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Okay
Hey Guys!
So this video is gonna be a little bit different than the normal videos.
Yepp!
This is gonna be a little bit more personal.
Yepp!
today...
Very personal
Shall we just start telling them?
Yeah
Yeah? Already?
Ooohh〜
So the news is....
Maiko is pregnant!!!
YAY!
I'm pregnant by six months
Six months
we've been wanting to tell you guys for quite a long time,
but just because uh,
They have this thing in Japan cause I'm thinking it's probably the same all over the world.
I guess the pregnancy is still unstable
So you don't want to tell people until it's been stable and just like the last month or so?
I think, I'm thinking starts from month five
the work that well... We're new to this entire experience
This is our first time
We've actually been on a trip to Korea and Hawaii
Yeah,
And I was actually super sick! Like I think I had a morning sickness morning sickness in english?
I was there in Hawaii. I wanted to eat a lot of stuff like I could eat
Yeah, that was like such a torture.
from last month? I think my morning sickness got better
I'm able to eat and my baby bump started to be you know,
can you show them how much?
This is how it looks
Yeah
It's not that big Not that big but I think
Yeah, so that's six months.
Like if you see from the front I can´t see
cause you're wearing black
No, like some people gets wide.
But yeah, I'm so happy. I'm over the morning sickness stage and I'm able to eat
I'm able to work out
Yeah, so the thing is a lot of people kind of picked up on
not a lot but like some people actually picked up on it
in some of our videos
Maiko has this mark is a
pregnancy badge that people wear around in Japan
and basically the reason why they wear this badge is so that people know to
Not like bump into them or if they're on the train for example to offer them a seat.
What other situations do you need?
Um, from what I heard and you go to the supermarket and like people actually help you to like, carry stuff to the cart
So it's basically they're gonna be nice to you.
I don't even know if they have this in the US I
Don't think so. Maybe this is like something just in Japan
I don't let me know if it's like you guys have this in your country
But you can even see on the trains they have like this mark nowdays
Maiko you can actually tell that she's pregnant yet
Yeah, like, it's hard to tell if she's wearing like baggy clothes
So like this mark helps you tell like whether or not they're pregnant
So just were you guys coming to Japan and you see this you might want to just know that the lady is pregnant
Yeah, don't worry so much
the channel is gonna stay as is or still gonna release content.
Maiko usually if you guys know familiar with the channel.
Maiko is usually behind the camera for a lot of this
So but maybe you know, I might need to get another cameraman or like do some of the stuff on my own
So we just have to like kind of like figure out
how we're doing this because she usually travels with me
which is kind of sad because I do love taking her to
Aww
places
We have fun filming but
just doing this time
Or maybe like after a baby's born. I guess one of the first challenges of the experience when you found out Maiko was pregnant
I was actually choosing a clinic
Oh yeah!
And so like in Japan what happens is a lot of women actually have
their pregnancy natural?
naturally?
Well, it's more like Japanese culture.
Natural birth it's more acceptable and using that
So basically it's like they shoot it into your spine and you like press a button
Yeah, but like there's a word for that right?
Painelss delivery
Really?
So I guess (japanese word) means anesthesia
Yeah, so like if that's not what we do here in the Western culture or like in European culture, it's more common more women has
painkillers, when give a birth and it's more like you choose to give a birth naturally, right?
But in Japan if you don't choose anything you're gonna give a birth naturally that's like a common thing
It's the basic it's normal thing to do here. So like I chose painless labor.
Yeah,
less people do it
so like there are such a few numbers of
Clinics. Yeah, let you do it
Yeah, basically what I did is when I just found now when I was just like a month two months
Not everyone
that's what so different people don't book a clinic to give a birth that early because you don't have to
but like my friend she didn't book it until like
like a month ago or something and she's the same month pregnant.
Oh
That's the big difference like so I chose a painless labor
when I just find now at the Labor Day and that's the time that you can book it
And then I couldn't get into the one that I wanted to cause like this is such a small amount
Yeah, a painless delivery of hospitals and clinics that they get booked up fast
Didn't they get booked up fast because people right when people find out and they want that but then they call the clinic and reserve
That's funny because we actually have a friend who's a foreigner that didn't really know much about the system and they had their first child
Outside of the country and they had a painless delivery
And so that's what they assumed and then when they had there's like delivery.
She was in a lot of pain
She's like, where's my medicine like?
Where's the painkillers and she didn't realize that she couldn't have any and she was in so much pain
I think she was like in labor for I think 24 -26 hours like something ridiculous without any pain
She said she was about to die and she was exhausted
Exhausted and she was and like once you go to the hospital like some hospitals just do not give you any meds
So so I'm just glad so we found a clinic. Yeah, I got in one of the best clinics
So that's kind of one of the beliefs about this thing is really
at least we know where we're gonna go
So we've started going to the doctor
And just like in general the reason why we're telling this is that. I guess our whole entire life is about to change
For those of you who have kids you already know
But for us right now like we're in Tokyo we live in Shibuya
We live and together in like a small studio 35 square meters. It's like one room just for the two of us
It's still a little bit tight, especially since we work out of here like for the most part
But we just like love living in Shibuya
But I think we're gonna need to kind of expand our operation and move to somewhere else all of this like changes and stuff
That's going on. The plan is to document all of this stuff and to kind of share with you this entire process
and that's why we started a second channel called Tokyo zebra
I know some of you have been kind of waiting for that channel
we're gonna like post a lot of kind of like daily activities how Maiko doing we're actually gonna see if we can film
You've got permission to film the clinic we're gonna be looking to either purchase a house
Or renovate a house or maybe even just like rent a house like we need to move before Maiko gets pregnant
so we've been actually searching for the last few months, but
No, half a year
We've been looking for so long well, I have been
So like all of this stuff
we're gonna probably put on that channel so that we don't inundate you because we usually make guides and
I came to life videos for this this channel and other channel is just gonna be kind of like a raw really unedited footage
of just like our daily live stuff you guys are interested in that then we're gonna definitely leave a link hit the subscribe button to
See what we're doing on the daily
like that's basically it the new channel is gonna be
Started and we actually just found out whether it's gonna be a boy or a girl
Oh, yeah
Right we gonna do but like it wasn't a hundred percent sure and like the last visit which is a couple days ago
Right. It was like sure. Yeah. Yes, and you see the size like a little face and stuff
So I'm gonna post that as our first video on Tokyo zebra
So if you want to check out baby's gender then check out that first video on that channel. Anyways, thank you guys
I wanted to share this information with you guys. We're almost there. The channel has grown so much over this last year
Honto honto (really really)
This year is gonna be so great. I appreciate you guys sticking by us
So if you have any questions about the baby childbirth where we're living or anything like that leave it in the comment section
Oh, maybe I can answer in a different channel. Check out my youtube channel. I have a beauty channel
Yeah and check out what we're doing on the daily
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Link is in the description aside from that. We'll catch you guys in the next week. See you later