WEBVTT 00:00:00.569 --> 00:00:06.165 I had a quote unquote geriatric pregnancy which caused me to threaten to 00:00:06.198 --> 00:00:11.726 kick the male gynecologist who was standing in for my regular gynecologist 00:00:11.759 --> 00:00:14.976 who left me. I was like, how dare you say that? Especially right where you 00:00:15.009 --> 00:00:19.556 are where I can kick you in the head. But yeah, old, old, old when I had 00:00:19.589 --> 00:00:25.916 her, although by today's standards, not so bad. But yeah, it's just the 00:00:25.949 --> 00:00:30.887 two of us, cats, dogs, some fish and a pig being pregnant was just 00:00:30.920 --> 00:00:36.487 incredible. It's like the best, most important thing I've ever done. I, I 00:00:36.520 --> 00:00:42.125 kind of suspected that I wanted to stay at home as a mom and I walked away 00:00:42.158 --> 00:00:46.006 from a 50 K a year job, but I couldn't think of anything more important 00:00:46.039 --> 00:00:51.476 than taking care of her. It took me two years of actively trying to, to 00:00:51.509 --> 00:00:56.286 finally get pregnant. It was a lot of work, but it was incredible. I 00:00:56.319 --> 00:01:02.646 didn't have any morning sickness, which was amazing. My hair was great. My 00:01:02.679 --> 00:01:07.326 skin was perfect. My nails were perfect. I probably looked better than, 00:01:07.359 --> 00:01:12.147 than I had any time since my teen years. I was giddy. I mean, I knew from 00:01:12.180 --> 00:01:17.087 the second of inception that I was pregnant and I knew who she was. I was 00:01:17.120 --> 00:01:21.947 like, it's a girl and her name is going to be Violet. And the then husband 00:01:21.980 --> 00:01:26.096 was just like, oh, yeah. Right. And I was like, trust me on this, you know 00:01:26.129 --> 00:01:29.816 , you have to wait the two weeks to pee on the stick and get your concrete 00:01:29.849 --> 00:01:34.635 proof. But sure enough, it was super easy except for the gestational 00:01:34.668 --> 00:01:39.837 diabetes which caused me to have to get shut up three times a day and I 00:01:39.870 --> 00:01:45.766 was terrified of needles. The gestational diabetes diet, I actually lost 00:01:45.799 --> 00:01:51.426 £10. I was super heavy. When I got pregnant, I was like £261. 00:01:51.459 --> 00:01:56.915 And by, by the time I delivered I was £251. It was fabulous. Like I only 00:01:56.948 --> 00:02:01.436 had to shave my legs once a week. I, I didn't have any weird hairs popping 00:02:01.469 --> 00:02:06.296 out on my face. All the labor changed all of that. Everything I didn't 00:02:06.329 --> 00:02:12.166 grow showed up during 22 hours of labor. It was induced because I had the 00:02:12.199 --> 00:02:14.346 gestational diabetes. And they kept saying, oh, well, you're going to have 00:02:14.379 --> 00:02:18.816 this huge giant baby, which I didn't, she was £6.5. She was actually a 00:02:18.849 --> 00:02:22.487 little on the small side, but they were, they were afraid that there were 00:02:22.520 --> 00:02:26.547 going to be more complications. So I'm like, ok, well, you're the doctor. 00:02:26.580 --> 00:02:31.267 I don't know. Sure. They tuck, what looks like a used tea bag up in your 00:02:31.300 --> 00:02:36.906 girly bits and that's supposed to, you know, thin everything out. And I 00:02:36.939 --> 00:02:42.005 was in labor for six hours before I realized it. I told the nurses I was 00:02:42.038 --> 00:02:45.547 like, oh, I don't feel good. My stomach kind of hurt. What did you guys 00:02:45.580 --> 00:02:48.366 give me for breakfast? I don't think it was right. And they were like, oh 00:02:48.399 --> 00:02:51.626 , do you feel kind of nauseous and kind of like you have to poop. And I'm 00:02:51.659 --> 00:02:55.025 like, yeah, but I can't seem to. And they went, honey, you're in labor. 00:02:55.058 --> 00:02:58.666 And I said, no, I'm not, labor's supposed to hurt and be awful and stuff. 00:02:58.699 --> 00:03:02.775 And they're like, no, trust us. I was like, if this is labor I could do 00:03:02.808 --> 00:03:07.077 this all day and they laughed at me. They were like, don't worry, you will 00:03:07.110 --> 00:03:12.386 by hour 16, my, oh, I don't want any drugs was get the guy in here with 00:03:12.419 --> 00:03:15.755 the big needle and have him stick it in my back. I was in so much pain and 00:03:15.788 --> 00:03:20.077 I kept vomiting and I really hadn't eaten that much. They didn't even want 00:03:20.110 --> 00:03:23.267 to give me water anymore after a while. I was like, oh, it's that morning 00:03:23.300 --> 00:03:27.896 sickness I didn't have now. Here it is. So I was demanding the epidural. I 00:03:27.929 --> 00:03:32.547 had the meconium problem. My water wouldn't break. I was induced. So they 00:03:32.580 --> 00:03:36.475 tuck that teabag up in there and it wasn't moving. They were like, well, 00:03:36.508 --> 00:03:40.156 you know, you're barely dilating. It's not really moving. And then the 00:03:40.189 --> 00:03:45.005 gynecologist came in with the crochet hook and burst my water. And I was 00:03:45.038 --> 00:03:46.995 like, what are you doing? What are you doing down there? She's like, I 00:03:47.028 --> 00:03:49.856 just, I just broke your water. It's ok. Don't worry. Like, of course, I'm 00:03:49.889 --> 00:03:51.987 worried about it. You're supposed to tell me before you do that. And she 00:03:52.020 --> 00:03:54.686 was like, what are you going to do about it? And then labor went on 00:03:54.719 --> 00:03:58.946 another six hours finally decided, well, this is, you know, this is taking 00:03:58.979 --> 00:04:01.251 too long because I was like, I don't care if somebody just get thing out 00:04:01.284 --> 00:04:05.251 of me. And they put a shot of Pitocin in my IV. And she just came 00:04:05.284 --> 00:04:09.832 squirting out. The nurse is on the phone because the doctors walked out 00:04:09.865 --> 00:04:12.991 and telling her no, you get back in here, you get back in here now and she 00:04:13.024 --> 00:04:17.072 was diving into her little rubber gowned dress before the baby could hit 00:04:17.105 --> 00:04:20.361 the floor. They had asked me, do you want a mirror? I was like, no, I 00:04:20.394 --> 00:04:23.955 don't even want you people looking. They were laughing at me because they 00:04:23.988 --> 00:04:27.627 were saying, oh, well, we need you to push, we need you to push. And I was 00:04:27.660 --> 00:04:31.666 like, I don't know if I'm pushing or not. It doesn't feel like I'm pushing. 00:04:31.699 --> 00:04:35.086 They're like, oh, that's the epidural you are. And then when she finally 00:04:35.119 --> 00:04:40.377 came out, nobody warned you about that smell. Oh my God, it's horrendous. 00:04:40.410 --> 00:04:44.317 And then they hold her up and they're all covered in the goo and the 00:04:44.350 --> 00:04:47.257 doctors saying, oh, you've torn and I'm going to have to put in stitches 00:04:47.290 --> 00:04:50.786 and I'm like, ok, well, thank you for telling me I can't feel anything but 00:04:50.819 --> 00:04:53.377 then she was, you know, all covered in goo and they took her and they 00:04:53.410 --> 00:04:58.026 scrubbed her with like a nail brush and flipped her all over. And I'm like 00:04:58.059 --> 00:05:00.805 my baby. What are you doing to my baby? And the nurses are like, oh, 00:05:00.838 --> 00:05:04.567 they're tough. They can handle it. But I was, I was terrified of her 00:05:04.600 --> 00:05:07.116 because I thought it was going to break her. I thought they were going to 00:05:07.149 --> 00:05:13.046 break her, but she ended up fine at the end. I got the most gorgeous baby 00:05:13.079 --> 00:05:17.116 on the face of the planet. Beautiful Victorian little curls, pointy, hard 00:05:17.149 --> 00:05:20.346 face, those adorable chubby little Fred Flintstone feet that you just want 00:05:20.379 --> 00:05:24.736 to nibble. Yeah. I wouldn't, I wouldn't trade her for anything. Not that I 00:05:24.769 --> 00:05:29.428 want any others though because it hurts a lot.