- Hey look, Parker's ready.
- [Christopher] He's ready to catch that baby.
Are you watching?
Are you watching for the baby to come out?
- [Jessica] Look at his little hands.
- [Christopher] You ready to catch him?
(playful orchestral music)
Good morning, everyone.
A lot of people have been commenting
on our videos recently, that we've been doing
some like prerecorded stuff, like the BB-8 painting
on Jessica's belly and the review of the diaper bag
thing and a lot of people have been going,
oh my goodness, Jessica must be in labor.
They must be in labor.
She's not in labor yet.
So, just wanted to start today's vlog off
explaining that.
But a lot of stuff has been happening.
What?
- Look what I found.
- [Christopher] What did you find?
- [Parker] A mushroom.
- [Christopher] Whew, a mushroom?
Oh yeah, don't touch it.
You never know if an outside mushroom is poisonous or not.
So you leave outside mushrooms alone.
If it's in the refrigerator you can eat it.
- Can we put this in the fridge,
refrigerator?
- [Christopher] I don't know if it's a good kind
of mushroom to eat or not.
Some of them are poisonous.
So we leave the ones that grow outside on their own.
Unless we grow them ourselves.
Okay?
- [Parker] Okay.
- I wanted to really quickly get you guys
up to speed on what's been going on with us.
First off, Jacob had a full recovery.
He was recovered by the time the day was over,
during the day that he got sick and the next day,
all the kids spent the entire day outside playing.
(yelling)
I had some dental work done.
I cracked a crown that was in the back
of my mouth which was made of zirconium
which is not supposed to crack.
The dentist was like, what in the world
happened to your tooth?
How did you crack it?
I don't know.
But it got cracked and I had to get that fixed.
And so here's a little footage of me
coming home from the dentist.
I finished up at the dentist.
It took like two hours.
It was a long, long time in the dentist chair.
There was a lot of cracking sounds and shots
and prying and drills.
But it's done now.
I have a temporary crown on.
I've got to go back once the other crown comes in.
But it looks like my kids had started
some sort of festival in our backyard.
They are...
Jacob's wearing stilts that he made.
Parker, can I see your outfit?
Uh huh.
- Don't I look good?
- [Christopher] You do, you look wonderful.
- I'm going to a wedding.
- [Christopher] A wedding? - Uh huh.
With him. - [Christopher] With him?
- [Parker] Uh huh. - He's getting married?
- [Christopher] You're getting married?
- [Parker] Mm hmm.
Yeah, we're just playing a game where
I'm gonna get married.
- It looks like Burning Man in my backyard right now.
- I went to the doctor and I found out
that I'm two centimeters dilated and 60 percent effaced
which is great.
Things are progressing.
It's not as much as I normally progress at this point,
so I'm kind of a little disappointed.
I'm not going to lie, but that technically
doesn't mean anything.
Like, progression happens very, very quickly sometimes
or very slowly.
But what it does mean is that, I am progressing
and the feelings that I've been having
are doing something.
My doctor then did something called
stripping my membranes which can kind of boost labor
and since then I've been feeling contractions
and getting like really excited.
At one point I was like super excited.
And Christopher downloaded an app
that counts contractions and like times it out
and we were timing it and like, whew, and then
the kids caught on and they're like, we want another baby.
They were so excited.
And then it all just kind of stopped.
I'm glad I didn't go to the hospital.
We almost did.
I was very tempted.
I always have trouble around this point, telling.
But labor's very painful and my contractions
can happen very close together.
They've been like two to five minutes apart
for a couple of hours, which any book
or any magazine article will say, like,
be in the hospital right now
or you're crazy, or in labor.
And for me that doesn't necessarily mean that.
The only thing that ever really, to me,
shows me I'm in full blown labor is when my water breaks
and when that happens, the baby drops into my pelvis
and then gets born within 10-30 minutes.
Every baby I have had has been born within 10-30 minutes
of my water breaking.
We always have that question of like,
should we be in the hospital in case the water breaks,
even though you're not feeling a lot of discomfort
and we don't know for sure that it's labor?
So that's always my struggle at this stage.
And that's definitely where I've been at recently.
And I was really like, with Parker.
I went in and I was like, am I in labor?
And she was like, yeah you're five centimeters dilated,
you're 100% in labor.
It's definitely labor.
I was like, okay, it's labor.
And I felt fine.
And I go okay, I'm in labor okay, cool.
And then I called everybody in.
Like, I called people from L.A. and I was like,
we're in labor, I'm so excited.
And then that night they told me actually,
you just have an irritable uterus and like
you're not really in labor.
We should start you on Pitocin to make things
more consistent and hopefully start it for sure.
And I was like, are you kidding me?
So even the hospital can't tell when
I'm in labor and it's just kind of that question
of when the bubble's going to burst.
And blast out a baby.
- Jacob's doing some drum lesson's right now.
(heavy drum music)
One of the things that we're waiting for the baby
to do is drop and Jessica read somewhere that
one of the best ways to help the baby drop
and get into position to be birthed is to sit
on one of these balls.
So, Parker you want to help me make a giant ball?
- [Bailey] Oh I love those things.
I want it.
Can I please bounce on them?
- [Christopher] You want to help out too?
- No, can I bounce on them?
- [Christopher] You just want to play?
You don't want to do the work part?
- Yeah.
- I want to play too.
- You wanna play, no way.
You gotta, you gotta put in the time
if you wanna say a rhyme.
What?
Let's pump it up.
(playful music)
(laughing)
- My turn.
- That was fun.
My turn.
- [Bailey] Okay.
My turn.
- Hey.
So, I have never had a baby drop before,
like, people are always like, you look like
the baby dropped, and they don't.
Like, when I go out to the hospital
to have a baby, they're always floating,
and this guy is currently floating,
and I have just always assumed it's how
my body works and gone with it,
but this time around I'm like,
you know, maybe put a little effort in,
because I've never really tried
to make the baby drop.
And I read that one of these balls
is a good way to do that.
So, I picked this up at Big 5 for like $12.99
because it was on sale.
- If this drops out you tummy,
we're gonna run and catch it right away.
- You'll catch the baby for me?
Thank you.
- So it didn't get hurt.
- Aww, that is so good of you, Parker.
- Uh huh.
That's what we do.
We're helpers.
- Oh, so...
- [Christopher] Oh, got a landing pad.
- I'm set, I'm just birthing right now.
Anyways, so I looked-
- [Parker] Oh, here's a landing couch.
- Thank you.
I looked up on the internet
different exercises and I think my knees
my be a little high for this ball
because I'm right on the cusp
of what's the right size for the two different
sized balls, but I figured that's not
that big of a deal.
- Do you want us to blow that one up
a little more?
- I know there's supposed to be
a 90 degree angle.
You can blow that up a little more.
- Okay, let's do it.
Let's take that thingy out.
- [Christopher] Okay, let me go get the pump
first, let me get the pump first.
There's a special tool for taking that out.
Do you want to do it?
- uh huh.
- [Christopher] Okay, let's do it.
You got the tool?
- uh huh.
- [Christopher] Oh no.
Whew.
That was a close one.
Almost lost all our air.
- Yeah.
Now let's pump in it.
- [Christopher] Okay.
- [Parker] Perfect.
- Wait, that hose is supposed to be connected.
Now you're letting out even more air.
Oh no.
Wait, wait, I have to turn off the camera
and help you out with this.
How is it now?
- Yeah.
- [Christopher] Perfect?
- Solid.
I think it's great,
- [Christopher] Nice. I'm excited.
- Oh look, Parker's ready.
- [Christopher] He's ready to catch that baby.
Are you watching?
Are you watching for the baby to come out?
- [Jessica] Look at his little hands.
- [Christopher] Are you ready to catch him?
Parker, are you so excited about holding Duncan?
- Yeah.
(laughing)
- [Christopher] Just ready to catch a baby.
- I want my baby back.
Why aren't you coming out, baby?
You're so rude, baby.
(laughing)
- I'm so birthy right now.
Okay, so I'm supposed to lean on the ball
and like squat.
I'm really gonna pee myself.
So, I don't know.
I don't know if any of this that I'm doing
is correct, but I figure I'll probably
just be doing it for a couple days
to a week at the most, so...
Can't damage our body too much, right?
So, this is the squatting one
that's supposed to make your baby's
head engage in the pelvis.
The sitting on it, gently mounting,
is supposed to potentially start up
some contractions.
Ooh, what about squatting and bouncing?
I'm getting advanced here, advanced
birth techniques from Jessica.
No, I am not a professional.
Do not take any of this as professional
advice.
This is just what I've looked up
on the internet and what I'm trying to
recreate in my own home.
And my way involves peeing yourself.
Okay, so this is supposed to be helpful.
I am on the ball squatting.
Squatting on the ball.
My hips are supposed to be spread
a hips distance apart.
I don't really know what that means,
but it kind of looked like this
in a picture on the internet.
And then I'm supposed to lean forward
and kind of roll side to side.
So, I'm just doing that.
Mostly, I'm just having fun on this ball here, guys.
I just keep going back to the bouncing.
It's pretty fun.
I should have done it before, but what do you think?
Have I dropped?
I did that birthing ball for like,
a solid hour, I think.
It was a long time, I was hanging out on it.
I don't know.
- [Christopher] How does it feel to you?
- Umm, I usually have a mole.
Let's see where my mole was.
I don't think anything's dropped.
- Jessica read on one of her apps today
that Duncan is the size of a watermelon right now
and I have to agree.
It looks like you just put a watermelon
under your dress.
- A watermelon.
- [Christopher] That Parker wants to catch.
(laughing)
We're getting ready for this baby to show up,
and as a result, we're doing a little bit
of nesting.
Do you know what nesting is, Jacob?
- No.
- Nesting is when you clean up
or organize your house getting ready
for a baby to come.
So, guess what we're gonna do right now.
- What?
- We're gonna clean up a volcano.
- Cool.
- [Christopher] Your volcano.
If you haven't seen the vlog where
Jacob was building and/or doing his
presentation with the volcano,
you should check those out, they're great.
He did a great job, he built this
all by himself, but it is sort of collapsing,
and it is taking up a lot of space
and it is time for us to clean up.
So, one last eruption and then it is time
for it to go in the recycling bin.
(steady horn blowing)
(drum music)
(laughing)
That was a very violent eruption.
- [Jacob] Yeah.
- Hi.
Let's talk about what we learned today.
We learned that my kids should have
been the ones in charge of the fire festival.
We learned that Parker is ready
to become a Doula.
And finally, we saw firsthand,
the mighty awesome power of the natural
disaster, nesting.
Thanks for watching, everybody.
We'll see you next time.
(laughing)
(upbeat music)