(cluttering noises)
- Good morning.
Just had my first night back in a real bed.
(crowd cheering)
Rather than staying downstairs in our guest bed,
which had the much better mattress for my injured back.
Because now, we have proper mattress,
which is good for my scoliosis.
So, I'm so relieved to be actually back in the bedroom
and finally getting over my back injury,
which feels like it has taken forever.
It's actually been five weeks,
which in baby time is forever.
I'm gonna go downstairs now,
of course make a cup of tea.
She can't start the day without a cup of tea, can she?
Oh, no.
(quirky music)
And then you try to get milk out the fridge
and you drop stuff on the floor
because you're still a bit shaky.
A vital part of the routine, obviously.
Oh, wow.
Okay.
Normally, I can very easily touch my toes,
and in fact, my elbows on the floor,
but apparently right now we can't.
We can't pick stuff up off the floor. Okay.
We'll come back for that. That's fine.
Okay. Nevermind.
We'll just make the tea. (giggles)
(quirky music)
Wait.
Okay!
(quirky music continues)
Ooh. (gasps)
Yes. Ah, yes.
We're gonna get ready for your nappy change.
Tab.
Second tab.
Third, we open the front.
Finished, yeah.
Pickup.
Yes.
Let's go play in the kitchen.
And this is Rupert's floor mat
where he lies down to play and look in the mirror.
Normally, we hang his toys from this bar here,
which is attached to the kitchen island.
But because right now he's in his grabbing phase
where he is doing a lot of heavy tugging and pulling.
And he's really into this peacock at the moment
because it has some great edges that he likes to gnaw on.
I love this peacock too. (giggles)
It's from Cam Cam. It's amazing.
He likes to suck on all the edges
and put his little two hands on either side, it's very cute.
He likes to put a lot of weight down into this
and pull it on the strings,
so we keep it on the activity gym
because that just seems a lot safer
and he could put a lot of heft into it
and also play with two things at the same time,
whereas this is really only a one thing type of stuff.
(quirky music)
I'll tell you one thing.
It is very nice to have clean hair again.
I think in the whole... (giggles)
The whole time that I was ill that month...
I say ill, because when you have a really bad injury,
you kind of do feel like you are ill.
Or it's the painkillers. They really don't help.
But you're lying in bed
and horrible pain makes you very much feel like you are ill,
because you're groggy, gross,
and your body's just in a state of ugh.
Anyway, so in that whole month, I think I had two baths.
Well, for one thing, it was very, very painful
trying to get into any kind of bath or shower situation.
This is where wet wipes are your friend.
Not just for a baby, but also for a mum bath.
Good tip.
If you've had any kind of bad, difficult birthing situation,
new moms or moms to be,
because I guess the advice would be better
if you were a mum to be,
lots of wet wipes, always your friend.
If you go through any kind of illness or injury,
lots of wet wipe baths.
But also, don't feel bad about it, really don't.
It's very much okay.
It is also far better to be doing that
than to be doing a wet flannel.
I know you're gonna be thinking,
a wet flannel, surely that's a better idea.
It's not because you will get water everywhere.
And when you can't move very much,
you're going to be making the bed underneath you wet
and that's not good.
We have some really nice bamboo wet wipes
that we Rupert uses which I like,
because they're biodegradable and made of bamboo,
so they're really soft.
And also, obviously, we have a lot of them because baby.
I think we actually mentioned them
in our things that are great for babies video.
So, go and check that out.
Should probably have also mentioned
that they were really great for parents.
Babies, they don't need all the good stuff.
Have good stuff too.
(quirky music)
(indistinct) really important when you're not feeling great
is having staff that makes you feel
like you're kind of treating yourself,
which is why I really personally love Function of Beauty,
because it has my name on it.
And you get to choose the color and the fragrance,
even though I had to get fragrance free, because you know,
I'm allergic to the world.
But I got to choose it shades of pink, because why not?
And It's this Function of Jessica on it.
And you get to choose your hair goals.
My hair, as you may know,
is naturally very straight and it's actually dark blonde.
I dye it red and then I curl it with foam rollers.
So I do a lot to my poor hair,
which I'm gonna tell you all about sitting down,
because my back hurts too much to keep standing.
I actually started crying, my back hurt too much.
Everything's fine.
I'm recovered enough.
We'll call it that.
Back to my hair, though.
Shampoo bottles! Why not?
I find it really enjoyable.
I love being able to customize things.
It brings me a lot of joy.
My hair goals are color protection,
deep condition, fixed split ends,
shine and strengthen.
Shine is the favorite and most important goal for me
because who doesn't want that?
(playful jingle)
I've previously used Function of Beauty's face products,
which is why when they reached out to me this time
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Very happy to while I am lying in bed,
feeling horrendous about myself,
be overjoyed to spend some time
personalizing some hair products for myself.
That sounds like a delightful thing.
They're also a hundred percent vegan and cruelty free.
(Rupert fussing)
Oh. (smooches) (laughs)
Another amazing thing
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Now I've had breakfast, it's time to get ready for the day.
With some excellent mattifying SPF 50 suncream of course,
because who has time for foundation anymore?
Okay, so I know I said no foundation,
but I'm actually dabbing on
some powdered foundation as concealer
with the gorgeous blusher brush from the Bobbi Brown kit
that I was raving about last Christmas.
This is normally the time
we'd be going out on a family walk,
so Claudia and I with the dogs
and Rupert in his buggy,
just enjoying the fresh air at the local park together.
But it's been just the four of them for the last month,
and I don't quite feel ready to join them
even in my motorized wheelchair,
because that's a lot of shaking
for my not particularly stable-feeling spine.
But I'm really looking forward
to when I can actually get back out there with them.
Funnily enough,
it's not even the baby keeping me up at night
that gives me bags under my eyes,
it's the pain that stops me from going to sleep.
So helpful.
Eyeshadow, I used to make a thing about it,
but now I just use a blending brush,
grab a bit of color and pop it on there.
I have monolids and I need to do something
to give them depth.
I mean, you know, it's fine.
It'll do.
Get your fingers in there.
Absolutely does not need to be fancy, she says,
then grabbing a tiny liner brush to add definition,
because she doesn't know when to stop.
Great stopping powers, Jessica.
Grab an eyeliner and throw it on the floor.
That's an important step.
Aim for two vaguely matching eyes, you know?
But hey, you weren't born with two matching eyes,
so it's fine.
God, wearing eyeliner does make me feel amazing though.
If I can't go out for the family walk,
then using this time to make myself feel good
is a bit of a meditative way to take time
to make myself feel good.
And finally, lipstick.
We're going classic with the stick.
Nothing makes me feel more like I am finally coming out
to the other side of illness or injury
than red lipstick and clean hair.
With those, I feel ready to take on the world.
(upbeat jazz music)
Now, I'm ready to start my day.
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(smooches)
(jazz music continues)