GENDER REVEAL! Meet Our Baby (Birth Vlog Part 2)

Good morning, guys. Welcome back to a new vlog. We are so excited to be introducing our baby, our new baby to you. It is He was just born yesterday, and we, if you're a parent, you know the feeling of when your child is born, that first hour, that first day. He's not even a day old yet. I just wanted to intro this video. I I don't know how much we're filming over the next few days, but we do want to introduce you to our new baby. I actually came home for a few hours, got a little bit of sleep, showered, refreshed. So, I'm heading back to see Lucy and the baby right now, but just wanted to hit record on the camera just to capture myself for looking back on in the future of our second child is here. Just that that feeling, I cannot describe it. The so many emotions. He's just incredible. So excited. Family of four. My voice sounds weird today. I don't know what's going on. I don't feel ill, but we were talking so so much yesterday. I think it's just that. But welcome to this very, very special [Music] video. What if the world had more of your smile? What if the wind could spread your love? What if your sweetness could reach everyone? There being no wars. Maybe. It's been a bit of a crazy day, but quite relaxed actually, considering we've been in hospital all day. But we're about to go home with our new edition. And um yeah, I feel like I've got so much to catch you up on because we've just been soaking everything up today. But we want to talk about the baby's gender with you because that was a very fun surprise during the birth. And I also feel like I need to look a birth rundown because yeah, it's all just went super fast yesterday. So yeah, it's now the next day. We've just got a lot to say, a lot to catch up on. I planned to chat about it today, but it's just been it's actually just been quite a nice relaxed day. So here he is. You said it. Oh, we just said off camera. Say it like together. It's a just before we hit record. Thought you just went a That's how we do it. That's so funny. We just said before we hit record on this clip, we're like, "Okay, shall we shall we reveal the gender? Should we say who's a boy?" I'm like, "Well, here he is. Here he is. That'll do. Here is a box. We have had a boy. We have had a boy." Amazing. Koda. He's so He'll He wanted a boy. He wanted a brother so bad. The Mufasa movie song. I always wanted a brother. Yeah. He nonstop. Yeah. So, here he is. Here he is. Little Squid. Here he is. It's so amazing having a tiny baby again. He smells great. He I I remember how to pick them up again. Like when I first when I first had him, I was like, "What do you do?" Like with the head and like it takes you like a good few hours to get back into it, but now handling a newborn baby a day old or less than a day old is just Yeah. It's next level. So COD is so like just climbing all over our backs now and whatever, but how delicate they are. And good news, we are actually heading home right now. We've just packed up the room. So, I don't know how many of you watching this were around when Koda was born, watching the channel. Um, we filmed a similar video when he was born and we were in hospital. Lucy and Koda were in hospital for 5 days, which was not nice. It was co times. I could only, well, it was postco, but there was still all these rules in place. I could only come to the hospital for very limited hours. So, very, very quick recap on today since he was born. He Thanks for that, George. Hilarious. I was going to say, let's do it again, but it's quite funny that you just did it and it's done. I know what you look really regretful in your eyes. I'm not regretful by anything. Is that the word regretful? Um, anyway, so he was born on the 14th of May, 2025 at 1719, 519 in the afternoon. Uh, and if you remember yesterday, I think the last clip we filmed during the birth vlog, it was like 1 1:00 or something, and I was like, "Oh, yeah. So, I'm getting some contractions. They're not too bad." Went on the drip. Things escalated very quickly. very quickly and I suddenly went from being in control to feeling like not good because I have I had gas in air, some paracetamol, brilliant, basically pointless and a TENS machine which again I didn't really get on with. The gas has made me feel a bit lightheaded, a bit drunk, but it didn't actually take any pain away for me. So basically I was like, "No, I really want the epidural cuz I'm not I can't relax. I'm not enjoying myself. How's my body ever going to like naturally like relax to get this baby out if I'm like cuz I I was not coping well? I'd gotten a lot further than I had with KOD without anything. But I got to the point where I said and I said I had finished a contraction. I went right epidural please. I'm ready. So they went off to get the doctor the the aniththetist or is it an antheologist? No, it's an anthesist. The anemy. Um and they came in while I was in what you would call the transitional stage of labor. If you know, you know it's like when you basically think you can't do it. It's basically the part where you feel like you can't do it do it anymore and you're sort of like you feel stuck. You like you want to turn back but you can't. You feel trapped. It's it's horrible feeling. So yeah, I'm on my par tomorrow feeling horrendous. About to have the epidural and the contractions start coming and coming so fast. I start feeling this need to push which I was like how can I? I've only just been 2 cm a couple of hours ago. There's no way I'm fully dilated ready to push. But then the midwife was like, "Okay, can you just let me move you here slightly cuz you are sitting on the baby's head slightly?" And I was like, "Sorry, like hang on, what?" And it totally changed my mindset because I was thinking, "This is really bad. I can't keep doing this for hours and hours." But the fact that then I suddenly was at the pushing part. I was like, "Right, okay. So, I'm not having epidural then. That's that's too late." We were out the window for that. I asked for it 10 minutes too late, basically. Yeah. Um, it was such a short time. Speaking of windows, we got a lovely view here. Yeah. Um, and then we ended up I ended up pushing for like 20 minutes. Horrendous. Awful. Worst 20 minutes ever because obviously no pain relief. You feel absolutely everything. It was like it was like an out of body experience. Like looking back, I can't believe I went through that 24 hours ago. It was insane. And when we tell you how big he is, you might also have some sympathy for me because he's not a tiny baby. The placenta was massive as well. Apparently weighty. Yeah. Why are you lying on me? because I'm just like in awe of what you did yesterday. Thank you. I actually was what I witnessed. You do wasn't the plan. No. So, shout out to Don't shout me out. Didn't say that. Shout out. Just so so proud. So, so like blown away. Like it was mental, wasn't it? Basically glad I never have to do that. I don't have the option to do that. Yeah. Um just I mean I'd prefer not to do that. Whatever you want me to do for the rest of our lives, just tell me. You owe me. I think I'm doing I do. I do. So, he weighs 9 lb 8 oz, which for anyone in kilog watching is like 4.36 or something. Um, chunk. He already looks to me like he's about a month old. Like he's I mean he's small compared to Koda, obviously. Like this is a big baby. This is a chunky boy. He is. I love that position you get into. So, the newborn scrunchy. So cute. Um, yeah. So, that was a very quick rundown of the birth. Then I ended up needing stitches. had a second degree tear which we love. So yeah, I'm actually feeling okay. And because I didn't have It's all right. It doesn't need to be of me. It was about him anyway. Um because I didn't have the epidural like last time. So I get up and walk around straight away afterwards. But the sensation of standing up after having had such a big bump with a big baby, a big placenta, and just being so heavy for 9 months. Suddenly it like all my organs were like really low and I I couldn't sit up for ages. It was a really odd feeling standing up again straight after giving birth cuz I literally was stood up like 10 minutes later. It was mad. But yeah, wasn't the plan. But I'm actually really pleased it worked out that way cuz I've always wondered what it feels like to actually feel that a baby coming out of you because last time I obviously had the epidural, I still felt a sensation, but it wasn't anywhere near that level of like when his head came out, I was like a sense of relief. And then when I felt the whole body come out, I was like like I can't even tell you how good it felt really. The relief. Yeah. Like not not in not in a good way of like less pain. It was more just like it's over. Yeah. Yeah. and I can just like relax and then the present had to come up. But um yeah, it was mental. It was like crazy out of body experience. Yeah. So that's a basic rundown. I was going to go for that home tomorrow, but we've said it all now. There we go. Probably repeat ourselves for the next 3 weeks. Yeah. Doctor checks. All good. Had a few checks today. Um Oh, he had a tongue tie and they they cut it. Oh, bless it. It's horrible. You weren't there, were you? No. Um it was a quick little snip basically and apparently I don't know, it's a bit stingy for them, but apparently adults have had it and they say it's just a slight sting. It's not like surgery where he's awake. It's just like a but hopefully that's going to help with the feeding. And yeah, I think we'll probably carry this vlog on tomorrow. We're going to get home now. Get him in our house. Take him home to his brother. Home. Yeah. Kod is actually with my parents for a second night. Look at my hair. I know. I was wondering. It's quite humid. Oh my goodness. You look like you're in a tropical country, but you're in wedding. I do. I do. Yeah. Cody's with my parents for his second night, which he was very excited about. Like, what? another sleepover. It's just too late now. Like it's half 7. It's half 7. We're not going to be home till well, we got to do this at half 8. Yeah. And then we'll be up all night with obviously. So just having that Don't say his name. Oh yeah. You have to bleep that out. I have to bleep that out. George, are you all right? I think George acted like he's the one that's had no sleep. George went home last night and I stayed here on my own. Yeah. And we agreed that. No, you suggested it and gave It felt a little bit like I didn't have a choice. Loose. Little bit. No, you were like, you like I will be there tomorrow doing everything. But I would have had to sleep or sit in that chair. I had 1 hour sleep cuz I had to do it all on my own. Oh, I mean, no. No, cuz I'm going to just get so many hate comments now. I get it. But also, you didn't come in until like 9:00. Loose. You didn't. I was doing so much. I was I was making you coffee. I was getting coffee was actually ranked. I actually made it so hot so it would travel well. So mixed up. It was like rank. You You just got me a hundred hate comments. Yeah. Um No, it was a joint agreement that I would be fresher for today. Why do you get to be fresh for today? Do you know how bad it sounds? Don't you I'm digging a hole here. No, it was it was a sensible decision. We don't live that far from hospital. Go home, get a couple of hours sleep. I'm not loose. You're just 8 and 1 half hours. Oh, no way. Like four. Um I'm one I know. But just I could go home, shower, get changed, come back, help out all day. All I'm saying, help out. He's your son. Not help. I'm saying Oh, thanks for your help today, George. Oh my god. All I'm saying is I'm looking forward to my full night's sleep tonight. Yeah. I'm not lifting a finger. No, don't. You might need to lift a boob. So, manage that. Other than that, we're good. Fuming at me right now. I'm with my boy tonight. Don't worry about it. His skin's so dark. Like they say it's because it's like the blood vessels and stuff when they're born, but like I'm obviously really pale, so anyone looks darkness to me. But it's funny, isn't it, that newborns have such dark skin and then coded as well. And then it's I was about to say it sheds. It doesn't shed. It like changes color. He's He's a human. He's not a snake. He looks so much like when he was born. We'll put a picture in here of the two. Look at that comparison. It's crazy. So Kod's on top. Um Yeah. So similar. Um and we we Oh, yeah. Last night. So Oh, yeah. Great. So we g we gave birth I gave birth. We went to from the delivery suite into this like private room. We requested a private you can like if there's one available you can pay more and get a private room. I was on the ward last time for a bit and I really didn't cope well with it. Um so if you can and you want to like there's sometimes the option to do that if they're available. So got to use a little bit of that. What do they do? Send send us a bill. How are they going to let us out? They don't know where we live. £4,000. Do we pay on exit? Um, yeah. So, we're going to basically It's not £4,000. No, I think it's like 80 quid or something, but I don't know. Don't hold me to that. Do you know what was £4,000? Yes. When we came back to the UK, we had to pay £4,000 to come back to our own country. That's a rant for another. Carry on. Carry on. So, we are No, it's not. We don't need to rant about that anymore. We've ranted about it the whole time in the I'm not done. I'm not done. Okay. We we we we um we need uh came into this room. I had a shower, sorted our stuff out, and then just before George went home, we did a couple of FaceTimes to the parents and introduced him, told everyone his name and everything. And then we've done a few more FaceTimes this morning, and then like sent messages out to people and friends. So, like, we're starting to tell people, aren't we, which is so exciting. But I feel like today's gone so fast. It's like half 7. It has gone fast. We we definitely meant to like talk about this all through today and now it's 7:00 and we're vlogging. I like that because I think like we're so normally we're so trying to do everything, but that shows today we've just had one focus. Oh, we've been in the moment. Yeah. If you'd like to know, I've had beef lasagna twice today cuz I enjoyed it so much at lunch. It's like crispy m. How was it? How's the NHS food? Is it all right? Like the stuff yesterday horrendous. But because I tried the lasagna at lunch and liked it, I was like, "Yeah, stick with that." Fair enough. Um and I had it with peas and mixed vegetables. So just like a massive plate of veg and a lasagna. Quite nice sponge pudding. Do you remember last time that was lovely? That syrup pudding dry. Horrible. Dry. Not nice and I was gutted cuz I really enjoyed last soft cakey. This was just like hard. That's a shame. Anyway, I don't This has been like one really boring long clip. This is a 12minute clip so far. Sorry. That was meant to be throughout the whole day. There you go. But you've had it condensed into one. I've had a child. People say you talk a lot and now Thanks. You're living up to your reputation. Thank you. But guys, we are going to leave this room now. Take our boy home and figure out how to do life with two kids, family of four. Mental with the boys. Me and the boys. That's right. Just the boys. So, we're going to give it a few days. But then, guys, we are off. We have tickets booked. We have flights booked. No, that's So, today's Wednesday. That's not happen. Yeah, Sunday. We fly Saturday, don't we? Um, round the world trip. Yeah, a sailing trip. Sailing around the world. It's going to be interesting. No, we're not. That's definitely not happening. We are spending some good time at home getting six or seven trips both this year though for the like Oh, we do for later in the year. Actually, one's in like five weeks. Cool, cool, cool, cool. So, five weeks off chilling and then back filming loads of vlogs apart from filming. We're not going to be able to help filming vlogs at home, but that that's fine. That that that doesn't we love that, right? Let's get him. Someone's calling me in there. Let's get out of here. [Music] Babies are so funny. So many noises. You forget they make noises. I know all days like it's quite squeaky. Yeah, very squeaky. Kod actually met him today as well and it was like probably in my like top three life moments ever. Like the most magical moment moments are Kod being born, this baby being born. Bleep. Oh my goodness. And them meeting. They're my top three life moments. It was amazing. Hang on. Hang on. What about when you met me? You were you were just my friend. Top top 17. No, not when I first met you cuz we just just didn't really know each other. No. Fair enough. No, sorry. Um, we did film that and we're going to put we'll probably do a whole video about that cuz it was so long. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We'll put all that together and we'll upload it. So, if you want to see that soon, then keep an eye on the channel. But, very exciting. You know, it gets to meet everyone. Going to have a lot of visitors. Yeah. [Music] Oh, what a day. What a couple of days. Just magical. It's the best best moment of your life. It really is. Feels different with Koda. It was the first time for everything. You you you know, you don't know anything to expect. This time it feels like we've walked into a time machine and gone back, but you know kind of what to expect. But some of the little it's the small things I've noticed that I forgot which come back to you straight away once you remind yourself. But we have this like nappy trick with KOD where you put the new nappy underneath first, then change the old one, and then the new one's just ready to go and put on. Forgot we did that. I had this other one cuz he's a boy. There's always a chance of him weeding when you change him. Weed everywhere. Earlier with Codo, I remember I had this little trick. I put my hand in a certain way with the old nappy kind of covering while I clean him. Um, that came back to me today. I remember that I always change baby's side on, but I was trying to change him front on. It didn't feel natural. It was slow and clunky. Soon as I switched to that side position, it all came flooding back. So weird things like that, but just amazing. Just amazing, aren't you? Everyone we've sent photos to. And some people have really surprised me with this. Everyone said he looks so much like Koda. Even friends of ours who have only known Kod as like a two or three-year-old who maybe have only seen one or two photos of him as a baby, but they instantly could tell that he looks just like his brother, which is cool. But it's time to get you home, mate. Let's go. [Music] When the sage brings the ride of spring and the sparrow sing through the light that the sun will bring. [Music] These are all the kids ones. Have a look, mate. There's loads. Look. A dinosaur one. You want a dinosaur one? Yeah. H. Okay. Dinosaur. No. Let's keep looking. Might have to do a different animal. Oh, that's dinosaur. I don't want I don't like those people. You don't like those ones? No, I don't like those people. Okay. Hello, guys. Join me again from the post office where Kod and I are currently doing a little bit of an errand run. We have to send I sold something on eBay I had to send it off. And now Kod's having a rummage through the toys. Maybe another day. Lucy's basically got an appointment today she'll tell you about. Toy another day. Should we go and find a magazine then? He really wanted a magazine. I promised a magazine. Let's go to the other shop and get a magazine. Sound good? Yeah. Come on then. You come up with daddy. So what magazine do you want? I don't know. Don't know. Dinosaur. Dinosaur magazine. Okay, cool. Really nice day today, isn't it, mate? How's your brother today? Good. Yeah. Yeah. Really good. Oh, lava. Oh, no. Not lava again. Did that yesterday all through the hospital? The floor is lava, didn't we? So, um yeah, we're already we're already doing the family of four thing. I'm taking Kod out so Lucy can have some time with this lady who's come to the house and our son, our newborn son. Ta. Ah. Okay. And then I might take Cody to the park. We go to the park. Well, now. Well, in a minute. Yeah. After we find a magazine. Yeah. Yeah. And then maybe some lunch as well. Sound good. It might be lava. What is it with three-year-olds not wanting to wear the hats? When Lucy watches this back. When Lucy watches this vlog, she's going to be like, "George, the one thing I told you keep his hat on." But apparently the wind blew it off. That's what he keeps telling me. Wasn't the wind though, was it? Well, wasn't the wind. It was the wind. No, it wasn't because I just No. No. What? What? Ready? Yes, I'm ready. And then we're going to push it down. Whoa. Because Lucy has obviously been through a lot in the last few days on take Koda. I think we're going to go and get her some presents. It's just some really nice stuff. All their favorite things. I want to make it to a place called Baked in Worththing, which if you're local Oh, he did it again. If you're local, you must try Baked. The most unbelievable brownies and blondies and stuff. So, I want to get there. I do need to selfishly pick myself up a little coffee cuz I am due due for a feed of caffeine. Kota didn't like any of the magazines in that last shop that we looked at, did you, mate? You didn't find your mag, did you? No. So, I'm going to try and go to a different shop near Baked and find some mag. We get mommy. What? Should we get mommy some flowers? What do you want to get mommy? Whoa. Should we get mommy some flowers? Yeah, I think we're getting mommy some flowers. There's a big fair going on quite near where we live. Got teacups. Teacups. You love teacups, don't you? And um my dad took over here yesterday and he was like, "Let me show you. Let me show you where I went with Gramps. I know. So, we're just wandering around. It's a bit eerie in a way. Walking around like an empty fairground. No people. Everything's closed, but just here and ready. Just knowing that tomorrow on the weekend, this is just going to be packed and loud and busy and mental. But yeah, Cody seems to know his way around. They look cool. What are they, Cody? This was my favorite when I was a boy. The bumper cars. Bumper cars were my absolute favorite. Oh, there's a little carousel. What was your favorite? That one. That train. Yeah. There. And I tend to go there and mommy tend to go there and tend to go there. Okay. And um Oh, that's Oh, wow. Oh, that looks cool. No. Me in the drive. Yeah. and Phoebe and and he um and and go out the back. He's planning out where everyone's going to go. So, his cousin's going to drive with him. Auntie M's going to go at the back. Yeah. What about daddy? Where am I going to go? Some cousins are going to go in the back as well. Your cousins are going to go in the back as well. Wow. £3 a person. 2025 prices. The me will drive. The and you will drive. Yeah. Okay, cool. Um I think Phoebe wants to drive. Really? I want to go in there. Can't really go in yet, mate. Cuz it's not open. Okay. Why? Cuz it's not the fair yet. Look, it's Everything's closed. They're just getting ready, aren't they? Yeah. That has that one. That's closed. Yeah, that's closed. That one had That's not closed. Well, it's not ready yet. [Music] So, Kod and I have pretty much been everywhere today, haven't we, mate? We are now in our final place before going home. Are you on? Yeah. Are you on? Good. So, where have we been? We went to the park. We went to the post office, didn't we? Post office first, then went to the park. Then we went to a coffee shop. No. Then we went to the place where we got Cobra's little toy, your slime, which I don't think I've shown you on the vlog yet. Then we went to the coffee shop. Then we went to bake to get some brownies. Don't think I've vlogged any of this. Then we went, where do we go after the brownie shop? We went to Co-op to get mommy some flowers. Don't think I vlogged that either. And then we went to That was it. Now we're here. Get up Lucy some lunch. Then we're going home. We've been running around town, haven't we? Wow. I didn't think that. Who are they for? Yeah. Oh, sweetheart. They are beautiful. And they're lovely color, aren't they? Yeah. Red. Smell them. Red and green. That's like me and you. Smell them. Love you. Thank you. I got a bag. Yeah. What's this? Take them to mommy. [Music] Oh, one on there. These are for later. What's that one, darling? I can't quite see it. Let me show you. Oh, wow. Is that baked? So good to be home. The first night actually was fine. He slept really well and we actually had to wake him for feeds. You'll see in the next video that it didn't quite stay like that. So watch his space cuz I think we may have spoken to you soon when we said he's a great sleeper. Why did we say that when he was 2 days old? I don't know. Um but yeah, so good to be home and such a different experience in the hospital and the birth and everything versus Kodas. um which took me a long time to get my head around, but this time I'm already feeling a lot more positive and a lot more confident about it, the decisions we made, how it all went. Um and obviously great not having to stay in the hospital for like nearly a week like last time. So yeah, all good stuff. We are going to end this video here. We've got loads of really nice vlogs to come. We're going to be announcing his name in the next video. We're going to be we're going to be showing you the first time that Koda met his little brother. And we've just got so many nice videos coming up. We've got some trips planned as a family of four and it's just a really special time. So, if you are watching these videos, thank you so much for joining us and we hope you enjoy the the content we've got to come going forwards the next part of this year. Yeah, it's just really cool that you're still here watching us as our family grows. Here he is. Here's the boy. So, tiny. Bless him. And for us, we've actually just announced on Instagram and YouTube the birth of our son. So, we're currently like going crazy replying to DMs and messages and comments and stuff. So, if you've left any comments of congratulations um or welcome our little one into the world, then thank you so much. We really appreciate that. And um yeah, we'll see you very soon in the next video. So, thanks for watching. Give it a thumbs up if you enjoyed it. Subscribe if you're new. And goodbye from us in our little newborn bubble. I look really tired. I've just seen how tired I look in this clip. It's temporary. This shoe shall pass. What's that from? This shoe shall pass. It's not what I said. This shoe shall fit. Don't know. Okay. Thanks for watching and I'll see you very soon in the next GC vlog. Goodbye. [Music]