Speaker 1: Welcome to them, Christian, no common show podcast.
Speaker 2: Let's get into some of your emails now late la partia?
Speaker 2: What late.
Speaker 1: You're home on the show for all your awesome emails
Speaker 1: up first, so you don't see a lot of this anymore.
Speaker 2: A couple with the same email address? Do you used
Speaker 2: to see a lot of that?
Speaker 1: Steve and Diane, Steve stew and die at hot mail
Speaker 1: got here A Scott and Jackie Bowman. Hi, Christian, Well
Speaker 1: you know what, why don't we create an email address
Speaker 1: for me? Jack and pats A trio? You had that
Speaker 1: the combination the surfing, tough Christian, Patsy and Jack. As
Speaker 1: Jack still hasn't come to terms with the reality of
Speaker 1: his wife Bianca's labor. Here's the story of my new
Speaker 1: dad Foulm. My wife Jackie went into labor at seven
Speaker 1: point thirty am. We had a leisurely ten minute drive
Speaker 1: to the hospital. The obstetrician popped in around ten am
Speaker 1: when everything was still calm, and told us the baby
Speaker 1: was still a few good hours away. So I offered
Speaker 1: to pomp down to the shops down the road get
Speaker 1: to get us some extra lonnies for the birth. I
Speaker 1: was so excited about being a new dad. I celebrated
Speaker 1: with a coffee and a donut at the nearest cafe.
Speaker 1: Then I bought my wife some donuts and I went
Speaker 1: and visited the fair trade shop for some coffee.
Speaker 2: While I was there, I picked up a lovely handmade
Speaker 2: mobile for the crib.
Speaker 1: On the way back, I saw bookshops a brows find
Speaker 1: her a perfect book, finishing this all off with a
Speaker 1: boat care for hours to stroll back to the hospital.
Speaker 1: I'd about an hour and a half, I guess, feeling
Speaker 1: like new Den of the Year, only to find my
Speaker 1: wife crouched on hands and knees on the bed, already
Speaker 1: with an eperjurial and still screaming in pain every five minutes.
Speaker 1: Ten hours later, our son was born in breech position,
Speaker 1: which explained the pain.
Speaker 2: So if jack expects cliff bars.
Speaker 1: And power aid to cut it, it's time to wake
Speaker 1: up Jackie by and smell the fair trade coffee.
Speaker 2: Scotty, that's a great email.
Speaker 3: Don't forget about the killer python, Scutdy.
Speaker 1: Oh he's forgotten Scotty's forgotten.
Speaker 2: Ps.
Speaker 1: While we're at it, playing any song to woman and
Speaker 1: labor that has the chorus always waiting on you will
Speaker 1: never be played again in that household. Yeah, Jack to
Speaker 1: put together a playlist of songs he thought were soothing
Speaker 1: and appropriate for when his wife Anka goes into labor.
Speaker 1: Great spot for Scotty about his life, Scotty, that's all
Speaker 1: very very.
Speaker 2: Good, Christian.
Speaker 1: Can you let Jack know the story when I was
Speaker 1: working as a midwife when I had my son. So
Speaker 1: yesterday on the show, we were talking about alternative ways
Speaker 1: to try and induce labor and the anchor Jack's wife
Speaker 1: wants the baby out. This week at almost what thirty
Speaker 1: nine weeks yep. At my thirty eight week review with
Speaker 1: my obstetrician, I slapped a pad of cherry ripes on
Speaker 1: his desk and asked him what he was doing tomorrow.
Speaker 2: He replied, what are you doing this afternoon?
Speaker 1: Membranes officially artificially ruptured. Three hours and forty five minutes later,
Speaker 1: I was holding my son. My tip to Jackie boy,
Speaker 1: find out what your obstetrician's favorite chocolate is. He doesn't
Speaker 1: stand and basically they were bribe to get it out,
Speaker 1: get in there and get it out.
Speaker 2: So what does he do?
Speaker 1: We don't need to go into the actual well, there's
Speaker 1: only one thing he can really do. There's only one
Speaker 1: doorway to go through to you know, he's not giving
Speaker 1: her a foot rub mate, What do you think pleasing
Speaker 1: a title? He's an obstetrician. He's not going to get
Speaker 1: a steaders come and go, let's see your tonsils?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 3: If that, if that's already one of you asking me seriously?
Speaker 2: Right almost thirty nine weeks? What's he going to do?
Speaker 1: Wake up? Jackie wipes out the Fat Trade Coffee Man show,
Speaker 1: the Life Time. This is the Christian o'connells show podcast.
Speaker 2: Jackie boy, where are we now? Is it? I was
Speaker 2: looking at the calendar yesternight.
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe we'll get into March next week and
Speaker 1: ten days is that all it is?
Speaker 3: That's and that's until his due date if he comes
Speaker 3: on his jue date. But I came ten days early.
Speaker 3: So if he's anything like his papa, he will come today.
Speaker 1: And it's the only time that you were ever early
Speaker 1: for anything. Just it was a one off. It was
Speaker 1: a one off. And quote and so what what stage
Speaker 1: you are now to describe?
Speaker 2: Likes? What's going on today today? What was yesterday for you?
Speaker 2: In Bianca?
Speaker 3: Yesterday we took the pram out for a spin to
Speaker 3: see how how it runs.
Speaker 2: But there's no kid in there, So what do you
Speaker 2: have in there? The dog?
Speaker 4: You know what?
Speaker 2: Those those people got the dog in the pram and okay, by.
Speaker 3: We didn't take the Actually our feeling sorry for the
Speaker 3: dog at the moment because I feel like any of
Speaker 3: the baby stuff Bianker wants to try out on the dog, I've.
Speaker 2: Like put put it in there.
Speaker 3: We don't we don't know how to swaddle yet.
Speaker 1: She's not breastfeeding. My team usually gums.
Speaker 2: The pram was.
Speaker 3: We just took it out empty, and I that was
Speaker 3: Banker's idea, to be honest, I wanted to wait until.
Speaker 1: If I were Cloak, break my heart, I would have
Speaker 1: thought something happened. You know, did anyone see that there
Speaker 1: was nothing in there?
Speaker 3: No, thankfully, because you could tell someone recognized you.
Speaker 1: Maybe the baby's been born. They haven't heard the show
Speaker 1: for a while, and you've just forgotten about the baby.
Speaker 2: You know, that was Jack's job. So I forgot the baby.
Speaker 2: Let me. I just jumped back and get him. He'll
Speaker 2: be fine, he'd be fine.
Speaker 3: I was thinking, you were so calm. It's made of peep.
Speaker 3: Since we've been out here.
Speaker 2: You have one of these quiet on, very very quiet.
Speaker 1: This is why Jack needs to support group, which is
Speaker 1: why I launched recently on the show The League of Dad's.
Speaker 1: Being in ad is an amazing thing. It's an honor,
Speaker 1: it's a privilege. But you can't do it alone. You're
Speaker 1: not going to read all the books, all the Dry
Speaker 1: Mooring podcasts about it.
Speaker 2: You give me too tired, very soon to read the.
Speaker 1: Latest research and what you should do, what you shouldn't do.
Speaker 2: It's all changed since five years ago. Why did you
Speaker 2: do this? We did this with our kid. It worked great. Sure,
Speaker 2: you need to go true.
Speaker 3: There's so many at the moment sling around the bench
Speaker 3: the table just printed off PDFs of what we need
Speaker 3: to know.
Speaker 2: We need to overwhelming.
Speaker 1: What Jack needs is real life advice that's been learned
Speaker 1: the hard way through.
Speaker 2: Getting it wrong.
Speaker 1: I need dads to assemble and form with me the League.
Speaker 3: Of Dads.
Speaker 1: If you want to be in the League of Dads,
Speaker 1: no matter where you are, whether it's toddlers going through
Speaker 1: the table twos or table threes.
Speaker 2: You've got your ten year olds, your eleven year olds,
Speaker 2: kids in year twelve like me. Email me.
Speaker 1: He needs all of our advice. I still need your advice.
Speaker 1: Christian O'Connell dot com dot AU. Thank you very much
Speaker 1: to the dads that I've already started to step forward
Speaker 1: and say yes, I want in. I want to be
Speaker 1: part of this support group for each other, the League
Speaker 1: of Dads.
Speaker 4: Christian, good morning, and thank you very much for creating
Speaker 4: a wonderful incentive for the League of Dads. Look, if
Speaker 4: it was me giving my advice back to me on
Speaker 4: behalf of Jack, I make sure he focuses purely on
Speaker 4: the transformation of his beautiful birthing partner, the woman who
Speaker 4: bears the child, and will transform and it will be
Speaker 4: greater than what she and you could ever imagine, and
Speaker 4: unlocking those very gustural human symphonics that resonate well beyond
Speaker 4: the birth canal moments. But more importantly, yeah, look, the
Speaker 4: basic social formula for your first child is you do
Speaker 4: become a parent. The second child you're becoming up riches.
Speaker 3: That was way too vage. How do I make transform?
Speaker 2: Give you? I can use talk about Richard.
Speaker 1: He an't coming in League of Dads right, No, nerves
Speaker 1: are playing another one of these what you're playing at?
Speaker 5: Hi, Christian? Jack and Pat's Eric here. Great to listen
Speaker 5: to you on the show this morning, Jack, I've got
Speaker 5: your back. As you know, I'm a dad to a dozen.
Speaker 5: I'm here to offer those advice. I'm going to go
Speaker 5: with daily tips Jack for you, starting with tip number
Speaker 5: one today. Just don't worry about it. If he's not
Speaker 5: sleeping at night, enjoy the time that he's awake. That's okay.
Speaker 5: He'll sleep. He will sleep if he's sleeping too much,
Speaker 5: and missus a feed that's okay too. He obviously needs
Speaker 5: to sleep.
Speaker 2: And trust me, he'll tell you.
Speaker 5: When he's hungry. You'll know about it. If you need anything,
Speaker 5: you know where to reach me. If you have any questions,
Speaker 5: feel free to shoot me a message. Have a great day, guys,
Speaker 5: speak soon.
Speaker 2: To be fair, Eric needs to come into a league
Speaker 2: of dads.
Speaker 1: You know. He definitely one more on the way.
Speaker 2: He's got one more on the way as well.
Speaker 1: All right, email me, guys, Christian at Christian O'Connell dot
Speaker 1: com dot au. On a brighter nose, you're listening to
Speaker 1: the Christian o'crl Show podcast.