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Speaker 1: Katie, Katy the News Lady, bring its to the end.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, A smile so right, a stostle. You can't help but stop and stay. Can't help but stop and stare break your stories with us.
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Speaker 3: So she's gotta gift sor Katie, Katie.
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Speaker 1: The News Katie, you're all glad you.
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Speaker 2: Oh man.
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Speaker 3: With a smile so bright and something or other. I don't know, I don't remember the lyrics, but that is really good. That's a song that a I made about Katie Green. Katie, Katie the News Lady who joins us? Now, Katie, you have a special announcement to make.
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Speaker 1: Yes, I'm alive and baby Donovan is here and he's doing great.
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Speaker 2: You had a baby.
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Speaker 1: I had a baby and this was expected right, Yes, this was well planned out.
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Speaker 3: You know you've seen those shows pregnant and didn't know it or they'll just the yeah.
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Speaker 2: What was it?
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Speaker 1: What did we say? It was like, oh, so you're not just stupid and fat?
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Speaker 3: Right now though we've been talking about if you're just if you've this the first time you've ever listened to this show. Yes, Katie has been talking about her and her husband starting a family and the whole pregnancy and everything for a very very long time.
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Speaker 2: Anyway, what do you want to tell us?
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Speaker 3: You're a mom now, which is very very exciting. Congratulations, what's the mood?
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Speaker 1: Thank you? The mood is great, I the whole you know, first time especially first time moms, they're like, oh, well, you know, make sure you create a birth plan. Yeah, shred it there. There's no way to know. But I was in labor actively for twenty six hours.
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Speaker 2: Ooh uh.
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Speaker 1: And this little dude, I have been telling all the nurses that I pictured him like a cat over a bathtub. He just didn't you know. I was on all sides, didn't want to come out. I like, yeah, I don't want to see the world here. It's crap. So so finally, after twenty six hours, my doctor looked at me and he's like, you haven't nothing's changed at all. And so I finally just opted for a sea section, which, wow, that was an experience I've never imagined being sliced basically, and half weall awake.
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Speaker 2: You were awake for that.
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Speaker 3: I don't know anything about sea sections because I didn't have to do it, and I have no reason to read up on them since I didn't have to deal with it.
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Speaker 2: So you were awake, right, Yeah.
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Speaker 1: So the initial plan was obviously to have a natural birth, but not natural in this sense. I wanted all the drugs, so I had an epidural, and then they decided to take out the epidural and put in I guess, a spine. They called it a spinal so it numbed me basically from mid chest to my toes.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I would want whatever they gave Michael Jackson just short of that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I was hoping for. But they they did that, and they numbed me out and wheeled me back to the o R. And my doctor was just freaking incredible. But I got wheeled into the o R at seven pm on Tuesday, and Donovan's official time of birth when they got him out of me was seven fifty seven. But I was awake for the whole thing, and you did. It's wow.
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Speaker 2: Well that I can't I can't even imagine, and uh, you.
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Speaker 1: Know, and there was no there was no sharp pain or anything like that, but you can definitely feel the pressure playing in the tug.
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Speaker 2: Tugging.
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Speaker 1: Here said he saw he saw the doctor remove all of my insides and place them a holy.
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Speaker 2: Crazy yeah, I don't.
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Speaker 3: I honestly don't know if I could have watched that good on your husband. I guess I don't know if it's necessary. He'ses your insides, he's now seen you're a liver, so he's you know, he knows what that looks like. Yeah, it's probably cute and blonde like you.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, or damaged one of the two. Yeah. She looked at it and he was like what he was like, I saw all of your insides outside of you, and I was like, okay, well wow, yeah. And then they got Donovan out and they had to take him over to the nick you because he had some fluid in his lungs and whatnot. But they took him over there at you know, eight pm, and he was back in our room with us doing just fine by three am. And he's just darling.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's fantastic. That is That is a cute baby. And I know everybody says that. I don't always say that. I just say nothing because sometimes babies look weird and it's not there doesn't mean they're not gonna be cute later. It's just you know, they've been crunched up on a body forever. And your baby looks like the kind of baby that you want to put on like a baby food jar or some.
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Speaker 1: I really appreciate that, and I'm so with you on like the alien baby thing. I've had that conversation so many times where it's like, oh, look, how cute that baby is. I'm like, no, no.
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Speaker 2: It's not.
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Speaker 1: It will be, but right now it is. That's not cute.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that happens.
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Speaker 1: He's he's he's definitely. All the nurses who have come in have been like, oh my gosh, he's actually really cute.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it really is. It's a very cute baby.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I'll put him on Instagram and I'll put him on the I'll put him on Twitter and stuff so you guys can can see him if you're not on the on the Gram.
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Speaker 3: Before we get to the whole now you're a mom's stuff. How are you feeling physically since you were a split open.
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Speaker 1: I feel shockingly I've been I mean I'm up walking patally talking to you right now. I've been trying to spend limited time in bed. They they've been actually kind of like, hey, you need to lay down and chill out a little bit more than you aren't. But my pain level. You know how they give you that stupid ooh. On the scale of one to ten, I've been between a two and a three, and I think I a five, like once, yeah, okay, yeah, and.
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Speaker 2: You're I assume you're your organs are back inside you. I assume, I sure hope so. And then the right order and the right order, yeah place. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I thought it was weird that I burped and a part of my intestine came out of my mouth.
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Speaker 3: But you know whatever, that is pretty funny that you're because I know you and your uh, your husband like to have a drink now and then it's funny he got to see your liver and check it out.
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Speaker 2: Okay, I guess we got a few good years left.
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Speaker 1: We do. We've got a solid few more trips of the bar.
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Speaker 3: So. Uh, it's having lived through it a couple of times. It's beyond words, but best you can do with words, Uh, becoming a parent, parenthood so far, it.
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Speaker 1: Is a love that I didn't know was even possible. You know. It's I want to do anything and everything I can for the rest of my life to protect this little guy. And he's just he's completely melted, both of us.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is stunning.
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Speaker 3: I remember having this conversation with my wife at the time. It was like shocking and not shocking to us. At some point when I had this conversation about like, if the house caught on fire, I'm getting the kids out, and if you get out, fine, and I will help once the.
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Speaker 2: Kids are out. But the kids are getting out, the kid is getting out, and.
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Speaker 3: You're the second priory and we're both like, yeah, I agree completely, get the kid out, don't worry about me, and you know, and that doesn't happen until and it becomes so natural. It's not like an intellectual decision. You couldn't do it any other way. Something kicks in in the in the brain when you have a kid.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, when they took him as to the sea section, I didn't I didn't get to hold him, I didn't get to touch him, I didn't get to do anything. I was laying on the operating table and they took him and so I had to go into recovery for two hours. And so now it's ten PM and I still have not seen my son. And so they agreed that they would wheel me back to the nick You to go see him. And they were all kind of joking with me because I had just had a C section, and I pretty much got up off the table so I could just hold his hand and see him and Drew. Yeah, Drew had to actually grab the back of my my darling robe that they put me in and get me to lay back down because I tried to stand up because I just wanted to be with him. But yeah, I mean, it's it's a love that I didn't I didn't know it was even humanly possible.
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Speaker 2: So is Drew your husband?
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Speaker 3: Is he the sort of person that not squeamish about medical stuff or is it just because in the moment he was Okay, I honestly don't know if I could watch what you just described.
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Speaker 1: You know, he he used to be squeamish, but considering his profession, he deals with a lot of a lot of violence and a lot of blood.
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Speaker 2: So I'm okay, sure it was that makes a different It's.
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Speaker 1: Gotten a little more natural for him. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: How big was the baby? Yeah?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Michael's really big. He's like a grandma. What he wants to know? How big the baby was?
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Speaker 1: The baby was fifteen or fifteen, good grief, fifteen pounds fifteen point no good. Yeah, I wouldn't be talking to you right now if that was the case. Five pounds fifteen point six ounces and eighteen and a half inches long.
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Speaker 2: There you go.
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Speaker 3: Michael probably had one of those prop bets on one of those off shore sights that I lost twenty bucks. I expected to be your baby, Michael, So you were, we were all. We all been texting a lot, so this conversation was through text. And I'm sure your medical team is great and they're just doing what all medical teams do. But you're having the experience everybody who's ever been in the hospital has of the fact that somebody comes in every five minutes and interrupts you while you're trying to sleep and then says, you get some rest. It's important, you get some rest, and they're gone for like five minutes when somebody else comes in.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's happened more times than I can count. My favorite one was yesterday though, where she came in taking care of stuff. You get some rest. I'll be back at six forty and I looked up at the clock. I was like six forties in twelve minutes. Yeah, what do you mean, get rest?
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Speaker 3: I'll get some deep rest over the next ten minutes. I wonder why that is a truism for everybody that's ever in a hospital wanting to rest, is because they can't coordinate, because you just they can't coordinate them. And I don't know, but that's always been my experience.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. I mean, there's we've had so many teams as this has been so funny. Right as I was doing that part of this conversation with you, there was a nurse in here that wanted to talk to me and they're going to come back, sure, But yeah, I mean it's just been one after the other. Drew had to leave yesterday for like thirty minutes, and I think five different departments came in between occupational therapy and you know, postpartum depression and all, you know. But they are I mean, they are on rotation, coming in here one after the other after the other, and you know, and also newborns, you know, they have to eat like regularly, so we had somebody coming in twice in the middle of the night to make sure that I wake him up and feed him. And yeah, so I look, I look like I haven't slept in about two months, but I'm sure ready for it. I know it's not going to get any better.
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Speaker 2: What you never know.
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Speaker 3: Our our first kid slept constantly. I remember calling the doctor and saying, calling the advice ners and like he just keeps sleeping. Is everything okay? Be thankful, enjoy it is what they said. Yeah, you don't worry about it. Sometimes they sleep, sometimes they don't.
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Speaker 2: You never know.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's been a really good sleeper so far.
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Speaker 3: That's awesome. How'd you come up with the name Donovan? Is it a family name or what's that all about? Because I know people are going to ask, well.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, uh so, first of all, we're both very Irish, so it's a strong Irish name. My grand my grandfather's name was don Donald, and uh so we we went with Donovan. And then Jay is my dad's middle name. Cool, so it's Donovan J.
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Speaker 3: Speaking of your dad, the judge who's been on the show many times, I'm guessing your parents are pretty excited about being grandparents.
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Speaker 1: Oh, they're so excited. It's and it's been that's that's also been an aspect that I wasn't expecting to like make me emotional, but like seeing them sitting here and my dad he holds. He holds Donovan the way he held me and my mom, he's gonna you're gonna get a criok in his neck. Yeah. Great, it's pretty funny. And then you know, my mom's like give.
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Speaker 3: Him back and no, all right, guys, I gotta tell you, Hanson and I, Joe's not here today.
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Speaker 2: He's playing golf.
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Speaker 3: But Hanson and I were amazed that you were going to call in because you know, we've all been through the experience and not as the mom of the whirlwind is that when you have a baby. I mean, it's a it's quite a couple of days. But appreciate you taking the time to call because so many everybody was texting and asking and emailing and stuff like that.
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Speaker 2: So thanks for filling all the information.
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Speaker 1: When you get home, Yeah today, say I'm going home.
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Speaker 2: Awesome.
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Speaker 1: They're gonna, yeah, they're gonna come in. They've got a couple more checks to do on him. They're done checking me out. I'm I'm fine, and then they're gonna you know, like the car seat things very important. Oh, you're going to do all that. Oh, and so we took one of the blankets that we swaddled Donovan in and we gave it to the girl who is watching our dogs. Frankie, there you go. Ye's she's been sending me videos. Frankie will not leave that blanket. He's been carrying it around the house. He's sleeping on it. I mean, it's that's also incredible because I know he knows something's going on.
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Speaker 2: Yep.
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Speaker 1: But but yeah, so we're gonna go home. And I've been getting so many sweet messages from our listeners and you know, the Facebook pages and the Instagram and all that stuff. So I'm glad to let everybody know, Hey, I'm here, I'm alive. Donovan's alive, Drew is alive. I didn't kill him either, so we're all good for some reason.
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Speaker 2: So it blew my mind. The it still does.
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Speaker 3: Just the idea that you drive to the hospital the two of you, and you leave there's three of you.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's just yeah, yeah, And then you.
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Speaker 3: Get home, it's like yeah, because when you're at the hospital, you got all that help constantly and everything like that you're home, you're like, okay, now it's just us and kind of winging it.
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Speaker 1: Here's and my dad, my dad was saying so on Monday before I went in to be induced. I went to the gym with my dad. He goes, Hey, so just to let you know, I know that you've had a couple of moments of like, are you going to be a good mom? Which I have. I've I've had a couple of like, oh my god, what am I doing? You know? He goes, Just wait until you get home. That's when the real the f moment is.
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Speaker 3: Going to hit true if it's something, because you're so protected in the hospital with all that medical care around, and then you get home it's like, okay, all right, here we go.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, oh, I have this giant red button where if anything has happened where I'm even remotely unsure, I hit that and somebody comes running. Now I am the big red button, you know.
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Speaker 3: Well, congratulations, everybody is very very happy for you, and go spend time with your baby.
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Speaker 1: All right. I will thank you guys and.
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Speaker 2: Drive home with your hazard lights on. Good playing, Michael. Okay, thanks Katie, absolutely well more on the way. I stay here and
Speaker 1: Katie, Katy the News Lady, bring its to the end.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, A smile so right, a stostle. You can't help but stop and stay. Can't help but stop and stare break your stories with us.
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Speaker 3: So she's gotta gift sor Katie, Katie.
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Speaker 1: The News Katie, you're all glad you.
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Speaker 2: Oh man.
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Speaker 3: With a smile so bright and something or other. I don't know, I don't remember the lyrics, but that is really good. That's a song that a I made about Katie Green. Katie, Katie the News Lady who joins us? Now, Katie, you have a special announcement to make.
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Speaker 1: Yes, I'm alive and baby Donovan is here and he's doing great.
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Speaker 2: You had a baby.
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Speaker 1: I had a baby and this was expected right, Yes, this was well planned out.
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Speaker 3: You know you've seen those shows pregnant and didn't know it or they'll just the yeah.
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Speaker 2: What was it?
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Speaker 1: What did we say? It was like, oh, so you're not just stupid and fat?
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Speaker 3: Right now though we've been talking about if you're just if you've this the first time you've ever listened to this show. Yes, Katie has been talking about her and her husband starting a family and the whole pregnancy and everything for a very very long time.
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Speaker 2: Anyway, what do you want to tell us?
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Speaker 3: You're a mom now, which is very very exciting. Congratulations, what's the mood?
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Speaker 1: Thank you? The mood is great, I the whole you know, first time especially first time moms, they're like, oh, well, you know, make sure you create a birth plan. Yeah, shred it there. There's no way to know. But I was in labor actively for twenty six hours.
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Speaker 2: Ooh uh.
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Speaker 1: And this little dude, I have been telling all the nurses that I pictured him like a cat over a bathtub. He just didn't you know. I was on all sides, didn't want to come out. I like, yeah, I don't want to see the world here. It's crap. So so finally, after twenty six hours, my doctor looked at me and he's like, you haven't nothing's changed at all. And so I finally just opted for a sea section, which, wow, that was an experience I've never imagined being sliced basically, and half weall awake.
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Speaker 2: You were awake for that.
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Speaker 3: I don't know anything about sea sections because I didn't have to do it, and I have no reason to read up on them since I didn't have to deal with it.
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Speaker 2: So you were awake, right, Yeah.
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Speaker 1: So the initial plan was obviously to have a natural birth, but not natural in this sense. I wanted all the drugs, so I had an epidural, and then they decided to take out the epidural and put in I guess, a spine. They called it a spinal so it numbed me basically from mid chest to my toes.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I would want whatever they gave Michael Jackson just short of that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I was hoping for. But they they did that, and they numbed me out and wheeled me back to the o R. And my doctor was just freaking incredible. But I got wheeled into the o R at seven pm on Tuesday, and Donovan's official time of birth when they got him out of me was seven fifty seven. But I was awake for the whole thing, and you did. It's wow.
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Speaker 2: Well that I can't I can't even imagine, and uh, you.
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Speaker 1: Know, and there was no there was no sharp pain or anything like that, but you can definitely feel the pressure playing in the tug.
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Speaker 2: Tugging.
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Speaker 1: Here said he saw he saw the doctor remove all of my insides and place them a holy.
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Speaker 2: Crazy yeah, I don't.
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Speaker 3: I honestly don't know if I could have watched that good on your husband. I guess I don't know if it's necessary. He'ses your insides, he's now seen you're a liver, so he's you know, he knows what that looks like. Yeah, it's probably cute and blonde like you.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, or damaged one of the two. Yeah. She looked at it and he was like what he was like, I saw all of your insides outside of you, and I was like, okay, well wow, yeah. And then they got Donovan out and they had to take him over to the nick you because he had some fluid in his lungs and whatnot. But they took him over there at you know, eight pm, and he was back in our room with us doing just fine by three am. And he's just darling.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's fantastic. That is That is a cute baby. And I know everybody says that. I don't always say that. I just say nothing because sometimes babies look weird and it's not there doesn't mean they're not gonna be cute later. It's just you know, they've been crunched up on a body forever. And your baby looks like the kind of baby that you want to put on like a baby food jar or some.
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Speaker 1: I really appreciate that, and I'm so with you on like the alien baby thing. I've had that conversation so many times where it's like, oh, look, how cute that baby is. I'm like, no, no.
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Speaker 2: It's not.
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Speaker 1: It will be, but right now it is. That's not cute.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that happens.
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Speaker 1: He's he's he's definitely. All the nurses who have come in have been like, oh my gosh, he's actually really cute.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it really is. It's a very cute baby.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I'll put him on Instagram and I'll put him on the I'll put him on Twitter and stuff so you guys can can see him if you're not on the on the Gram.
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Speaker 3: Before we get to the whole now you're a mom's stuff. How are you feeling physically since you were a split open.
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Speaker 1: I feel shockingly I've been I mean I'm up walking patally talking to you right now. I've been trying to spend limited time in bed. They they've been actually kind of like, hey, you need to lay down and chill out a little bit more than you aren't. But my pain level. You know how they give you that stupid ooh. On the scale of one to ten, I've been between a two and a three, and I think I a five, like once, yeah, okay, yeah, and.
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Speaker 2: You're I assume you're your organs are back inside you. I assume, I sure hope so. And then the right order and the right order, yeah place. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I thought it was weird that I burped and a part of my intestine came out of my mouth.
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Speaker 3: But you know whatever, that is pretty funny that you're because I know you and your uh, your husband like to have a drink now and then it's funny he got to see your liver and check it out.
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Speaker 2: Okay, I guess we got a few good years left.
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Speaker 1: We do. We've got a solid few more trips of the bar.
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Speaker 3: So. Uh, it's having lived through it a couple of times. It's beyond words, but best you can do with words, Uh, becoming a parent, parenthood so far, it.
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Speaker 1: Is a love that I didn't know was even possible. You know. It's I want to do anything and everything I can for the rest of my life to protect this little guy. And he's just he's completely melted, both of us.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is stunning.
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Speaker 3: I remember having this conversation with my wife at the time. It was like shocking and not shocking to us. At some point when I had this conversation about like, if the house caught on fire, I'm getting the kids out, and if you get out, fine, and I will help once the.
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Speaker 2: Kids are out. But the kids are getting out, the kid is getting out, and.
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Speaker 3: You're the second priory and we're both like, yeah, I agree completely, get the kid out, don't worry about me, and you know, and that doesn't happen until and it becomes so natural. It's not like an intellectual decision. You couldn't do it any other way. Something kicks in in the in the brain when you have a kid.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, when they took him as to the sea section, I didn't I didn't get to hold him, I didn't get to touch him, I didn't get to do anything. I was laying on the operating table and they took him and so I had to go into recovery for two hours. And so now it's ten PM and I still have not seen my son. And so they agreed that they would wheel me back to the nick You to go see him. And they were all kind of joking with me because I had just had a C section, and I pretty much got up off the table so I could just hold his hand and see him and Drew. Yeah, Drew had to actually grab the back of my my darling robe that they put me in and get me to lay back down because I tried to stand up because I just wanted to be with him. But yeah, I mean, it's it's a love that I didn't I didn't know it was even humanly possible.
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Speaker 2: So is Drew your husband?
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Speaker 3: Is he the sort of person that not squeamish about medical stuff or is it just because in the moment he was Okay, I honestly don't know if I could watch what you just described.
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Speaker 1: You know, he he used to be squeamish, but considering his profession, he deals with a lot of a lot of violence and a lot of blood.
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Speaker 2: So I'm okay, sure it was that makes a different It's.
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Speaker 1: Gotten a little more natural for him. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: How big was the baby? Yeah?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Michael's really big. He's like a grandma. What he wants to know? How big the baby was?
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Speaker 1: The baby was fifteen or fifteen, good grief, fifteen pounds fifteen point no good. Yeah, I wouldn't be talking to you right now if that was the case. Five pounds fifteen point six ounces and eighteen and a half inches long.
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Speaker 2: There you go.
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Speaker 3: Michael probably had one of those prop bets on one of those off shore sights that I lost twenty bucks. I expected to be your baby, Michael, So you were, we were all. We all been texting a lot, so this conversation was through text. And I'm sure your medical team is great and they're just doing what all medical teams do. But you're having the experience everybody who's ever been in the hospital has of the fact that somebody comes in every five minutes and interrupts you while you're trying to sleep and then says, you get some rest. It's important, you get some rest, and they're gone for like five minutes when somebody else comes in.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's happened more times than I can count. My favorite one was yesterday though, where she came in taking care of stuff. You get some rest. I'll be back at six forty and I looked up at the clock. I was like six forties in twelve minutes. Yeah, what do you mean, get rest?
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Speaker 3: I'll get some deep rest over the next ten minutes. I wonder why that is a truism for everybody that's ever in a hospital wanting to rest, is because they can't coordinate, because you just they can't coordinate them. And I don't know, but that's always been my experience.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. I mean, there's we've had so many teams as this has been so funny. Right as I was doing that part of this conversation with you, there was a nurse in here that wanted to talk to me and they're going to come back, sure, But yeah, I mean it's just been one after the other. Drew had to leave yesterday for like thirty minutes, and I think five different departments came in between occupational therapy and you know, postpartum depression and all, you know. But they are I mean, they are on rotation, coming in here one after the other after the other, and you know, and also newborns, you know, they have to eat like regularly, so we had somebody coming in twice in the middle of the night to make sure that I wake him up and feed him. And yeah, so I look, I look like I haven't slept in about two months, but I'm sure ready for it. I know it's not going to get any better.
00:11:48
Speaker 2: What you never know.
00:11:49
Speaker 3: Our our first kid slept constantly. I remember calling the doctor and saying, calling the advice ners and like he just keeps sleeping. Is everything okay? Be thankful, enjoy it is what they said. Yeah, you don't worry about it. Sometimes they sleep, sometimes they don't.
00:12:03
Speaker 2: You never know.
00:12:04
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's been a really good sleeper so far.
00:12:07
Speaker 3: That's awesome. How'd you come up with the name Donovan? Is it a family name or what's that all about? Because I know people are going to ask, well.
00:12:14
Speaker 1: Yeah, uh so, first of all, we're both very Irish, so it's a strong Irish name. My grand my grandfather's name was don Donald, and uh so we we went with Donovan. And then Jay is my dad's middle name. Cool, so it's Donovan J.
00:12:32
Speaker 3: Speaking of your dad, the judge who's been on the show many times, I'm guessing your parents are pretty excited about being grandparents.
00:12:40
Speaker 1: Oh, they're so excited. It's and it's been that's that's also been an aspect that I wasn't expecting to like make me emotional, but like seeing them sitting here and my dad he holds. He holds Donovan the way he held me and my mom, he's gonna you're gonna get a criok in his neck. Yeah. Great, it's pretty funny. And then you know, my mom's like give.
00:13:04
Speaker 3: Him back and no, all right, guys, I gotta tell you, Hanson and I, Joe's not here today.
00:13:11
Speaker 2: He's playing golf.
00:13:12
Speaker 3: But Hanson and I were amazed that you were going to call in because you know, we've all been through the experience and not as the mom of the whirlwind is that when you have a baby. I mean, it's a it's quite a couple of days. But appreciate you taking the time to call because so many everybody was texting and asking and emailing and stuff like that.
00:13:32
Speaker 2: So thanks for filling all the information.
00:13:34
Speaker 1: When you get home, Yeah today, say I'm going home.
00:13:38
Speaker 2: Awesome.
00:13:39
Speaker 1: They're gonna, yeah, they're gonna come in. They've got a couple more checks to do on him. They're done checking me out. I'm I'm fine, and then they're gonna you know, like the car seat things very important. Oh, you're going to do all that. Oh, and so we took one of the blankets that we swaddled Donovan in and we gave it to the girl who is watching our dogs. Frankie, there you go. Ye's she's been sending me videos. Frankie will not leave that blanket. He's been carrying it around the house. He's sleeping on it. I mean, it's that's also incredible because I know he knows something's going on.
00:14:14
Speaker 2: Yep.
00:14:14
Speaker 1: But but yeah, so we're gonna go home. And I've been getting so many sweet messages from our listeners and you know, the Facebook pages and the Instagram and all that stuff. So I'm glad to let everybody know, Hey, I'm here, I'm alive. Donovan's alive, Drew is alive. I didn't kill him either, so we're all good for some reason.
00:14:33
Speaker 2: So it blew my mind. The it still does.
00:14:35
Speaker 3: Just the idea that you drive to the hospital the two of you, and you leave there's three of you.
00:14:40
Speaker 2: I mean, it's just yeah, yeah, And then you.
00:14:43
Speaker 3: Get home, it's like yeah, because when you're at the hospital, you got all that help constantly and everything like that you're home, you're like, okay, now it's just us and kind of winging it.
00:14:51
Speaker 1: Here's and my dad, my dad was saying so on Monday before I went in to be induced. I went to the gym with my dad. He goes, Hey, so just to let you know, I know that you've had a couple of moments of like, are you going to be a good mom? Which I have. I've I've had a couple of like, oh my god, what am I doing? You know? He goes, Just wait until you get home. That's when the real the f moment is.
00:15:16
Speaker 3: Going to hit true if it's something, because you're so protected in the hospital with all that medical care around, and then you get home it's like, okay, all right, here we go.
00:15:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh, I have this giant red button where if anything has happened where I'm even remotely unsure, I hit that and somebody comes running. Now I am the big red button, you know.
00:15:36
Speaker 3: Well, congratulations, everybody is very very happy for you, and go spend time with your baby.
00:15:42
Speaker 1: All right. I will thank you guys and.
00:15:46
Speaker 2: Drive home with your hazard lights on. Good playing, Michael. Okay, thanks Katie, absolutely well more on the way. I stay here and
