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Speaker 2: Hello everyone, welcome to the Almost Famous podcast. Today Guess
Speaker 2: what I Am joined by Ben Higgins Surprise and his
Speaker 2: beautiful wife, Jessica Clark Higgins. We wanted to do a
Speaker 2: little catch up about parenthood about one month in So
Speaker 2: Hello guys, Ben, Welcome to your podcast.
Speaker 3: It's been a long time since I've been here. Thanks
Speaker 3: for the invite.
Speaker 2: So first off, jess how are you feeling emotionally physically
Speaker 2: about a month after giving birth?
Speaker 4: Physically, I feel, honestly pretty much one hundred percent. I
Speaker 4: definitely get tired faster than I did before I was
Speaker 4: pregnant or had a baby, but I'm all healed for
Speaker 4: the most part. I'm not in diapers anymore. I can
Speaker 4: walk for like an hour at a time, which is
Speaker 4: really great and amazing for my mental health because the
Speaker 4: mental health piece of postpartum is a lot harder for me.
Speaker 4: I've had a lot more anxiety than I thought I would,
Speaker 4: a lot more emotional than I normally am.
Speaker 3: Why did you look at me when you said that?
Speaker 5: Because I've been more emotional.
Speaker 2: Because you can vouch for her, yeah, yeah, I'll support her.
Speaker 2: And say yes, is he looking at you thinking you
Speaker 2: haven't been more emotional or has he been Like.
Speaker 6: It's up to you to answer this both.
Speaker 7: Okay, I don't know what I expected. I expected that
Speaker 7: postpartum to be hard emotionally. I thought it'd be harder physically,
Speaker 7: like Jess's was walking a week later and like we go,
Speaker 7: we just got back from a family walk and like
Speaker 7: we can walk pretty far.
Speaker 3: She could walk for as long as she wants.
Speaker 7: I feel like at this point, amazing, Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 7: the emotions are are all over the place. I think
Speaker 7: she thinks they're worse than they are. I think she
Speaker 7: carries this like feeling that it's she's been a monster
Speaker 7: she has.
Speaker 4: I'm such a head case, which like I normally am
Speaker 4: not at all, And I think that a lot of
Speaker 4: that does have to do with the postpartum emotions. And
Speaker 4: I am exclusively breastfeeding, and everyone has told me that
Speaker 4: like with your milk, and it changes every day, so
Speaker 4: your hormones and emotions change every day. And I've definitely
Speaker 4: felt that, like some days I'll be totally normal and
Speaker 4: fine and chill, and some days I'm like so controlling
Speaker 4: or like I don't want to leave Winny or I
Speaker 4: just get like nervous about little things, and there's I
Speaker 4: have no idea how I'm going to wake up every morning, honestly.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, so breastfeeding isn't something that I did, so
Speaker 2: I never I never got to experience the emotions that
Speaker 2: go with it. I do think that it's it affects
Speaker 2: you a lot, such a job that you are doing,
Speaker 2: and you're providing for sweet Winny, so you're just just
Speaker 2: know that, like every day you're doing so much, and like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I think that like it's just going to take a
Speaker 2: toll on your body, emotionally, physically, all of it. So
Speaker 2: don't ever feel you know that, I mean you you know,
Speaker 2: you know that you're doing an amazing job. So even
Speaker 2: if you're feeling down, just know that, like you're killing it.
Speaker 2: But I do think that that probably does make it
Speaker 2: a prostpartum more of an emotional experience.
Speaker 4: I've heard that it does. I mean, obviously I don't
Speaker 4: know either because I haven't not breastfed yet, but I
Speaker 4: think that no matter what you do, when you have
Speaker 4: a baby, you just change emotionally for a while, but
Speaker 4: every day gets better.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I think it's I mean, I've seen
Speaker 7: moments where it definitely feels like it's it's unhealthy. Like
Speaker 7: There's been very few, but a few moments where I'm like,
Speaker 7: she's not in a healthy place, something like she's not
Speaker 7: processing things. Well that those are very few. There's there's
Speaker 7: another side of it. I think that I've seen where
Speaker 7: this like concern and she's not overly concerned. I'm definitely though,
Speaker 7: like less concerned than she is, which was a shock.
Speaker 3: To both of us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we asked you that question on the pre parent
Speaker 2: podcast episode, and we thought that you would be the
Speaker 2: nervous one.
Speaker 3: No, very much, like not as nervous, but but there's
Speaker 3: this cool thing.
Speaker 7: So my point was, I think what Jess is going
Speaker 7: through as a mom is actually like really beautiful because
Speaker 7: she's more nervous, because she's alert, because she thinks about Winnie.
Speaker 7: Like I don't expect that to continue in the way
Speaker 7: that it is right now for ever. But what I
Speaker 7: think it's I think it's a really cool way that
Speaker 7: like our bodies or her body is like bringing out
Speaker 7: this like motherly like instinct and love and care and like, yeah,
Speaker 7: at first when you start to feel these things and
Speaker 7: worry you're gonna feel crazy because it's all so new,
Speaker 7: But as you get like in a rhythm and it
Speaker 7: becomes more of.
Speaker 3: A second nature to you.
Speaker 7: I think what we're experiencing is like Jessica's body like
Speaker 7: building up this like mom instinct, and I think it's
Speaker 7: cool but not always easy, Like, yeah, you're gonna wake
Speaker 7: up in the middle night freaking out, like thinking something
Speaker 7: bad is happening to Lenny when she's just snoozing. But yeah,
Speaker 7: I mean I've seen a lot of just change in
Speaker 7: just like for the better, just becoming a mom.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, do you feel like moments where
Speaker 2: you're like I am experiencing postparum depression, post part anxiety,
Speaker 2: or do you think it's baby blues somewhere maybe in
Speaker 2: the middle.
Speaker 4: The first two weeks, I was like, this is postpartum anxiety.
Speaker 4: I like had the shakes, I couldn't eat, I was
Speaker 4: like sobbing at everything, Like when he turned seven days
Speaker 4: old and I like lost it.
Speaker 5: I was like, there's no way she can be a
Speaker 5: week old.
Speaker 3: That's one of the moments that I was thinking of
Speaker 3: when I was like, this is help.
Speaker 4: I like went to the post office for literally fifteen
Speaker 4: minutes and like had separation anxiety. Like I I was
Speaker 4: anxious and my body was responding in an anxious way.
Speaker 4: But after those first like two or three weeks, I
Speaker 4: haven't had as much of that. Like I am feeling
Speaker 4: anxious all the time. I have moments where I get
Speaker 4: nervous or I get anxious, but.
Speaker 5: I don't think I have like postpartum depression.
Speaker 4: I don't even think I have the baby blues as
Speaker 4: much as I just I never worried about anything, probably
Speaker 4: to a fault before I had a where like honestly,
Speaker 4: I just let been worry about everything, and I was like,
Speaker 4: if he's not worried, I'm not worried.
Speaker 5: And now it's kind of flipped a little bit.
Speaker 6: Oh that's hilarious. Okay.
Speaker 2: So I would say that I probably had the baby
Speaker 2: blues with Dawson, but it wasn't blues because I wasn't sad.
Speaker 2: It was just everything. I was overcome by emotion, like
Speaker 2: you for everything. A lot of it was everything is perfect.
Speaker 2: I have a perfect little baby, and my family around me,
Speaker 2: who's supporting me and living with us right now is happy, healthy, safe,
Speaker 2: Like life can get better than this. So one is
Speaker 2: then the shoe gonna drop. Like that was my constant
Speaker 2: anxiety that.
Speaker 4: Is so real every time something bad happens to her,
Speaker 4: or not even bad. Every time she spits up, I'm like,
Speaker 4: she has a stomach bug, like she has to because
Speaker 4: nothing bad has happened yet, so like something has to
Speaker 4: go wrong.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I totally really that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And then I mean, good for you on healing
Speaker 2: so quickly. I was a little bit more of the opposite,
Speaker 2: Like I felt pretty mentally good, like right off the bat.
Speaker 2: It's because I hated being pregnant, so like it was
Speaker 2: sweet relief.
Speaker 6: And then my body like I couldn't. I don't know
Speaker 6: what happened.
Speaker 2: You were more torn than me, so tm I but
Speaker 2: like I couldn't stand for more than five minutes for
Speaker 2: like three weeks, like I'd be washing bottles, like just
Speaker 2: moving every little direction, being like okay, I'm so uncomfortable
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 4: I started to do pelvic floor physical therapy before I
Speaker 4: had her, and I helped me so much with just
Speaker 4: like getting my muscles back, okay, like the standing muscles
Speaker 4: and like even going to the bathroom and stuff like that.
Speaker 5: I feel like that was so helpful.
Speaker 7: I don't know what yeah, what, Yeah, I mean I
Speaker 7: think Jess wouldn't say it, but like you got we
Speaker 7: got to give her a lot of credit. Like she
Speaker 7: was doing not intense workouts, but she was working out
Speaker 7: up until like, oh yeah, the day of like childbirth,
Speaker 7: and then she like really prepped her body to recover
Speaker 7: physically in a really good way without overdoing it. Like
Speaker 7: it wasn't like this crazy amount of like hour long exercises,
Speaker 7: but it was like just doing something throughout the day
Speaker 7: up until when he was born and.
Speaker 3: Then even after.
Speaker 7: I think has been not only impressive, but it would
Speaker 7: probably be something like in the little amount of advice
Speaker 7: I have for anybody you know that's entering into the stage,
Speaker 7: like it would be advice I would give is if
Speaker 7: you're up for it, like try your best to get
Speaker 7: like physically healthy before so that you bounce back afterwards,
Speaker 7: you know quickly.
Speaker 4: Well, and here's what happened is everyone prepared me for
Speaker 4: the physical piece of postpart and they're like, you're gonna tear,
Speaker 4: like you're gonna have a hard time standing and walking.
Speaker 4: So in my brain, I spent my whole pregnancy like
Speaker 4: preparing my it, and I totally neglected my mind, like
Speaker 4: what would happen when I mentally became a mom? And
Speaker 4: so I think that, yeah, my body has been good,
Speaker 4: which thank god, because my mind's been a disaster. But
Speaker 4: next time, I would definitely maybe start like some talk
Speaker 4: therapy sooner something.
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Speaker 2: physically active.
Speaker 6: I'll say that in.
Speaker 2: Pretty much both my products and says, I didn't really
Speaker 2: feel feel like that I could. It's particularly with Dawson,
Speaker 2: but with Hayden, I it was summertime when I was
Speaker 2: in my third trimester, So swimming was really really great
Speaker 2: and it's almost like, I don't want to say everybody
Speaker 2: can go swim, but like you'll feel really great afterward.
Speaker 2: If you think that working out's not for you being pregnant,
Speaker 2: try swimming. It really makes you feel awesome. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: So what about peeing your pants? Have you been doing that?
Speaker 8: Like?
Speaker 2: How long did you need to be in diapers for?
Speaker 2: Because I had to wear a pad for like three
Speaker 2: months post Dawson because I would leak at like the
Speaker 2: sound of a faucet, like somebody could fill up a
Speaker 2: bathtub and I would be like, I'm I have a
Speaker 2: full stream coming out. I had no control over that
Speaker 2: area for a while. And then I did M Sculpt,
Speaker 2: which really helped with those muscles, and then I started
Speaker 2: to get better and with hate in the recovery of
Speaker 2: those muscles was even faster, which I was surprised I
Speaker 2: thought would be the opposite.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I well, first of all, I want to talk
Speaker 4: to you about M sculpt because I am interested in
Speaker 4: that post party, but I also I haven't had any leaking.
Speaker 5: Actually I was in diapers because I bled for like
Speaker 5: three and a half weeks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's typical. I said, three and a half weeks
Speaker 2: is probably the average.
Speaker 4: Okay, that makes me feel good because I was like,
Speaker 4: this is going on forever, but I haven't had any
Speaker 4: leakage yet. But I feel like I haven't really like
Speaker 4: sneezed or anything, so I'm sure it's coming.
Speaker 2: No, your public floor therapy that you were doing on
Speaker 2: your own was obviously very effective.
Speaker 4: I think it helped me a ton, and I do
Speaker 4: it every night now still, and I'll start going in
Speaker 4: person when I after six weeks.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, so I've never done it in person because
Speaker 2: I was like, I don't need anybody else looking at
Speaker 2: my chascha.
Speaker 4: I'm over this, I know, but I you know, I
Speaker 4: like to run, yeah, and I don't want to Maybe
Speaker 4: one day I want to run again. Right now, I
Speaker 4: feel like I really don't, but maybe one day I will.
Speaker 5: And I don't want to pack my pants the whole
Speaker 5: time I run.
Speaker 6: Ah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because if I go on a trampoline with Dawson,
Speaker 2: it's like, Hi, I am peeing everyone around me, Hi,
Speaker 2: I am peeing.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh, still on a trampoline, Yeah, I'll dribble and like
Speaker 2: on the dance floor at Tanya's wedding, there was like
Speaker 2: a song where you all.
Speaker 6: Like jump jump jump.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I was like, yeah, I'm dribbling on the dance floor.
Speaker 2: So I mean I should probably have someone else look
Speaker 2: at my jacha and actually go to public floor therapy.
Speaker 2: But M sculpt has been very helpful for both times.
Speaker 2: And M sculpt actually has another device. I'm forgetting what
Speaker 2: it's called now, but a man of Stanton used it
Speaker 2: and you actually sit on the device. It's non invasive,
Speaker 2: it doesn't go up your body, and you sit on
Speaker 2: it and it really does those muscles rather than the
Speaker 2: ab which has the secondary effect on the pelvic floor muscles.
Speaker 5: That's interesting. Passive, that's kind of nice.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, same totally.
Speaker 2: So maybe it just doesn't affect me on a daily
Speaker 2: And I'm telling you, trampoline's dancing, jumping on a dance floor,
Speaker 2: those are like the only two things, so it doesn't
Speaker 2: really affect my life.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Slide for Ashley.
Speaker 2: What has been surprising to you guys as new parents?
Speaker 2: Anything that people didn't prep you for?
Speaker 3: Do you want to go first on this?
Speaker 7: I think I think a lot of what I expected
Speaker 7: with a baby.
Speaker 3: I think people I mean, when he has.
Speaker 7: Been an incredible baby, like she is a queen in
Speaker 7: this house.
Speaker 3: She is so sweet. She fusses when she like look.
Speaker 6: At this, hello'sly angel face.
Speaker 2: So she's got a great face, Like this is not
Speaker 2: me being your friend. She's got like and she's becoming
Speaker 2: like awake, an alert, and like you can see her face,
Speaker 2: it's not just an out of the uterus face.
Speaker 7: She stared at me last night and I stared back
Speaker 7: for like a long time and it was just like heavenly,
Speaker 7: which is wild to talk about. But so I I
Speaker 7: know that we've been lucky when it comes to our
Speaker 7: daughter and her ability to sleep, her ability to communicate
Speaker 7: like that she's hungry or she's cold, and that's really
Speaker 7: the only time she like fusses.
Speaker 6: You guys, you trigger me, trigger me, deep, we.
Speaker 5: Trigger all parents.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I say that with a caveat like we've been
Speaker 7: lucky in that, like we didn't do anything to like
Speaker 7: have this happen.
Speaker 3: It just happened. Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, So I think a little bit of it was
Speaker 7: the fear of how hard.
Speaker 3: This was going to be.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's been less difficult than I mentally was preparing
Speaker 7: myself for. I think is one thing I've been surprised by.
Speaker 7: I think the side of that. The other side of
Speaker 7: that is I don't think people prepared us correctly in
Speaker 7: the sense of like she needs pretty much like twenty
Speaker 7: four to seven care, like somebody needs to be watching Whinnie.
Speaker 7: She needs to be like somebody needs to be making
Speaker 7: sure that she's like, you know, not laying on her
Speaker 7: pacifier in her eye like those types of things.
Speaker 3: And I didn't expect that.
Speaker 7: But I do think Jessica and I both read enough,
Speaker 7: listened enough to advice and from others to be well prepared.
Speaker 3: At least me personally.
Speaker 7: I've been less worried about her, like it's crazy, but
Speaker 7: like I see her doing things that like, you know,
Speaker 7: she's fussing, Like I could sit with her crying on
Speaker 7: me for an hour if that was healthy, without like overreacting.
Speaker 7: And I thought I would be like a nerve and
Speaker 7: I'm just not. I know she's gonna be okay. So
Speaker 7: that's been surprising for me. In a response, that's.
Speaker 4: Been surprising for me that he how chill he's been
Speaker 4: about literally everything, and how I'm chill I've been because
Speaker 4: I thought I really knew babies.
Speaker 2: The mother response to crying is totally different than the
Speaker 2: father's response. I don't know if you've felt this.
Speaker 5: Definitely like a body response when she.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't handle it, like absolutely, no way. I
Speaker 2: think maybe we talked about this when you guys came
Speaker 2: on for your like one week recap. But like Jared
Speaker 2: can think like, oh, he'll be fine. He's crying in
Speaker 2: the crip for five minutes. We're only doing it for
Speaker 2: five minutes, and I'm.
Speaker 6: Like, I have to leave. There's a frenzy going on
Speaker 6: in my body.
Speaker 4: Yes, your body responds differently, I think when you're the
Speaker 4: mom and I, yeah, I've just been surprised by that
Speaker 4: because I'm I'm normally a pretty chill person, but I
Speaker 4: just have no chill when it comes to her.
Speaker 7: Jessica's getting more sleep than me right now, which is crazy.
Speaker 4: She gives me five and a half hours and then
Speaker 4: she'll go back to sleep for four more hours.
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Speaker 2: Okay, So, like this is what triggers me, and I
Speaker 2: like say it with humor because like I think the
Speaker 2: word trigger is kind of like funny and like absolutely
Speaker 2: overviews and ridiculous. But like you, guys, I have an
Speaker 2: eight month old and he gives me well, on average,
Speaker 2: two hours, no, no, And then on a good night,
Speaker 2: like last night was a good night, and he went
Speaker 2: from two to five thirty yeah, three and a half hours,
Speaker 2: and it was like.
Speaker 6: Oh my gosh, just he alive. Yeah, Dawson was better
Speaker 6: at this age.
Speaker 2: But then when the like five month regression happens, he
Speaker 2: regressed for like ten months.
Speaker 7: Love.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he was better, like he would sleep.
Speaker 2: For like maybe four or five hour stretches at this point,
Speaker 2: at the point that you're at now. But like, my
Speaker 2: kids just don't sleep, like they're just not good sleepers,
Speaker 2: hating it's particularly an awful sleeper. Every kid and every
Speaker 2: pregnancy and every delivery is different, and that is what
Speaker 2: I'm learning.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we didn't do any like no, we're lucky.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but no, yeah, you didn't like sleep train and
Speaker 2: it's not like that she just happens to sleep.
Speaker 6: For five hours no. Yeah, And I'm happy for you, guys,
Speaker 6: it's very nice. I'm truly happy for you.
Speaker 7: Jessica is doing some training though, like she is on
Speaker 7: a plan in a pretty tight schedule.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're on.
Speaker 4: A tight schedule, and I think that's been helpful with
Speaker 4: her just kind of being chill.
Speaker 5: She knows when to expect that she's getting things.
Speaker 2: Okay, so she knows when to expect to feed and like,
Speaker 2: and now when did you start getting on that schedule?
Speaker 5: Two weeks?
Speaker 7: Like she knows what she's going to be playing, Like
Speaker 7: when she needs to stay awake, she knows like fifteen
Speaker 7: minutes four feeding time, Like she starts to get fussy,
Speaker 7: it's wild, Like she really like you, she'll know she
Speaker 7: knows what she's supposed to be doing at every moment
Speaker 7: of the day.
Speaker 6: Right, do you have the most highly intellectual child ever?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 11: Wow, she's so advanced to wow, she can't keep her passing.
Speaker 11: Don't you love that that at that age that the
Speaker 11: pacifier is just gigantic on their face?
Speaker 6: This thing so funny.
Speaker 5: So sweet.
Speaker 6: All right, well, we're happy to hear that.
Speaker 2: You guys, you know that you are recovering so well
Speaker 2: physically that you know you might need some more time
Speaker 2: to get there emotionally and mentally.
Speaker 6: But we're here for you. And you have the best
Speaker 6: husband who is there for you as well. I do.
Speaker 5: He's been the best. He's been so supportive.
Speaker 4: He makes me feel normal when I am having a
Speaker 4: hard time feeling normal.
Speaker 5: He's loved me insanely well when I probably don't deserve it.
Speaker 4: He's such a good dad too. Watching bim be a
Speaker 4: dad is like the coolest thing in the whole world.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I just like I get like I mean, I
Speaker 7: obviously my role right now is very limited, but today
Speaker 7: I had a really busy day Jess. I was like,
Speaker 7: I want to hold Winny, and so jess brought her in.
Speaker 7: I was holding her, and all of a sudden, I
Speaker 7: was like, I haven't done anything in twenty minutes.
Speaker 3: Like I just like, it's wild how.
Speaker 7: Peaceful it is just to stare at her. Yeah, and
Speaker 7: it's been a very peaceful season for me. So I
Speaker 7: think in closing here, because I know we're going to
Speaker 7: close up like there. I think we talked about it
Speaker 7: at the one week like kind of follow up, but
Speaker 7: I didn't reckon. I don't think I could put words
Speaker 7: to it then. But like for many reasons, Jessica and
Speaker 7: I started to get we we had a good lot.
Speaker 3: We had a good thing.
Speaker 7: Going here right with a dog and a good house,
Speaker 7: and we loved our walks and our dinners, and I
Speaker 7: got really worried towards the end of Justice's pregnancy that
Speaker 7: that was all going to change in a drastic way.
Speaker 7: And I didn't realize how like stressed I was about that.
Speaker 7: But honestly, for the last five weeks, like things have changed,
Speaker 7: but only for the better, Like our dog loves winning,
Speaker 7: and like when I saw when I saw them together,
Speaker 7: obviously I broke down for the first time. Like I
Speaker 7: think I just was feeling so much stressed that I
Speaker 7: didn't realize that like once I see life being so beautiful.
Speaker 7: Now I'm like in a really cool season of like
Speaker 7: peace and joy and like every day I wake up
Speaker 7: just feeling this like enormous amount of like gratitude and
Speaker 7: so that's.
Speaker 3: Been cool for me.
Speaker 7: And I didn't realize how stressed I was until like
Speaker 7: a couple of weeks ago when I told Jessa was like,
Speaker 7: I haven't felt this kind of peace in so long,
Speaker 7: and I'm just loving this, Like so yeah, I mean
Speaker 7: I don't know even with the hard stuff, it's like
Speaker 7: but we're still doing it together and life's better and
Speaker 7: I'm happy and we're going to make.
Speaker 3: This thing work.
Speaker 2: Let's normalize Dad pre pre labor stress, because like, guys
Speaker 2: have so much stress leading up to it, and I
Speaker 2: don't think they're very vocal about it because they feel
Speaker 2: guilty about it. They're like, she's carried the child for
Speaker 2: nine months. Why do I have to pumplain it's gonna
Speaker 2: come out of her body?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 2: Yeah, But Jared had the exact same thing before Hayden.
Speaker 2: He was so stressed about it and then he you know,
Speaker 2: the baby's there, and you're like, oh, I can relax.
Speaker 6: But guys, you know, like.
Speaker 3: It's a real thing.
Speaker 7: It is like and what you just said is exactly right,
Speaker 7: Like you don't want to start bringing it up because
Speaker 7: you're like, this is this is unnecessary, like this is crazy.
Speaker 7: And then it's just been five weeks of not like
Speaker 7: all easy, but it's been peace and excitement and joy
Speaker 7: and and I'm really grateful for that because I was
Speaker 7: I think I was carrying it for a long time.
Speaker 6: M hmm.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, I'm so glad we did this, and I'm
Speaker 2: so happy for you guys, and I truly am happy
Speaker 2: for your sleep. It's really really great, especially if you're
Speaker 2: having anxiety, Like I want you to have the mental rest.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm very grateful for it.
Speaker 4: We have.
Speaker 5: We have some big ones with little Winny over here?
Speaker 3: Yeah here, so say goodbye? Is me close by?
Speaker 5: Whinny?
Speaker 2: So cute? Your so?
Speaker 6: She's seriously so cute.
Speaker 3: She is so cute.
Speaker 6: Hold her up one more Time's.
Speaker 3: The best family picture with me? Let me get let
Speaker 3: me not choke you? Why I do this?
Speaker 6: There you go so cute.
Speaker 2: Oh the guys are going to be really good. I
Speaker 2: know this all right, Well, guys, thank you. Until next time.
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