Welcome to this week of blabbering. What week are we on? Five. Yep, week number five. I thought it was a question of five.

Yeah, how old's our daughter? She's five weeks

out. So, what do we have for food this week?

Today, at the request of you, we've got noodlies. We've got crispy pork noodles. I could come up with some sexier name for them, but they're not too saucy. You don't want them too saucy, you want them more chow mein y. That's what I went for. And then we've got nutty caramel pudding. Mm, mm,

mm. And what are we eating it

out of? Tupperware, it's because we're classy and there's not a sound of plates, it's annoying you. So now, this is what we have. We've got plastic Tupperware. I've got metal cutlery. Because you didn't want the children cutlery, because it's too small and you couldn't put enough in your mouth.

See, what I really want is just normal plates, but normal size plastic cutlery. I'm really

good about it. I do have some somewhere from camping and stuff. See, smaller apples, you've already seen how It's not what a mouth does. Yeah. And one day Dan will teach you his technique of putting loads of food in his mouth.

Always gulleting. Yeah, I manage to eat like a gull so that I can consume a lot of food at once. Got a small mouth, but an ambitious appetite. Desire to get food in my mouth.

So this week, you're back at work. And

the tongue tie off. And the tongue tie off. Big week. Yeah, last week, both those things were kind of

Well, we weren't sure we were going to do it, were we? Because we were told not to go for the tongue tie off. It wasn't necessary. So, after our appointment last week, we said, she said that we didn't really need to go for the tongue tie off operation because actually it wasn't going to improve it that much. We decided we'd go for all these other methods of trying to, like, increase milk supply and different ways of feeding her. Which we did do, but she was still Bit fussy and still needing quite a lot of formula to like fill her up enough And so I decided actually let's just go for the tongue tie Procedure because she was still struggling to feed unless the boob was completely full I once it sort of like had the initial letdown she then start to struggle and so it's like So it's still topper up quite a lot for me. I know it's nothing wrong with formula I want to try and do as much possible from the boob. Yeah, and so it was on when no Thursday we went in Yeah. Yeah. And she had, um, it was, and it was just, it was very quick, but it was horrible. I really didn't like the noises she was making. I was just screaming and her fingers in my mouth, it sounded so, like, panicked just from crying. And I was just like, oh. But it was so quick. So speedy. I mean, I was feeling upset for like a very small period of

time. Well, like, the amount of time that she was actually at risk of something going wrong was low, but the amount of time that she was screaming was quite high, because they, they have to like force the mouth open to have a look around. And so at that point she's obviously feeling pretty invaded, gripping her head and opening her mouth. Yeah.

Where they squeeZ each

other's hands and, and that they, they agreed on how they were gonna do it and everything like that. And then literally she just takes the scissors outta the sanitary pack, the peels that looks at the, the nurse holding the baby agrees that they're ready to go. Just says a straight Yeah. I didn't watch clip. Pulls out. Done. It was literally like. Less than a sec, like probably a second of

actual Yeah, and then we went straight in his door and put a straight on the boob and that's because that stops the bleeding. Yeah. So we went straight through to the other room and then there's a midwife there to help you with the feeding. They support your needs so she helps you. Straight on the boob, feeds for a little bit and then take her off to check that she has stopped bleeding and then you continue doing a feed.

The big thing that all the midwives seem to be pushing that we haven't, well, given that they repeat it, we must not be doing, is that chin to tit. I do do chin to tit. Okay, I'm just saying that every time we go to Well,

no, that's it, because that's the important bit. So I always have her, tuck her in so she's, like, because that's why I pull her in so tight, because when you pull in her bum, it pulls her chin in. Yeah. And so I always tuck her, her bum and her legs in. She's just so bloody long, I sort of wrap her around my body. Yeah. Um, tuck her in, that sort of brings her in. Yeah, so. She does do it, though, it's just important as well, that they say it, that often they say that, yeah, chin, that's it, because she is already doing it. Not because she

needs to do it. Well, I know originally, for the, you were, I used to try and put Push her onto you a bit more to feed and you were like, no, no, you need to give her space And you've got a kind of like, well you're push her head You're not meant to push her head, but you're meant to push her neck so that her chin is on

Well, it's more you push here, which is like her shoulders, don't

push her neck, the shoulders so that her chin is on the breast and then like What is it? Nose to nipple. Yeah, and then she'll lift her head. Yeah, although she doesn't. To find the nipple and then start sucking But that way everything's like aligned and close. Yeah, which

is what she does do.

Whereas you used to do the Guantanamo Bay treatment The booby boarding, whereby you'd hold her out and wait until she has a pig mouth and then you'd just thrust her on your breath. Just body slam nipple into the face. Sometimes it's just what you've got to do. And then she'd be like, ah, it's painful! I remember

when I did that, I remember when she did small suction. She does it open mouth, it wasn't painful. Then she does that, then she's like doing a really shallow suction, basically like sucking on the tip of my nipple. Really tightly.

WWE treatment

is Which is why my nipple ends up getting pinched. And looking sort of pointy.

So maybe you can teach the midwife cinemas. Cinemas? Seminars. Me? Yeah, the WWE treatment. Yeah, I obviously know enough. Well, I'm just saying, they didn't tell us about that method.

I think it's probably an official method. They did often shove her head on. That's why I started doing it, because they were shoving her head on. Because they'd sort of, they'd sort of go right, and they'd sort of just shove her head up to her boob. And I'd be like, oh, alright. Face to tit. Um, but it seems like since then she is feeding better. Yeah. Which is good, like we've not had to do anywhere near as much formula the past couple of days. Yeah. It's just been when you've had her at night. Yeah, formula at night time. She's had probably one or two bottles. So, your first week back to work, how did you find it?

Is that all we're going to talk about in terms of the tit stuff? No, we'll get back to it. Okay. So, I guess, it was, what's that stupid fucking Anagram for fear. Future expectations appearing real or something. For like, why people get stressed or worried about stuff. I've not heard of that. Oh, there's something better than that, but never mind. Anyhow, shit chat. Sassy today.

When you get tired, you become a sassy little missy.

I definitely heard some of that going on on Sunday. Like, I thought it was going to be real bad. Real bleak. Well, not like bad as in like My colleagues would be bad and that sort of stuff. I just, it's one of those things that you're like, It's just gonna be such a slog. It's gonna take so long. Everything's gonna be so tiring. Everything's gonna be so arduous, and I'm gonna have lots to do when I get back. Now, the first two things were correct, but there wasn't loads to do. But I'm very fortunate in that my team would be very kind and eased me in. So it was largely a day kind of Having coffees, catching up, and just clearing down an inbox, which is, which is quite nice. But the inbox is always a mammoth

when you come back from being, having time off.

Yeah, I had to get it down from like, 350 down to like, 30. There was that many pointless emails of just, internal nonsense. So, yeah, that was, so went in on that Monday, and that bit, that was quite hard as well, because we, that was, that was, we recorded the last episode on the Sunday, and so it was that night, so, I went to sleep, what, ten till two, and then got up at two, and then I was awake the whole time, wasn't I? From two through till I was going to work, and then that evening we decided to switch it around to try a different sleep pattern, and so then I was awake till eleven. So I had twenty one hours of being awake, including. Commutes and work. I kept falling asleep on the way in on the train. And I was pretty, pretty praying that I'd, uh, miss my stop. I to do your alarm

thing. Was that different for the train?

There are two, there are three different things. There's, there's what I say I will do, what I want to do, and what I actually do. That's like the, the iceberg in terms of if I could want to do all the things that I say, I'd be doing pretty well. But if I could do all the things that I want to do, I'd be so successful. I didn't realise it was difficult to set an alarm on the train. No, I just forgot. Oh,

okay. I'm sorry. I'm sorry,

love. It's not that it was hard, it's just that I forgot.

I thought you were going to say something like, That's what I'm working towards. I'm

working towards that lofty goal. Setting alarms. And

then you've been, have you found working from home?

I think that's almost a bit harder, really. Because when you, not hard, well. It goes back to that kind of thing of when you don't have much on you feel a bit guilty, but It's been again with kind of the team easing me into it. There's just been easy admin stuff So that's been quite good because it hasn't you know, I haven't had to kind of lock myself away and be like go away I can't help you and you and me and beam I've been able to

yeah They'll find it's just I can give it to you for a little

bit. Exactly. Yeah So it's been all right in that regard It's been a bit weird because, you know, it's weird being so tired and trying to work while being at home. Like I've always been somebody that guards working at home as like proper work in terms of making sure that I get up in good time, get showered, get changed, all these sorts of things to try and give myself a bit of a positive mindset on work, like try and detach it from normal kind of stuff. And it's very hard, you know, it's a lot harder to do that.

I also think, we tried to have, like, sort of, things we both wanted to get done before, sort of, our day started, didn't we? And we got it, sort of, some days we got stuff done, some days we didn't,

I think we used to try and I never got a new mind done. No. So maybe

that, that's what I'm saying, maybe that needs to

Yeah.

That would help you get into the mindset. Yeah, definitely. Because, yeah, when you're into the office, it's easy to

get into the mindset because you're in And then I also went in on Thursday, which was good. Both days were pretty good.

Yeah, like, you had a

social on Thursday as well, didn't you? Yeah, so It's naughty, stayed out till What, left I think at about five past eight. Right back to, what, ten?

Oh. I know.

Crazy. Somebody did actually comment. The partner actually commented, he was like, Oh, I can't believe you managed to get a hall pass for this one. As I left at eight. I was like, it's not exactly been an absolute wild one.

I'm such a chill partner. Also, back when he had his kids, he probably had to

be in the office five days a week. With my trade offers, I'm only in two days a week. I think it

was alright the first week. I thought I'd find it harder. But it was alright. I definitely need to make sure I'm out and about and like, doing stuff more, because on Thursdays where I do that, she's much better. I think she likes to be out and doing things and, well, she doesn't like it, but she's,

she's better. Yeah, have a look round on the calendar, because like, the cinema near us has a baby day. Yeah. There's also stuff

held on Tuesdays. Yeah, anyone just going for like walks and stuff as well? Yeah. Just like, get some good podcasts, listen to us. Listen

to

yourself. Yeah. Meet up with people, not sure who.

Make

some friends. Make some friends. Maybe I'll go on that, that peanut app. They keep me advertised for it. Is

that Tinder

for mums? I'm not sure if it's for dads as well or not. Or just mums.

I feel like dads on there will be looking for mums. I bet you they don't allow like, Men looking, men trying to find new mum friends, it'll be like dad finding dad friends. I wonder if there's like a little gay corner of it, full of people who really fancy new dads, who are just on there pretending to have a baby and trying to hunt out punky daddies. I

mean you're assuming there's not

lesbians on there, I mean There might be, just, there's not many women that straight after childbirth like Get them a vag. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, same,

I Beansprouts leave me. Attractive. But I'm also like, I think that's an absolutely great idea, but I'm also like, I don't want to be friends with someone just because they're a mum.

Yeah, it feels like a real low level of filter, doesn't it? It's just a biological element. I'm not just friends with someone because they're tall, you know, I'm also, I'm not like, oh, you're also six foot, we're mates. That was

why people wanted me to date you though, because we're both tall. They're like, you should date Dan, he's tall. And I was like, oh yeah, bring it on. But then annoyingly it didn't work out.

Annoying. Well, here we are. Sorry, Moonbeam. It's annoying that me and your mum worked out.

Yeah, because we're tall. Only reason.

Yeah, I get what you mean. It's like, it means that there's such a wide amount of people to then sort through again at the next level, if that makes sense. There are so many people who are mums. Yeah, and a lot of people are

boring. Yeah. You know, I meet people and so often I'm like, you're nice, you're a nice person, but

I guess you're going to have bios and stuff, so you can just be very aggressive if you're swiping. Unless it's like, addicted to cooking, you can just be like, no.

I don't, like, I don't have friends who love cooking, my friends aren't cooks. It's not like I look for a person. Well,

so here's an interesting one for you. Okay. Let me just do you a huge mouthful after saying that. So you know I was talking about the chess prodigy girls? Yeah. So there's this guy called Laszlo Polga. Who was very good at chess, loved, loved chess, and he wanted to create, he, he believed that he could raise geniuses, because he believed that genius wasn't nature, it was nurtured, they weren't bred, they were made. And he had three daughters, now at the time, I don't think there were any female chess grandmasters. Yeah, that was, yeah. And he raised all three, all three of his daughters became, I don't know if they all became chess grandmasters, or they, but they were all like. They were basically number one, number two, number three in the world for women, and I think that's what they Incredibly high performing to a genius level and many of them beat men at a time when chess was proliferated by men and Anyway, so I've been reading a little bit on his little book on raising geniuses Now most people believe that it's just gonna kind of be this extremely regimented Kind of like if you've seen the film King Richard, whereby he just like bootcamps his daughters through it. But actually he talks about it and he's like, the amount of practicing and the amount of effort that goes in, it cannot be something that they don't enjoy. It has to be something that they enjoy. So the interesting thing then is he also says that it has to be something that one of the parents is obsessed with. So there's not really that many things that I would say are, I guess, career fields or lifetime fields that I'm obsessed with. However, you're obsessed with food. So little Moonbeam could be a food genius.

Yeah.

Moonbeam the food genius. Or just a real eater. Now

that I'm obsessed with. Yeah, so, one of them. No, she'll be like, she'll just have an amazing palate.

Maybe, but it does make me think, can I make myself obsessed with something? And if I do what I want it to be, but then it kind of. It seems like you're making it too forceful. Yeah, it's very contrived then, isn't it? And it's also kind of, you're going to have to try and practice this with your daughter for like 15, 16 years minimum. And if it's not something that you do know that you are, you know, it should definitely be something that you're obsessed about before. So you can just double down on your obsession of. Unfortunately, the Pokemon trading card game app doesn't cut

it. Pokemon or cooking?

I did used to work with somebody who used to go around the world representing South Africa in the Pokemon trading card game. Is that a thing? Yeah, yeah, there's world tournaments. Yeah, yeah, and you have countries and stuff. Are I mean, he gave off those vibes, but Yeah, not surprised. Hours later, after explaining all the intricacies of Pokemon,

Why, if there's, if there exists a card you can use them, why are they

illegal? Because over time they've recognised that the way those cards interact with other cards is either too powerful or does things that shouldn't and therefore And now there's like

a controlling league that's like, no. You know, shocky wocky flabby pong.

So yeah, I'd have to amass quite a lot of cards. I reckon the world champs probably have a thousand odd cards or so, just shuffling them out. So back to what we were saying, I don't think The Obsession. Probably shouldn't be Pokemon cards. I don't know. Otherwise, also. I don't want to raise a daughter who's obsessed with Pokemon cards. No, I don't want to raise a daughter who's in I don't want

to raise any child, if she's a son or a daughter, it don't matter. I don't want to raise a kid who's obsessed with Pokemon

cards. No, but I think there's those sorts of nerdy circles. Suit boys a bit better than suit Because otherwise Because at first, there's just too many boys. And so, you end up with these, like, girls in the geek group who have all the boys, kind of, chasing for their attention. Yeah. And then I remember those girls. And they're in it because they love the attention, but at the same time it's like this is a really weird experience for you growing up. This isn't how any, like, any of the rest of your life's gonna be unless you just keep to these, like, not fully matured circles. In

a selfish way, I'd like my kids to have friends that I like and get on with. It was the thing, if they're all a Pokémon, you, like, shut it and say, be like

Well, I think you want your kids to, well, you want your kids friends to help them kind of Take appropriate risks and grow.

That's what I want, yes. Selfishly, but part of me, I want some specific friends

that I like. Yeah, I know, but I'm saying that those are the sort of people that you're attracted to. And now, I'm sorry all my Pokemon friends, let's be honest, sitting in a basement playing a card game. A lot of these games, I've been to a few of the card clubs and been like, maybe I'll come down on Sundays and play. And you walk in, and it is a basement. And it's, it's full of Does

it smell like salt and vinegar? Because like, soft play areas always smell like salt and vinegar. And that's what I imagine a basement would smell like.

No, but it's odd. It's always a basement. It's always like those incredibly intense white lights. The walls are white. And there's, and it's just people there. And it, um, you know People? I'm glad they've got a Fine. Blokes. I'm glad that they've got a little community. But I do think to myself I hope you outgrow this community within the next year. Because otherwise you're just going to kind of spend your life Doing stuff that's not really, I wouldn't say it's that enriching as it were. Well it's very

insular as well isn't it? Yeah. You're not really participating in the real world. No. It's like people spend too, too long on video games. Like a bit of video games are fine, isn't it? Whatever. People who spend too much time not being in the real world. Well almost

too much time in anything. There's very few things that have enough broad range inputs that you could say

Yeah, but I guess if you're doing a sport that you've met lots of different people all the time in Yeah. For me that's enough of an involvement in the real world with other people.

So cooking it is Moonbeam, you're

not allowed to be a Pokemon training card game genius. But I'll try to make friends

with you. Everyone likes eating. Yeah, I was gonna say, turn up with food and everyone's gonna bully you but love you. I never got bullied. Did you turn up to school with food?

To school? Four people? Sometimes. My friends. First trying out a new recipe. But I'd also host dinner parties when I was like 13. Ha ha ha ha ha ha!

It's alright Pokemon people, you're back. It's alright. You don't seem that bad no more. It's my 13 year old going on 40 year old over here.

Hey, I was friends with the cool peeps.

They were just using you to get

you food. Cool peeps eat too. What am I saying? I'm just I'm just such a lovely person. I used to have my, like, what was it called? Galentines or whatever it is. Your friendship valentines. I used to do a dinner party for that each year. I'd put on my single peeps over. Obviously I was single every year. I was single every year until I was with you. And we'd have a nice big, big old dinner. I'd always bring food to a house party. Because I think it's rude to go anywhere without anything. People always appreciated it. You've had a house party. No one expects you to bring them a gift.

I completely agree. And also, people are always hungry at a house party because they've been drinking. But it's just I wouldn't necessarily feel the correct degree of appreciation. If I'd rocked up at some of the house parties that I went to, with some food that I'd made and just watched drunk people, drunk people obliterate it. You don't. It's a Sunday

drink for them to have the next day. So you just go to them and you put it in their fridge or something. Ah. Or it's like a box of biscuits and you just put it in the cupboard for them. You know. It's not necessarily something you're giving to the party, you're giving it to the host. Although one time I was, I did get upset, I told you this the other day when I made my friend this beautiful cake for her birthday, it was her birthday party. I was like, I'll make you a birthday cake, and I spent ages. It was like, this rich chocolate cake, I did like an orange mascarpone buttercream, I made my own chocolate marzipan. Ah, it was stunning. It had six layers. Beautiful cake. Brought it over. Obviously arrived a bit late because the cake took me fucking ages.

Oh, and you don't like being late either, so Nah, to a

house party I was alright, because it's not like a set time. You don't want to arrive at the start because it's always awkward, isn't it? Start the party, a little bit shit. Um, and I arrived, everyone was quite drunk. I gave, it was my friend Katie. I gave her the cake. She was really happy with it, we did all that. We did the, the candles, lovely jubbly. You know, she was, she was very appreciative. But then, Greg. Sweet. Fucking. Greg. Came in, and decided it would be a great idea to punch my cake.

Yeah, there's always gonna be someone like that.

That's the other thing. I think that's what you would have been. I think here's what you would have been. As I tell the story now, I'm like, I could see you doing that when you were younger.

Yeah,

potentially. I'd have to know. You wouldn't have realised how much of a

dick and move it was. If I knew the person whose birthday it was, well enough, yeah. Yeah, that could be me. I, my friends never had loose enough parents. to know the person hosting that well, if you know what I mean, the people that I was close to.

So your boys never

hosted parties? No. No. Like, you know, think about, my mum wasn't going to. Well obviously your mum wasn't going to. No. Hey mum! And like, how was it? Linda's not, Linda's pretty strict. Lisa I was going to

say, what you said about Lisa I could imagine, she'd be, apparently like host it, but like stay there maybe.

Yeah, but I don't think Will would want to deal with Lisa requiring me to clean everything out. I think it'd be like, you can, I'm here, and we'll all be very embarrassed by that in the first place, and then I'm going to hold the house to a standard that you've got to then upkeep.

I mean, that was a downside to whenever you host a party, is cleaning up the next day. It's fucking grim. Because when you're a teenager, you're, you're a grotbag, aren't you? You're horrible. At a house party, you don't give a shit. And it gets so gross. And that me and Jess were trying to have, like, secret house parties when mum and pops were away. They always knew we'd had one, but they always pretended they didn't realise, which is very kind of them, to let us feel like we had. Revelled. Even though they knew we'd had a party. And yeah, cleaning up after those parties was, ugh. Yeah.

Uh, actually, Duncan Yeah, Duncan had one. Duncan had a few. Duncan had a few at his mum's. Nice. Yeah. Sausage fest. Real sausage fest. That was also the party that someone was sat on the toilet. With a bowl, shitting and vomiting at the same time. As you can tell, full of girls at this party.

If they were, you're all getting laid.

Just Me, downing 400ml of vodka to then chunder and then someone having to come in and poo and chunder at the same time. Yeah, it was good. Good stuff. Our

parties were a lot more mixed, if I'm honest.

Not to say I didn't go to mixed parties, but none of my friends hosted any. I feel like you didn't, though.

I just went to little sausage fest parties. Do you know, my parents would always ask me, every time I went up, I was going to a party, they'd be like, will there be boys there? And I was like, I don't go to a nunnery. Of course there's going to be boys there. Why would I just go to a single sex, like, girls

party? You not just having pillow fights? No, funnily enough. I did, and I would always be the person who would end up staying over, and because I always wake up early. I would be the person who'd like clean up. I, the, the mixed parties that I went to I ended up making pancakes. It's not bad reputation. Because I, because I'd always wake up at like six in the morning. Oh, you haven't made me pancakes. You haven't hosted me in a party, oh you have hosted you in quite

a few parties actually, very much. Have I ever made you pancakes? No. No, you haven't had

that. Fuck me, that's tragic, eh? I've made you other things. Almost nine, almost nine years. Made you other things? Better things than pancakes? Just then. Anyway, and also, I don't think the host really liked it, because she'd come down and I'd have just used everything in her kitchen to make these pancakes, so I'd have got rid of like the first layer of mess, like the cans, the bottles, the easy shit, and it would all be kind of in the corner, to go out, and then there'd be loads of washing up to do, because I'd been mixing stuff up, Oh

yeah,

if you're making food sometimes you've got to do the cleaning up as well. Nah. Now

I'm making every I've cleaned up everyone's base level of mess, then I've made them fucking food. They clean it up after me. But it would also mean that I know how

messy you are

when you cook. But it would also mean that I would get to experiment with other people's ingredients, which I quite liked. I think I had a Viennetta pancake. Well, that's fair, because everyone else was still sleeping. I was like, well, fuck. These pancakes are going stale. Let's have a look at what we've got going around. So I cut up some

Viennetta and put them in. Oh, Viennetta. I've not had Viennetta in years. It's like a mint Viennetta as well. Yeah, yeah.

Mint Viennetta in the pancake. Still warm. The pancake was still warm. The

plain Viennetta, was that, fair. The strawberry did not like. I

think I did that two or three times. Other times I'd just sleep in my car, and then go home in the morning. Because I live quite far away, like a loner.

Yeah, we always said to me and Jess that we'd stay over. Either at parties, at the party's house, or like friends who live near. Generally just friends who live near, because you don't really want to stay at the house party house. No. You want to get rinsed and dusted with cleaning, generally. If you're not having a party.

I never really minded doing that first level of mess. I didn't want to do like the proper cleaning. I think it's one of those things. It's the easy win. It is. If you do

it and it's like so grateful, but you're like, actually I'm going to do

it again. Exactly. People think it's such a big deal because they've just woken up and they feel like shit. Me and you are morning people and by the time we wake up, it's like, let's just fucking get on with this and it's Like you say, it's not cleaning up sick. It's not, you know, scrubbing the walls for whatever's being spilt. It's, it's literally just grab a few bin bags, hurricane through that house, put them in the corner, fuck off. And everyone's like, oh wow, I'm so grateful. You're like, yeah, yeah, cheers, bye. So that would be my recommended.

Actually, I used to just go straight to work most of the time, that's what I remember doing. I would take the early shift at work, and I would just get a taxi to work and just arrive at work still drunk.

Anyway, so, and uh, probably, probably a good amount of chat on this thing. Let's get back to the What, the actual baby chat? Yeah, the actual baby chat.

So that was, I'll first put that down. But

what I've got to ask is, what is it that means that you haven't shared our podcast yet? Forgetfulness? What are the reservations? I don't believe you. What's the reservations? I don't believe you. I ask, I ask you every day.

Yeah, but you, I think you've realised how scatty my brain is right now. I don't remember anything. I've got so many things I'm meant to have done and I haven't done them. This is one of many things. Just grow it in a growing list. Oh shit, I've not done. There you go. No reservations. I've not listened to it. I've got no idea what it's like. I haven't listened to

it. No, I know, but I mean it's in like You just haven't told anybody yet. Never mind. Why do you

think there's no conspiracy behind this? Because I just

feel like there must be some, there must be some unconscious bias there, and a sort of deep lurking thought that means that you don't do it. Because if I'd asked you like, if I've asked you three times and you say, yeah I'm gonna do it, there must be a reason why you don't end up doing it. Because I've sent you kind of like, stuff to share and stuff like that.

No, the thing you sent to say, I've literally just keep forgetting to do it. Yeah. Yeah, no reservations darling. Alright then, so I'll send it, I'll send it right,

I'll send it right now. No, don't do that, because you're meant to be concentrating on making the next episode. Well, I will forget then. Okay, I'll remind you straight after the end of this episode. That's fine. I

will. There isn't some wide conspiracy. There is. It's just, it's

just. You want to humiliate me. It's just. Have me share it

all. It's just baby brain. You've got to be understanding. I

am, but if I ask you like three or four times and you don't do it, I'm going to think that there's a reason beyond just being tired.

That's fair enough, but at the moment, no. It's beyond tiredness, it's that all weird hormones and lots of mixture of things that makes my brain mush. If I was back to work right now, I think I'd be.

So, also, at where I work, we had a Global Values Week. Which I missed, because I was away on paternity leave. And it transpired that one of the people interviewed Jacinda Ardern, the former New Zealand Prime Minister. And I didn't realise the full extent of it, but she gave birth during her term. And it wasn't like she kind of took that long off or did anything like that. I'd seen news of it, but I hadn't really fully processed it. But she was pregnant during her term, she was with newborn, all that sort of stuff. Now, I'm sorry love, but you weren't high functioning, let's say, towards the end. You were pretty, pretty checked out on your work in those last, sort of, that last month. Oh, I did loads of work. No, no, you did loads of work. But you were struggling to be passionate about it, I guess. Oh yeah. Yeah. And I feel like if you've got to try and run a country through the end of COVID, that would be rough. Like, yeah, you did work, more work, I keep telling you to stop doing work, but like, you kind of, you were

I didn't want to do it necessarily, but I was

doing it. And then also, imagine like, now. Oh

no, I think, fair play to it, I definitely wouldn't want to do it. I'm doing it wrong. Like all these things, if I had to, I would, and I could, because you step up when you have to. Yeah. But, I wouldn't want to. No. I also wouldn't want to because I wouldn't want to not be with Her all the time and have her be my focus. Like, it's nice being able to have her be my sole focus because, you know, she's the most amazing thing. And it's a precious gift. And I love being able to have that time focusing on her. But if I had to go back to work, I could

do it. But also one of the things that's quite interesting is, she pointed out that people always come up to her, women always come up to her and say, Oh my, it's so amazing that you've managed to have it all. And then she kind of often corrects them and sort of says, No, it wasn't me that did this all. You know, my husband's basically a full time parent, incredibly supportive, and obviously she's going to have, like, people around her as well. She's, she's the Prime Minister of New

Zealand. No, she's probably got help. Well, yeah, no one ever does anything by themselves, do they?

Well, you wouldn't have got pregnant

by yourself. I definitely wouldn't have, no. Um, no, you always have to have a support network. You can't do anything by yourself, you know. If I were to say I was too about to work now You would need to do more, like whether that meant you didn't go to work, or whatever it was, like You don't earn enough, love. Well, no, I don't earn enough, but if I, if I, if I did

If you earn a hundred K, I'll, I'll, no. If you earn a hundred and fifty K, so, I'll, I'll retire. I'll be full time dad. I don't want

either of us to do that. I don't either of us want our children to be our sole focus. I didn't say they would be!

But that's what I would expect. They'd be my prime focus, they wouldn't be my sole focus.

Um But yeah, that's how it has to be, like, you know, like, when I go back to work, you're not going to work.

Yeah, but that's also because within the materned period, it's Yeah. Like, within that nine month window. Yeah.

But it can be shared, I'm just saying. Yeah. Generally, someone has to do more in different areas. And with that point, you know, she won't be needing my boobies as much. Well, she will for a while.

Do we have any other points to discuss from the week?

Oh, sorry, my little nipple covers have I

guess this is, this is something that we brought up in one of the beginning episodes but haven't really updated on. I think one of the first episodes you had cabbage in your tit, didn't you?

I did have cabbage. I've upgraded from Savoy cabbage to silver. To silver! Silver! The silver nipple cupboard. The tiny little bowls. It's just tiny little silver balls that just go onto my nipples. And

you and your doorbell nips had to go for the maxi size, didn't you? I

did, yeah. But my nipples are never not erect anymore. I don't know if that stops after, when you stop breastfeeding, or that's just for the rest of my life, just have erect nipples now. But I've got like, a good sort of like, centimetre, centimetre and a half. Of boing! Yeah. Just out nipple, always. It makes it really difficult when I get out of the shower and I'm drying myself, because when the towel rubs over them I'm like, no! So I have to shower I have to dry myself, leaning forward like this So I'm bent over, drying myself So the towel falls away from my body So it doesn't go and touch my nipples And then, to dry my nipples, I just hold the towel And just cup like this I just pat, pat dry my boobies Just to avoid any rubbing On the old nipples Savage Just another one of the glamorous elements of early motherhood.

Yeah, anything more on your silver oats versus cabbages, or are we done? I think

cabbage did help, but it did make me smell cabbage y at a point where I already feel like I smell weird. And

surely it's like cabbage y cheesy as well, it's not just

cabbage y. Yeah, I mean the boobie milk smell, it's not cheesy as such, it's more like acidic once you've been in there a while, it's quite an acidic smell. That's

an

oddity, eh? It's an acid y cabbage. No, I think I was like it could be like a weird band. Hey, I said I were acid cabbage

What genre I think definitely electro of some kind? Yeah, or like like those bands that are a band but verge on the electro version. I mean that vegan electro vegan Or just like that

pious Like, they always have a real, like, cool message where it's like, Eat your greens! While taking

acids! Spiritual awakening healthy!

Absolutely. Mix some, like, LSD with your spirulina.

So you recommend Silverettes above the cabbage?

I think cabbage works well, and definitely if you want to be on a budget, much better. I mean,

people say that, but they're only like 30 quid, the silverettes. Yeah, but I'm just saying. Talking about 25 to 35. Yeah, I guess there is a lot of shit that you end up buying when you first get a baby. Yeah, cabbage is obviously much cheaper. And it's not that high of a priority,

so. Um, and if you've got a dog,

you feed them to your dog. So, my funny is probably Tuesday night, when we were sleeping, and we were, so we decided to try and do our split largely in bed, or, no, how did we do the split? Oh yeah, we did. Two hours. I, I was awake for nine till, eight till eleven while you were in bed. And then you were awake from eleven till five while I was asleep. And then you were asleep from five till eight while I was awake for. And we both spent, I spent my, much of my six hours or however long it is. Constantly waking up, going, is it my turn? And you also spent much of your time constantly waking up, going, is it my turn? And I kept

thinking I was hearing you coming up the stairs, because you were downstairs. I kept thinking I was hearing you walk up the stairs.

But I just love how we're so tired, but yet, we just keep being like, Oh, you need to go look after the baby. I just find it so odd that it's so, This obligation is so

wired. And also, we're just deeply neurotic people anyway.

Yeah,

well, yeah. That combination. Together, because we're going to be like, we must make sure we're doing our part. Yeah. So you add that together,

beautiful mix. But yeah, I keep waking up being like, Is it my turn? And you'd be like, no, go back to sleep. And then when I came in to see you later and I was like, Oh, how do you sleep? And you're like, rubbish. I kept thinking it was my turn and waking up. So there we were, trying to create this brilliant sleeping pattern and nope, not working. No,

I mean last night, at one point, You didn't wake up too many times actually when I heard her. At one point, you're like, have you got her? I need to, I need to, I need to go to the toilet. I was like, what do you mean? He's like, he's like, you're like, can you, can you grab her, please? And I was like, where, where am I from, where? She's in my arms. And you thought she was rolling around in the bed. I was like, why would I leave her in the bed?

You just let her roll about the place, you free spirit.

I was like, she's not there, and you're like, really? I was like, yeah, you can, you can leave her in

the duvet. And wasn't I like, fanning about with the pillow at one point, thinking it was her? That was a different

day. A different day you were cradling it.

Hahaha Was that the Tuesday night

though? I don't know, they all blur into one

darling. Oh yeah, so I, it was a weird one, I thought I was looking after her, I thought the pillow was her, I was cradling the pillow, then I realised the pillow wasn't her and then, oh, it was all over the place that one. And you were just there laughing at me. Yeah, of course. Yeah,

I was all laughing at you. You said you didn't want a dating partner. No,

I agree, but it's just when you're there, basically having a breakdown and your partner's on the other side of the bed laughing. I agree, that was the whole message of this podcast, was Barrington's not going to be easy, but let's at least laugh about it. Yeah,

like when you had to pick up one of my blood clots from the floor.

Yeah, just dropped a blood clot in the bathroom. Straight out the fanny. Nice, big, juicy blood clot.

Beautiful. Beautiful. Bits of my body falling out, it's dropping out. Thankfully past that stage now. No more blood clots are dropping on the floor.

So how about you, I'll come back to my others, you choose one to go high, low or funny. Is that because you've not got any? I've got them, they're not great.

What's my high? I think yesterday was a really good day. I would say the whole of yesterday.

Other than one

little bit, hey? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That, that's my low or not, but that's not my low. But anyway, we spent the whole day out, which, um, she had her longest day out yesterday. She, she was out for like, sort of 10 hours, drove over to my mom's, had a little coffee with my mom and then we drove down to Bristol to see my granny. So her great granny spent the day with her. She was really good. She's slept well. Fed well, was just generally a charming little baby. Went back to mum's, got to see my sis. She was great again. Came back home. She's all good. She's fed well again, slept well. She was just generally. And nice baby today. Um, although when I was at my mom's girl outta the car walking down the alleyway to get to her and it was slimy as fuck, like, you know, mossy algae like path didn't realize I was wearing flip flops because everyone went flip flops in November and slipped over and obviously you go into massive pan rage over like her baby, and so you go, fuck me, it doesn't matter if I die, but this baby must be safe. But like flipped down, scratched down my foot, cracked down onto my knee, and then. Start falling back and went no, so that took the brunt of it on my hip. She was actually fine She slept through the whole thing And I was just like on the crumpled pile on the floor This woman just walked past looking at me. She walked past and what a bitch. I was like, yep, don't worry Like I just like sitting on the wet floor with my baby It's fine. Since I've got myself out of my mind for a moment. So obviously your heart is like pumping through your chest Like, boom, boom, boom, boom, because obviously you're just like god that could have, you know, could have gone so badly wrong But yeah, she's all good. I've now fucked my knee, it's really sore. This is my hip and toe. I think the bruises are on the way. I think they're gonna blossom because I bruise very easily. And there were some pretty hefty hits. So that's gonna be a good look. I was actually unbruised for the first time. Like ever. That didn't last long.

So is that your high and your low in one?

I don't think it's that high and low. I mean it would have been low if like she'd actually hurt herself. It was panicky. I wouldn't say it was a low. I had a low day the other day actually. So I had whole days for my good son Brad. And like Thursday, after she'd had the tongue tie, that was all grand and everything. But I was just thinking I was just quite tired that day. And just having, I don't know, maybe it was just a low day.

Well it was a big day for you. Like, you were out ten hours. You've got to remember that you've kind of gone from basically being a walking incubator. Not on tongue tie day.

Not on Thursday. Oh, on Thursday, sorry, yeah. Um, we were only out for a few hours, just getting a snip done, and then we came back. But yeah, I don't know. Low day. Just wandering around. At one point I was wandering around Tesco's with her. Just because I was trying to get to calm down. And I just kept almost crying while picking up things. Oh, I know you didn't tell me about this. Well, you came home late, so, and then the next day I was out. Yeah. Yeah, nothing particularly bad, just feeling a bit like, just a bit shit. Flopsy. I was just like, uh, I'm not doing a very good job. Yeah. It's too late. Felt like just not be doing very well.

I think

we're doing an alright job. I think we are. It's just one of those days where your head's in the wrong space. Yeah. Woke up

yesterday felt grand. I think that's the weird thing, isn't it? That, like, you are just going to have those days, irrespective of how well you're doing, where you just kind of, the self doubt of, am I doing, am I doing an alright job? God,

yeah. And then throw in a hell of a lot of sleep debt. Yeah. And, for me, massive hormonal changes all the time. It's a potent mix.

Definitely. I think my height I was thinking about this the other day, and I was just kind of like, well actually I was thinking about it today, I don't really appreciate how, not easy, but smooth it's been. Like, other than the tongue tie thing, everything else has just been, you know, the labour and everything, it wasn't the labour you wanted, but even though, like our recount of it sounds almost kind of traumatic in terms of the stuff like the stitching, all these things aren't really like, horrendous, they're just Could have been a bit of a inconvenience, but there are, you know, some people, you know, like your friends Mm hmm have some real Traumatic times with labor and then those being colicky, jaundice y I mean, colic can still come for us. Yeah, it could still come for us, but you know, we're doing well Count your blessings where you got them. Yeah, I agree And so I think, I think I've kind of been trying to be a bit more

appreciative of that I think it's important to count your blessings, I think, even when those times happen Yeah, I think we're still incredibly lucky. You know, we've got each other. We love each other. We're supportive of each other Yeah, at the moment we're not getting intimacy in our relationship Which you know, it's hard because we're used to having that, you know We've been together for almost nine years because we've never had a baby until this point. That's and it's

something we both really value Yeah, we

do both really value it. That's why it's nice. We've got like even that ten minutes of cuddling this morning Yeah, and so that's a struggle, but we know that'll come back. We know it's only temporary And it's just sort of a point that you have to accept of what it is. For the time, this isn't, this isn't a time of lots of intimacy in our relationship. But we've got a strong relationship that it will be, will be fine. I'm saying all this hoping that you feel the same.

No, I do. I do, yeah. I just, again, it's one of those things that makes me want to push to try and get her to sleep better, sooner. So that we can have her in that next to me. And then we can have more interesting, you know, we can spoon while she's safe lying in the next to me as it were, it's not, it's not suddenly kind of a case of, oh, you're on, or that it's your turn, my turn, and then almost doing, because we effectively almost have a relay, a night time of relays where the baton is the baby, and sleep is so valuable that the idea of kind of waking up 15 minutes early so that we can have a snuggle, Or vice versa. It's kind of a bit like, you know, what's more important.

I mean, I'd happily take a 15 minute cut for a snuggle. Yeah. I don't mind that. I don't really see if 15 minutes is going to make no difference. So I'd definitely take a 15 minute cut from my sleep for a snuggle time. Remember that. Have your little morning erection poking me in the bum. That's what your huge morning erection. Gargantuan.

It's going to make me blush in my

voice. And I think, now, I feel much more comfortable with how she's, how she's eating and stuff. I think, you know, we can look into going on a date and stuff.

Yeah, I think that, so, this is actually my low. Kind of trying to get, I've not been great in the night feeds. I've struggled with trying to get her to keep it down. And I think that, you know, if we were to go on a date or something, who would it be that would bottle feed her and are they? Probably mum. Yeah, I guess mum's well enough experience to have, it's been a while though since she's bottle fed a baby, no? No, she's not raising a little. Oh yeah, that's true. It's just she, so my low I guess is, is the amount of times she's just been sick during the night just because you've kind of just woken up from sleep or you're incredibly groggy and tired and you're kind of dozing off while you're trying to feed her so you're Trying to find something else that will stimulate you because just a bottle to a baby's face isn't going to keep you awake So you put something on the telly or you've got like Instagram on your phone or you got Pokemon the trading card game going they need to sponsor me and Then you kind of but you're not but you're also too tired to multitask You can't do that kind of half and half thing So you just end up focusing on one and the next thing you go? Oh shit, how long have I kind of given her the bottle? You take the bottle away. You kind of then do the burping and stuff like that. She's not sick then so you're like Oh, I'm in the clear You wait a little bit, she starts crying, you go, okay, bottle feed her again. And then like 10 15 minutes later, she's feeling really sleepy, like there was one moment where it was actually quite worrying this week. She's kind of sleeping, and you go, oh, okay, I'll go put her in the nest. She was in the nest, I came along, I was like, okay, she's still sleeping. I laid down on the sofa, and the next thing I heard was spluttering. I was like, that sounded a bit odd, I should probably go check on her. And she'd just been sick, kind of all down herself, and obviously sick whilst she was lying there and sleeping. And so I guess the, it's just kind of, being better at those night time feeds in terms of, I think the easy win is those, those pauses between certain amounts of feed. Like, you know, I'm doing, I'm currently doing 10 minutes after every 30ml or something. And it does mean that, it even means that, like after the first 30ml, she'll just scream at me, for, for the 10 minutes until the next 30ml. And then after the second 30ml, she just falls asleep, so you have to wake her. And that, that one is, I find is more of a risk, because

Yeah, if she falls asleep, don't you have to wake her?

No. No. Okay, because I've found that the problem can be that if I try and feed her, when she's not actively looking for a feed Yeah, don't you have to do that? Oh, okay. I just assumed that, you know, the feed sizes are meant to be

90 to 120. There'll be a time when she feeds more and a time when she feeds less. Yeah. You know, and then you give her a feed. But yeah, if she doesn't want it all, don't you have to give it

to her all? But yeah, I guess, I guess that's the thing that I feel most guilty about, is when she's kind of sick.

I get that, I think that's just, babies are sick. Yeah, I think, you know, babies are sick just because she's not generally sick. I think we find it more shocking.

Well, it's not just that, if babies are meant to be eating every sort of two, three hours, she'll be sick, but she won't. Alright, hopefully that'll help decrease the, the vomiting. I've just gone also, I've been also remembering to just always do one, the main feed. With Gavis gone in it?

Yeah. Yeah, I think that's fine. Infant G's gone generally if I fed her before you get her

and I'll always do that one as a one 20 mil. 'cause that's the minimum for the G'S gone. Yeah.

And there's five hours generally you are on shift. Yeah, she actually, she might only have one feed. Yeah. And then when you hand her back to me, I feed her straight away. 'cause at that point my boobs are like I need to feed her anyway popping. Um, and so I think that's how you can focus on it. She's not stressing yourself out. And it's not like she's underweight anymore. No, she's not losing weight, she's gaining weight. Well that's alright. So what? Let's see, what was my funny? I can't find it. My brain's gone. Oh yeah, I was just trying to check if she needed to have her nappy changed earlier. So, you know, I undid her baby groat, just pulled her nappy to one side, but then as I was checking, she then started firing loads of wee out at me. Firing it straight at you. Firing. It's quite, it's quite propulsion. Because normally when she wheezes it's like a sort of, a sort of waterfall, isn't it? Like a little limp

waterfall. Yeah, it just looks like something's overflowing. Yeah. Like you filled your jug too much. Yeah, but this is quite a Really? Just gave it some power? Just gave it some willy. Showing off her pelvic floor to you? Yeah, just

like, hey, you don't have this anymore mum. I destroyed this for you. I have started my pelvic floor training this week. How are you finding that? I mean, depressing, in the sense that I don't have any, anymore. Like, normally where I have used to, like, I, well you know it's not true, it is there, but it's just so weak. Compared to what it used to be like. You doing sort of exercises, sort sort of clenching and sort of see, should tell you, it's like imagine a blueberry out, you know, opening of your vagina that you knew you're sucking this blueberry in.

Yeah, I can't, I just can't visualize that. Someone even said that supposedly you do the same for men and it's like, it just wouldn't resonate with me sucking a blueberry into my site. Well, I think

well often is they said is imagining like you're stopping yourself mid flow. That's what it is. So like, well

I actually practice that though on the, when I'm wearing Yeah, that's good. But what's the difference between that and like the key, isn't that also powered by your Kegel exercise?

I think it's all

size. I think Chloe was correcting me for someone else. I'm pretty sure it's the same, but nevermind. Okay, so you're sucking blueberries in your badge.

Yeah, I'm full of blueberries now. just, I just take a, literally for some reason I can't wait. Yeah, so I, you like glute bridges and things and sort of imagine like all, you all sort the tightening and sucking and pulling in and you do it on your exhale, so as you sort of hold it in. Um, but yeah, you can definitely feel it, like if it feels a bit sore afterwards. I'm not doing glute bridges and stuff, which like, bodyweight glute bridges, generally not a challenge, but it's a much more of a challenge now.

So just so that people kind of know, because obviously it's something that everyone hears about, but doesn't really understand what's required. What, what is kind of the program to get back, you know, to go from, from where you are to getting your pelvic floor back?

Well, I'm just starting. It's consistency like most things. But I

mean, you've got a program now that you've bought from somebody for something. Oh yeah. What's the kind of expectations in that program for you?

Well in that program, for like, it focuses on your pelvic floor and your abdominals particularly. But yeah, so the program that I started on is, you know, your first week is just actually you practice it, you're focusing on your breathing and how to breathe and engage properly. That's just the first week of practicing, so like, how to breathe and engage your pelvic floor and core properly. And the next week you start moving on to doing actual exercises. It's like three times a week you do exercises to focus on strengthening your pelvic floor and your core. And how

long was the pro how long was the It's a five week. Oh, so it's five weeks. Okay, five weeks. And how many do you do a week? Three? Yeah, and how long's each workout

roughly? I don't know. I think they're probably about half an hour. Oh,

really? That's quite long. So it's a proper workout. It's not just kind of like specific exercises for, okay I would have just assumed it was like five, ten minute exercises that you do daily kind of thing.

I mean you do it alongside other stuff, I think, because obviously you wouldn't want to work out the rest of your body. And they'll do sort of like, you'll, you'll do your corner, probably do a bit of your glute with that, and lower back obviously, that's all that sort of area. But you'd need to do stuff to work out the rest of your

body. Speaking of which, six week check ins next week some point, isn't it? No, week after. Week after, okay.

After your birthday, it's that Monday. Garage to have our car serviced. Uh, see if that's when I can, if the doctor will be like, yeah, you're all good and I can start

exercising. Go back to doing them deadlifts, them squats, them, you know, get back into your strongman routine. I want to see them. My strongman routine? Yeah, yeah, power cleans and all sorts. I want to get you back on that powerlifting stage. Because

I've been there so many times,

the powerlifting stage. No, I'm just joking because it's obviously such a 180 from where you are now to go from kind of basically not being able to do anything for, Over nine months, well, I guess you didn't realise you were pregnant immediately, but what, seven months, at minimum at least, and then to being, yeah, to then being active will be quite an interesting one to go back.

Yeah, yeah, because obviously I just, I felt so rough at the beginning of the pregnancy. I didn't do anything, and then afterwards, I felt too knackered, and I was always quite scared throughout the whole pregnancy, because of our miscarriage that we had before. I was always quite scared to do exercise, even though I know it's fine, there's still parts of me that's like, oh, you know, push up, you know. That's it. Neuroticisms, but a large part of my training now is I want to train ready for our next pregnancy So if we know we'd like to have another baby that we would you know, not for like a couple of years, but Want to get my body strong because now for my last in this pregnancy, I know what areas suffer Yeah And so I want to make sure I strengthen those ready for it So like really working on like my posterior chains like my back and my glutes and my pop it ass Absolutely. Give that big ass. And like my hip flexors because my hips got really sore didn't they? Yeah being tall It's longer levers your hips suffer a lot more. So I make sure I work on that strengthening that quite a lot so the next time My body, hopefully, better equipped. I don't know, I don't have any scatch hat from this week, I don't think.

No, okay, so we're ready for the public story. SCATCH

HATS! Scatchy boobs.

Okay, here we go, from the lovely people of Reddit. This is from charluckapants. So, he says, Okay, we've been pretty lucky so far with the occasional blowout. And that's on us. We sized up diapers before she was ready. But when my nephew was a baby, he had projectile diarrhea. On the walls, curtains, everything. My sister's That's some real force. Yeah, yeah. My sister's dog came in and started eating it. My brother in law took the dog downstairs to clean his mouth and brush his teeth. And at that point, the dog vomited the poop back up on him. Oh, that's rough,

isn't it? That's a rough day. He

ends it with literally something from a sitcom. That is just, yeah, can you imagine? You're like, oh no, poor baby's got projectile diarrhea. Let's try and clean that up. You're going to be feeling real bad. You're going to be hurrying around, scared. You're going to be that mixture of kind of feeling guilty but pissed off at the same time. and then your dog starts eating it that just elevates that kind of guilt and pissed off because you're like oh my dog shouldn't eat diarrhoea yeah and disgusted and then you go to clean it and then you just and then i guess you stop feeling guilty once your dog vomits on you you're just going to be fully pissed off and disgusted at that point what a rollercoaster of an afternoon that would have been a

yeah i'm really glad to fight he's not showing an interest in eating the

poo yet oh he has every time she poos when i'm changing i can tell when it's Oh, he does come near, yeah. He comes over and really digs his nose in to try and smell what's going on. He's not tried to eat it as per se, but he's incre I've started to kind of know when it's a poo, because he really He piques an interest, yeah. He rummages his head as far into her nappy as he can get it, to the point that I'm probably like, that's a bit invasive, pup. Let's move your head out of there.

Yes, pretty much. You've got to learn to be a bit gentle. Yeah. She got to meet mum's dogs this week. She did, yeah. Nancy and Sid. Nancy was licking your face and your ear and she quite liked it actually. She gave a little giggle. Did she? Well, not a giggle, but like, you know, like a little Aw, I missed that. Um, I was like,

oh, she quite liked it. And then

Sid just sat there watching her because Sid absolutely loved anything that's a baby. Farty, farty

girl. I've been farting as well, so she must have enjoyed the little rumblings. Have them on quietly. Or do you just pop off, don't you? Yeah,

she doesn't have any embarrassment about it yet. So she shouldn't. We've probably blabbed on enough for this week, haven't we?

Thank you very much, lovely people. Yeah,

it's been, it's been an interesting old week. My boobies are starting to feel a bit full, so I reckon I should be up for a feed soon. Laters. Cheerio. Bye.