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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks at Me.

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Speaker 2: Well, the first thing I noticed was Marve's thirst. In

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Speaker 2: the years that I've known my wife, I just can't

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Speaker 2: think of a time when she has voluntarily consumed a

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Speaker 2: glass of water. Coffee, yeah, sure, ice latte in the morning,

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Speaker 2: pepsi max in the afternoon, a bit of black death.

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Speaker 2: But water, Nah, water has never really been her jam,

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Speaker 2: And yet here she was, all of a sudden, glugging

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Speaker 2: back glass after glass after glass of the good stuff.

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Speaker 2: You're pregnant, I said. The next thing I noticed was

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Speaker 2: her sweet tooth, or actually her lack of a sweet tooth.

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Speaker 2: Do you want to treat? I called from the kitchen.

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Speaker 2: And one of my wife's finest qualities is that she

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Speaker 2: never says no to desert. And yet no, I just

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Speaker 2: don't feel like it. She said, you're pregnant.

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Speaker 1: I said.

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Speaker 2: It's amazing how much a line on a stick can

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Speaker 2: change your life. I think when I was younger, I

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Speaker 2: didn't properly appreciate that. Sometimes, you know, sometimes life doesn't

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Speaker 2: go the way you expect it will. I've got lots

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Speaker 2: of friends for whom getting pregnant and having kids hasn't

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Speaker 2: been anything like our experience so far. You know, sometimes

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Speaker 2: it just doesn't happen, and it can be the most

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Speaker 2: painful and traumatic experience. I just feel so fortunate in

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Speaker 2: that sense. Tell you what, though, it is crazy how

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Speaker 2: quickly the algorithms get you. You sign up for one

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Speaker 2: baby app this week, your baby is the size of

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Speaker 2: a turnip, and all of your ads change in an

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Speaker 2: instant to push chair brands with soft Nordic names and umlauts.

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Speaker 2: Oh to have invested in the baby business a few

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Speaker 2: decades back. I've learned a lot about my wife over

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Speaker 2: the last six months. She's tough, reaching at the traffic

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Speaker 2: lights one minute, back on with her day the next. However,

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Speaker 2: many billion years of evolution and pregnant women are still

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Speaker 2: left with scientifically dubious ACU pressure bands and ginger tea augh.

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Speaker 2: The good news is her sweet tooth's back and her

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Speaker 2: sense of humor never left. I found myself thinking about

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Speaker 2: the other parents of my life, and particularly my own.

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Speaker 2: I'm one of four four are you kidding? And my

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Speaker 2: folks had no help. I can already see why people

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Speaker 2: rate raising children as their greatest accomplishment. And although I

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Speaker 2: can kind of understand it all in a theoretical sense.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure the full weight, the full weight of

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Speaker 2: impending fatherhood has yet sunken in, or honestly will so

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Speaker 2: until our baby is born Marve's jew in February. We've

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Speaker 2: got a pram, We've got a cot. We've tossed around

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Speaker 2: a few ideas for names, and I've been mesmerized by

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Speaker 2: the images on the ultrasound screen. But even as I

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Speaker 2: place my hand on my wife's bump and feel something,

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Speaker 2: feel someone, feel a bit of me shift and wriggle

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Speaker 2: and kick, for now, it is all just magic. And look,

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Speaker 2: I know there are going to be tough times ahead,

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Speaker 2: exhaustion and exasperation, but I also know the magic will

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Speaker 2: only intensify a new baby, a new generation, a new life,

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Speaker 2: and the sense that mine will change forever.

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