I just wanted them
cover it.

Speaker 1 (52:59):
Yeah, I so so tender and so big, so quick.

Speaker 2 (53:02):
It's just like they do go back down to their
original size though. I always wondered that.

Speaker 1 (53:06):
A little bit less. So I'd say, a man are
a little bit like.

Speaker 2 (53:09):
A sad flute. Mine exactly the same. I know, I'm
so dealous. I did pay for them though, but even
the nip like just perfect.

Speaker 1 (53:17):
Well, when I'm pregnant, my actual nipples are really long.

Speaker 2 (53:20):
Oh my god, You're like Ashley, it's so weird.

Speaker 1 (53:22):
So I'm constantly hyping me and it's not.

Speaker 2 (53:26):
You turn into an actual calend. It's t t but
they do go back. How funny is it when you've
got your tits in the milk machine. You know, I
know what it's like, and it goes and you look
at it and it's literally like an udder being milked.
It's so weird. We are, honestly being a woman. We
just take it all. Okay, so key, you asked the

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shitters about some additional complaints.

Speaker 1 (53:51):
I thought i'd just run through them because honestly, the
reason I did this is because there were a few
in here that I went, oh my god, I had that.
I didn't realize it was a pregnancy symptom. So if
you're pregnant or I have been pregnant before, you might
be like, aha, it might help you. Yeah, I'm just
going to run through then we won't need to like
talk too much about it. Carple Tunnel, I had this well.

Speaker 2 (54:11):
Until last night when you messaged me about this. I
didn't realize that was a pregnancy thing. I have had
it on other points, to be fair.

Speaker 1 (54:16):
Yeah, Like I think it's like a pretty normal thing
to get it. It's an office job.

Speaker 2 (54:20):
And do like a lot of typing. It's a huge
symptom of vitamin B twelve deficiency.

Speaker 1 (54:25):
Right, okay, doc, and the arm brace that goes with it. Oh,
I never had to shout out to sleeping and arm
braces because you've got fucked up pains and your wrists
and hands horrific diarrhea. I didn't get that, but.

Speaker 2 (54:36):
That happened to me post birth. I would be literally
breastfeeding on the toilet with my newborn way. Well, shit
was just coming out of me like lava for six weeks.
Got a great visual. Just say the tongue. Have you
heard of that? No? What is that? Okay?

Speaker 1 (54:52):
So, a geographic tongue is an inflammatory but harmless condition
affecting the surface of the tongue. So basically the tongue
ends up with these kind of like smooth red patches
on the top or the side of the tongue. The
reason why the little geographic tongue is because they make
like quite interesting shapes. I'm just showing you. Oh imagine
if your tongue just look like that for no reason.

Speaker 2 (55:14):
I don't like that. It's so random. Pregnancy is so
so weird.

Speaker 1 (55:18):
Why do these things?

Speaker 2 (55:19):
Bad things happen to good people. We're growing and all
this weird stuff needs to happen, you know.

Speaker 1 (55:24):
I agree?

Speaker 2 (55:24):
I agree. Lightning crotch, you had that, Oh my god,
I did super.

Speaker 1 (55:29):
Sharp pains down there, and you've had jo sick and
sometimes it can start really early on and not stop.

Speaker 2 (55:34):
And it just happens in the most weird place and
you do that.

Speaker 1 (55:36):
Oh yeah, yeah, my tiny, I believe you had these
two swollen ankles.

Speaker 2 (55:42):
Okay, I just have perpetually swollen ankles. I was right
there with you. My girlfriends call me leg foot because
I just don't have an ankle. It just goes leg
to foot. What about my girlfriend Bell, We need to
post a photo if she lets us how swollen she
got all over.

Speaker 1 (56:00):
Could everyone maybe send us their swollen and equal or
just yeah, yeah. We won't do any headshots, but we
just put all together make.

Speaker 2 (56:08):
Other people feel better a chuckle bit, I off a
chuckle make everyone feel better about getting so swollen. It's
just the water retention. Every time we saw her afterwards,
we were like, oh, she's deflated some more. It was like,
she's just literally just me block sinuses.

Speaker 1 (56:23):
I was so glad when someone else said this, I
was like, yes, it's not just me random calf cramps
and like being woken up by cramping legs. This is
so bad, so bad, I forgot Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, terrible,
so fucking painful.

Speaker 2 (56:39):
I thought about this one too. Skin tags. Did you
get these?

Speaker 1 (56:43):
No?

Speaker 2 (56:43):
I have heard about them.

Speaker 1 (56:44):
Yeah, I did get some skin tags, and I was.

Speaker 2 (56:46):
Like, I'm a psycho, though I would just I have
gotten one before, not in pregnancy. I just chopped it off.
You're not supposed to think. Yep, dry eyes.

Speaker 1 (56:55):
I did get this in my first pregnancy, and my
eyes got really dry and I remember I had to
use drops a lot. Oh, really gross pigmentation.

Speaker 2 (57:04):
Of course, it's a big one for lots of women. Yeah,
rib pain.

Speaker 1 (57:08):
Rib pain is the first sign that I'm pregnant, and
it is so annoying, and you're just constantly kind of
like ow ow ow because your ribs are probably moving
you exactly for your womb a. Loss of fitness, even
if you continue to work out, can't relate. Haven't worked
out a day in this pregnancy.

Speaker 2 (57:24):
I feel like most people I know cannot. Like that
is for the five percent of the population who are
super fit.

Speaker 1 (57:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (57:31):
Acne.

Speaker 1 (57:31):
Now I didn't get this, but bacne is a big
thing with some people with their pregnancies. They just get
like this crazy breaking skin, really bad skin, and everyone's like,
where's my glowy pregnant and then.

Speaker 2 (57:44):
They say, oh, it's a girl because she's taking your beauty. Oh,
well that's sexist.

Speaker 1 (57:48):
Well yeah, but also the people that I've known that's
happened to did have a girl.

Speaker 2 (57:52):
Really, yes, it's weird.

Speaker 1 (57:54):
I mean, you know this is one that you and
I already hate. Varracos veins. Oh, they get worse, they
get bigger, bigger hate of Okay, this was another one
I had to look up. Obstetric collis stace status. I'm
sorry whoever's listening being like, can you learn some words?

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So basically, it's when your the skin on your stomach
or your body.

Speaker 2 (58:19):
Itchy, gets really really itchy.

Speaker 1 (58:22):
I forgot about Yeah, itchy skin. Yeah, well the itchy
skin I think is at all generalizing which is safe.
But obstetric colostatsus is actually.

Speaker 2 (58:33):
A liver issue.

Speaker 1 (58:34):
So if you get really itchy on your tummy, you
need to see your GP because so they can run
a blood test because you could have this liver thing,
Like what is it.

Speaker 2 (58:43):
Is because your skin was stretching.

Speaker 1 (58:46):
No, so per kid spot coleo stasis of pregnancy is
a rare liver disorder. Only about one percent of the
population will be effected. But it's important to know the
signs and symptoms. So yeah, it's actually a condition that
some people get. So it's your skin generally means your
skin is stretching, but like severe itchiness can be a
sign of this, like random liver thing that is only

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present when you're pregnant.

Speaker 2 (59:11):
God shout out to the chicks dealing with that. This
one blew my mind.

Speaker 1 (59:16):
Waking in the night with burning hot feet, had to
get under a shower to cool them down.

Speaker 2 (59:22):
That sounds awful, awful, awful. This one.

Speaker 1 (59:25):
I forgot that I had this, and I had no
idea at the time. Planter facitis. It's intense heel pain.
I got this towards the end of my pregnancy, and
you would.

Speaker 2 (59:35):
Have just assumed that your feet were sore because of
the extra weight.

Speaker 1 (59:38):
Totally just add it to the list of things. Yeah,
I didn't realize it's an actual thing. This one was
pretty funny. Smell a versions to partner, just the general scent.

Speaker 2 (59:48):
I love it. I love that they're like everything annoyed me,
including their scent. I loved it.

Speaker 1 (59:53):
Tender nightis and claw hands.

Speaker 2 (59:56):
That sounds awful. That sounds really painful.

Speaker 1 (59:58):
One of our shit has developed a neck hump, which
is awful. Well, I don't know, maybe I didn't get
into the details. It was just a tiny box. It's
only you know, gives.

Speaker 2 (01:00:09):
Like really detailed descriptions of everything.

Speaker 1 (01:00:12):
Yeah, exactly, metallic tastes of mouth. I had this often
hairy belly.

Speaker 2 (01:00:17):
Yeah, I used to love shaving mine.

Speaker 1 (01:00:19):
Hairy nipples. Oh, I didn't get that.

Speaker 2 (01:00:22):
Always I have to pluck them.

Speaker 1 (01:00:23):
Oh, I don't think that's the one place here doesn't
grow on my thanks so much. Pery oral dermatite.

Speaker 2 (01:00:29):
That's just a really bad form of dermatitis. Very common,
very easy to treat. Actually, is it a treat?

Speaker 1 (01:00:37):
Annoying that you get it with pregnancy? GD We touched
on dry vadge. Oh so so business while you're pregnant.
I get it. Well, at least you've got an excuse
black armpits, neck and puss. Like I've heard that skin darkens,
it's like pigmentation and like specific places.

Speaker 2 (01:00:53):
Would that be for different people from different races?

Speaker 1 (01:00:56):
Well, this person was white that sent it through, But
I think it can honestly be all different skin types. Oh,
I just get that line, you know, that weird line
everyone gets.

Speaker 2 (01:01:05):
But like imagine like a really white person raising their
arm and they've got like a black pitch. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:01:11):
I think that's what this should have had.

Speaker 2 (01:01:13):
I want photographs of these things. Yeah, and I should
have said it attached photo the hemorrhoids.

Speaker 1 (01:01:20):
I haven't had those yet, but you know what, I think,
if this any pregnancy, that I'm going to get them
and be this one. I have been straining like a mofo. Yes,
but they are bad, aren't they? Like people really get
them badly.

Speaker 2 (01:01:31):
It's awful. Ashley has to still push hers back up
inside her butt. I don't know if she wants us
to blast that for Oh. I'm sure she tells everyone
about the Hemsworths hemorrhoids Hemsworths. I hope she does. Anyway,
Now she'll be fine.

Speaker 1 (01:01:45):
That's all we've got time for today. It's been a
little bit last do you.

Speaker 2 (01:01:49):
After having a nice, good old question, I love a complain.

Speaker 1 (01:01:52):
And again just to say, obviously we know that huge privilege,
huge privilege, bring still to winge about things still okay?
In fact, it's a bloody service that we are doing
carrying these children and.

Speaker 2 (01:02:03):
We's of pregnancy symptoms. Key ended up in the hospital
full of Pooh.

Speaker 1 (01:02:07):
Yeah, thanks for the reminder again.

Speaker 2 (01:02:10):
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Speaker 1 (01:02:34):
Shit is Bye.