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Speaker 1: If you've been listening to the show over recent days.

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Speaker 2: In the last couple of weeks, we have been talking

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Speaker 2: about the air conditioning at the well on the maternity

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Speaker 2: ward at Royal Darwin Hospital. Now the CEO of Health

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Speaker 2: Chris Hosking this morning confirming that it is a very

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Speaker 2: old air conditioner and they have had issues with that

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Speaker 2: air conditioning over recent months and years.

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Speaker 1: But joining me on the line right.

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Speaker 2: Now is a Northern Territory mum, Chanelle Nico Larkis. Good

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Speaker 2: morning to you, Chanelle.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, Katie. How are you.

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Speaker 2: I'm really good, Chanelle. Thank you so much for your

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Speaker 2: time this morning. Now I understand you had your bubb

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Speaker 2: last year.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, last year in June, so thirtieth of June, and yes,

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Speaker 3: staying through to crack a night, which was great.

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Speaker 1: But Chanell, it wasn't all sort of smooth sailing for you,

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Speaker 1: was it.

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Speaker 2: You were somebody who did feel the effects of that

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Speaker 2: air conditioner really not being up.

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Speaker 3: To par, definitely not being up to pass. Definitely went

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Speaker 3: in with a very positive mindset about having a baby

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Speaker 3: at rd H, and yeah, the experience wasn't that great

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Speaker 3: and it had a lot to do with the air conditioning, so.

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Speaker 1: Taught me through what happened exactly.

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Speaker 3: Okay, So went in to have BUB. Everything didn't really

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Speaker 3: go as plan. Ended up having surgery after having BUB

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Speaker 3: very late at night with my private obstetrician for a

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Speaker 3: retained placenter. So it didn't come out until very early

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Speaker 3: hours of the morning on Territory Day, and just throughout

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Speaker 3: the day we were very very hot. So obviously I

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Speaker 3: hadn't showered. I'd just come out of surgery, I had catheters,

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Speaker 3: all that sort of still covered in all things baby related.

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Speaker 3: As many mums can, we can, yep, and the first

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Speaker 3: thing you want to do is shower, but I couldn't

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Speaker 3: at that stage, and just you know, having to wait

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Speaker 3: that twelve hours to shower, being in the heat on

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Speaker 3: top of everything was disgusting. But the worst thing was

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Speaker 3: is that baby started to heat up and after quite

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Speaker 3: a few obs checks by the midwives, she her temperature

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Speaker 3: was actually really elevated to the point where they transferred

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Speaker 3: her to the NICKU thinking that she may have an infection.

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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness.

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Speaker 2: Now, fortunately she didn't have an infection, did she.

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Speaker 3: She didn't have an infection. So we spent about six

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Speaker 3: hours in the nicku. She went through watching baby not

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Speaker 3: even twenty four hours old, getting poked and prodded and

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Speaker 3: all that sort of stuff. Wasn't allowed to pick baby

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Speaker 3: up only for feeds as it would elevate her temperature,

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Speaker 3: and she had to have three stable temperature checks before

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Speaker 3: being distribed from the necku. So it was pretty terrible.

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Speaker 3: But as soon as she went to the nicku, the

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Speaker 3: nicku was beautiful and her beautiful temperature, her temperature, her

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Speaker 3: temperature came down beautifully. So after about five hours of

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Speaker 3: you know, insitute of she was great. Discharged back to

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Speaker 3: the ward. Within an hour we were elevated again.

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Speaker 2: Oh goodness me, now, you know after going through the

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Speaker 2: experience that you went through, and by the sounds of it,

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Speaker 2: the staff were doing everything they could to try to help,

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Speaker 2: you know, but the bloody air conditioning, you know, terrible

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Speaker 2: at that temperature.

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Speaker 1: How do you then feel?

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Speaker 2: You know, when you hear me obviously talking to the

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Speaker 2: Chief Minister, I don't you know, you've probably heard the

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Speaker 2: health minister. You've heard others sort of standing up saying,

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Speaker 2: you know, there's nothing wrong with the air con.

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Speaker 3: Yeah no, And and I heard Liah speaking the other

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Speaker 3: day and it was really disappointing, to be honest, because she,

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Speaker 3: you know, kind of referring to what mums are saying

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Speaker 3: is rubbish and insinuating that moms are disgruntled because they

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Speaker 3: couldn't have babies you know, in the private maternity. It's

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Speaker 3: just not the case. But the things that mums are

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Speaker 3: saying they're factual, and they just want the basics, you know,

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Speaker 3: the basics now conditioning. You know, we've only got one

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Speaker 3: hospital now, yep, that's the any choice. We just need

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Speaker 3: the basics.

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Speaker 1: Like we live in a capital city. And look, I

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Speaker 1: was pleased.

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Speaker 2: I had the CEO of the Health department on this morning,

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Speaker 2: Chris Hosking, and he said, look, Katie, there there has

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Speaker 2: been issues with the air conditioner. It is still operating,

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Speaker 2: but it's very old. You know, it's maybe not operating

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Speaker 2: to you know, to the standard that we.

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Speaker 1: Would all sort of expect.

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Speaker 2: But you know the thing is you've got to make

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Speaker 2: sure that the babies are okay.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and and to the point you know where it's

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Speaker 3: not safe. I mean I ended up discharging myself and

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Speaker 3: having to sign a waiver because my choice was he

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Speaker 3: is my baby an overheat in here? Or are we

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Speaker 3: going to end up back in the nick you for

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Speaker 3: no reason? Or are we going to be more comfortable

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Speaker 3: at home or wherever we go and not here?

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Speaker 2: You know, yeah, that would have been really tough. It

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Speaker 2: would have been tough going for you with your little baby.

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Speaker 1: How is your baby? What is she like? Seven months old?

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Speaker 2: Now?

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Speaker 1: Eight months old?

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Speaker 3: Six? Beautiful? She is beautiful, thriving, beautiful.

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Speaker 1: That's so nice to hear.

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Speaker 2: Is she Are you having some late nights or is

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Speaker 2: she a good little sleeper?

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Speaker 3: No, we're having definitely having some late nights, but that's okay.

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Speaker 1: That's what you one hundred percent.

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Speaker 2: Oh look, neither of my kids slept well, so so

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Speaker 2: don't worry.

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Speaker 1: You will sleep again one day, Chanelle.

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Speaker 3: I know I keep telling myself that.

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Speaker 1: Hey, it's so good to talk to you this morning.

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Speaker 2: I really appreciate you coming on the show and telling

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Speaker 2: us your story.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, thanks so much,