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Welcoming Paisley Reign: The Chaos and Joy of Life and Fast Labor 217

Welcoming Paisley Reign: The Chaos and Joy of Life and Fast Labor 217

Ever tried managing barn chores while your body signals the arrival of a new family member? Our latest episode captures the whirlwind moments of welcoming Paisley Reign into our lives, from the unexpected onset of labor to the emotional and exhilarating delivery room experience. Feel the tension and joy as we juggle early morning contractions with barn duties, and laugh with us through humorous and candid moments that brought levity to this life-changing event.

Join us as we navigate through the chaos of those early hours, balancing unexpected labor pains and the practicalities of farm life, all while rallying support from our incredible community. We share the heartwarming and sometimes nerve-wracking tales of quick hospital dashes, the surprise of a lightning-fast birth, and the comfort of having our favorite doctor on call. Listen to our reflections on how significant life events often align with our podcast recordings, making each episode a true reflection of our most poignant highs and lows.

As we bring Paisley Reign home, the balance of work commitments and sleepless nights begins. Relive the excitement and gratitude we feel towards our supportive family, friends, and godparents Jen and Lance Barnes. From the symbolic coincidences at the hospital to the lighthearted "butt talk" during labor, this episode mixes humor, raw emotion, and heartfelt appreciation for the community that embraces us through every twist and turn. Join us in celebrating this new chapter and the joy and chaos that comes with it.

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Chapters

00:02 - Life Transitions and New Beginnings

14:33 - Baby Watch and Supportive Godparents

27:16 - Unexpected Labor and Hospital Dash

39:08 - Unexpected Turn of Labor

48:45 - Butt Talk and Labor Humor

50:56 - Quick Labor and Delivery Drama

57:17 - Newborn Chaos and Family Support

01:08:00 - American Dream Podcast Thank You

Transcript
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Hey y'all.

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Mama Liberty here.

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This episode of the podcast is going to be a little doozy.

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We're going to go from barn chores to delivery room Saddle up.

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Let me tell you something Everybody struggles.

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The difference is some people choose to go through it and some choose to grow through it.

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The choice is completely yours.

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Which one you choose will have a very profound effect on the way you live your life.

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If you find strength in the struggle, then this podcast is for you.

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Do you have a relationship that is comfortable with uncomfortable conversations?

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Uncomfortable conversations challenge you, humble you and they build you.

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When you sprinkle a little time and distance on it, it all makes sense.

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Most disagreements they stem from our own insecurities.

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You are right where you need to be Back on time reading your bad words.

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The whole day gone running behind, ooh ooh, ooh ooh.

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What it do, what it did-a-dee-dee-dee-dee-do, hot diggity.

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Damn, am I so excited to be back with you.

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Oh, it's true, it's damn true.

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And today's episode of the podcast isn't just two.

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Two and a quarter, you think.

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Two and an eighth.

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What do you think?

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Two and a half pint.

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Yeah, that sounds about right.

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Because today just happens to be the first episode of the podcast to include.

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Paisley Raine.

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Mm-hmm man Well.

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I mean live in the flesh.

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Yeah, I mean she's been along the ride for the past.

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You know eight and a half months of episodes that she's, you know, decided, that you decided to join us on.

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But yeah.

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So from here on out, it's not going to be just Folsom and Presley walking around with shuffling their toes.

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There may be a baby cry here, and there might be some crying in there because I'm way too lazy to edit it all out, so it's going to be in there, I think, before we get rocking and rolling, I think it's important to say or to point out, because it's something that I think about with the podcast is there's many times where we just don't have the energy to record right, like you just don't want to do it and I'm going to say right now that we're recording on a Tuesday.

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This show has to be in tonight because it's going to drop in the morning for a winning Wednesday and it's going to drop in the morning for a winning Wednesday and it's currently 10.46 pm.

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It's almost 11 o'clock and we got to try to get this show put together and edited and music put in and typed up and posted.

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But for us there's a few things that go into it.

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Number one this is episode 217.

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We want to keep that streak active because it's important to us.

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And number two I think it's fitting that the podcast episodes, but when we record them they happen to fall on monumental moments in our life all the time.

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Yeah, all the time.

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You're right, actually.

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It's crazy how this works We've had.

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Some of our most depressing, difficult episodes are on the day that we found out we lost somebody.

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They're recorded when we found out.

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We get the news, or they're recorded when we come back from a service.

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We've had some really depressing episodes.

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Wow.

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I think it's like a I don't know the best word I'm searching for here, but it's so fulfilling to have an episode of the podcast that takes place on a day that's an absolute blessing, where it's a day that's changed our life, because today is the actual day that we brought Miss Paisley Rain home.

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Yep, she joined the family a couple days ago and she joined the household today.

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Welcome to the herd.

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Tonight we have the dogs walled off over there.

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They're in.

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What do you call that isolation over there?

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I guess for right now we're just all adapting.

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It's a lot we're over here in general population, we're in gen pop and they're over there and, uh, like the cell, the holding cell.

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They're in like quarantine if you watch enough prison shows or you have family members in prison.

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I guess technically the baby would be in the holding cell.

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I mean we're in here with her, so I don't know, maybe she hasn't been welcomed to Gen Pop yet.

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I guess, she's in isolation.

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She certainly hasn't been let loose on the yard, that's for sure.

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Man, I don't know how to really rock and roll this episode today.

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We're both running on very little sleep and a lot of chaos.

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What I'm going to do is just kind of connect episode 217 to 216 real quick and then you're going to take this sucker over.

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So last week when we recorded the podcast, it was actually opening day for the Windsor Fair and, if you guys recall, I was really excited, I was enthused, I was ready to rock and roll.

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We had a new location for the fair, the weather was looking great for the fair and you were up to drop the truck off.

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We were making a contingency plan To drop the truck off.

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We were making a contingency plan.

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Thankfully, we did not want to use Plan B, but we thankfully constructed Plan B Because, as you're going to find out today, we used that Plan B.

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We didn't use Plan B because we wouldn't be sitting here with Paisley.

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Technically, that's the truth.

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So I got to name it something different.

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We used the second plan.

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Yeah yeah, we just the backup plan.

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We used the second plan.

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Yeah, yeah, we just.

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The backup plan we had to call an audible.

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We had to call an audible.

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Okay, let's just put it that way.

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So when we were having last week's podcast, we were talking about how excited we are that the season was about to get rock and rolling or the fair, I should say, was about to get rock and rolling, which we feel like, as I've talked to you guys before, there's about 20 or so days to save our year when it comes to the business, and Windsor was about to be like half of those.

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So we were encouraged, we were excited, but I was nervous.

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You had come off of a doctor's appointment that said you were two centimeters dilated and that things were getting a little bit closer.

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Getting a little bit closer, and part of the audible that we had called was for you to go to the doctors on Friday for them to give you some results and decide whether it was safe for you to come to the fair or not.

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So let's talk about that appointment a little bit.

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How did that appointment go for you, which you had to go to by yourself, because me and my mom were actually at the Windsor Fair on Friday when this whole thing took place?

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What was that like for you on Friday?

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Yeah, so overall my appointments have been fairly well when it comes to like being with the doctors, like those have been great.

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I have a wonderful team.

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And so I went into this appointment with a goal in mind, and the goal was to be cleared to go to the Windsor Fair.

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And so when the doctor walked in, I said, you know, I'm supposed to leave in a few hours.

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Like I need you to cut me straight.

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I need you to tell me, like, am I cleared to be an hour and a half away from the hospital Because I'm supposed to leave today and I'll be back on, uh, tuesday.

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And he laughed at me and said oh, your husband uh lives the carny life yeah, basically I said, yeah, I guess he could say that um, sometimes.

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So, uh, he does a cervix check and says absolutely not, that's not happening.

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And I said come on, like, is it really that bad?

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Like, where do we stand?

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Like, how many centimeters am I?

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He's like let me look at your record and on the week before I was two centimeters dilated and 80 percent um effaced.

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So it just means that you're pretty thinned out at that point, um, and labor could really go at any any time.

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Um, some people have gone at uh, started to dilate quickly at two centimeters and some people have hung on.

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We've heard stories, multiple stories.

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We had so many stories from everybody, especially like I'm sure you get it from work and everybody that you talk to, but me being at the fair.

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When everybody comes in and asks where you are or if they know that we're getting close, they start asking those questions.

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They all have their own story and their own experience.

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Close, they start asking those questions.

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They all have their own story and their own experience.

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So I can just tell you, when the hundred or so people or whatever it is that comes in throughout the day and then they ask questions about you, I get the varying stories of oh, when that happened to me, I had a baby within 14 hours.

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When that happened to me, I walked around for three weeks like that.

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So, you ride the wave of I'm going to be fine here, things are cool.

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Oh my God, I shouldn't be here.

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I'm just telling you from everybody's interpretation of your visit when I give my recollection of the story, that's what they say Like oh, you're going to be fine.

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Oh my God, what are you doing here?

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It was very.

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There was no like middle ground there.

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Like, what are you doing here?

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Yeah, it was very.

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There was no like middle ground there.

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Like, yeah, you should be fine.

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And that's how it was in my office too.

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Like you know, I'm with these girls all the time and I originally told them that I was two centimeters and 80 effaced and I felt great, like I felt absolutely fine.

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Um, and they were like, oh my god, why are you still here?

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Like you should start your maternity leave.

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Like you, you got to go home, as we talked about in the last episode so, or a couple episodes ago.

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Um, and so I left that appointment like so, like beat up about it.

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Like I was like come on, like I just wanted to go to the fair, like I just wanted to go to the fair.

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I even asked the doctor.

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I was like can I just go for, like the day?

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Like can I, can I go for the day and then come back?

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And he was like you're really pushing it.

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Yeah.

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Like you're, you're really pushing it.

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Um, and so I was like, oh like, and I, I sat in my car and I was like I don't want to call.

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I didn't want to call because I was like I felt like such a disappointment, like I was like not that, you know, we were getting closer and stuff Like we just had a plan.

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Right.

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And if it wasn't for I mean we know that these things don't work out, but we've.

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It's one of those things where you pray on it, you believe on it and you try to manifest on it.

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That like.

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Hey, our due date's the 15th.

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Yeah, we're.

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You know the windsor fair is completion of the fair.

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It's two weeks before the date right, right, we're gonna be fine.

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So for, all of a sudden, these things to change around this time yeah regardless of the people that are listening that are saying like, oh well, that's how it goes.

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No well, we've been fixated on this for nine freaking months yeah, yeah, we've had a plan.

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We've had, you know, like, this is what we've manifested, this is what we've done.

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And, um, you know, we were prepared for that plan, that's what we were riding out.

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So it was hard for me to to call um and I, you know, I said, said to you like, unfortunately I can't come to the fair, yeah, um, dr maxwell does not clear me.

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Um, he said it's not safe for me to be away.

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Um, at least it's not safe for me to be an hour and a half away, unless I want to deliver somewhere else.

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Um, because, I mean, he's not wrong for the simple fact that I was already four centimeters dilated at this point, and still 80%.

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But he knew what I was going to do.

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He knew I was going to go there and he knew I was going to walk around and he knew that I wasn't going to be easy on myself.

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Like he knows, we have a farm, and so he knows that you're on the road already and that I'm still doing barn chores and doing all the things that I'm not supposed to be doing.

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Because, well, guess what?

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We still have a life to live and this farm and house still needs to run.

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So here I am staying strong and trucking along.

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And so I called you and I said yeah, no, it's not going to happen.

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Thankfully we had put some thought into this whole situation right.

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We had an audible setup that we can.

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We can zig and zag here.

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We didn't want to use it, but we enacted that that plan and some of those moving parts on.

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That was a blessing that Steve Violette called before the fair and said hey man, I want to go on vacation.

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I live 10 minutes from the fair.

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If you need me, I'll be there.

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So we knew we had to call on Steve that he needed to be a backup scenario and you had already made a game plan with your dad.

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So we kind of had some things set up there.

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Exactly, yep, so that was Friday.

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And was it Friday?

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Yeah, that was Friday, you actually your backup plan was like hey, I think that on Monday, on Labor Day, I might come up just to say hi to everybody, yep, and then me and my dad will take the truck and the camper home.

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Right, and you were just, we're going to ride home with your dad.

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Yeah, that's like that was a game plan Kind of where we had left things, yep, and it was one of those touch and go scenarios and you started to get winded doing simple things and I really started to panic.

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And I was panicking last week.

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Whenever my phone would go off like if it was a phone call, I would just freak out and try to get to it and it was extremely stressful on my end because you're feeling guilty about not being there, but you also know that, like your family's dependent on you being right where you are, absolutely.

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And, as I talked about last week, the PTSD for me and how things went with my dad and him being sick and me having to stay at the Freiburg Fair when my dad was in the hospital and we didn't know how things were going to go I still struggle with my decision on that.

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So I was reliving all of those moments this entire time.

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So that's kind of where my headspace was, all of those moments this entire time.

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So that's kind of where my headspace was and I was doing the best I can to calm myself off of that and pray multiple times a day to kind of calm myself.

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And after that appointment I was kind of in a panic mode and Jen Barnes had reached out.

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Godmother Jen, the lovely, amazing godparents for Paisley, lance and Jen.

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We could not have picked better godparents.

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Absolutely not Even in these situations.

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it just shows right, because they were there in our corner the whole time and just kind of talking us down and she was offering me all this great support.

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And yeah, it was just you guys were in my corner and Jen was really just calming the both of us down and trying to keep us.

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Sane.

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Yeah, yeah and just say hey, man, if you manifest this, we can get through this.

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Yeah, yeah, For the simple fact that we're both an hour and a half away.

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I'm nine months pregnant.

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You're up at the fair trying to make ends meet and we just have to take it day by day.

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I've got lists a mile long of projects I got to prepare for Miss Paisley, like you know, organizing clothes and sterilizing bottles, and I'm just trying to keep my mind right while you're up at the fair and doing what you have to do.

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And you know, organizing clothes and sterilizing bottles, and I'm just trying to keep my mind right while you're up at the fair and doing what you have to do.

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And you know, um, I'm picking up shifts at the hospital.

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I worked two extra shifts, Um a couple of extra shifts.

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You were doing all kinds of projects.

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You finished the nursery as a project for my mom or like a surprise for my mom you were.

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I mean you were sending me all kinds of baby photos, man sterilizing bottles and all this crazy stuff, yeah, and we were putting together a great week at the fair, me and my mom.

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Every night we would, you know, obviously we would follow up with you throughout the day, but then at the end of the night we would kind of recap because I had a goal in my mind that we were going for and every day we were up, we were crushing it at the fair and I would say we didn't get all the way to where we wanted to get, but we beat last year.

00:16:33.493 --> 00:16:34.798
I just want to wrap the fair portion of this whole thing up.

00:16:34.798 --> 00:16:37.163
We beat last year pretty well.

00:16:37.163 --> 00:16:45.701
We didn't get to the goal that I had set for myself, but we only had like two days all week in the course of the entire fair that we weren't up over last year.

00:16:45.780 --> 00:16:53.802
So a tremendous success that was pulled off at the fair and it wasn't just my doing, it wasn't just my mom's doing.

00:16:53.802 --> 00:17:00.096
It had a major role and it was steve, steve, violet and amanda, moody and ashley.

00:17:00.096 --> 00:17:16.540
They did so much for us to get us through and Kyle and Julie are being behind us helping out Ledgeway Farm being there and just everybody at Windsor embracing us and checking on us and being there to help and knowing that they were going to be there and be understanding when I had to take off.

00:17:16.540 --> 00:17:17.685
But I don't.

00:17:17.685 --> 00:17:24.087
That's not the bulk of where we're headed today, but I just wanted to put that out there in the universe in case we get too excited about how things went.

00:17:24.087 --> 00:17:31.166
And I don't mention that Windsor was an absolute success and it was only a success because of all the people out there that were pulling for us and that were helping us.

00:17:31.559 --> 00:17:32.826
Yeah, we have a great support group.

00:17:33.704 --> 00:17:39.885
It's unbelievable, really, the fact of who we have in our corner and how much they're willing to help.

00:17:41.141 --> 00:17:42.426
Absolutely, I agree.

00:17:50.980 --> 00:17:51.782
At the fair to to be on high alert.

00:17:51.782 --> 00:17:53.910
I avoided drinking beers, I avoided any of the nightlife all the people that I know.

00:17:53.910 --> 00:17:54.311
I was staying clear.

00:17:54.311 --> 00:17:57.986
I was going back to camp being my mom, and we were just on on high alert.

00:17:57.986 --> 00:18:08.348
Anytime the phone would go off at night or something like I would just be jumping out of bed and it didn't matter, because those are the times when you get like we're starting to get political text messages too right.

00:18:08.368 --> 00:18:08.569
Yeah.

00:18:09.121 --> 00:18:12.444
You finally had said to me like listen, dude, I'm not going to tell you in a text message.

00:18:12.826 --> 00:18:22.366
No, no, because I knew we had bad service in general, because I had said something to you about like a friend or whatever, and I was like, oh my God, did you hear?

00:18:22.366 --> 00:18:26.064
And you're like what, what is happening?

00:18:26.064 --> 00:18:41.298
And you just like I got all of your text messages like all all at once and I was like bro, like if I'm going, if something's happening, like you're gonna know it but although you did like text me at 6 30, you didn't like because I was trying to evaluate the situation which will be into it we'll get.

00:18:41.439 --> 00:18:51.730
We'll get to that, but it was also 6 30 in the morning yeah, leading into where you're about to go, there was a couple things that put me on high alert about sunday.

00:18:51.730 --> 00:18:58.790
One of them is the coffee shop that we've been going to, um all week christy that owns the coffee shop.

00:18:58.790 --> 00:19:08.755
Um, when, as soon as I saw her, she was talking about you, asking about you where you were, how you were doing, how you were doing, and she was like you're going to have that baby at this fair and I was like no, I'm not.

00:19:08.755 --> 00:19:14.130
She's like you're going to have that baby this weekend and we have a long stretch of time there at the fair.

00:19:14.150 --> 00:19:14.711
We go there.

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We open up on Saturday and then we don't leave until the following Monday.

00:19:17.827 --> 00:19:22.330
So going into that weekend Friday was your appointment.

00:19:22.330 --> 00:19:27.994
When I went to get my coffee Friday morning, after I got off the phone with you, she said how did your appointment, how did the appointment go?

00:19:28.013 --> 00:19:30.935
with your wife and I told her yeah.

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And she said you're having that baby this weekend.

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And I said I'm never buying a coffee from you again.

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This is it.

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And I said so what's the deal here?

00:19:38.792 --> 00:19:39.300
Am I going to?

00:19:39.300 --> 00:19:40.063
Am I going to?

00:19:40.063 --> 00:19:46.650
You know you had said that the doctor said you weren't going to go today and I was like well, the doctor said I shouldn't be worried about today.

00:19:46.650 --> 00:19:49.965
And she's like I'm telling you you shouldn't either, and you won't be worried about tomorrow either.

00:19:49.965 --> 00:19:52.123
Saturday's going to be fine, but you're going to get a phone call Sunday morning.

00:19:52.123 --> 00:19:52.904
You're having that baby.

00:19:52.904 --> 00:19:56.840
So she put that into the ether, into my mind.

00:19:56.840 --> 00:20:10.750
And to go back to the godparents text messages that we have, there was something that put me on alert, that I don't know anybody else in the room or the womb picked up on except for me.

00:20:10.750 --> 00:20:13.381
On Saturday night I was laying in bed at camp.

00:20:13.381 --> 00:20:20.785
You were at home in bed and we were having a conversation with Lance and Jen and we were just kind of like talking through some emotions for all of us.

00:20:20.805 --> 00:20:24.050
And we're on baby watch and we're stressed out and Jen's in our corner trying to help us and to support us.

00:20:24.050 --> 00:20:29.045
And, um, you know, we're on baby watch and we're stressed out and Jen's in our corner trying to help us and to support us.

00:20:29.045 --> 00:20:42.126
And Lance was having a tough time thinking about Butch and there's one thing he said at the end of our, our text message chain and, um, he said you know, I love you guys, we're going to bed and hopefully tomorrow's better.

00:20:42.126 --> 00:20:50.827
And, um, I believe it was actually kind of phrased backwards to that, but he was like we're going to bed Tomorrow, hopefully is better, love you guys.

00:20:51.903 --> 00:21:00.250
And I literally read that message a thousand times and I said Paisley's going to show up tomorrow because her godfather just said hopefully tomorrow's a better day.

00:21:00.250 --> 00:21:02.586
Like it just hit me.

00:21:02.586 --> 00:21:06.790
I was like yep, godfather, lance needs a better day tomorrow.

00:21:06.790 --> 00:21:09.950
And, um, little Paisley's coming to the rescue.

00:21:09.950 --> 00:21:21.423
I literally was like reading that and I almost said in the text message you, son of a biscuit, that means that this whole weekend is going to go to hell in a handbasket.

00:21:21.423 --> 00:21:25.192
But I really truly feel that was part of it.

00:21:25.192 --> 00:21:37.519
Right, I feel like it was part of it because just the whole course of our conversations throughout the week and Lance struggling that day, and then literally I don't know what it was, but just reading his message that hopefully tomorrow is better.

00:21:37.519 --> 00:21:45.304
I don't think it gets any better than finding out that you're going to be a godfather right, or at least welcoming.

00:21:46.688 --> 00:21:51.596
Yeah Well, yeah Well, yeah, he already knew he was a godfather, he knew but I mean like well, this is happening, yeah, right.

00:21:52.300 --> 00:21:55.340
That you are a godfather, Like you've been waiting here.

00:21:55.340 --> 00:21:56.041
It is Official business.

00:21:56.102 --> 00:21:57.762
Here's the stamp of approval.

00:21:57.762 --> 00:21:58.544
Here's the seed.

00:21:58.784 --> 00:22:01.405
Yeah, right no absentee ballot.

00:22:01.445 --> 00:22:10.353
Here she is no, so Saturday, while we were going over all those text messages, I felt pretty defeated.

00:22:10.353 --> 00:22:12.994
On Sunday actually, I had a—.

00:22:13.316 --> 00:22:13.695
Saturday.

00:22:13.955 --> 00:22:22.893
Saturday, sorry, yeah, saturday I had so much stuff that I needed to do and I just—I couldn't get out of my own way.

00:22:22.893 --> 00:22:27.711
I was like—I woke up and I was like all right, we're going to crush this day.

00:22:27.711 --> 00:22:29.988
This list is going to be like done.

00:22:29.988 --> 00:22:31.986
We're going to be bang, bang, boom.

00:22:31.986 --> 00:22:40.861
You're going to come home, we're going to finish up big projects, because I left big projects for you, because there was no way that I was putting myself in labor, like I was like crossing my legs.

00:22:40.861 --> 00:22:52.036
I was like crossing my legs, I was not doing extra stretches, I was doing the bare minimum when it comes to all the things that people are like trying to do to induce labor.

00:22:55.160 --> 00:22:56.506
I'm doing the complete opposite, but I'm still doing Most people.

00:22:56.506 --> 00:23:00.906
When they're this close, they're like let me go for a walk, Let me get this kid out, Let me eat the spicy foods.

00:23:01.380 --> 00:23:10.288
Let me do jumping jacks, let me like curb, walk Like I'm like like, nope, no curbs, no stairs, no like let's handcuff these ankles together.

00:23:10.327 --> 00:23:11.431
I'm holding this kid later.

00:23:11.451 --> 00:23:22.582
That's where you were literally like I was like yep, uh, tuesday can't come soon enough, like, but we're just gonna cross our legs and for the people that are listening that this might be the first time I want them to understand.

00:23:22.721 --> 00:23:28.115
it's not about like saying, oh my God, you guys are jackasses Cause you feel inconvenienced.

00:23:28.115 --> 00:23:29.762
That's like she showed up on a different day.

00:23:29.762 --> 00:23:35.449
The whole point is is like we our whole life we haven't been able to slow down and enjoy something Right.

00:23:36.101 --> 00:23:40.968
And it's been stressful and it's been like you're on the road and you get an emergency phone call about about a family member.

00:23:40.968 --> 00:23:42.911
We don't want that anymore.

00:23:42.911 --> 00:23:45.494
We're just like listen, we've got two weeks left.

00:23:45.494 --> 00:23:55.933
All we're hoping for is the opportunity for you, me, my mom, you know, lance Jen, everybody involved in this to go into this and enjoy it.

00:23:55.933 --> 00:24:02.321
Like I was looking forward to being home and driving you to the hospital, like the excitement of waking up or something and being like, oh my God, I think this is happening.

00:24:02.321 --> 00:24:05.932
And maybe you're rushing out in the middle of the night like freaking Batman, I don't know.

00:24:05.932 --> 00:24:14.630
Like I envision kicking the door and then at the hospital, like you know, like swinging around, cowhide baby bags and flying up the elevator.

00:24:14.630 --> 00:24:16.748
Like I had this whole vision in my mind.

00:24:16.748 --> 00:24:20.848
None of it revolves around sprinting out of the fairgrounds.

00:24:21.250 --> 00:24:22.573
You know, what I mean yeah.

00:24:29.400 --> 00:24:33.670
I mean, this is unfortunately our life, you know it's we always joke about like if it wasn't for bad luck we'd have no luck.

00:24:33.670 --> 00:24:44.008
But um, thankfully our second plan worked out and uh, but anyway, I um just felt I didn't.

00:24:44.008 --> 00:24:52.605
I didn't necessarily like pick up on the fact that I was like something was wrong, because I was still feeling great, like I was.

00:24:52.605 --> 00:24:59.347
I was just like kind of tired, like I was like this seems kind of weird, but maybe I'm just run down Like I am nine months pregnant.

00:24:59.347 --> 00:25:00.685
I have been doing a lot.

00:25:01.560 --> 00:25:03.067
Let me just go to the dollar store.

00:25:03.760 --> 00:25:04.846
Well, I mean before that.

00:25:04.846 --> 00:25:24.096
Before that, though, like I was doing something, like I was sorting clothes, like just sitting here watching like trashy tv, and I was like, oh my god, like I need to like lay, like I need to lay down and take a nap, like I am I love a good nap, I do but I don't usually like like, when I have a list of shit to do, like I don't, it just came over me, like I was like I need to take a nap, of shit to do like I don't.

00:25:24.096 --> 00:25:37.772
It just came over me Like I was like I need to take a nap, I need to lay down, I do not feel well, and so I ended up like just laying down and doing nothing for like a few hours, and I was like that's weird, I don't.

00:25:37.772 --> 00:25:54.125
Yeah, whatever Snubbed it, went to the dollar store, made a snackle box because your girl loves snacks I was preparing like hospital bags, and this long laundry list of all the things that need to be done.

00:25:54.266 --> 00:26:13.804
At the very bottom of the list, which I just kept like rewriting my list and putting on the list, was that I needed to sterilize all my bottles, and I needed to sterilize all my bottles, and I needed to sterilize all of my breast pump supplies, like that's what the consultant had said and do that before you go to the hospital, whatever, whatever.

00:26:13.804 --> 00:26:20.644
And I kept writing that on the list and I was like, yeah, I'll get to it, I'll get to it For whatever reason.

00:26:20.644 --> 00:26:24.809
On Saturday I got this burst of energy.

00:26:24.809 --> 00:26:36.414
Mind you, I laid down most of the day, I got this burst of energy, that I needed to sterilize every possible bottle breast pump.

00:26:36.414 --> 00:26:43.607
Part binky in this house, I don't know where, like I, I sent you a picture.

00:26:43.627 --> 00:26:45.130
You sent me a photo in.

00:26:45.832 --> 00:26:47.795
Utter chaos, yeah, chaos.

00:26:48.901 --> 00:26:53.290
I like how you included utter into this bottle conversation.

00:26:53.290 --> 00:26:53.952
That was good.

00:26:54.259 --> 00:26:57.210
I actually didn't even mean to, but that made complete sense that was well done.

00:26:57.210 --> 00:27:00.769
Yeah, just did not make any sense to me.

00:27:00.769 --> 00:27:03.007
I was like okay, well, I guess we're doing this.

00:27:03.007 --> 00:27:04.980
Like no big deal, any sense to me.

00:27:04.980 --> 00:27:06.508
I was like okay, well, I guess we're doing this like no big deal.

00:27:06.528 --> 00:27:11.529
I even sterilized the bottles that were going to your mom's house, like I was like we're doing all of this and again didn't think anything of it.

00:27:11.529 --> 00:27:14.119
I was like, apparently, that's what we're, that's what we're doing.

00:27:14.119 --> 00:27:22.944
And I'd done a few more things, but I was just worn out, like I was like I'm going to bed, like I'm just, yeah, not feeling it.

00:27:22.944 --> 00:27:26.833
I looked at my list and I was like I'll just get to you tomorrow.

00:27:27.053 --> 00:27:27.173
Yeah.

00:27:27.319 --> 00:27:39.663
Like I knew I wasn't going, like I had another day and then Monday was a holiday and I was going to go up to you if I was feeling up to it, and so I was like I have a couple more days until you get home, like I can just pick at this list.

00:27:39.663 --> 00:27:45.134
It wasn't a big list, but it was like last minute things that needed to be done that I felt I could do on my own.

00:27:45.134 --> 00:27:57.146
Well, that's where shit got weird, because I slept great all night.

00:27:57.146 --> 00:28:02.133
I I do not sleep well when you're gone, I don't.

00:28:02.133 --> 00:28:03.976
I wake up multiple times a night.

00:28:03.976 --> 00:28:06.298
Um, I hear every sound.

00:28:06.298 --> 00:28:07.320
I'm on high alert.

00:28:07.320 --> 00:28:11.209
I'm home alone, protecting the farm, doing all the things.

00:28:11.209 --> 00:28:22.136
I'm like a old yard dog right, there you go I slept through the entire night on sunday saturday night.

00:28:22.336 --> 00:28:24.701
Saturday night into sunday it would be sunday technically.

00:28:24.760 --> 00:28:38.307
Yeah, slept through the entire night and, mind you, up until then I had gone I don't even know how long since that actually happened and I would get up every couple of hours and go pee, you know, do all the things.

00:28:38.307 --> 00:28:42.549
No, not Sunday, not Sunday morning, nope.

00:28:42.549 --> 00:28:52.174
Slept the whole night and I woke up out of a dead sleep in the most excruciating stomach cramps.

00:28:52.174 --> 00:28:55.736
I was like ow, that kind of hurts.

00:28:56.057 --> 00:28:59.538
It was about like what, 5.30ish or so 5.30.

00:28:59.799 --> 00:29:00.801
Yep.

00:29:00.801 --> 00:29:10.702
So I started like just like, okay, this feels, feels kind of weird, like it could be Braxton Hicks, like we could be okay, like you know.

00:29:10.702 --> 00:29:22.762
So I got up and I started walking around, um, I went into the bathroom and just kind of hung out there for a little bit just to see, like, because sometimes they say like changing position.

00:29:22.782 --> 00:29:23.744
The dilation station.

00:29:24.211 --> 00:29:25.477
Yes, the dilation station.

00:29:25.477 --> 00:29:28.028
I did not know it was called the dilation station.

00:29:28.048 --> 00:29:28.250
We do now.

00:29:28.289 --> 00:29:29.476
Let's just put that out there.

00:29:29.476 --> 00:29:38.751
So I was like hanging out there and I understand why, because I mean it relieves pressure, and it was in fact.

00:29:38.751 --> 00:29:50.605
So I was like, well, maybe this will you know, maybe just a Braxton Hicks, it's okay, we're getting close, we're two weeks out Like no big deal, mm-mm, no, ma'am, nope, nope.

00:29:50.605 --> 00:29:54.609
Things were different, things were definitely strange.

00:29:54.609 --> 00:30:02.502
So I ended up grinning and bearing just the pain, grit and bear it.

00:30:02.864 --> 00:30:03.825
That's what it is, yeah.

00:30:05.530 --> 00:30:12.060
For about a half an hour and I think I texted you around six o'clock and I was like I'm really mourning.

00:30:12.060 --> 00:30:21.678
Sorry to bother you, don't want to cause any uproar, but things feel a little different this morning.

00:30:21.678 --> 00:30:25.411
Uh, I'm actually in a little bit of pain.

00:30:25.411 --> 00:30:28.778
Yeah, are you looking for the text message?

00:30:28.938 --> 00:30:36.730
I was, you keep going so, um, I was like you know what, I'm gonna go out and I'm gonna take care of the barn, I'm gonna do the chores.

00:30:36.730 --> 00:30:39.182
Uh, I'm gonna walk this off.

00:30:39.182 --> 00:30:39.743
Maybe.

00:30:39.743 --> 00:30:40.548
It's probably nothing.

00:30:40.548 --> 00:30:43.221
It's probably nothing, I'll keep you posted, like we're gonna.

00:30:43.221 --> 00:30:44.829
We're gonna go do the barn chores.

00:30:44.829 --> 00:30:58.152
So I'm like walking out to go do the barn chores and I'm like leaning on the counter like doubled over my dog's staring at me like, uh, you all right, I'm like yeah, we're good fulsome's looking at me like you're gonna feed me.

00:30:58.512 --> 00:31:01.358
I'm like, yeah, it's all about you, pal, you and your breakfast.

00:31:01.980 --> 00:31:03.644
Angus Bulldogs doesn't want to miss a meal.

00:31:03.930 --> 00:31:04.131
Yeah.

00:31:04.751 --> 00:31:06.576
My text message was morning sugar.

00:31:06.576 --> 00:31:09.041
I'm sorry it's early, but I'm making you aware.

00:31:09.041 --> 00:31:12.314
I'm experiencing some consistent cramps since 5.30.

00:31:12.314 --> 00:31:12.974
It woke me up.

00:31:12.974 --> 00:31:15.138
I am monitoring them and writing them down.

00:31:15.138 --> 00:31:24.582
I'm going to reach out to Rachel and see what she thinks, because she told me to that's where you're at yeah, that was rachel's.

00:31:24.582 --> 00:31:26.767
Uh, what, the delivery nurse that we talked about before?

00:31:26.787 --> 00:31:34.492
they gave us her delivery her uh cell phone information yeah, she actually um did our labor and delivery class yeah we took.

00:31:34.613 --> 00:31:36.757
That was that was really awesome, um.

00:31:36.757 --> 00:31:49.253
So, yeah, I went out and did the barn chores, yep, took care of the, the horse, the pig, all four dogs and the cat, and came back upstairs and I think I ended up texting you and I said, yeah, this is not going away.

00:31:49.253 --> 00:31:53.682
Um, I think I might be in labor, yeah, I think.

00:31:53.682 --> 00:31:55.171
Uh, I think this is different.

00:31:55.171 --> 00:32:00.121
And I think you asked me like, are you gonna go to the hospital?

00:32:00.121 --> 00:32:04.903
And I was like I'm, I haven't heard from rachel yet, but I think I think I'm going to.

00:32:04.923 --> 00:32:09.076
I think you were still like waiting around, like I'm gonna wait, and I was like, no, just go to the hospital.

00:32:09.076 --> 00:32:11.789
Yeah, like just let me just go yep.

00:32:12.010 --> 00:32:33.582
So I ended up coming upstairs, um, I had to collect all of my breast pump supplies that I had sterilized the night before, threw them all in a box, grabbed my couple of bags that I had left up here the diaper bag, my hospital bag, my snack-o-box Don't forget the snack bag.

00:32:33.982 --> 00:32:39.464
You can't go to labor and deliver without a box of snacks.

00:32:39.506 --> 00:32:41.205
Yeah, no, absolutely not.

00:32:41.205 --> 00:32:42.287
They don't feed you at the hospital.

00:32:42.646 --> 00:32:45.230
I mean, well, they're supposed to, they do they're supposed to Anyway.

00:32:46.392 --> 00:32:53.643
So yeah, I take care of the animals, grab my stuff, walk out the door, drive myself to the hospital.

00:32:53.662 --> 00:32:55.945
Drive yourself to the hospital Yep Drive myself.

00:32:56.170 --> 00:32:57.392
Thankfully it's only like five minutes down the road.

00:32:57.392 --> 00:32:57.692
Yep for myself.

00:32:57.712 --> 00:33:12.559
Thankfully it's only like five minutes down the road, yeah, and I literally get to the hospital, pull into the emergency room, blow the back door of my trunk open, I'm grabbing my bags, I'm locking my car, walking across, just casual day Do-do-do, literally.

00:33:12.559 --> 00:33:19.903
I walk into the emergency room because the main lobby is not open yet to get to labor and delivery.

00:33:19.903 --> 00:33:22.438
And there's a lady there, sweet soul.

00:33:22.438 --> 00:33:30.199
I see her all the time when I work extra shifts and she says good morning, you're going to have to give me a couple minutes because my computer is super slow today.

00:33:30.199 --> 00:33:33.601
And I go eh, probably not, I'm in labor.

00:33:33.601 --> 00:33:35.537
And she was like what?

00:33:35.537 --> 00:33:41.731
Well, yeah, that's, let me get somebody.

00:33:41.731 --> 00:33:43.894
So immediately attack comes out.

00:33:43.894 --> 00:33:46.295
And then all things changed.

00:33:46.295 --> 00:33:51.939
They throw me in a wheelchair, take my bags, start asking me 21 questions.

00:33:51.939 --> 00:33:53.960
Did you call them?

00:33:53.960 --> 00:33:57.021
Nope, no, ma'am, I did not.

00:33:57.301 --> 00:33:58.722
Here I am, here, I am calling.

00:33:58.923 --> 00:34:02.125
Yeah, no, dr Maxwell told me not to.

00:34:02.125 --> 00:34:03.506
He told me not to.

00:34:03.506 --> 00:34:10.675
He said literally just get here, based on your circumstances, just get here.

00:34:10.675 --> 00:34:19.293
So I did, and they rolled me upstairs and Liz, who was my nurse, was actually the one that did our car seat class.

00:34:19.293 --> 00:34:27.335
So we had the dream team with us on Sunday and so, yeah, I got there.

00:34:27.335 --> 00:34:28.717
We did some checks.

00:34:28.717 --> 00:34:41.568
I was very much actively laboring and we were about five centimeters dilated when she checked.

00:34:42.369 --> 00:34:50.780
So at that point, like you to kind of bring it into like when I show up here so you had messaged me and said like I'm in labor and before it got to that point I already like talked to my mom.

00:34:50.780 --> 00:34:54.574
I was like here's our plan, this is what we're doing, let's get everything rolling.

00:34:54.574 --> 00:35:02.942
And the night before it had poured up at the fairgrounds so we had to take all of our merchandise from the bottom of the tent, pick it up, put it in rolling racks.

00:35:02.942 --> 00:35:07.355
So I was like Ali's getting ready to go to the hospital, let's go take care of all this.

00:35:07.355 --> 00:35:08.478
I'm going to call Steve.

00:35:08.478 --> 00:35:14.780
So we started packing things up, called Steve and he was like I can be there in, you know 15 minutes.

00:35:14.780 --> 00:35:22.853
So he met us at the fairgrounds and me and my mom had already organized everything.

00:35:22.853 --> 00:35:23.757
You were on your way to the hospital.

00:35:23.757 --> 00:35:26.547
You got there, checked in, say hey, you're in labor, steve rolls in.

00:35:26.849 --> 00:36:02.324
And I was like they said I'm being admitted and yeah, you're admitted, I texted you you're active labor we're in labor so steve comes in and I was like dude, I've got about 10 minutes to show you how to do anything and I had to train him on the computer, show him where everything was, walk him out to the truck, show him where all of our inventory stuff is, the camper, give him the keys, give him the cash and say whatever you can do is great, dude, and my mom and I jumped in the truck and headed to the hospital which you had brought the truck up for us so that I didn't have to run to the hospital in a school bus, which was great.

00:36:02.324 --> 00:36:13.079
If we weren't planning on tolling the camper home, I would have had you drop off the Dodge Challenger, because I'm certain I could have got to the hospital a heck of a lot quicker than that than I could in the farm truck.

00:36:13.079 --> 00:36:20.423
Yeah, but Ol' Red, who I bought brand new, oh jeez, 21 years ago.

00:36:20.751 --> 00:36:21.708
She's an what 03?

00:36:21.708 --> 00:36:21.708
.

00:36:22.130 --> 00:36:26.041
She's an 03 that I've rolled over.

00:36:26.041 --> 00:36:30.219
She did, you know three and a half flips, the half one being on the roof.

00:36:30.219 --> 00:36:30.981
She's been through hell.

00:36:30.981 --> 00:36:35.221
She's been patched together with duct tape to sheet rock.

00:36:35.221 --> 00:36:35.842
You know what I mean.

00:36:35.842 --> 00:36:36.934
That thing has been patched.

00:36:36.934 --> 00:36:39.695
My dad the last round of body work on that truck.

00:36:39.695 --> 00:36:43.463
He was trying to find sheet metal and he said good news, I got some metal.

00:36:43.463 --> 00:36:46.233
I said, oh yeah, would you find that I cut up a fridge.

00:36:48.539 --> 00:36:55.201
Part of the truck's held together with the fucking panel on a fridge anyways, blew a hole in the back because he needed to get to the what they got.

00:36:55.201 --> 00:36:55.581
He cut a.

00:36:55.931 --> 00:37:07.873
He cut a hole in the bed of the truck so we could get to the fuel pump and that's just covered up with a sheet of plywood now, but all red was blistering down 95 with hay and rust flying all over the freaking interstate.

00:37:08.074 --> 00:37:12.331
Oh, she was probably having a time of her life oh that old girl said it's time to run.

00:37:12.351 --> 00:37:16.197
She let her hair down, oh yeah, yeah, she had her curlers out and everything.

00:37:16.197 --> 00:37:28.820
Man, I was coming down 95, and I looked at my mom and I said I'm just going to make you aware that I don't really like what my hood's doing on my side of the truck, because the latch on this old girl is rusted up.

00:37:28.820 --> 00:37:30.023
It doesn't work.

00:37:30.023 --> 00:37:39.217
I have a rope attached to part of the hood latch that comes out the grill you have to pull on she's a real gem piece oh yeah.

00:37:42.349 --> 00:37:43.612
So my side of the hood is starting to come loose.

00:37:43.612 --> 00:37:47.543
She's rattling around and my mom is like you got to pull over.

00:37:47.543 --> 00:37:48.972
And I said I don't really have time to pull over.

00:37:49.032 --> 00:37:53.132
And thankfully these Dodge hoods are pretty heavy, so I feel like it's not going to go anywhere.

00:37:53.132 --> 00:38:11.677
When we were about 20 minutes or so away from the hospital, that looseness had moved all the way to the middle and started creeping to the other side and I said to my mom I don't know how many more miles we got into this hood before it literally just flies up like Tommy boy into the windshield.

00:38:11.677 --> 00:38:13.576
But the old girl made it.

00:38:13.576 --> 00:38:21.829
I actually was in the hallway listening to you getting your epidural and you were holding it together.

00:38:21.829 --> 00:38:22.952
But you were.

00:38:22.952 --> 00:38:33.331
You were annoyed Like you had mentioned something to the uh, anesthesia guy about me not being there and he was like, oh well, I mean, I'm sure he's not going to miss all of it.

00:38:33.331 --> 00:38:39.481
Like it was just and I'm just standing in the hallway and I wanted to be like I'm not going to miss any of it, I'm right out here.

00:38:39.983 --> 00:38:46.983
But they told me to stay out there and I heard you talking to him and you were like yeah, pretty sure, this is the only time I'm ever going to do this.

00:38:47.692 --> 00:38:50.219
Like you were, like I'm not doing this again.

00:38:50.219 --> 00:39:05.797
He made a joke that I held so still, even while going through contractions, that I could have as many epidurals and children as I wanted, and he would do the epidurals for me, that's funny.

00:39:05.797 --> 00:39:07.521
Yeah, no, we're done, this is it.

00:39:08.010 --> 00:39:14.943
Part of the original plan, too, was you would be dilated, start experiencing some contractions.

00:39:14.943 --> 00:39:17.146
We would get to the hospital together.

00:39:17.487 --> 00:39:17.690
Together.

00:39:17.971 --> 00:39:21.780
Then you would get the epidural early and not worry about all this.

00:39:21.780 --> 00:39:30.315
That's not how any of this went, because we would later find out that you did the bulk of the labor process before they ever gave you the epidural.

00:39:30.516 --> 00:39:31.480
Yeah, yeah.

00:39:32.130 --> 00:39:33.717
You received that at nine.

00:39:33.717 --> 00:39:36.119
You got to the hospital at 7, 10 am.

00:39:36.119 --> 00:39:46.181
It was somewhere after nine when they were working on you, because I was in the hallway listening and I bet you he was only in there.

00:39:46.181 --> 00:39:58.556
Uh, 10 minutes maybe giving, I bet you that that stuff wasn't active until like 9, 20, 9, 30 somewhere around there yeah, yeah.

00:39:58.757 --> 00:40:24.490
So apparently I did most of it on my own, yeah, and I remember specifically, like having a conversation with liz um, my rn, and I was like god damn, like, and I I thought I had a pretty high tolerance for pain and she just laughed at me and she was, like you do, like you do, she's like you're just now getting an epidural.

00:40:24.490 --> 00:40:38.144
And I remember having this conversation and then come to find out, like later on, that's when we found out that everything had already happened during, like me being at home and whatnot, like me being at home and whatnot.

00:40:38.144 --> 00:40:48.501
So I was like, well, I guess I I guess I actually do have a pretty high tolerance for pain because, like, I had been actively laboring at home.

00:40:49.911 --> 00:41:10.891
When this stuff all shuffles out and we get to the conclusion of this, part of what came up was like your doctors and delivery, everybody being in there, being like, like rachel came in, she wasn't you, she wasn't even, she didn't have to be in that room, she came in to help and she was like she just came in to say hi, yeah she was like oh my god, I can't believe this is happening.

00:41:10.891 --> 00:41:13.356
She was like how many dial?

00:41:13.396 --> 00:41:14.798
how dilated are you?

00:41:14.798 --> 00:41:16.844
And I was like I don't know.

00:41:16.864 --> 00:41:22.842
I think we're about to find out they literally like you were in active labor doing barn chores.

00:41:22.842 --> 00:41:29.438
So you actually have security footage which we got to save that you can download that.

00:41:29.438 --> 00:41:35.639
We have security footage of you doing barn chores and you were in full on labor taking care of the horse.

00:41:35.820 --> 00:41:36.641
It doesn't even look like it.

00:41:36.641 --> 00:41:38.632
It just looks like I'm walking across the door.

00:41:38.672 --> 00:41:39.594
I got to watch the video.

00:41:39.594 --> 00:41:41.317
I haven't seen it but I know you have it.

00:41:41.416 --> 00:41:42.838
Yeah, I'm just walking across.

00:41:42.838 --> 00:41:45.382
It's like 6.48 on Sunday.

00:41:45.382 --> 00:41:47.445
I just do-do-do-do-do.

00:41:47.465 --> 00:41:47.806
Do-do-do.

00:41:48.110 --> 00:41:49.135
Walking across the lawn.

00:41:54.693 --> 00:41:55.715
Yep going, so when?

00:41:55.775 --> 00:41:57.255
I was there, I think Liz centimeters.

00:41:57.655 --> 00:41:58.597
Five, I thought.

00:41:58.836 --> 00:42:06.583
She said well, what she explained to me was that she said I'm going to say so.

00:42:06.583 --> 00:42:12.246
Dr Maxwell did your exam and he has baseball mitts.

00:42:12.246 --> 00:42:13.447
Let's just be honest.

00:42:13.447 --> 00:42:20.782
And so if he says that you were four centimeters, I'm going to say you're probably four or five.

00:42:20.782 --> 00:42:22.195
Like that's what I'm going to say.

00:42:22.195 --> 00:42:25.440
Like, because my measurements and his measurements are going to be completely different.

00:42:25.440 --> 00:42:30.081
Just judging by the size of our hands clearly.

00:42:31.811 --> 00:42:39.545
And so she was like, if you were four after he's done, you're a five, that's where you're at.

00:42:39.545 --> 00:42:42.614
Like, if you were four after he's done, you're a five, you're, that's where you're at.

00:42:42.614 --> 00:42:43.175
So that's what she had said.

00:42:43.175 --> 00:42:43.396
Um, is that?

00:42:43.396 --> 00:42:51.465
You know you are five centimeters dilated at this point, um, and she was like so you know, we're gonna go ahead and admit you, we're gonna get some blood work.

00:42:51.465 --> 00:42:57.909
Um, we're gonna get you an epidural, do all the things, or we're gonna start your pain management, your choice.

00:42:57.909 --> 00:43:01.601
Yeah, um, and I was like, yep, not trying to be tough, just bring the epidural.

00:43:01.601 --> 00:43:05.498
And that was my joke, like the entire time, like, so what's your plan for pain management?

00:43:05.498 --> 00:43:06.853
And I was like, yeah, just bring the epidural.

00:43:06.853 --> 00:43:08.599
Like I'm not superwoman, I'm not doing it.

00:43:08.599 --> 00:43:10.114
Nope, not doing it.

00:43:10.114 --> 00:43:14.695
And so, yeah, check my blood, did all the things.

00:43:14.695 --> 00:43:18.599
Br brought in the epidural, bang, bang, boom.

00:43:18.599 --> 00:43:22.766
And then the doctor had come in just to do a check.

00:43:22.766 --> 00:43:24.670
I think it was like you had been there for what?

00:43:24.789 --> 00:43:31.117
like 45 minutes yeah, maybe you were trying to convince me to go get coffee that we would have time.

00:43:31.117 --> 00:43:35.619
And I said dude, I just drove all the way here from the fair.

00:43:35.619 --> 00:43:43.346
If I go across the street and I'm in the drive-thru lane at Dunkin donuts and you have this child, I'm gonna lose my shit and you're never gonna let me live it down.

00:43:43.869 --> 00:43:50.713
So I'm not leaving this room until we know what's going on and I'm five centimeters and I know you have to get to 10, which is a dinner plate.

00:43:50.875 --> 00:43:54.983
For god's sakes your delivery doctor, who we literally met.

00:43:54.983 --> 00:43:56.353
We had two appointments with.

00:43:56.353 --> 00:44:00.525
That's the person that you originally signed up yep you chose her.

00:44:00.525 --> 00:44:03.222
That's why we went to this actual uh doctor's office.

00:44:03.222 --> 00:44:05.490
Then she went out on maternity leave herself.

00:44:05.490 --> 00:44:12.795
We were doing the math on it and we were like, hey, she might actually be coming back for maternity leave when we're expecting.

00:44:12.795 --> 00:44:18.259
And we were like we know, hospitals work if she's been on vacation for a few months.

00:44:18.762 --> 00:44:27.438
she's going to be on call and she's going to get all the weekend shifts, so thankfully, you were so excited to find out that McDonough was who was on call.

00:44:27.990 --> 00:44:30.474
I asked Dr Maxwell and he was like I don't know, I'm not sure.

00:44:30.610 --> 00:44:31.936
but we'll probably see you this weekend.

00:44:31.936 --> 00:44:33.777
And I was like don't jinx me.

00:44:33.777 --> 00:44:39.943
She came in in like yoga pants and white running shoes.

00:44:40.570 --> 00:44:42.539
She had earrings in.

00:44:42.539 --> 00:44:44.817
She was just there for rounds.

00:44:46.550 --> 00:44:49.440
But she came rolling in because they had called her to let her know.

00:44:49.519 --> 00:44:49.661
Yep.

00:44:50.130 --> 00:44:54.882
And she came in and this was come to find out.

00:44:54.882 --> 00:44:58.641
You were about to be her first delivery back from maternity leave.

00:44:58.701 --> 00:44:58.900
Yeah.

00:44:59.871 --> 00:45:01.836
She comes over and says let me just have a look.

00:45:01.836 --> 00:45:09.639
And she looks, and then she closes her legs and says I'm going to go change my shoes and you're going to have a baby.

00:45:09.639 --> 00:45:15.340
When she said that, I looked over at you and you just started bawling.

00:45:15.891 --> 00:45:17.699
I was so scared.

00:45:17.699 --> 00:45:25.264
I was like all I could think about was this is it like we?

00:45:25.264 --> 00:45:40.320
And this is so weird to say, but I literally thought about our wedding day at that wedding day at that moment, because the same exact thing had happened to me when we got married.

00:45:42.402 --> 00:45:47.876
I plan, plan, plan everything, right the wedding.

00:45:47.876 --> 00:45:52.184
I enjoyed every moment of planning the wedding.

00:45:52.184 --> 00:45:57.516
I enjoyed every part of the wedding leading up to it.

00:45:57.516 --> 00:46:06.197
I did the same thing with the baby, like, enjoyed my pregnancy, had so much fun, planned, planned, planned.

00:46:06.197 --> 00:46:19.382
But it was at the very last moment, and I mean the last moment, when reality was like wham bam thank you, ma'am, this shit just got real.

00:46:20.344 --> 00:46:36.804
The moment that I was about to walk down the aisle I was like, oh, I'm getting married yeah it wasn't zipping me in the dress, it wasn't finding the dress, it wasn't doing all of those things that made me like, be like.

00:46:36.804 --> 00:46:40.518
I'm getting married like this is no, it all right.

00:46:40.518 --> 00:46:41.891
There's your music Time.

00:46:41.891 --> 00:46:45.269
To walk down the aisle, the same exact thing happened.

00:46:45.289 --> 00:46:46.715
You were hearing the music on Sunday.

00:46:46.715 --> 00:46:47.137
I'll tell you.

00:46:47.378 --> 00:46:47.878
Oh, I was here.

00:46:48.010 --> 00:46:50.117
I mean, we didn't even get a chance to use a playlist.

00:46:50.117 --> 00:46:50.938
It happened too quick.

00:46:51.179 --> 00:47:02.565
No, I literally at that moment was like, oh shit, my life is about to change and it just brought me back to the same like boom.

00:47:02.965 --> 00:47:03.146
Yeah.

00:47:03.929 --> 00:47:10.056
Life's different, and so Liz was like all right, let's do some practice pushing.

00:47:10.717 --> 00:47:11.980
Yeah, we're going to practice push.

00:47:11.980 --> 00:47:13.400
She's going to go get changed.

00:47:13.782 --> 00:47:16.505
Mind you, I'm hysterically crying.

00:47:16.744 --> 00:47:16.945
Yeah.

00:47:16.945 --> 00:47:20.273
Like a weak little baby.

00:47:20.273 --> 00:47:31.083
I I'm gonna interject on this one going into this whole delivery, you have said to me yeah, you're not gonna be anywhere near the business no you're gonna be up by my shoulders you're not gonna be.

00:47:31.202 --> 00:47:39.467
I don't want you to see any of this again you also told me every, every time we had a meeting at the hospital, it was like oh, can we make sure he has the chair because he like.

00:47:39.467 --> 00:47:43.322
Oh, can we make sure he has the chair Because he's going to pass out, can we make sure he has a chair?

00:47:43.362 --> 00:47:46.257
He's going to throw up, they brought you a computer chair.

00:47:46.891 --> 00:47:49.617
I asked for a computer chair because I was planning on going into battle.

00:47:49.617 --> 00:47:51.516
I didn't know we were going to run a sprint.

00:47:51.516 --> 00:47:54.139
I can stand through the sprint.

00:47:54.139 --> 00:48:00.572
I didn't want to stand through the marathon, you know what I mean.

00:48:00.572 --> 00:48:01.034
Got it and I asked for.

00:48:01.034 --> 00:48:01.699
They thought I was weird.

00:48:01.699 --> 00:48:02.362
I was like, can I have a chair?

00:48:02.382 --> 00:48:06.460
because I was just trying to sit next to you and I was on a pull-out couch away from you, so that's, that's all I was.

00:48:06.460 --> 00:48:10.291
I was trying to be a gentleman, but you told me that I wouldn't be a part of any of this.

00:48:10.411 --> 00:48:13.936
Missy, I held your fucking legs up I didn't say you weren't going to be a part of this.

00:48:13.936 --> 00:48:22.744
I was worried no, that you were going to be squeamish because of the fact that we can't watch certain things on the tv without you being like ew, I'm done you never listen to me.

00:48:22.885 --> 00:48:26.501
It's different when it's like personal, like you know what?

00:48:26.501 --> 00:48:29.936
I'm saying you don't listen to me, you don't give me credit and you're like he's gonna be up here.

00:48:29.936 --> 00:48:39.581
I don't want him to say anything, I held your legs you did, you did I saw everything, yeah, and you're probably going to want to look at me the same again.

00:48:39.581 --> 00:48:41.184
You don't want me to look at you anyways.

00:48:41.184 --> 00:48:43.496
Not right now, oh my.

00:48:43.630 --> 00:48:44.735
God Not right now.

00:48:45.471 --> 00:48:49.831
So you didn't want anybody all in your business and instead you had me and my mother all in your business.

00:48:50.815 --> 00:48:53.971
Yeah, at that point when everyone's like it doesn't matter.

00:48:54.673 --> 00:48:55.257
You didn't care.

00:48:55.771 --> 00:48:57.157
I'm probably going to shit on the table.

00:48:57.157 --> 00:48:59.554
You were like, hey, man, that was my biggest fear.

00:48:59.594 --> 00:49:02.260
If the guy that made my coffee this morning, had to hold my other leg.

00:49:02.260 --> 00:49:03.083
I don't give a fuck.

00:49:03.083 --> 00:49:04.275
That's kind of where you were at.

00:49:06.670 --> 00:49:07.492
That's, you know.

00:49:07.492 --> 00:49:08.637
I didn't even get a coffee.

00:49:09.340 --> 00:49:09.800
Me either.

00:49:10.041 --> 00:49:10.643
I earned it.

00:49:11.367 --> 00:49:12.070
I had to push her out.

00:49:12.070 --> 00:49:16.320
First we had a post-Paisley celebration coffee yes, but coffee yes.

00:49:16.320 --> 00:49:19.744
But you were saying you started practice pushing yeah I.

00:49:20.304 --> 00:49:23.206
They were like all right, we're gonna do practice pushes and I was like what does this even mean?

00:49:23.206 --> 00:49:24.067
Yeah like, what do you mean?

00:49:24.067 --> 00:49:25.072
I have to practice.

00:49:25.072 --> 00:49:26.775
Like, can we just do this already?

00:49:26.775 --> 00:49:30.322
Like, and do you want to tell them about the?

00:49:30.322 --> 00:49:37.891
Uh, I don't really care um the amount of times that I told you about my butt this entire time you do you definitely.

00:49:38.152 --> 00:49:39.353
That's the whole thing with the epidural.

00:49:39.353 --> 00:49:44.795
You just kept talking about your ass and where all the pain was, and then your contractions would start basically in your butthole.

00:49:44.795 --> 00:49:51.434
That's what you kept talking about you talked about your butt, so much I was like is this kid coming out your ass?

00:49:51.695 --> 00:50:17.815
it felt like she was, like she sat so low for like two months because that's just where she was comfortable that all my contractions were in my butt, like the way that the epidural was pooling, and I'm like asking, before we start like getting checked, I'm like how come I can feel these contractions in my butt, like now my now I can't feel my butt so low, she was so low.

00:50:17.835 --> 00:50:18.898
Socoa, socoa, she was so low.

00:50:19.018 --> 00:50:26.135
Oh my God, it was hilarious Like I talked about my butt so much they were like Jesus they were like enough of the butt talk.

00:50:26.135 --> 00:50:28.920
They were probably like let me, does this girl actually have a nice butt?

00:50:28.920 --> 00:50:29.929
Like I hope she has a nice butt.

00:50:30.010 --> 00:50:41.275
She talks about her butt a lot yeah entire pregnancy was pooping on the table, like I was like, yeah, that was a real fear of yours.

00:50:41.275 --> 00:50:41.838
Oh, for the love of god.

00:50:41.838 --> 00:50:49.449
And then, because of the fact that, like I was feeling so much pressure in my booty, I was like, oh, I'm gonna shit on the table, like and liz acknowledges she's like it happens.

00:50:49.449 --> 00:50:53.541
Happens all the time, don't worry about it and I was like no, I don't want it but it didn't happen.

00:50:53.641 --> 00:50:55.873
It didn't happen but I thought it was gonna happen.

00:50:55.873 --> 00:50:56.896
Like I literally she's.

00:50:56.896 --> 00:51:05.101
I want you to feel into these contractions and I just want you to like bear down and just put, and I was like I'm going to put you on the table.

00:51:05.510 --> 00:51:10.242
She was getting so excited when you were pushing and she was looking and then she was like, do you want to feel the head?

00:51:10.242 --> 00:51:12.291
And you were like, no, no, I definitely don't.

00:51:12.411 --> 00:51:13.952
We're not doing this, we're no.

00:51:14.753 --> 00:51:19.458
She then was like well, I mean, I don't really want to deliver a baby.

00:51:19.518 --> 00:51:20.619
I've delivered one.

00:51:20.759 --> 00:51:37.534
Yeah, and you were practicing and I didn't want to say it to you, but I was looking and I was like I don't know how much more has to go here, but I was like we probably want to get the doctor you've been waiting for.

00:51:37.534 --> 00:51:42.393
Like in my mind I was was like my wife was going to be so pissed if for nine months she was waiting for this doctor.

00:51:42.795 --> 00:51:51.222
This doctor is now actually in the building and she's fucking relacing her tennis shoes out there and the delivery nurse like catches the baby.

00:51:51.222 --> 00:51:53.474
So finally she was like.

00:51:53.474 --> 00:51:57.242
She looked and said I'm gonna go make sure dr mcdonough comes in here.

00:51:57.242 --> 00:51:58.811
Like you, hold up for a minute.

00:51:58.871 --> 00:52:01.976
Yeah, I don't even did she leave, I don't even remember.

00:52:02.077 --> 00:52:13.717
She went to like get her, and then Dr McDonough comes in and she's still putting all of her gown and stuff on and getting like done up, putting her booties on, and you're practice pushing.

00:52:13.717 --> 00:52:22.755
And she looked over and she said okay, let and she said okay, let's uh, let's skip the next one.

00:52:22.755 --> 00:52:23.900
Stop practicing, stop, you're too good at this.

00:52:23.900 --> 00:52:24.922
Yeah, you're too good at this.

00:52:24.922 --> 00:52:25.525
Let's skip the next one.

00:52:25.545 --> 00:52:41.253
Um, somebody's gonna catch this baby, I gotta put gloves on it was crazy, she wasn't even dressed like and she had her scrubs on, but she didn't have her gown on or anything they were so amazed like when rachel walked in, she was like you have to fucking be kidding me.

00:52:41.253 --> 00:52:42.217
This is going like this.

00:52:42.217 --> 00:52:59.099
We were like, well, all you got to do is just take rachel's class and this stuff will just happen this way yeah, dr mcdonough was like you're teaching the class for the rest of the time, like you're sorry, you're doing it was like it is his textbook there is no way that you pushed more than a dozen times.

00:52:59.420 --> 00:53:03.855
No way, I don't think that includes the practice.

00:53:04.034 --> 00:53:04.797
Yeah, the whole thing.

00:53:04.797 --> 00:53:11.599
Yeah, yeah, all right, it was lightning quick how all this happened.

00:53:11.599 --> 00:53:14.458
You got to the hospital at 7.10,.

00:53:14.458 --> 00:53:16.956
Paisley arrived at 11.44.

00:53:17.257 --> 00:53:17.478
AM.

00:53:17.478 --> 00:53:19.655
Yeah, this is all AM business.

00:53:20.030 --> 00:53:33.501
So if you were in labor at like the 530 mark, it was like a six hour labor process but you were physically like physically pushing I mean under a half an hour, under a half an hour, without a doubt.

00:53:33.501 --> 00:53:40.402
I can't really measure it, but it was 15 minutes, 20 minutes, I don't know.

00:53:40.402 --> 00:53:44.157
Man Like your pushing was not long when you started pushing, things started happening.

00:53:44.550 --> 00:54:04.057
Yeah, I definitely felt like I, to be honest, was spent more time watching the clock and like gritting my teeth going through the contractions waiting for the epidural, like that felt longer than the actual, like practice pushing and doing all that kind of business to me.

00:54:04.057 --> 00:54:07.403
Anyway, all right, I listen, I don't.

00:54:07.403 --> 00:54:10.697
I've never done this before I first timer over here.

00:54:10.697 --> 00:54:18.483
Um, I will say that, listening to all the girls like they, they were amazed, like they're.

00:54:18.483 --> 00:54:20.150
They were telling us they couldn't even believe it.

00:54:20.230 --> 00:54:23.159
You became a member of folklore at the hospital.

00:54:23.159 --> 00:54:35.320
They're going to forever tell people that, oh, we had a lady in here that was doing barn chores and then came in and squatted a kid out Because everybody that came in talked about it.

00:54:35.650 --> 00:54:37.056
I still can't believe what happened.

00:54:37.056 --> 00:54:43.822
And then they would see you and be like weren't you on a business trip or something yeah, yeah, yeah, it was crazy.

00:54:44.030 --> 00:55:04.686
Yeah, oh man and then here she was the um on the ride to the hospital, like it actually was the quickest, feeling like you would think that it would, you would feel like it's taking forever, but ultimately it felt like the quickest ride I've ever taken to and from augusta.

00:55:04.686 --> 00:55:05.268
Like it happened.

00:55:05.429 --> 00:55:12.893
It happened quick, like there was a few spots for me there was a few spots that were slow, like when I was in traffic getting on the interstate.

00:55:12.893 --> 00:55:15.860
Once I got on the interstate, everything felt quick.

00:55:15.860 --> 00:55:18.275
It was just construction was the only thing that slowed us down.

00:55:18.275 --> 00:55:30.197
So there was a lot of silence actually in the car and then, like one of us would speak, and when I first started talking I literally said to my mother I said my father hates me and she was like why would you say that?

00:55:30.197 --> 00:55:31.355
And I'm like he fucking hates me.

00:55:31.355 --> 00:55:36.762
He knows that the biggest fear I have is what I'm going through right now.

00:55:36.762 --> 00:55:38.293
This isn't what's supposed to happen.

00:55:38.293 --> 00:55:48.081
I was supposed to enjoy all of this, like this isn't what's supposed to happen, like I've been more looking forward to the actual delivery than so much of the rest of it.

00:55:48.181 --> 00:55:48.443
You know what?

00:55:48.463 --> 00:55:56.570
I mean, and I'm like, here we are, we're just going to rush through all of this and in my mind I was prepared for, like hanging out in the hospital.

00:55:56.650 --> 00:55:59.173
Yeah, me too hanging out in the hospital yeah, me too Ordering food.

00:55:59.333 --> 00:55:59.934
You know what I mean.

00:55:59.934 --> 00:56:05.483
The whole process that you see giving people updates like, oh, nothing's changed.

00:56:05.483 --> 00:56:14.242
The fact that all of this flew so quickly was just one more page of the book that we never read.

00:56:14.242 --> 00:56:17.679
We're like because of all the things that we didn't plan for.

00:56:17.679 --> 00:56:19.898
We also didn't plan for labor being this quick.

00:56:20.990 --> 00:56:23.940
And everybody says your first one is never going to be quick, whatever.

00:56:23.940 --> 00:56:35.003
So I said to my mother I was like my father fucking hates me and she said she's just quiet and she knows that I'm venting and I'm angry.

00:56:35.003 --> 00:56:38.570
And she said your father doesn't hate you and I was like the fuck he doesn't Like.

00:56:38.570 --> 00:56:39.063
How do you know?

00:56:39.063 --> 00:56:39.322
Like you know, prove it.

00:56:39.322 --> 00:56:39.630
Angry and she said your father doesn't hate you.

00:56:39.630 --> 00:56:39.980
And I was like the fuck he doesn't like.

00:56:39.980 --> 00:56:40.487
Like, how do you know?

00:56:40.487 --> 00:56:44.038
Like I'm, you know, prove it yeah, and she said what's your father's birthday?

00:56:45.000 --> 00:56:52.570
and I said my dad's birthday has nothing to do with this, like now is not the time, yeah my dad was born january 9th.

00:56:52.570 --> 00:56:56.840
Like what the fuck does january 9th have to do with september 1st?

00:56:57.360 --> 00:57:01.067
there it is and my mom was like, say the date?

00:57:01.067 --> 00:57:01.969
Like, say the date.

00:57:01.969 --> 00:57:06.496
Like your father, his birthday was one nine.

00:57:06.496 --> 00:57:09.019
Yep, what's today's birth, what's today's date?

00:57:09.019 --> 00:57:11.052
And I said it's nine one.

00:57:11.052 --> 00:57:13.992
And she said it's your father's birthday.

00:57:13.992 --> 00:57:16.289
Backwards, he doesn't hate you.

00:57:16.289 --> 00:57:24.967
And as mad as I was in all of this, I knew then, like I'm going to make it, I'm going to make it to the hospital, everything's going to be okay.

00:57:24.967 --> 00:57:35.612
And, um, my dad's birthday is actually one nine 44, and Paisley was born on nine one at 1144.

00:57:35.612 --> 00:57:39.036
So pretty crazy that.

00:57:39.036 --> 00:57:42.246
Uh, that's how all that, all that went.

00:57:42.387 --> 00:57:50.871
Yeah, and I had before knowing kind of all all of this, uh, or actually, no, I had just known all of that.

00:57:50.871 --> 00:58:13.713
I think you had yeah, we were just talking about yeah, um, I remember looking up, uh, we were in room 331, uh, that was our delivery room and I had happened to one of the last pushes oh hey, making her first appearance on the show anything else to say to the people?

00:58:15.516 --> 00:58:22.132
keep it to a minimum, because when she gets going, um, I had, uh happened.

00:58:23.353 --> 00:58:36.559
one of my last pushes to look up and the door was actually to the delivery room was cracked slightly and the sign directly across the other, um, the other room was three, 33.

00:58:36.559 --> 00:58:38.592
And if you look it up it's an angel number.

00:58:38.592 --> 00:58:40.864
It means protection, love, support.

00:58:40.885 --> 00:58:44.833
We were walking into the hospital and my mom's, like I could have dressed better for this.

00:58:44.833 --> 00:58:50.324
I was dressed for the fair and she had like these crazy print, like what do you call those?

00:58:50.324 --> 00:59:04.532
Like yoga pants type of things, right leggings and she had like all this like I don't know butterflies and skulls and stuff, but there was a bunch of roses and my mom's pants and when we went to the the room, they all have a name on the door.

00:59:04.753 --> 00:59:04.992
Right.

00:59:05.313 --> 00:59:08.338
And the name of your delivery room was the Rose Garden.

00:59:08.338 --> 00:59:11.393
Rose Garden and I said to my mom I'm like well, I guess you're wearing the right pants.

00:59:11.393 --> 00:59:20.739
And then when they kicked us out of the delivery room and we went to the postpartum room the name of the room do you remember what it was?

00:59:20.918 --> 00:59:21.820
Maggie's Run.

00:59:22.164 --> 00:59:23.385
It was Maggie's Place.

00:59:23.505 --> 00:59:24.146
Maggie's Place.

00:59:24.467 --> 00:59:26.369
And my dad's dog's name is Maggie.

00:59:26.369 --> 00:59:28.690
So just kind of crazy.

00:59:28.690 --> 00:59:32.695
But everybody talks about how fast things go.

00:59:32.695 --> 00:59:37.099
I couldn't believe that we got there Like you got there at 7.

00:59:37.099 --> 00:59:38.701
I was there by 9.

00:59:38.701 --> 00:59:45.815
And before you knew it it was 9 o'clock at night and we were just sitting in a hospital room with our newborn.

00:59:45.894 --> 00:59:46.836
Like it happens quick.

00:59:46.836 --> 00:59:50.427
I was already stir crazy at that point, like I was.

00:59:50.427 --> 00:59:52.250
Like I work here, I just want to get the fuck home.

00:59:53.525 --> 01:00:00.795
And you wanted out and me and my mom talked about it and she was like I think you need to convince Allie to stay for another day.

01:00:00.856 --> 01:00:03.570
Yeah, and I'm glad that I did yeah.

01:00:04.474 --> 01:00:08.320
She was like you know, there's other questions that should be asked to make you guys feel comfortable.

01:00:08.320 --> 01:00:21.454
And the next day was Labor Day and the fair is still going on and my mom said you're never going to want to leave if she's going home, like you're not going to want to miss that.

01:00:21.454 --> 01:00:25.666
And she's like I mean I'll stay with her, not gonna want to miss that, right.

01:00:25.666 --> 01:00:27.612
And she's like I mean I'll stay with her, but I don't, you know, let's just figure this out.

01:00:27.612 --> 01:00:28.916
So you would ask them about staying.

01:00:28.916 --> 01:00:31.286
It all worked out anyways, I'm glad that you actually didn't.

01:00:31.809 --> 01:00:33.773
I didn't ask them about staying, no I was you.

01:00:33.833 --> 01:00:35.085
You had brought it like they started.

01:00:35.085 --> 01:00:39.041
One of them had mentioned that you might be able to get out and dr mcdonough.

01:00:39.061 --> 01:00:41.327
Um, dr mcdonough had mentioned after delivery.

01:00:41.387 --> 01:00:51.492
She's like I think you should write you probably yeah, but after you and me had the conversation, you flat out told them, like you were like yeah, I don't want to leave tomorrow.

01:00:51.492 --> 01:00:52.516
Like you had said it.

01:00:52.516 --> 01:00:54.704
Like you're like I want to meet with this person this person.

01:00:55.405 --> 01:00:57.306
There was a few yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:00:57.827 --> 01:01:05.434
So it was one of the most challenging things to do was to within.

01:01:05.434 --> 01:01:06.835
I mean, what is it?

01:01:06.835 --> 01:01:14.961
24 hours after your baby arrives, I have to leave the hospital and drive two hours away to go back to work.

01:01:14.961 --> 01:01:17.853
That was one of the toughest things.

01:01:17.853 --> 01:01:20.815
I was having the hardest time leaving the hospital.

01:01:20.815 --> 01:01:31.094
Thankfully, you had family and visitors and me and my mom drove back to the fair and we packed up the camper, hooked it onto the truck.

01:01:31.094 --> 01:01:36.048
I met your dad at the fair and he drove the camper and the truck home for us.

01:01:36.048 --> 01:01:48.414
Me and my mom went down and relieved Steve from his volunteer duties, crushing it and she murdered it for us all weekend and I worked the last couple hours of the fair.

01:01:48.414 --> 01:01:58.525
I had a great few hours to close it out and then we had to pack everything up and by the end of it, kyle and Julia actually helped us put the finishing touches on the bus.

01:01:58.525 --> 01:01:59.650
The bus is freighted.

01:01:59.724 --> 01:02:01.211
It's an absolute shit show right now.

01:02:01.211 --> 01:02:06.097
I got home last night and did the barn chores.

01:02:06.097 --> 01:02:07.887
I got home after 10 o'clock last night.

01:02:07.907 --> 01:02:09.112
Yeah, I saw you on the camera.

01:02:09.112 --> 01:02:11.646
I got home after 10 I saw you go over to the barn.

01:02:11.686 --> 01:02:27.192
Yeah, I took care of all the animals and I snuck back out of the hospital at 11 o'clock last night yeah and uh, you know, then you just go into like, it is our sleep ratio right now, which just seems to be 20 minutes at a time.

01:02:28.666 --> 01:02:30.172
So it's been an exhausting hour.

01:02:31.565 --> 01:02:46.085
It's been an exhausting few days and now we're here home on the couch and it's almost midnight, so we probably got to wrap up this podcast, but we really just wanted to tell the story on the day that we brought her home.

01:02:46.085 --> 01:03:04.431
But yeah I know we've left a lot out and we're gonna talk about it more, but it's just crazy how fast all this has happened and overall we're doing great, we're, we're home, we're happy, we're uh, we're figuring it out're figuring it out.

01:03:04.431 --> 01:03:06.958
Yeah, figuring it out, she's perfect.

01:03:07.824 --> 01:03:09.351
Yeah she is Minus her attitude.

01:03:10.565 --> 01:03:12.050
She spent nine months with me.

01:03:12.289 --> 01:03:14.675
Oh my God, I'm supervised, she's the most.

01:03:14.675 --> 01:03:19.934
I've never I've not been around a lot of kids Like I mean, put it this way, my family's fucked up.

01:03:19.934 --> 01:03:30.012
I was an uncle when I was like six, okay, so fucked up, I was an uncle when I was like six okay, but so I've been around kids, but like, not like this.

01:03:30.012 --> 01:03:31.596
That is the sassiest newborn I've ever met in my life.

01:03:31.615 --> 01:03:40.061
It's out of control, dude she's my kid when she gets mad she turns into the little emotions that kids movie.

01:03:40.061 --> 01:03:42.867
She just starts freaking out turns bright red.

01:03:42.887 --> 01:03:44.333
Which one, she one.

01:03:44.353 --> 01:03:45.195
She's the angry guy.

01:03:45.485 --> 01:03:50.173
The angry guy, yeah, she goes into straight lobster mode and her tongue starts quivering.

01:03:50.536 --> 01:03:53.434
Her lips quiver and her tongue is shaking, she turns beet red.

01:03:54.902 --> 01:03:58.467
I've established that if she's hungry she freaks out.

01:03:58.467 --> 01:04:00.769
If she's pooped, she freaks out.

01:04:00.769 --> 01:04:03.112
If she's peed, she's freaked out.

01:04:03.112 --> 01:04:04.733
If you take her clothes off, if she's pooped, she freaks out.

01:04:04.733 --> 01:04:05.376
If she's peed, she's freaked out.

01:04:05.376 --> 01:04:06.565
If you take her clothes off, if she's naked, she freaks out.

01:04:06.565 --> 01:04:11.434
If there's a breeze, she freaks out, if you touch her with cold hands, she freaks out.

01:04:11.434 --> 01:04:14.353
If she's sleeping, she's fine.

01:04:16.545 --> 01:04:17.949
Y'all, I think he's figured it out.

01:04:17.949 --> 01:04:24.253
Oh my God, it's chaos this world that we live in is crazy for us.

01:04:27.045 --> 01:04:52.056
It's way worse for her right now, because everything is brand new and so we're all just trying to figure out this brand new life and, uh, we're taking it minute by minute speaking of trying to figure it out, I just look past that security system you have over there and all I can see is two big giant ears and watery eyeballs looking at me over the fence.

01:04:53.684 --> 01:04:55.072
Presley wants to meet her baby.

01:04:55.164 --> 01:04:56.490
Oh my God dude, she's like this.

01:04:56.885 --> 01:04:58.873
She cannot meet her baby yet.

01:04:59.405 --> 01:05:00.490
She's too wound for sound.

01:05:00.585 --> 01:05:02.150
Tomorrow she can meet the baby.

01:05:02.190 --> 01:05:03.226
It'll happen, kid you.

01:05:03.226 --> 01:05:06.728
Just you gotta come to First off.

01:05:06.728 --> 01:05:12.815
That dog is so attached to me, the fact that her dad's been gone for two weeks and he's home and I'm not sitting with her.

01:05:12.815 --> 01:05:14.057
She's losing her marbles.

01:05:14.224 --> 01:05:18.076
Oh, she wants to curl up and die, jeez.

01:05:18.076 --> 01:05:22.215
And she saw you holding the baby and that crushed her little heart.

01:05:22.215 --> 01:05:37.505
Don't make me feel this way, I'll go sleep with a dog, it's fine, I'll be sleeping with the newborn not in the bed no, uh no oh man, I don't know what else to say.

01:05:37.505 --> 01:05:44.739
It's midnight, yeah, I'm gonna wake this one up, give her some food, change her diaper and put her back to sleep.

01:05:45.844 --> 01:05:52.318
I tell you you've done this whole episode of the podcast with little Paisley Rain right there in your lap.

01:05:52.318 --> 01:05:53.469
She slept through the whole thing.

01:05:53.469 --> 01:05:59.177
It would have been funnier if we would have started recording like 20 minutes before we did.

01:05:59.177 --> 01:06:02.932
Because you look like George Jetson worked for O'Kirst over there.

01:06:02.932 --> 01:06:03.554
You were pumping and dumping.

01:06:03.554 --> 01:06:06.282
I was trying to pump and dump Goodness, Because you look like George Jetson worked for Oakhurst over there.

01:06:06.302 --> 01:06:07.585
You were pumping and dumping as they were left to say.

01:06:08.887 --> 01:06:09.769
Trying to pump and dump Goodness.

01:06:10.170 --> 01:06:12.516
Trying to protect the supply.

01:06:16.465 --> 01:06:31.976
Well, this has been a whirlwind of an episode and we've been riding a crazy train for the past few weeks and we're probably going to go into hibernation for a few days and just try to figure out our lives, our new lives here, and get back to base.

01:06:33.005 --> 01:06:39.038
Yeah, I think I have like 45 text messages that I have yet to respond to.

01:06:39.565 --> 01:06:44.416
We haven't even put a picture on Facebook because we can't even manage everything right now.

01:06:47.405 --> 01:06:48.387
No, we've reached out to a bunch of people.

01:06:48.387 --> 01:06:50.936
We started sending it to a lot of people, but it just gets overwhelming.

01:06:50.936 --> 01:06:52.050
You're trying to navigate things.

01:06:52.244 --> 01:06:56.532
And half the time I feel like there's times when I'm only awake for 20 minutes.

01:06:56.532 --> 01:06:57.574
You know what I mean.

01:06:58.175 --> 01:06:59.097
I don't know.

01:06:59.097 --> 01:07:00.079
That's the rotation.

01:07:00.664 --> 01:07:18.257
It's hard to describe, but the moral of the story is that we're absolutely blessed absolutely yeah everything went the way it was supposed to go, even if we didn't want it to be that way yeah, it was what it was all together and the plan worked out, yeah and uh.

01:07:18.297 --> 01:07:26.012
Now we're home for a couple of weeks before we uh head off to freiburg, and by then we should have a routine and a plan in place.

01:07:26.032 --> 01:07:26.577
Let us pray.

01:07:27.706 --> 01:07:28.128
What happened?

01:07:28.469 --> 01:07:29.172
I said let us pray.

01:07:29.425 --> 01:07:31.514
Yeah, send caffeine.

01:07:31.514 --> 01:07:33.090
We got a newborn.

01:07:33.804 --> 01:07:35.130
She's got her pinky up over there.

01:07:35.625 --> 01:07:36.951
That's so crazy to say.

01:07:37.744 --> 01:07:37.945
What.

01:07:38.487 --> 01:07:39.271
We have a newborn.

01:07:39.271 --> 01:07:42.530
She's smiling about it.

01:07:42.831 --> 01:07:45.291
She's got her mother's attitude and she's got her daddy's hands.

01:07:45.291 --> 01:07:47.269
So when little girls piss her off.

01:07:47.269 --> 01:07:48.635
They're going to get their ass whooped.

01:07:50.286 --> 01:07:52.032
She does already know how to protect her face.

01:07:52.032 --> 01:07:53.610
She will be a boxer.

01:07:53.610 --> 01:07:55.271
That's one thing she likes to do.

01:07:55.271 --> 01:07:56.375
She keeps her hands up.

01:07:56.940 --> 01:07:59.949
Goodness, well, until next week.

01:07:59.949 --> 01:08:06.739
Thank you for supporting Paisley Rain's American Dream.

01:08:07.344 --> 01:08:14.534
Now go wash your fucking hands, you filthy, savage, so ain't touching my baby with your dirty ass hands.

01:08:15.824 --> 01:08:17.766
That's it and that's all Biggie Smalls.

01:08:17.766 --> 01:08:44.253
If you're a loud, proud American and you find yourself just wanting more, find me on YouTube and Facebook at Loud, proud American, or the Face page, as my mama calls it.

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If you're a fan of the Graham Cracker, you want to find me on Instagram.

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Or all the kids are tickety-talking on the TikTok.

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You can find me on both of those at loud, underscore, proud, underscore American.

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I'm not talking about myself.

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A big old thank you to the boys from the Gut Truckers for the background beats and the theme song to this year's podcast.

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If you are enjoying what you're hearing, you can track down the Gut Truckers on Facebook.

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Just search Gut Truckers.

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Give them, motherfuckers, a like too.

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I truly thank you for supporting my American dream.

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Now go wash your fucking hands, you filthy savage.