BIRTH VLOG! Raw & Unmedicated Labour, Pushing & Delivery of Our Baby (Emotional Positive Experience)

We are at the local hospital. Happy birthday, daddy. Thank you, mate. So, I'm pretty sure today is going to be the last time you will see the three of us, as in myself, Lucy, and Koda, who is in the other room playing in the vlog. Like, yeah, in life, the last outing. It It's any day now. It could be It could have been a week ago. It could be today. It could be I mean, it's still still could be like 2 weeks away, but the doctors don't want me to go much over my due date because of like baby measuring big. I don't really want to get induced based off of the baby's size, but I don't think we're gonna go too far past the due date basically. Yeah. Which for us is in like three days from uh 4 days from now. Yeah. So the official due date is 4 days, but who knows? This is this is very much Yeah. the leadup now. Everyone says second washing machine's on. What what's that got to do? No, I just think it's really annoying, isn't it? This big intro this big vlog potentially towel wash. I thought they'd be here already. I thought the 2nd of May was my guess. The fourth of May was your guess, which is today. Koda's guess is the 10th. Is it now? Okay. Did you not know that? No. Okay. So, yeah, this is very much the leadup to becoming a family of four. Unbelievable. And today's George's birthday. Today is also my birthday. We thought we'd start this vlog today just in case we don't get a chance to like say hello and it all happens quickly. So, we're not really going to like film loads today. We're just going to like have a family day, but we might bring in the camera and just like get a few bits just cuz it's possibly the last outing as a family of three. and my last birthday as a dad of one. But how weird that you could have been 31 when you had the baby or you could have been 32 and it's now gonna more than likely be Oh no, it is 32. I am 32 and I know what you're thinking. 32. Unbelievable. How can George be 32? And you look about 25. Disagree. But aging like a fine wine. Anyway, yeah, we are going to we do have some birthday plans. We're going to go over to Hoveve. We're going to go to a nice breakfast spot, get some coffee. All of this is like like you we could be driving over and you could be like I know. I keep thinking that like can you remember when my water's breaking the coffee shop 30 minute drive back to the house. I was thinking do we take the hospital bag with us but then we still need to drop Koda back to your parents anyway. So it's like we've got Lucy's bought been to the butchers and bought all this meat that's supposed to all this meat for a birthday barbecue this afternoon. If we get to that if we can make it to this afternoon. Yeah. This bit is yellow. Why is it yellow? Well, no. I think that's just meant to be yellow. That's not orange juice. And guys, we haven't done this on the vlog yet. Gender prediction. I'm going to I'm going to lock it in at girl. You've done girl the whole time. I've been boy the whole time. And I think it'd be silly to change now. I keep thinking girl like randomly, but I'm going to I'm going to stick to my garden. So, and so it's different. Boy, Kod, is it a boy or a girl? Huh? Is a baby a boy or a girl? A boy. Okay. You think boy? Yeah. So, you going to have a brother? Yeah. Okay, cool. You think girl? I think girl. Yeah. You think boy? No, you think boy. Girl. I did think boy for most of it, but something's telling me girl now. Who? I don't know. Just in my head. Just in my brain. Do you think girl? Yeah, I do think girl now. But you like that song, don't you? If you have a brother, you love that song. That's in my brain. There's a boy in my brain. Oh, is there? Yeah, boy. Oh, you think boy as well then. Koda loves that song from I think it's from the Mufasa movie. La, not that one. The I always wanted a brother one. I always wanted a brother. I always wanted my brother. I always my brother here. So if it is a brother, you can sing that song. And if it's not, you'll just have to change the words to sister. My sister. There you go. Yeah, like that. Very quickly before we head out, I'll just show you the present or one of the presents that KOD got me, which is this. A Sully Monsters Inc. mug. Monster. You got a burger mug, by the way. A burger mug. It was a burger one, wasn't there, but choice? But we went for Sunny. Yeah, you got me this. Thank you, mate. Thank you very much. [Music] Stopping for a very quick birthday coffee just before breakfast. [Music] 44 poets if you're in the area. Hoveve Get the boy out. Oh, love your outfit today, mate. Cota chooses his own outfits these days, don't you? I want to walk. You want to walk? All right. Should we put them in here? Oh, is that just three? Okay. Zip them up. [Music] How is it, guys? Oh, look at that. That looks amazing. So, we finished our breakfast. Don't know if you can hear me. We're currently in a car wash cuz the car was filthy. Cody's loving it. Here it [Music] comes. Home now. Just made a little flat white. Ooh, that's nice. Loose. This is the coffee Lucy bought me. That's good. That's so good. Just wanted to get down a few thoughts of to watch back in the future of how it's been being a dad for the last 3 years. I did this before Koda was born. I watched some of it back. I need to sit down and spend some time and actually watch the whole video back to see how I was feeling before I was a dad. Knowing that Kod was on the way. It has honestly made me it's made my life. It's made mine and Lucy's relationship. It has I don't know. You hear that phrase like, "Oh, we don't know what we did with ourselves before." And I know exactly what we were doing. We were traveling the world making YouTube videos. Had the best time. But emotionally and daytoday, just having that person that you just love so much and that you can't stop thinking about. And whenever he's not with us, if he's at his grandparents house or whatever, you're just thinking about him the whole time. Obsessed with every little thing he does, every little thing he learns, every little phrase he comes out with. It's just the best thing ever. By the way, we're on a new camera and I don't know how it's a lot wider. It's very, very wide, actually. So, I don't know how far to hold it out, but if I hold it here, I feel like I'm I don't know if you can see in that mirror. Hold it really close. Anyway, sat on Kod's little step. Now, I'm about to become a dad again to a second child. Like, the story of our life is evolving and we haven't yet met them. We don't even know if they're a boy or a girl. We don't know their name yet cuz we haven't fully decided. We have no idea what it's going to be like having two kids. What's up, mate? What? Oh, you want me to get off your step? Yeah, you might break it cuz you're big. Cuz I'm big. Okay. Oh my goodness, that is so funny. The things about having Koda, there's some things in parenting that I just didn't expect to be the way that they are. Where is the Ferrero Rosh? Like that, for example, a question like that. Where's the Ferrer Rocher? Ask mommy. We We put it away somewhere. I didn't expect my three-year-old to be absolutely obsessed with Ferrer Roshche, but in my head before I was a dad, two three-year-olds were just kind of, "Hey, I'm raising you. Can you hurry me up, please?" Yeah, I'll hurry up, mate. Sorry. I just You'll watch this back one day and you'll love watching it back, talking about your brother or sister. I just thought toddlers were toddlers and just run around playing and messing around. But he's so intelligent. He's so with it. He's so there as a companion. Can you move on? Is mommy telling you what to say? Okay, by the yards. He's a friend. He's I don't know. I took him out just me and him the other day. Love. Mommy's definitely telling you what to say. And we were just chatting the whole way in the car. And the stuff that's on his mind is amazing to just hear. Hello, my little daddy. Hello, my little lovely. Hello, my little lovely. You're my little lovely. You're my little That was actually a nice one. Maybe it's not Lucy. But yeah, to have that again with another child, another baby, a boy or a girl, is just firstly right now hard to imagine. It's very surreal at the moment that tonight, tomorrow, in a week's time, we're going to have another baby. In this video, we're going to have another baby who's going to bring us all of that again, but in a different way. Overall, just ridiculously, ridiculously excited. In fact, it's my birthday today as well. I was thinking right now that I think I'm the happiest I've ever been. I think I'm I'm definitely the healthiest I've ever been. I love our life in general as a family so much and bringing someone else into that is just so exciting. So, yeah, I just wanted to put a few thoughts down. I did the same before Koda was born and I'm hoping they might not want to. They might not care. They might not want to watch these videos. Yeah, they might not want to watch them at all, but I'm hoping when our kids are like my age now, 32, they'll watch this and see like what their young parents were thinking at the time and what they were going through and all the things they were thinking about. I would love to have the same for my parents if they'd sat down to camera and and I do have videos like when we were younger and stuff of my parents, but of them actually talking just before we were born how they were feeling and stuff just would be so cool. [Music] O time E. [Music] [Music] away. [Music] So, it is a few days now since that last clip and still no baby. The baby is not ready. The baby's not ready yet. They're not coming yet, are they? No. No. So, Kod and I, it is Sunday morning currently and Kod and I have come out to the little local park giving Lucy, giving mommy a little bit of rest, aren't we? Yeah. Do you want to come and climb into the front and then we can go climb over, mate? You need to bring your hat, remember, cuz it's so hot today. It is 23.5. Well, I know. That's really hot. That's like summer. Yeah. Yeah. It's summer today, isn't it? It's like summer today. Yeah. Pretty much the same. It's spring though. It's spring. That's right. It's actually spring. Yeah. It is actually spring. Here he comes. Summer though. Not summer yet, is it? No. Ready to go to the park? Yeah. What do you want to go on? Oh, look. We can see some cars here. Oh, and the reverse camera. Yeah, we can, can't we? You going to go on that big swing? Big boy swing. Big slide. That's that big slide that you like. I'm going to go on that one. Yeah. No. No. Okay. Yeah. Lucia has been walking. I'll go in the one that has a little back bit. Oh, I know. I go in one of the proper ones like the kids swing. Yeah. All right. Lucy's been walking non-stop, bouncing on her gym ball. We've had curry this week, like doing all the things. All the things. Lava. That is like lava. That is actually hot. It's a little bit warm. All the things to bring on labor. Lava, but no sun yet. All right. Hands really hot. Cool them [Music] down. One second. Got to get this one in. Good boy. [Music] Right. Let's go. [Music] softs are creeping on the wall. Swallow tails call and the last of the frost will thaw beorn. in spring once [Music] more. Heavy air and smell of rain. Muddy grass is across the plane. Redwing black birds all [Music] refrain in the warm of the spring. Okay, quick update. We are at the local hospital um because things have started to happen. I've I'll let Lucy fill you in properly in a minute. Um, but good time of day to be honest. It's like 10:00 in the morning and we're in. It's not the middle of the night. I've just got Lucy a sandwich and they gave me a free coffee for some reason cuz they made a coffee and no one came to collect it. So, the lady was like, "Do you want a latte?" So, okay, thank you very much. Um, so yeah, we are in the room and we will see you in there. I will let Lucy give you all the details, but it looks like things are happening. Okay, things have escalated. I started having some contractions about 8:00 last night. I'm having one now, actually, so that's great timing. They're not too bad at the moment. Um, and I was just kind of monitoring it. They sort of came on and off last night. Um, and then my waters broke this morning, but very annoyingly, don't know if annoyingly is the right word, there was a bit of like it's called monium, which basically when the baby does a poo in the womb, it can mean a sign of distress. Um, so it's a slightly greeny color. So they've asked me to come in. I'm currently being monitored as you can see. It might end up that things need to be sped up and we might end up needing to like go down that same path as last time with the drip, which is kind of what I was hoping to avoid, but equally we want the baby out safely. So, I'm open to what needs to be done. But right now, we're just sort of waiting to see if things can kind of progress more naturally. I don't know. But basically, they've just told me that this is probably the room I'm going to give birth in and we're not going home because I came in thinking we might just be monitored and sent home again. But they've just confirmed that no, it's happening right now. So, I feel slightly unprepared. I'm 40 plus 6 day 40 weeks and 6 days. So, it's the right time, but equally, it was a bit of a rush to leave the house. They suddenly just went, "Right, we need to go. You need to come in now. It could be like we want you in as a matter of urgency is what they said." So, we came in without any bags. Um, they're all in the car. So, George has gone to go get them. He's also gone to get me a sandwich because if I end up needing like to be plugged in and have stuff going on, I might not be able to eat for a while. I made that mistake last time. I didn't eat for ages. And then cuz I felt so sick and then I just felt exhausted. So, I need some energy. We've dropped Kod off to the grandparents this morning. He's very excited for that. And he doesn't actually know what's going on yet. But yeah, it's all happening. It's just mad. I need to like relax and get my head around it because I just Yeah, it will win a bit quick. Put it that way. Um but yeah, fingers crossed all goes well. They're moving really nicely. Yeah, let's see. [Music] So, we are in our room a couple of hours later. I think I've shown the room. Have you? I think I did only when we first got here. I did a little clip in the car park. So, I went to get Lucy, got Lucy a sandwich. I've had some food. Um, we are definitely in now. This is our room. This is happening 100%. When we first came to Yeah, room 2. Cody was born in room five, so just around the corner. Um, you can see me. It managed to blur. You can kind of see you. But when we when we first came in this morning, we weren't sure if we'd be sent home again or but they were like, "Nope, we're going to get you in check. It's quart 3 in the afternoon." Yes. on Wednesday the 14th of May. Could be born today probably. I think realistically. Yeah, I think so. I hope I hope it doesn't go into the night. I'm hungry already. Um I don't know what I've said. So, they've put me on the drip because if you're wondering what this is, I've got monitoring. So, there's like wires and stuff. Um, I've got a canula for the oxytocin drip, which basically has been needed to we want the baby to come out sooner rather than later because of the whole poo situation, which is wild that this is all about poo and I can't Everyone's talking about poo in this room. It's ridiculous. Um, oh, I can't actually move. Yeah, you're all plugged in. Bless you, aren't you? Um, it's basically like it was like weighing up. Do we go wait until something happens naturally without the drip? Ideally, I wouldn't have the drip. didn't really want it as in I decided to have it was my decision but it wasn't part of my ideal. Um but equally if we don't do the drip and things take ages to progress and the baby is in some sort of stressful situation or distress or I mean they look fine on the monitoring but we want them out sooner rather than later basically. I sound really bummed up I think I've got hay fever and it's not helping you breathe through these contractions cuz I can't actually breathe but you start on 3 mil we're now on 24 and it can go up to like 60 or more. So this I mean to be fair these are the contractions along here these little pink spikes that are happening I mean is that 10 minutes I don't know how they do it that feels really regular to me compared to before and I think this is helping currently got no pain relief it's been offered but you know I think I might need something soon rather than later so they started paracetamol there's gas and air could do epidural but I'd rather be a bit more like moving around this time if I can but equally the epidural helped me so much last time so I don't know. I'm just going to play it by ear and see how bad these get on their own cuz they are ramping up. I'm having another one now. I only just had one so that's much quicker. Um but yeah, we shall see. It's not the I've always been someone that says I don't have a birth plan because I don't want it to not go my way and I have like not regrets cuz you can't really choose everything but like mourn this ideal birth I guess. But I'm more someone who would have like a preference based on previous experience. I had no plan with code at all. Like not even a preference. I just went with whatever the doctors told me to. But this time I've done a lot more reading. I know how I felt after my last birth. There's things I would like to avoid if I can this time. This felt kind of unavoidable. If you want to keep the baby safe, do the drip. That's kind of what it came down to, wasn't it? There was a genuine medical reason. Yeah, exactly. But it's so funny. We've got two nice really nice midwives just been chatting. Like it's been so laidback. 100%. And they called us stylish. Thank you very much. I didn't expect to be complimented. They said they said you're the most you're both the most. They never said the most. They did. They didn't say the most. They They said the most you're the most stylish parents we've had in all year ever since the hospital opened in 19. Pretty much since Victorian times. Yes. Um Victorian times. But yeah, basically we're going to see how we get on. We still haven't really told family yet because I don't want to worry anyone and be like this has happened and we're processing because we had a feeling we didn't grab the bags from the car straight away because what happened last time was that you call up and even if you're having contractions they say no no it wasn't even that she said on the phone we'll see if you need to say or not. Right. Yeah. So she like oh yeah come in we'll assess you but you still might go home and have like a whole day at home even if you're having contractions. So I turn up like hi I'm here to be assessed. So, we didn't bring the bags in from the car. We We did bring it with us, didn't we? Yeah. Thank God. But we weren't fully prepared to stay in. So, we've just been processing that that this is happening now. This baby is coming. Yeah. Cod's with my mom and dad. He doesn't know yet. We're going to tell him. We're just going to tell him the baby's been born. Basically, I don't think for a 3-year-old to understand that it could take like a day or two to have this baby. Yeah. Fair. Cuz he'll be not worrying, but like where's the baby? Like, they're meant to be here now. He'll be impatient basically. Not but but more just like in a happy way. But also I I wonder if you'll worry if like why is the baby not home yet? Like as a three-year-old you're not going to think it's a day. It's like a long process 100%. But can't wait for that moment. We're we just realized like an hour ago we get to find out if they're a girl or a boy after 9 months. Mad, isn't it? So there's all all emotions flying around. Excitement. They waited to find out as well. Yeah. Unlike us. But the team here have been incredible. Been amazing. more like yeah sit up this time. Everything's been our decision. So no pushing. Um literally. Yeah, it's been a nice very nice experience so far. But I am hungry and I'm not allowed to eat. Oh, you can't eat and I could be on this for another 10. I could literally on it for 10 more hours. I've done two. Oh my god. They did say eat before, but that was 2 hours ago. I'm hungry now. Easy to get hungry in 2 hours. Oh yeah, I'll get hungry in 15 minutes. Yeah, there being no wars. Maybe the birds will sing about your heart. Maybe the trees will whisper the word. Maybe the sun will spread your joy to the ones who lost their hope. M. [Music] Show me what it's like to be circling among the clouds. Because without you by my side, I would be stuck here on the ground. You're lighting up the way. I can see the road ahead of me. I won't be stumbling in the dark. Your eyes are shining like the stars. [Music] I was down until you saved me. Until you set me free. My eyes were closed. Now I see clear as day. And I just wanted to say that you can take me high. [Music] Feels like I can fly. [Music] You can take me high. [Music] I can see the sun staring at you when you make that smile. I'm moving closer to you now. I can't get close enough somehow. [Music] And I was down until you saved me. Until you set me free. My eyes were closed now. I see clear as day. And I just wanted to say that you can take me [Music] high. Feels like I can fly. [Music] I don't need anybody. I don't need anybody else. No one will ever take me. No one will ever take me away from you. I promise I will hold on to you. I don't know what I do without you. You can take me [Music] high. Feels like I can [Music] fly. You can take me high. [Music]