Speaker 1: The Rising Conquer Podcast acknowledges the traditional custodians of the
Speaker 1: land which this episode is being recorded, the Yugen Bear region.
Speaker 1: We further acknowledge country throughout Australia and their connections to land,
Speaker 1: sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders
Speaker 1: past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal
Speaker 1: and terrestrid Islander peoples today. Hello and welcome back to
Speaker 1: the Rise and Conquer Podcasts. This is the podcast for
Speaker 1: ordinary people who want to do extraordinary things. Hello Ann,
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Rising Conker Podcasts. It is your host,
Speaker 1: Georgie Stephenson and I'm back feeling refreshed after a week
Speaker 1: holiday in Fiji with Tim and Ivy, and I thought
Speaker 1: i'd just do a bit of an impromptu recording episode.
Speaker 1: It's literally like nine am on the Monday, and I
Speaker 1: got back yesterday at seven pm last night, so my
Speaker 1: brain isn't working properly, so we'll see how this episode goes.
Speaker 1: But I want to chat to you about what happened
Speaker 1: our holiday, the strange events that happened before. There's some
Speaker 1: like w WU stuff that happened my RNC project. Fam
Speaker 1: are gonna love that. And then also just what it
Speaker 1: was like holidaying with Ivy, who's eight months yesterday, our
Speaker 1: first like international holiday with her, and just like how
Speaker 1: we navigated that and yeah, so she's going to be
Speaker 1: like a little update and then even just a little
Speaker 1: Ivy update too, So that's what this episode is going
Speaker 1: to be about. So, first of all, this holiday was
Speaker 1: planned and it was supposed to be a big family
Speaker 1: holiday with Cooper, my brother and his wife Ash and
Speaker 1: his two kids, Billy and Body obviously meet him and Ivy.
Speaker 1: So we booked this incredible villa. We stayed at the
Speaker 1: sixth Census in Fiji, which is like a beautiful like
Speaker 1: I don't want to see. Yeah, i'd say, like holistic.
Speaker 1: They're very into like your health and wellness, very bougie.
Speaker 1: And we had that booked from the start of the
Speaker 1: year obviously because you know, we've been in COVID the
Speaker 1: last two years, no one's been able to travel, and
Speaker 1: me and Cooper were like, we're craving a holiday, let's
Speaker 1: do it together. And yeah, so we booked and we
Speaker 1: were so excited and you know, getting ready for that.
Speaker 1: I had prepped my team and hate team and everyone
Speaker 1: was all good to go. And then literally a week
Speaker 1: before we're supposed to leave, Ash Cooper's wife got COVID
Speaker 1: and we were just like, oh my god, and we
Speaker 1: were just kind of hoping, you know, maybe she would
Speaker 1: start testing negative towards the end of the week and
Speaker 1: Cooper and the boys just like isolated in another end
Speaker 1: of the house. Long story short, Cooper ended up getting COVID,
Speaker 1: Billy and Body ended up getting it, and they couldn't
Speaker 1: join us on our family holiday, which is just bloody devastating.
Speaker 1: I just feel obviously so sad for them because I
Speaker 1: know how much they were looking forward to it, but
Speaker 1: also for us because we were really excited to go
Speaker 1: with them anyway. So that was the first thing where
Speaker 1: we were like surely, not like what are the chances
Speaker 1: because Cooper and Ash had never had COVID before. And
Speaker 1: also just like another random thing I got a lot
Speaker 1: of during this episode two. I'll be answering questions about
Speaker 1: traveling with Ivy, and I got the question of, you know,
Speaker 1: was I worried about Ivy getting COVID by traveling and
Speaker 1: I don't know. I try not to let the fear
Speaker 1: of COVID consume me so and even just like small
Speaker 1: things make me feel better. So I had the two
Speaker 1: vaccines done when Ivy was still in my belly, so
Speaker 1: I know that she's got some antibodies from me. And
Speaker 1: then when I got COVID at the start of the year,
Speaker 1: she her and Tim didn't get it, and I would
Speaker 1: assume that maybe she started to get it and maybe
Speaker 1: her system like you know, foughd it off. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I actually don't know how it works. But I really
Speaker 1: wasn't too worried. Obviously, were super safe. We're wearing masks
Speaker 1: and hand sanitizing everything. But I try not to let
Speaker 1: like COVID put me into a fear base mentality. So
Speaker 1: I wasn't too worried with Ivy, and because she had
Speaker 1: antibodies from my vaccine, made me feel a lot better
Speaker 1: about us traveling internationally. But anyway, long story, sure, Cooper
Speaker 1: and Ash can come very upsetting. We still had to
Speaker 1: go just because Cooper and Ash could you know, get
Speaker 1: some money back because they were they did test positive,
Speaker 1: whereas me and Tim hadn't, So we still had to
Speaker 1: go otherwise we were going to lose all accommodation anyway,
Speaker 1: So we went, and I was definitely ready for a
Speaker 1: holiday I'll kind of chat about this in a different episode,
Speaker 1: but even if you listen to a previous episode, I
Speaker 1: kind of explained I do feel like I'm at a
Speaker 1: position now where I am a little bit out of alignment.
Speaker 1: And the reason that I know I'm out of alignment
Speaker 1: is because previous to this holiday, I was feeling quite
Speaker 1: burnt out, and I find I feel burnt out when
Speaker 1: I'm I guess explained it in a way of you know,
Speaker 1: when you're running a business, you do have to be
Speaker 1: ahead of time, and so you know, within Naked Harvest,
Speaker 1: within the podcast, within my personal business with brand sponsorships
Speaker 1: and brand partnerships, everything is very much planned out. So
Speaker 1: for example, last year, I made a lot of decisions
Speaker 1: that then I guess play out this year. And I
Speaker 1: feel like last year Georgie is so different and so
Speaker 1: far from now Georgie, but I'm dealing with a lot
Speaker 1: of her decisions, if that makes sense. I hope this
Speaker 1: makes sense. And so I am feeling out of alignment
Speaker 1: because I'm like transitioning into this new Georgie who is
Speaker 1: a mom and she's navigating business and Ivy and Tim
Speaker 1: and all the things. But I'm like dealing with old
Speaker 1: Georgie's decisions, and that's how I know him kind of
Speaker 1: out of alignment because before our holiday, I was feeling
Speaker 1: really burnt out. And I absolutely love what I do.
Speaker 1: You guys know, I'm so passionate, Like my business is
Speaker 1: literally empowering women. How could you not be in love
Speaker 1: with that if that was your purpose? And you know,
Speaker 1: I was launching the project, which is my favorite thing
Speaker 1: to launch, and it just lights me up and seeing
Speaker 1: everyone on the same vibe. And so even though I
Speaker 1: was doing all the things that you know should light
Speaker 1: me up and should make me feel a certain way,
Speaker 1: I was starting to feel burnt out. And that's how
Speaker 1: I knew I really needed to get back into alignment.
Speaker 1: And that's actually what I'm working on in the project
Speaker 1: right now with everyone else in real time. It is
Speaker 1: officially week two. Congratulations everyone if you're following long and yeah,
Speaker 1: so that's what I'm working on. Anyway, long story short,
Speaker 1: I definitely was feeling burnt out and I felt like
Speaker 1: I needed a holiday, So me and Tim were going
Speaker 1: to kind of go no matter what, if that makes sense, obsolutely,
Speaker 1: if we had COVID, we would not have gone, but
Speaker 1: just yeah, so we went and amazing, we you know,
Speaker 1: got all packed. We went to the airport early Sunday morning.
Speaker 1: We had like an eight thirty flight and then so
Speaker 1: the first thing was like Cooper and Nash not being
Speaker 1: able to come, and I don't know, previous to us
Speaker 1: going again, I don't know, not that if I should
Speaker 1: be sharing this, but I just was getting like really
Speaker 1: weird thoughts about because Billy is a year old and
Speaker 1: you know, only six months off Ivy, and I just
Speaker 1: kept getting these weird thoughts of this is gonna sound
Speaker 1: really horrible, but like little kids drowning, and I don't
Speaker 1: know how to explain it. But I even had a
Speaker 1: conversation with Ash where I was like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I'm feeling really concerned because the villa we stayed in
Speaker 1: had an infinity pool right off like the main area,
Speaker 1: and because it's in Fiji, there's no like you know,
Speaker 1: pool regulations where the pool is fenced off like here
Speaker 1: in Australia, and I just like, I don't know, like
Speaker 1: I kept having weird feelings of like I know that infants,
Speaker 1: like when they go into water, they can often drown
Speaker 1: very quickly, like within thirty seconds, because they just they
Speaker 1: don't know how to like breathe underwater, and they swallow
Speaker 1: water and they drown. And I know this is getting
Speaker 1: like really dark, but I don't know. I had this
Speaker 1: like just weird feeling. And I was like starting to
Speaker 1: like have a bit of fear around going to Fiji
Speaker 1: and having Ivy near the pool, and I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, what if she starts crawling and like
Speaker 1: you know, Billy's crawling. And I even spoke to Ash
Speaker 1: about it, and I had I also follow this page
Speaker 1: called Tiny Hearts Education where it's all about like education,
Speaker 1: and they put up a pose which is probably where
Speaker 1: it like stemmed from of a little boy who drowned,
Speaker 1: who was only two years old, and it was just
Speaker 1: so devastating and I just, I don't know, I had
Speaker 1: this weird feeling anyway. Again, I don't know where I'm
Speaker 1: going with this, but when Cooper and Ash couldn't come,
Speaker 1: obviously it was very upset and very upsetting, and like
Speaker 1: who knows, but that fear of the pool and the
Speaker 1: babies and stuff went away, and so me and Tim,
Speaker 1: you know, I like to think things do happen for
Speaker 1: a reason, and the universe is supporting us and whatnot,
Speaker 1: and so like Tim even said something like, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe if Cooper and Ash were meant to come, something
Speaker 1: bad was going to happen, and so maybe it was
Speaker 1: I don't know, it just I had this feeling and
Speaker 1: then you know, they couldn't come and whatnot. So I'll
Speaker 1: just like leave that as that. But that feeling kind
Speaker 1: of vanished with fear around Ivy and the pool once
Speaker 1: we got there. Anyway, so we got to the airport. Now, guys,
Speaker 1: we haven't traveled internationally obviously since COVID, and I just
Speaker 1: felt like a bit of a deal. But the first
Speaker 1: problem was we hadn't done our international vaccine certificates. I
Speaker 1: didn't really know we had to do this because Cooper
Speaker 1: booked the holiday. But basically it's just this thing where
Speaker 1: if you have the vaccine, you just have to get
Speaker 1: it authenticated by Many Care and you can simply do
Speaker 1: it online. Takes two seconds. It's not an issue. And
Speaker 1: so the lady was like, oh, I just need your
Speaker 1: international vaccine passports, And as soon as she said it,
Speaker 1: my heart dropped because I have this annoying thing. I'm
Speaker 1: so annoying because I leave things and I'm like not
Speaker 1: proactive with things, whereas Tim is so proactive, but for
Speaker 1: literally six months now, my financial advisor has been like,
Speaker 1: you need to have everything in one name because things
Speaker 1: are just getting so confusing because I sometimes have important
Speaker 1: documents in Stevenson, my maiden name, and then I sometimes
Speaker 1: have important documents in Crouch, my married name. So for example,
Speaker 1: my passport is in Crouch, whereas a lot of other
Speaker 1: documents are in Stevenson, and my license is in Stevenson
Speaker 1: and Medicare is in Stevenson. And I'm just like, I've
Speaker 1: just been lazy, Like I've just been so lazy that
Speaker 1: I haven't changed things over and like, for example, my
Speaker 1: license because it hasn't expired. I was just like, when
Speaker 1: I have to get it redone in a year or two,
Speaker 1: I will just do it then because it's like it
Speaker 1: costs money, Like I don't want to like have to
Speaker 1: get a new license and you know, line up at
Speaker 1: the place and this and that. So anyway, long story short,
Speaker 1: my financial advisor has been advising this to me for
Speaker 1: so long, and I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: get to it. So there, I've had an issue with
Speaker 1: my MYGV app not allowing me to get that official
Speaker 1: green tick thing because my Medicare is in Stevenson and
Speaker 1: other things are in Crouch anyway, so I had to
Speaker 1: go to my doctor and get a certificate printed off
Speaker 1: of my vaccines like to get into you know, public
Speaker 1: places when we had to do that. So I literally
Speaker 1: have like a paper certificate of my vaccines and I
Speaker 1: don't have the app. And so soon as she said that,
Speaker 1: she's like, it's really easy, you just do it through
Speaker 1: the app, and I just knew straight away. I was like,
Speaker 1: holy shit, I'm not going to be able to do
Speaker 1: it through the app. And I just said to her
Speaker 1: straight up, I was like, I can't do it through
Speaker 1: the app. What does this mean? And she goes, well,
Speaker 1: we need this for you to be able to fly,
Speaker 1: like this is like you need this to get onto
Speaker 1: the plane. And I just instantly broke down. I knew,
Speaker 1: like I like started tearing up. I looked at him
Speaker 1: and I'm like, we're not going to be able to
Speaker 1: fly because my Medicare is in Stevenson and my passport
Speaker 1: is in Crouch. So Tim's like, it's all good, let's
Speaker 1: just try and do it. And guys, like I know,
Speaker 1: Tim was like sent to me by the universe because
Speaker 1: and I said this in my wedding vowls, he is
Speaker 1: the calm to my crazy. I just instantly spiraled. I
Speaker 1: started freaking out. I started tearing up, and he literally
Speaker 1: like held me and he's like, Georgia, it's going to
Speaker 1: be okay. If we're meant to go, we will get
Speaker 1: onto this flight. Otherwise it was not meant to be.
Speaker 1: And I just like, but I just thought, like, after everything,
Speaker 1: surely not. And like we've been up since three am
Speaker 1: because we had to get to the airport and this
Speaker 1: and that. And that's like my advice guys if you
Speaker 1: are traveling internationally, like just get there three hours early
Speaker 1: because something like this could happen anyway. So I'm going
Speaker 1: through the app. I'm trying to get this certificate and
Speaker 1: it's just not working. It even has an option where
Speaker 1: it's like if your name is different, and I'm putting
Speaker 1: you know what my passport it says and what my
Speaker 1: medicare says, and it's just it's not letting me. So anyway,
Speaker 1: that was the first problem that's happening. Then comes to
Speaker 1: me and goes Also the ticket is in Stevenson and
Speaker 1: your passport says Crouch. Again, I didn't book and Cooper
Speaker 1: organized this, but it wasn't his fault because he sent
Speaker 1: it to me for approval. And it just like would
Speaker 1: have been when I was working and I saw Stevenson
Speaker 1: and I'm just like, yep, yeap, book the ticket. It's
Speaker 1: like all good. So then she goes, you have an
Speaker 1: hour until like check out close. You need to call
Speaker 1: your flight like the person who booked your flight and
Speaker 1: get her to change it now, otherwise you also won't
Speaker 1: be able to get onto the flight tickets of this.
Speaker 1: So I instantly call our flight, not flight attendant. I
Speaker 1: forget what she's called our flight booker, our accommodation booker.
Speaker 1: I don't know, you guys know what I mean. I
Speaker 1: called her. She's literally asleep because this is like six
Speaker 1: am on Sunday, and I'm like, oh my god, my
Speaker 1: name's wrong. Can you quickly call flight center and do this?
Speaker 1: So then and she literally said to me straight away,
Speaker 1: she goes, I don't think we can get this done
Speaker 1: in time, just letting you know. I'm like, my god.
Speaker 1: So then she's trying to do her part. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to do my part. I end up talking to a
Speaker 1: higher up person, and I'm just like, look, you can
Speaker 1: see I've had my vaccines. You can see that that's
Speaker 1: in Stevenson and my passport is crouch, Like, surely you
Speaker 1: guys can just see this. Then he's calling Immigration and
Speaker 1: he literally talks to like someone downstairs at the gate
Speaker 1: with that side of things. Long story short, they end
Speaker 1: up so I didn't get my international thing and they
Speaker 1: end up just letting me through. Wait wait, wait, let's
Speaker 1: track back. So while this was going down, I said
Speaker 1: to Tim when I was freaking out, and then he's
Speaker 1: trying to calm me down. I had to literally just
Speaker 1: like pull myself together and I just said this little
Speaker 1: prayer and I was like, had to take it deep breath,
Speaker 1: and I was like, if this is meant to be,
Speaker 1: we will get onto this flight. It will all work
Speaker 1: out and we will get onto this flight. And if
Speaker 1: it's not, these blocks are clearly happening to you know,
Speaker 1: protect us or for whatever reason, it is okay. And
Speaker 1: I had to say a little prayer and I just
Speaker 1: was like, look, it is what it is. I was
Speaker 1: so fucking nervous, like basically crying. Long story short, Immigration
Speaker 1: let me through, and the flight attendant, well she she
Speaker 1: didn't actually get to change my name, and she goes
Speaker 1: the alternative is we can book you a flight, like
Speaker 1: I would have to pay for another ticket, and we
Speaker 1: had booked in business and there was obviously no spots
Speaker 1: left in business because like I couldn't take my own spot,
Speaker 1: if that makes sense. So I was going to have
Speaker 1: to buy another ticket in economy and like sit away
Speaker 1: from Tim and Ivy, who would be sitting in business.
Speaker 1: It's not I'm not saying about the economy part of things, like,
Speaker 1: so you don't mind at all, but like I'd be
Speaker 1: away from Tim and Ivy and there would be a
Speaker 1: spare seat beside them, which is technically my seat. But
Speaker 1: that's what would have to happen. I don't know. It
Speaker 1: was like this whole big thing. Long story short, the
Speaker 1: surface desk guy end up calling someone and then calling
Speaker 1: someone else and they could fix it in the back end.
Speaker 1: And long story short, we literally just made it to
Speaker 1: our gate. We got through customs, they changed my name,
Speaker 1: they got my immigration okayed me, and we literally were
Speaker 1: the last people walking on the plane and we were
Speaker 1: there three hours early. So anyway that happened, I was
Speaker 1: just like, oh my god, I guess like invoking that
Speaker 1: asking the divine and just being like, look, if this
Speaker 1: is meant to happen, please help me, Please let this
Speaker 1: go through, and if it's not, I accept. It was
Speaker 1: just so necessary during this period. So yeah, that was
Speaker 1: a bit of a shit shit show. Long story, I
Speaker 1: guess like the takeaways from this is like, just like
Speaker 1: get everything sorted before we go to the airport. And
Speaker 1: I know that's like self explanatory, but I think I
Speaker 1: just like had so much trust in like flight Center
Speaker 1: and just everything being fine, and I just felt like
Speaker 1: a bit of an idiot. But it all worked out.
Speaker 1: We got on the plane, we got there, and honestly
Speaker 1: there was no other hiccups moving forward. And I just
Speaker 1: remember this feeling, and this is going to make sense
Speaker 1: to my riots and Conker Project girls of just locking
Speaker 1: in the core belief of if this is meant for us,
Speaker 1: it will work out, if that makes sense, and if
Speaker 1: it's not, it is okay, because I really could have
Speaker 1: just like spiraled and crumbled crumbled. But it's like obviously
Speaker 1: Tim really helped because it really pulled me together. But yeah,
Speaker 1: that was that was the start of our all day.
Speaker 1: But anyway, we got there, We had the most beautiful time.
Speaker 1: It was stunning weather. It was stunning weather, and it
Speaker 1: was perfect because it was their winter. But it was
Speaker 1: like still hot. It was twenty eight degrees sort of thing.
Speaker 1: But it's like wasn't too hot. You know how some
Speaker 1: tropical places are just like they're a bit hot. It
Speaker 1: wasn't too hot. It was perfect. I definitely recommend Six
Speaker 1: Senses Fiji. Not sponsored or gifted or anything like that.
Speaker 1: We paid for everything ourselves. We stayed in so they
Speaker 1: have villa and then residences, so we stayed in a residence.
Speaker 1: So it is a four bedroom villa sort of thing. Obviously,
Speaker 1: because Cooper and Ash was supposed to come, so we
Speaker 1: needed the bedroom. So it was just like me and
Speaker 1: Tim in this big villa. But it was beautiful and
Speaker 1: it was lovely. It was quite expensive, just to be
Speaker 1: very honest, So just like I noticed obviously, like the
Speaker 1: accommodation was quite expensive. But I'm someone who I really
Speaker 1: I love paying money for good accommodation and for like
Speaker 1: the lifestyle when you're holidaying. But even like the food
Speaker 1: and everything was just quite extensive. Like I got a massage,
Speaker 1: a ninety minute massage, and it was like four hundred Australian.
Speaker 1: You know that when you stay at a resort, a
Speaker 1: bougie resort, but everything's expensive, like the food, everything like that.
Speaker 1: And I guess, I don't know. I've never been to Fiji,
Speaker 1: so I don't know if that's normal. I think I
Speaker 1: just wasn't expecting that. But it was amazing and yeah,
Speaker 1: so we had a really good time and it was
Speaker 1: a really good trip with Ivy. So this was our
Speaker 1: first international flight, well, Ivy's first flight. Yeah, Ivy's first
Speaker 1: flight in general. So I've had questions about what we
Speaker 1: did on the flight. I packed, you know, a couple
Speaker 1: of bottles, her sippy cup, everything empty, just because obviously
Speaker 1: you go through customs internationally and you can't have more
Speaker 1: than one hundred millis. I did pack her baby food
Speaker 1: and you know, all those sorts of things. And as
Speaker 1: soon as we got on the flight, I just asked
Speaker 1: the flight attendant if she could fill up her bottle
Speaker 1: with boiling water and then I just let that cool.
Speaker 1: We put water into a sippy cup and she just
Speaker 1: sipped on that as she went up for her ears,
Speaker 1: so they weren't blocked and she was really good. You know,
Speaker 1: we just like fed her, and then she slept for
Speaker 1: a little bit, and then she played for a little bit.
Speaker 1: She did cry a couple of times, but him just
Speaker 1: had to like kind of get up and entertain her,
Speaker 1: and you know, it's it's just gonna happen, like babies
Speaker 1: are babies. And also Ivy's a bit temperamentalso she wasn't
Speaker 1: like sitting still. So the flight was okay. It was
Speaker 1: only three and a half to four hours. I did
Speaker 1: say to Tim though, I don't know, so Ivy's eight months,
Speaker 1: but I just I don't know if I would do
Speaker 1: a longer flight with her, because she was pretty over
Speaker 1: it towards the end and it was getting not stressful,
Speaker 1: but just you know when you like can't relax and
Speaker 1: you're just like wanting to be there ready. So don't
Speaker 1: know how like a longer flight would go. You'd almost
Speaker 1: I've seen people literally you can put a cot at
Speaker 1: the back of the aeroplane seats and the baby can
Speaker 1: sleep in there. So if you are traveling like overseas,
Speaker 1: like to America or something, I think you would definitely
Speaker 1: do something like that, because yeah, even just like a
Speaker 1: three to four hour flight, she was getting pretty over it.
Speaker 1: But she did really well, and everyone on the plane
Speaker 1: was like, oh, she's so good, and me and Tim
Speaker 1: were sitting there like, you know, just a bit stressed out,
Speaker 1: cannot relax, but it's fine. You do what you gotta do.
Speaker 1: In regards to like the holiday with Ivy, again, the
Speaker 1: time difference wasn't too bad. It's only a two hour
Speaker 1: time difference. So in regards to her naps, we kind
Speaker 1: of just tried to keep them very similar to at
Speaker 1: home rather than times we just go off her a
Speaker 1: wake windows, so her wake windows right now are two
Speaker 1: and a half to three hours, and then she had
Speaker 1: two day naps that are usually an hour and a
Speaker 1: half long. She did wake up a couple of times
Speaker 1: during the night, and I do think that's mostly because
Speaker 1: the cot that the hotel provided just you know, was
Speaker 1: like a porter coot and it was quite small, and
Speaker 1: I feel like she kind of just rolled too much
Speaker 1: and got caught in, you know, the sides and woke
Speaker 1: herself up. So the first couple of nights we were
Speaker 1: like putting her back to sleep was like, which was fine.
Speaker 1: You know, when you're holiday and not doing too much
Speaker 1: during the day, you don't mind getting up. And then
Speaker 1: she started to sleep through probably by like the third night.
Speaker 1: And yeah, so the time difference also wasn't too bad. Again,
Speaker 1: it was only two hours. I like definitely noticed she
Speaker 1: was a little bit unsettled, but it was fine. And
Speaker 1: then like just you know, I brought all her medication,
Speaker 1: all her like nappies, all her wipes, everything that she needed,
Speaker 1: like her cot sheets, blankets, all outfits, everything she needed,
Speaker 1: just because I didn't want a chance having to like
Speaker 1: try and find somewhere to buy things, even though I'm
Speaker 1: sure you can buy all the items. I just preferred
Speaker 1: to have everything, and babies like get their own like
Speaker 1: travel luggage allowance, so like she had her own suitcase
Speaker 1: with everything in it. We did bring her prem and
Speaker 1: we didn't use it just because if we needed to
Speaker 1: go anywhere, we would just get a buggy around and
Speaker 1: she just sat on our laps. Otherwise she would just
Speaker 1: like walk with her and it was fine. I did
Speaker 1: use her carrier for when we were in the airport.
Speaker 1: Definitely recommend that just so you can have some hands
Speaker 1: free to like you know, hand your passport over and
Speaker 1: go through customs and all that sort of thing. Otherwise
Speaker 1: I just packed everything and feeding her was fine too,
Speaker 1: because we would just like boil water and have that
Speaker 1: ready for her and just hand wash all her bottles.
Speaker 1: So yeah, the trip, it wasn't too bad at all,
Speaker 1: and Ivy was really good, obviously, like holidaying with a
Speaker 1: baby is going to be different. To be very transparent
Speaker 1: with you, we had the best holiday and we had
Speaker 1: so much relaxing time just us because our room actually
Speaker 1: came with a nanny. So I remember reading like the
Speaker 1: online description and it said nanny comes with room and
Speaker 1: I remember thinking like what and I kind of just
Speaker 1: was like, oh, yeah, like kids club or whatever. But
Speaker 1: when we got there, well actually the first night, because
Speaker 1: we got there in the afternoon and so we went
Speaker 1: straight to the hotel dinner, and Ivy was just sitting
Speaker 1: with us on a high chair and she was so
Speaker 1: tired from the day and we were trying to feed
Speaker 1: her and she was cracking it. And you know, you're
Speaker 1: in this like nice restaurant, and you feel bad because
Speaker 1: people that you know trying to relax and they've got
Speaker 1: this crying baby. And so like Tim, you know, stood
Speaker 1: up and tried to chill her out while I had
Speaker 1: my dinner, and then we were going to swap but
Speaker 1: I just said, let's just get it delivered to the room,
Speaker 1: put her to bed, and then we can just like relax.
Speaker 1: So that happened the first night, and I was thinking,
Speaker 1: oh my god, every time we eat, this is going
Speaker 1: to happen, just because at home, like you know, we
Speaker 1: get Ivy sorted, we put her to bed, and then
Speaker 1: we eat and breakfast and lunch the same sort of thing.
Speaker 1: Like you always get baby done first and then you
Speaker 1: can joy after. But it is very hard when you're
Speaker 1: going to you know, restaurants and eating out to like
Speaker 1: work out the timing. So that happened the first night,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh my god, we're gonna have
Speaker 1: to just like order to the room every night. Ivy
Speaker 1: also is just a bit temperamental with things like that.
Speaker 1: So I know, for instance, my girlfriend who has a
Speaker 1: baby the same age, he's just so different, like he
Speaker 1: will just sit there and chill and just like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, he's so good, and Ivey's just not like that.
Speaker 1: And it's fine. I love her. She's just you know,
Speaker 1: she's a fiery gal. She's a Sagittarius. But yeah, it
Speaker 1: just does make things a little bit difficult. And then
Speaker 1: so the next day we were out breakfast and again
Speaker 1: Ivy was in the high chair. We're feeding her some food.
Speaker 1: She's really good at breakfast, but it was like towards
Speaker 1: the end where me and Tim were trying to finish
Speaker 1: out breakfast and she was cracking it. And then oh
Speaker 1: my god, guys, the Fiji and people are just so lovely,
Speaker 1: so lovely, and they're obsessed with babies, so they're obsessed
Speaker 1: with kids, and so she's kind of cracking it. And
Speaker 1: then this lady just like comes over and picks up
Speaker 1: Ivy and like gives her kisses and then just like
Speaker 1: walks away, and me and him are like, what is happening?
Speaker 1: But we could like see them over at the lounge,
Speaker 1: and then we finished breakfast and then yeah, so this
Speaker 1: woman was like, oh, I'm Sally, I'm your nanny. So
Speaker 1: anytime you need me to look after Ivy, you know,
Speaker 1: just text me. She gave me her WhatsApp and she
Speaker 1: was like literally our full time nanny the whole time.
Speaker 1: So what would we What we would do is like
Speaker 1: Ivy would wake up, we'd give her bottle in the morning,
Speaker 1: we then head to breakfast, we give her her solids,
Speaker 1: and then as soon as she kind of started to
Speaker 1: get over it. The nanny would come and like get
Speaker 1: her and play with her where we finished her breakfast,
Speaker 1: and then we would go to the room and get
Speaker 1: her a bit sorted, and then we would put her
Speaker 1: down for a nap. And then instead of because the
Speaker 1: first day, Ivy went down for a nap and me
Speaker 1: and Tim were just like, you know, waiting around because
Speaker 1: you just you can't obviously leave the room while the
Speaker 1: baby's sleeping. And then so the nanny would literally just
Speaker 1: come over and watch Ivy and me and Tim could
Speaker 1: like go stand up paddle boarding or go snorkeling, or
Speaker 1: go sit by the pool, and then she would just
Speaker 1: text us when Ivy woke up. So it's really weird
Speaker 1: because I just like, I don't know, I didn't know
Speaker 1: that this was a thing. But everyone at the hotel,
Speaker 1: anyone with a young baby, had a nanny and it
Speaker 1: was just like a normal thing. And I just didn't
Speaker 1: know about this. So you don't know if this like
Speaker 1: happened anywhere else, but I don't know if it's like
Speaker 1: a Fijian thing. But it was honestly incredible because we
Speaker 1: got to spend you know, all the incredible time with
Speaker 1: Ivy while she was awake and playing and all that
Speaker 1: sort of thing. But then also me and Tim had
Speaker 1: time to literally sit down and have a meal together.
Speaker 1: And if you're a new parent, you would know what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. You would be like what, because when
Speaker 1: you have a baby, it's just it's really hard to
Speaker 1: connect with your partner because someone's always feeding baby or
Speaker 1: making sure they're okay, or you're talking about baby. And yeah,
Speaker 1: so it was just like really incredible. And don't get
Speaker 1: me wrong, it's not like we didn't see Ivy and
Speaker 1: she was just off in the room. We had her
Speaker 1: with us all the time, and it was just when she,
Speaker 1: you know, started to crack it or she needed to sleep,
Speaker 1: I would just what's up the nanny and she would
Speaker 1: come and grab her and you know, just help us out.
Speaker 1: And it was just so amazing to have that, because
Speaker 1: when you are a new parent, your relationship does really
Speaker 1: get put on the back burner and it's just what
Speaker 1: it is. And you know, me and Tim have been
Speaker 1: navigating it, but we did comment that to have a
Speaker 1: holiday where we could share a meal together, where me
Speaker 1: and him could have some time to connect, really made
Speaker 1: such a difference. And also my parents joked, you know,
Speaker 1: they've had four kids, and they're like, oh, like a
Speaker 1: holiday with kids is it's not actually a holiday because
Speaker 1: you're just worrying about the kids all the time. And
Speaker 1: so I was like, not worried about that, but you know,
Speaker 1: obviously we're not going to not holiday. So I just
Speaker 1: kind of went into it thinking, Oh, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to be the most relaxed. It's just about you know,
Speaker 1: getting through this. So it's all good. It is what
Speaker 1: it is. So I very much went into the holiday
Speaker 1: thinking it was going to be like that, and then
Speaker 1: when this happened, I just had my mind opened and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god, Wow, I'm making sure
Speaker 1: every hotel we stay out next has a kid's club. No, no, no.
Speaker 1: But it like really made a difference, especially because it
Speaker 1: was just me and Tim with Ivy. So yeah, that
Speaker 1: was like a really random side of it, because, like
Speaker 1: I said, going into this holiday before, I was feeling
Speaker 1: really burnt out and I was really craving some time
Speaker 1: with Tim and just like some relaxing time, and we
Speaker 1: got to have that as well as so much time
Speaker 1: and so much family time. So it really was like
Speaker 1: one of the most incredible holidays ever, because obviously we
Speaker 1: had IVY, obviously we got to spend some time together,
Speaker 1: and I do feel really relaxed, and a week was
Speaker 1: like the perfect time because I feel like previously me
Speaker 1: and Tim always book holidays for five days. I don't
Speaker 1: know why, and then I feel like, just as the
Speaker 1: fifth day, you're just relaxing and then you've got to
Speaker 1: like go back to the real world. So to have
Speaker 1: seven days was perfect because on Saturday, the day before
Speaker 1: we left, me and Tim both said, we feel like
Speaker 1: we're ready for home. We feel like we're ready for routine,
Speaker 1: and I just I love what I do. So I
Speaker 1: was so ready to like come home and record this
Speaker 1: podcast and get back into it. But it was such
Speaker 1: an amazing time. And yeah, and I yeah, I just
Speaker 1: wanted to be like very transparent about the nanny thing
Speaker 1: because you guys would have seen like a lot of
Speaker 1: content of just me and Tim hanging out and having
Speaker 1: dinner together and special time. And I never want to Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't not like lie about anything, but I just
Speaker 1: want to be like very transparent. And me and Tim
Speaker 1: did feel like really weird about it at the start,
Speaker 1: because I don't know, I think I had some like
Speaker 1: limiting beliefs around it, because I remember growing up and
Speaker 1: my mum kind of saying like, oh, we never put
Speaker 1: you guys into you know, kids club because we want
Speaker 1: to spend time with you, and she almost like frowned
Speaker 1: upon doing that, if that makes sense. And obviously to
Speaker 1: put it in context, my mom is like the most maternal,
Speaker 1: best mum ever, and like I've when she put me
Speaker 1: in Kindy, I cried the first day obviously, like every
Speaker 1: child who goes to Kindy, So she just never took
Speaker 1: me back, like she goes, Oh, you cried, you didn't
Speaker 1: want to be there, so I just never took you
Speaker 1: back to Kindy, Like that's her thing is. She just
Speaker 1: was very we were you know, wrapped in cotton wool
Speaker 1: sort of things. So she was like, oh, well, you
Speaker 1: never wanted to go to kids club, so we would
Speaker 1: never put you in kids cub. So I had this
Speaker 1: like weird thing that it's like you could never do
Speaker 1: that on holidays. But now my mind is opened because it, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it made the trip really relaxing, which so many people
Speaker 1: were like, oh, you don't get a holiday when you're
Speaker 1: holiday with kids. Anyway, that's a bit of a ramp.
Speaker 1: But it was incredible and I'm feeling really refreshed, and
Speaker 1: I got so many exciting ideas for the potty And
Speaker 1: like I said, I really feel like I'm stepping in
Speaker 1: to this like new transition as Georgie as a mum
Speaker 1: who was just so different to Georgie last year. And
Speaker 1: I'm really excited to start making decisions from this place.
Speaker 1: After doing week one of the project last week with everyone,
Speaker 1: I just feel so much more clear on what this
Speaker 1: next chapter looks like and what I want. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm just really really excited to move forward from this place,
Speaker 1: if that makes sense. So it was like the perfect
Speaker 1: holiday because it's almost like this like endpoint and you know,
Speaker 1: of a new chapter. So yes, it was incredible. It
Speaker 1: was really good with Ivy. I yeah did not like
Speaker 1: if you are traveling with an infant, don't get too stressed,
Speaker 1: because like the hotel was so good. And also that's
Speaker 1: another thing. It's like we bought heaps of those food
Speaker 1: pouches for her because we just didn't know, but the
Speaker 1: hotel just like purade her food, so she would just
Speaker 1: be like, oh, can she have chicken and you know, vegetables,
Speaker 1: and they just like puried her food and gave it
Speaker 1: to us and everything was like, yeah, really done well
Speaker 1: and we really did not have to stress. So yes,
Speaker 1: that was amazing. A little update with Ivy. So she's
Speaker 1: literally eight months yesterday, guys. It's just incredible. So she
Speaker 1: has started crawling. She started crawling, she's on the move,
Speaker 1: she's loving that. She's having two sleeps a day. She's
Speaker 1: still sleeping through and she's having about four bottles a
Speaker 1: day and then she has solids three times a day,
Speaker 1: so she eats a lot of food. She's a big
Speaker 1: baby for her age. I'm told literally, when we first
Speaker 1: got to Fiji, one of the Fijian women women was like,
Speaker 1: how old is she? I'm like, oh, she's she's about
Speaker 1: to be eight months. And she's like, oh, she's so
Speaker 1: big for an eight month old, so long, and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's so funny because I'm so short. So yeah, Ivy
Speaker 1: is doing really well. And I just feel like eight
Speaker 1: months at like from six months, from six months to
Speaker 1: now has been such a sweet spot for me just
Speaker 1: feeling confident as a mom. I felt like before she
Speaker 1: was six months, I just did not know what was happening.
Speaker 1: And I really struggled with like what does she need,
Speaker 1: what is happening, what's her routine? And I was like
Speaker 1: really fixed on like finding the perfect routine. And I
Speaker 1: don't know, it's like, since she's hit six months, I
Speaker 1: feel like I've been able to relax and just feel
Speaker 1: really confident with my decisions with her, and like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, I just like, intuitively, I feel like being
Speaker 1: a mother is coming a lot more natural, and I
Speaker 1: feel like before that it didn't feel like that. And
Speaker 1: so you know, if you do have a baby and
Speaker 1: you're kind of feeling like kind of like me where
Speaker 1: it was like being a mother isn't coming natural to you,
Speaker 1: I just want to say, like, it does come, and
Speaker 1: just relax into it. I know a lot of women,
Speaker 1: you know, it's like the baby's born, and they straight
Speaker 1: away just like, oh, you know, perfect maternal, that sort
Speaker 1: of thing. But I'm saying, like me personally, it honestly
Speaker 1: didn't feel like that until I view was six months old.
Speaker 1: So don't don't stress, because it does come. And I feel, yeah,
Speaker 1: I just feel like more intuitive with her and more
Speaker 1: confident with her, and like I know what she needs
Speaker 1: and I know her certain cries and just more in
Speaker 1: tune with her. And it's also just such a beautiful
Speaker 1: age because she's obviously sitting up and she's crawling and
Speaker 1: she's laughing, and I just feel like she gets life
Speaker 1: a bit more and it's obviously, like you just I
Speaker 1: just am enjoying this face so much in regards to
Speaker 1: like me. So obviously I'm eight months postpartum, I am.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm feeling really good energy wise, and
Speaker 1: I think that's because whose Ivy has been sleeping through
Speaker 1: since she was twelve weeks old, so three months, so
Speaker 1: I've been getting amazing sleep and I know that's not
Speaker 1: always the case, and sleep has just made such a
Speaker 1: difference for me. I've been working out a couple of
Speaker 1: times a week. I still, you know, am nowhere near
Speaker 1: my prebody baby, and I just like, I don't even
Speaker 1: know if that's ever gonna come, and I'm just not
Speaker 1: too worried about it. I'm still like ten kilos heavier,
Speaker 1: and I think, like that's normal and it's all good.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, you know, trying to navigate that and
Speaker 1: work within that. And I'll probably do a whole episode
Speaker 1: on that because it is really weird, because you know,
Speaker 1: like obviously your prebody baby was still your body, but
Speaker 1: it's like I have a new body now and I'm
Speaker 1: like just getting used to it and it's all good.
Speaker 1: But you do, you know, you do still feel pressures
Speaker 1: and it still feels like weird sometimes because it's like you,
Speaker 1: but it's a new you, so like still navigating that.
Speaker 1: But I'm doing really good physically and mentally. I just
Speaker 1: feel like since the sixth month mark, I have just, like,
Speaker 1: like I said, just felt a lot more confident as
Speaker 1: a mum and you know, got into more of a
Speaker 1: routine with going back to work, and Ivy's in a
Speaker 1: great routine and me and him have kind of worked
Speaker 1: out what it looks like for him to be at
Speaker 1: home and me to be at work and us finding
Speaker 1: time together and all these things. It definitely took a
Speaker 1: lot of time and we're still working it out, but
Speaker 1: it does. It feels really good. But yeah, so that's
Speaker 1: just a bit of an update. I hope you enjoyed that,
Speaker 1: like holiday holiday disaster story that turned out good and
Speaker 1: just what it was like for our first international holiday
Speaker 1: with Ivy. Oh my god, it was just so much fun.
Speaker 1: And she loves the water. She was obsessed with the water.
Speaker 1: But thanks so much. Guys. It's exciting to be back
Speaker 1: in your ears and moving forward on this season, we
Speaker 1: are having more guests, We're having more of our Georgie's
Speaker 1: Hotline episodes, and more goodness. So stay tuned. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much for listening. I'll chat to you on my
Speaker 1: next episode. Bye for now. Thank you so much for
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