OK, bye bye. Yea! We're having a baby!!!
[Life in Japan Theme Song]
Daddy, can I go up there and look?
Oh my goodness!
Oh my!
That's crazy! It is so pink, huh?
Super-duper pink!
I'm going to go down to the street...
Hey Debbie - can you get plates for the adults?
Yep.
We're waiting for the baby to come, but in the meantime, this is how she has to wash dishes...
Her belly's too big.
She has to stand sideways!
My goodness! Oh wow.
Your arms aren't long enough!
Taihen! (That's hard!)
40 weeks! Oh come on Luiza!
Yeah, come Luiza.
Whoa, look! Everybody's chowing down here, huh?
I still can't eat. Is it so good, guys?
I wish I could eat but I can't eat because my food is still not ready.
We're celebrating a million views!!
One million views!
We had our first single video hit one million views,
About why our kids go to Japanese school and so we're celebrating here tonight.
The first of many. The first of many, come on!
I'm going to take this opportunity that three of my really good friends are here at my house,
And they've all had babies here in Japan.
So what was your favorite thing about having a baby in Japan?
Or the strangest, because you had one in the States too, and you had one in Brazil.
Right.
So what was different?
Well I had a C-section, which neither of you had C-sections,
So that was a big different experience between Japan and America.
Why?
You only had a C-section in the afternoon.
So in America it's first thing in the morning.
But here you like go to the hospital,
You check into your room. It's almost like you're going to a little hotel for awhile.
And the prep you until the afternoon when you have the C-section.
So that was a long process.
Your doctor who performs the C-section is the anesthesiologists,
Yeah, that's different. That was very different.
The recovery process, the most challenge part was that they don't give you much pain medicine in Japan.
No pain meds! But in America, they're very liberal with the pain meds!
You get the pump, and you pump the pump!
You pump the pump, so that was challenging.
But they treat you so well!
Like, oh my goodness, all the staff were like so, so nice.
And the bag of things that they give you!
It's like you're going to a retreat
And they're like "Here is all your luxury—all your pajamas,
and slippers and shampoos, towels.
You go the hospital with just pajamas and everything else they just give you!
They even give you underwear.
Yeah. It's glorious!
How was the food?
Oh amazing. Oh, the food.
So good.
So well presented, so pretty — you're just like — you just sit there and enjoy it.
Does it make you want to have another baby just to stay there longer?
Ahhhhhhh... She is!
There you go, number 4 in Japan!
Four kids in Japan! Which one was the easiest?
It was the third one, but that's because I walked to the clinic
And everybody was like "What, you walked here?!"
But then I was in the elevator and my water broke,
And I sat there and I had it — it was like 15 minutes.
Oh my goodness!
That's such a crazy story.
I should walk! I should walk again!
There you go, Pri.
But you had Joey here in Japan.
Yeah, it was a very good experience.
I really liked the clinic.
Because in Brazil we don't have like nice clinics like that.
It's like a hotel and you can rest and everything's so clean.
And they have the music in your room,
Soothing... wow
It's so relaxing.
And everything is so organized.
Like the time for shower, the time for food,
It's amazing.
When I got home, I missed my hospital bed.
The bed and the comforter — remember that comforter?! Oh, yes!
This amazing down comforter You could put it in every-which position you want.
And your bed can do all these kinds of positions,
And I just missed that when I got home.
But we all got private rooms, and I think that was a huge bonus.
Because we had our own toilet.
But it's just women, it's just a birthing clinic,
So it's nice to know that during the night you're not going to... oh, he's S.O.Sing!
During the night you're not going to run into any men or anything, it's just you women.
Waddling around because you're in pain because you just had a baby.
And all the chairs have those donut pillows on them!
In the United States they're all about in and out of the hospital.
You get in, you have the baby, and you're out.
But here they were very much about mothers recovering.
They didn't bother you so much during the night, they just really wanted your nighttime to be peaceful.
What I love about Japan is that they value the natural birth.
And I wanted that but in Brazil they really pushed for a C-section and I just had to fight for a natural birth.
And here that is protected, so I feel so safe.
I don't have to worry about it because I know they're not going to try to push that.
And they don't push for the epidural, because they don't even really give you that option.
Unless you're having a C-section, you're not getting an epidural.
Somebody just made a really good point, and it wasn't one of the ladies.
What were you saying, Ben?
It's way cheaper to have a baby here in Japan than in America.
So thank you so much! (Everyone laughs)
Debbie stayed for like 5 nights in the hospital, that would have been so expensive in America.
Birth from Dad's perspective. That's right.
It's cheaper here!
You guys all have amazing families. Thank you for living here in Japan!
Pri is starting to have some contractions,
So we're hoping that in a couple of hours she'll have to go to the hospital and have this baby.
And I get to go to their house and watch Joey while Paul and her are at the hospital.
Having contractions pretty often now, huh?
It's going to be soon. I hope tonight!
A couple of hours later...
OK, bye bye! Yea! We're having a baby!
OK, can you lock the door?
Oh let me... where's my keys, where's my keys, where's my keys?
Love you, bye! Love you.
I think this is it! Pri's going to have her baby.
We're getting ready to go. Ruth's here!
OK, cell phone, keys, wallet, let's go!
We're on our way to receive Luiza!
Thank you Ruth and Nate for your car.
Because it's nighttime we come in through the backdoor.
We can put them in here.
We're at the hospital, Pri's having contractions about every 4 to 4 minutes or so.
Strong contractions: the baby's coming right now, tonight.
I'm here at Paul and Pri's house watching Joey while he sleeps,
Because they went to the hospital to have baby Luiza.
So when we arrive on the 2nd floor, we are told to wait here.
When the nurse was ready, she came and got Pri,
She went in there and they're getting her all ready.
Soon I'll be called in to go with her.
It's the middle of the night. Ruth's still not here, I'm going to check my phone messages, see what's going on here.
Pri just got taken in to get ready and checked up,
And as soon as they're done getting her ready, they're going to call me in.
There's another lady giving birth over here too, you can hear her in pain as well
(Baby cries)
Can you hear? I don't know if you can hear.
Luiza's here! Oh my goodness!
Did I get you right in time? Are you going to cry?
Oh my goodness!
But you weren't crying until now.
Oh my, you cry so cute.
Joey? Oh! Tia Pri's in labor!
Wait, Tia Pri's in labor?!
So guess what? I woke up in the middle of the night and check my phone to see what was happening.
Tia Pri's in labor? And guess what I saw?
A picture of little Luiza, all born! What?!
Look!
Isn't she so cute?! Ah!
I thought she was going to be so big because the tummy was so big.
She is so big!