Life Uncut - Britt & Ben’s Baby Bonanza!!! The Episode EVERYONE Has Been Waiting For

Episode Date: October 13, 2026

Hey Lifers! Britt & Ben’s Baby Bonanza is finally here!!! After last week’s announcement, Britt is answering every question we’ve been banned from asking. First, we clear up the Facebook group theory that the announcement was staged. Spoiler: Laura’s face says it all. Britt takes us back through almost four years of trying. She was banking on falling pregnant naturally until a new fertility doctor delivered some blunt news about Ben’s results, and it changed everything. Britt walks us through what IVF transfer is actually like: the frozen embryo that gets “half defrosted”, the very long needle, the two-week wait, and the cheeky at-home test she wasn’t supposed to take. The big reveal to Ben… We also get into the harder stuff. Britt talks about her birth plan, being on the cusp of high-risk, and the January transfer window that could mean Ben is overseas for the birth. She responds to the comments questioning how someone with fertility struggles can now be pregnant. Then we have an honest chat about never feeling the maternal pull, the “regret having kids” content that keeps finding us, and what being a “good mum” really means. Plus: the progesterone boobs that gave it all away, Britt’s potato gem diet, and why she and Ben can’t agree on a single name. To anyone going through infertility or IVF right now, we’re thinking of you. TIMESTAMPS00:00 - Britt’s up the duff and the “fake announcement” theories06:28 - The fertility journey so far15:06 - What actually happens with IVF 22:06 - To find out or not? The sealed gender envelope29:57 - The possibility of giving birth alone 39:15 - Never feeling maternal and the fear of being a “bad mum”    Keep your questions coming! Slide into the Life Uncut DMs at @lifeuncutpodcast on Instagram Join us on Patreon for exclusive content and bonus episodes You can watch us on Youtube Join us on tiktok Or join the Facebook Discussion Group Hosted by Britt Hockley & Laura Byrne Produced by Sophie Nathan Video Produced by Vanessa Beckford & Lachy Pugsley Tell your mum, tell your dad, tell your dog, tell your friend and share the love because WE LOVE LOVE! XxSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hi guys and welcome back to another episode of Life Uncut. I'm Laura. I'm Brittany and I am Up the Duff. I've waited a long time to say that. I have been impregnated. You are. You have been pregnant. Pregante. Pergent ant. Oh, the lights came on. It was like a sign from the spirit. I told you spirits. It was a sign from the heavens. That was a spirit. Saying what? Obviously the fertility spirit. Britt said Up the Duff and then all of a sudden the lights in our studio all came on like a sun beam of light that shone down on her because she's woman with child. I told you, you guys don't believe in the universe spirits that if there is ever a sign, that was it.

Can I just tell you what I think that was? I think that was a malfunction by the team out there. Locky accidentally hit the button for the line. Locky is the fertility spirit. It is important for us to say that this is the episode that everyone has been waiting for. And I don't even say that sarcastically. Normally I say that sarcasticly. I mean this.

This is the episode. It is Brits' baby bonanza and is finally here. It's Brit and Ben's Ben's Ben's. I am so excited because we have, so you guys know, and I know that there was a lot of discussion that happened in the Facebook group last week. There was some people saying that we obviously knew about Brits' announcement and you telling us on the podcast was contrived. Like fake, yeah. I really am so flattered, guys, because if you think I'm that good at acting, like, if you are that good at acting, step aside Nicole Kim and I'm coming. If you can freeze frame on

Laura's face. There is not one. There wasn't even a moment of like, oh, I can put things together. It was so obvious. Blank. You had no idea. There was not one, no one in this whole studio except Ness, who is our video producer. No one had any idea. I'd actually had a conversation with some girlfriends about two weeks earlier. We're out for dinner, like Kaya and Steph and all of those girls who know you, Britt. And were they like, Brit's packing on the kicks? No. Shut. No, they were like, do you think that Britt would tell you if she was pregnant or do you think she would surprise you on the podcast. Obviously, you did it for your engagement and I was like,

no, you know what? Because I, you have known so early on. You're like, we are best friends and we trust each other with everything. She'll tell me. I told each other and everything. I was like, she would tell me. And I think because we had spoken about the fact that you were going to do IVF in July, that was one of the conversations we'd had months and months and months ago. And then you told me that you guys were, you know, didn't work timing wise. And I know we're going to get into all that, but I didn't want to ask. And I think for clarity for anyone who is confused as to how I wouldn't know. I hope that this kind of summarizes it for you, but like we know so much about each other, right? Like we know everything that there is to know about each other. Yeah, fat vagina.

We know it all. We know about my labia. We know everything about each other and we speak so openly with each other. And I knew that every time I asked when you were thinking about going through IVA, it's yet very stressed. It made you really stressed. Yeah. And it felt like it put a lot of pressure on you. And I also realized that when I was asking, because we are best friends, but we also run a business together. I was worried that you thought that it was the business element that I was asking the question about. I didn't want you to think that the reason why I'm, hey, what are you thinking about IVF? Hey, what are your plans? I didn't want you to think that my line of questioning didn't come from the genuine... A friendship. Yeah, I didn't want you to think it came because I

wanted to know about like, what's the business plans if you're having a baby. And so I could tell the pressure it was putting on you. So I stopped asking. Our general manager Claire has been asking, to her credit, she's just doing her job. She is. She is. She's, she's just doing her job. She is. She wants to plan. She's been hounding about when to lock in our live shows for next year. And I obviously knew I was pregnant and I obviously knew when the baby was due. And she was like, I think we have to do it these months. We need this many months in advance.

And I was like, can I just have another month to think? And like, I'm just not sure when I'm doing things. And once it was all out, it was going to be easier. But I needed to get to that point where I knew it was all safe and I was comfortable and I was ready to tell everyone. And I guess we just stayed in our little bubble for a little bit, especially because it's an IVF baby that comes with its own. little issues as well. Yeah, and I think also in that, like, I know you guys have been asking

so much for live shows and you've been asking for, like, what is the plan with live shows? And we have full intention of doing them at some point. When we stop procreating. But, well, I also, and when the conversation on our live shows were coming up and you were evidently stressed. We can tell them. I had a breakdown. I saw crying. Yeah, you were upset about it. And I was like, why? Why is she so upset? No, no. I was like, why are we putting so much pressure on? I'm being the one that's like, we don't need to do more. If we have big life things that we want, if you are wanting to prioritize having a baby, a live show is literally the furthest thing that should be a priority for us right now.

No, it's because Life Uncut is also our first baby, and we want to do those things. We want to do live shows. But between the two of us, it's been four years of now babies. And we will, just because I have a baby doesn't mean we can't do it. It just means that I need to be able to have a bubble of time around. Of course. I mean, I could give birth at the live show. That would be great.

We could live stream that. Patreon. We said nothing's going to change, but Britsbirth is absolutely. Absolutely a Patreon episode and not a live episode. No, but look, I think it's really important to reiterate that nothing is more important than you being able to comfortably get through this pregnancy, not feel as though you're overloaded with work, not feel as though you have to like fit in a live show around your schedule. You just do what is okay with you and everyone else, all of the life is, all of us, like,

we will work to support you. We have so many questions to ask you. This episode is not a normal episode. This is, as I said, Brit and Ben's baby Bonanza, where we are answering all the questions around pregnancy, all the questions I still have, because it's now been a week and I haven't asked any for fear of blowing my load. You've been banned from talking about it until we get to this episode for the life as literally.

I wish I was joking, but like I know alarmingly little, considering how close we are and how much time is now bars since I found out. See it next Tuesday. Okay, I feel like we should get into it, though. I know we've talked about the IVF and that is the process that you chose to go down. But you talked about a little while ago around some of the fertility news that had come to light. Why was it that IVF was the choice now, I guess? Like, what had happened in that interim period? So most of you guys that have been on the journey from

day one, you'll know my fertility pendulum has been swinging rapidly. It's been swinging like it was in a tsunami. I'm this way. I'm that way. I'm yes, 100%. I'm no. I'm petrified. I'm excited. I'm whatever. And the pendulum got to the point where I knew that I wanted kids. But I'm I was desperate for it to happen naturally because there's just never a right time. And I know everyone says that. There's not a right time, especially with mine and Ben's relationship cross-continent. We kept waiting. Like we kept saying, oh, if we just wait a little bit longer, then you might be closer to moving here, or I might be more stable, or the podcast or whatever. And so if I had to do IVF, I was never, it was really half me to book the day. And I've always said that. I thought,

let's just do it naturally. And I know it'll eventually happen. Well, it was very wrong. Turns out it was never going to happen. And so I obviously have had my battle with my fertility issues, which are basically none. And how I explain that is I don't have anything quote unquote wrong with me in terms of endometriosis or ovarian cysts or I have done all the testing and I was always fine. I just didn't have many eggs and it was really hard to get them. So I did multiple rounds to get those embryos, had rounds with none. And so as much as I was seemingly fine, I just didn't have many eggs. So I still knew we could get pregnant and it just might take us a little bit longer. I banked on that quote unquote natural conception for almost three years and it wasn't until we just got back from Italy recently,

so June, July. We went to the fertility doctor to do and like see where we're at, do another round of testing and then that's when Ben test came back and he has some things wrong with him. I hate saying wrong as well. It's not wrong, but in terms of I guess fertility it is. Yeah, of course. But like I hate the word like, oh, we have something wrong with us or we're broken. I just hate people feeling like that. And so the doctor basically said we did two rounds of the test as well. So like we did the testing. Then they said, hey, go and do some stuff, take some supplements, do whatever.

We'll test you again and just see if it's a stress thing or what. Turns out we were absolutely never going to fall pregnant naturally. He's like, you cannot, you will not fall pregnant. It's never going to happen. The sperm are cruising around in circles. They're never going to find that egg. They go backwards. The eggs repelling the sperm.

They were having the time of their life, but just not in the right spot. It's like they were at the, it's like when you have pre-drinks before you go to party. And they were having pre-drinks and they just went too hard and they can never make it to the party. That's what it was like. And my eggs with a party being like, oh my God, has he stood me up? Is he ever arriving and they're just going? They got lost in the car park. Dude, they throw the party every month hoping you'll show up.

He never does. Yes. It's like a toxic relationship. He's ghosted me again. He said he was going to be here. I'll try again. That's what it was like. So I'd been ghosted by BEM's sperm for three years.

And my eggs, they only sporadically, they started sporadically showing up my eggs to the party because they're like, I know better. And anyway, that's the analogy we'll roll with. That was not pre-planned. Basically, when he said, and this is a brand new fertility doctor, we've had a few over the years. And he said, you will not fall pregnant naturally. If you do, somehow one of those little spermies get up there, like, miracle.

And that just changed everything because all of a sudden, We just panicked and we're like, oh, we actually don't have, I guess it just made the decision for us. It's like, you don't have the choice. You don't have the time to wait. You can pretend and use it as an excuse. Like, we just want to fall naturally. Not going to happen. And I think once all options were taken from us, you just have to jump in.

Yeah. And so we actually panicked. We just, from that moment, we said, how long do you need? And he said, when is your next period? I said, two weeks. He's like, oh, that's tight. And I was like, it's now we'll never doc. I might change my mind.

I said, can you do it in two weeks? And he's like, let's do it. And so I had to do it as soon as possible or I just don't know what my brain would have done. So we just did it. I didn't have time to think about it. The next day I went and got started the medication that you need. And then two weeks later, without having time. And you sort of like you pay your deposit almost.

And he's like you can only pull out. I think it was like three days in advance or you lose it. And it was three days out. And I was like, are we still doing this? And he's like, yes, Brittany. He's like, I was more panic than Ben. Ben was like, yes, we're doing this. You're going to be good.

And so three days out, we went and got sushi on the way to the doctor. I shoved my face with my last sushi. And then we walked in and that was it. So I just took all choice away from myself. Like I panicked. We 100% panicked because then as soon as we got the positive pregnancy test, I looked at him, I said, what have we done? I was like, what do you mean at work?

No, you don't mean it at all. No, I'm joking. The most incredible news that there ever is. And I think, you know, I speak for everyone who's listening, but also the outpouring of love and excitement for you from all of our lifers, from everyone who knows you or has followed you. It is the best news in the world. We are all so incredibly happy for you. And I cannot just, I cannot get back to all the people that have written to me,

damned me, commented, shared things. It's been overwhelming. Like the love and outpouring was so incredible. And I felt so blessed and so loved. And when I say, like, have we done the wrong thing? What have we done? I am joking a little bit. The reason I say that is because we still don't have a normal relationship.

So as much as I'm ecstatic, I'm petrified because there's a really high chance. I'm still giving birth alone. I'm still going to be a single, quote unquote, single mum for a few months because Ben is likely going to be in another country. And we've got so, like, logistically, there's so much to work out. So I'm petrified because of that, not because there's a baby coming, but because there's a baby coming into a really hard time. Can I ask when you said you went for the IVF treatment like two weeks after talking to that doctor?

What did you actually think the likelihood was of falling pregnant? I thought we wouldn't fall pregnant. As much as I was optimistic, I just know so many people in my heart I really feel for people and I hate that in a way I hate that people have to listen to this now knowing it worked for me the first time because I have so many friends. some have done three, four, five rounds, some have done 12, some have done 30. And that is unfathomable to me. I just in my head, and maybe I said let's start straight away because I thought it would

take maybe three times. So I thought, okay, let's just start now. Get one out the way. Yeah, because I genuinely, and I wasn't being, I'm not a negative person, I'm not a pessimist, but I was trying to be very realistic and like manage my expectations so that I could only be happy, not disappointed. Yeah. And so I didn't think it was going to work. I do think that sometimes we can believe it's going to be worst case scenario.

And I know that for some people, it is worst case scenario. I never want to take away from that experience. But for a lot of people, the fear around what it's going to be and the fear around how bad it could be is often not what it is as well. So it's like there are so many different variations and versions of what fertility looks like in people's IVF journeys. And I say this because, you know, even here in our office, Ness has two beautiful babies through IVF. both of those were first-time babies, you know? And so I think that there are times where the best outcome is also the outcome. And I think it is important to have those stories because otherwise people walk into IVF thinking

it's not going to work. It's going to take so many times the stress, the anxiety, the fear around how hard it could be, I think overwhelms people's abilities to enjoy it. And then all of a sudden you're like, oh, I got pregnant first time round. I'd led myself to believe that this was going to be way harder and worse than what it was for you. Well, because it's also so dependent on what you as individuals and a couple are experiencing. And so because by all other accounts, Ben and I were both really healthy people and we didn't have any other issues that we had known of with anything. So, like, it was a real shock that Ben's results came back the way that they did.

But because our only problem was his sperm having the party, once we, like, forced them into a relationship, by all accounts, if my womb and my reproductive system were healthy, then, like, sure, It might be way easier than someone that has had stage four endometriosis or whatever. So as much as I knew that we were pretty good to go in all other capacities, I was still just hyper-aware. And I think because I've been following so many IVF Instagram accounts and things like that, you know, you get fed so much stuff. So talk me through a little bit of round, like what that IVF experience was like for you. IVF was fascinating because I had, what I think was a preconceived idea of what it was.

You hear people talk about it. I could not believe how quick it was. like the actual implantation. It was so quick and easy and pain free, which is crazy because they're putting a giant needle in and implanting an embryo. There's no anaesthetic or anything and you don't need it. Like you feel a bit of pressure, but you're laying there like your legs are spread up in the stirrups and Ben was that to my side and the doctor's down doing his thing in my vagina. They're doing ultrasounds and then the embryologist is there as well. And they pull my baby out and it's in like a little esky because it's frozen still. And so I just assumed it's been frozen for three years. This baby's been waiting in a long time. I just thought that they already must defrost it and bring it in it and it's ready. Microwave. Like, ding! But they brought it in frozen.

And she was like, yeah, I'm going to defrost it now. They only like half defrost it and then the other half. Your body warms it up. Your body warms it up. It's like reheating dinner. It's like throwing the air fry for a couple of minutes. And so she's de-froasting and she's on the other side of the room and she's like, we're ready. Then there's this giant needle that's like this long, which is for you guys that are not watching.

it's like 40 centimeters. I've actually got some footage I'm going to put up on it. And then on the very end of it, it's like blowing in the wind right, the very end is the baby that's like a vacuum thing. And she's walking across the room with it like shaking, like her hands are shaking. And I was like, wait, that baby's on the end of that flappy thing. And she's like, yeah, I was like, I only have three. I was like, don't drop it. And she's like really cautiously walking across the room and she hands it to the doctor. And I was like, you're just floundering around the room with this little baby. You would think that they would do the prep a bit closer to the vagina. It was amazing. And then she hands it to him and then he really carefully is watching it.

And I was like, don't. All I thought was I'm going to sneeze and kick it off or something. I was like, don't move. And then they just put it in and they guide it with ultrasound. I don't know how they put it in. I guess they put the needle in and then push it in like a syringe. I don't know. Then they scan and they're like, there it is. You're just pregnant in a second. Whilst you don't know it's taken yet. All of a sudden, he pulls up and you stand up and you're like, there's a baby in there. It's weird. Well, it has to then attach to the wall of your uterus, right? For it to, when they say taken, like that's the next process. Yeah, it has to, your body has to accept it, has to attach and settle in. And that's why you're not supposed to test and you're supposed to wait like another

two and a bit weeks to go back in and get bloods. Otherwise, you don't really accurately know. That's so fascinating. Is it the two and a half weeks when you get bloods, that's when you know if it has implanted? Yes, that's when you know if you're pregnant. Okay. So you don't take a pregnancy test? No, because it, no, not yet. Because you also, I had to take vaginal progesterone for the weeks leading up to it,

which is twice a day you put this progesterone into your vagina. Because an embryo when you implant it is already a week old. So your body has to be quote unquote pregnant. So you have to trick it into thinking it's already producing those pregnant. Yeah. Yeah. Well, no. So when you find out you're pregnant, you're already.

you're already five weeks. So when I found out, when I got that pregnancy test, I was five weeks pregnant, it's weird. So talk me through then when you did find out, and you got the news, and you had the blood test, and everything was right. Well, I didn't wait for the blood test. So you did pee on a stick.

Yeah. They tell you not to, but I did it anyway. I waited until maybe two to three days before, when technically the test would be accurate, but they still say wait. because I thought, it's so unromantic the whole thing. And I wanted to have this moment with Ben that wasn't just us sitting in a doctor's clinic and then being like, oh, it worked.

It just felt very clinical. And so I wanted to find out first. So I waited as long as I could until I knew it would be an accurate representation. And I did the test. And it was positive. And I just cried. I cried and then I did like two more because I needed to make sure. sure. What kind of crying was it? Was it happy? Was it freaking the fuck out? Was it like simultaneously?

I'm excited but oh my God, everything's changing. Like, what was going through your head? Screenshot that face right now. You really need to be watching this on YouTube. That's the cover art of today's episode. No, it was really happy, really happy because it's a lot of effort, it's a lot of stress, it's a lot of money, it's a lot of emotional toll. It's a lot of years wanting. It was a really definitive moment because I was like, oh, I'm pregnant. I'm like, this is happening and it's real and the next chapter's coming. And anyway, I did two more just to double check. Of course.

And then I was like, oh, I want to tell, I want to give Ben that moment of, I don't know, just like surprise and happiness. Was he at the house with you at this time or you were just there by yourself? No, I waited until he went to training. Okay. And then I went and bought a football. And I wrote a really cute message on it. I wrote number one dad.

And then I asked him to film when he got home. I was like, baby, will you feel more real with me? I said, I want to play keep yuppies. How many times can we keep it in the air? Actually, it started by how many times can we head it? Mm-hmm. And I was just waiting for him to... So romantic.

Such a baby reveal. Also, it's so me as well. We're going to head up this ball and eventually you'll see that I've written on it. It got to the point. I thought he would just see it flying through the air and see it. I thought he would see it and be like, oh my God, what's this? It got to the point where he's like, baby, we need to call it a day. You're four hip.

red and I was like, one more go. And so we did it and eventually, I just basically really obviously threw it to him and he caught it and read it. And then he was so confused for a minute. He was giving your face. And then he's like, wait, you, you what, we, what? You tested? And I was like, he's like, we're pregnant. And I was like, yeah. And it was a beautiful moment. Of course I filmed it guys. But it was really nice to take that clinical moment out of just going to a doctor's appointment. Well, I feel as though it's probably the one thing that you get to share that feels like it's genuinely part of the journey. Because, you know, when it's an IVF pregnancy, so much of it is clinical, right?

And like that seems to have sex. Yeah, so much. It's all cliquid. Ben had very little to do with that. It's all very clinical. And this just like feels like one of those moments that you build up being like, how am I going to find out and then tell my partner that I'm pregnant and we're having a baby. Like that's something that can't be taken away from you now. Yeah.

And evidently, I didn't put much thought into it. It was, yeah, it wasn't a lot of foolhood, Matt. But hey, that's football. Hashtag football. Actually, speaking about how everything seems quite clinical, when Ben did come in the other day and there was all the chaos and everything, the question people ask is, are you going to find out if it's a boy or a girl? And one of the things you're saying is like,

there is no surprise in an IVF pregnancy. It is very planned. So are you going to find out the gender or is that going to be a surprise? Okay. This is a lesson in the same. self-control. I have what it is in an envelope at home. Are you going to find out? We just have it. And it's sealed so we know if one of us has checked it. He, Ben really wants to know and I don't. Okay. Yeah. And so I ultimately have said it's my vagina. It's my everything right now. It's my entire

body. I was like, look, we can talk about it. We'll keep it here. And if the time comes that we decide we want to open it, I said, but for now, it's, I just want to enjoy this moment and not rush. it, but I, I would love to ask you, what do you think it is? What do I think it is or what do I think it is? No, what do you think it is? Okay, I think it's, I know that I might have said something different recently, but I think it's a boy. Okay, boy.

I think a boy. But can I tell you, I am wrong 100% of the time. I have never gotten a single pregnancy right, not one of my own, not one of someone else's. I'm never, I'm never right. So you're definitely having a girl. I think, I think it's a boy. Yeah. Obviously based on nothing other than just because I think Ben's a giant.

just picture another giant boy. But Ben pictures a girl. I feel like you guys will know this more. What are the sayings or the tales about knowing if it's a boy or a girl? Oh, it's a thing. None of it's true. So if we even had a psychic on the podcast, like a really well-known, quite famous Australian psychic,

if you want to go back and dig, go for girl guys. He was like, I've got two predictions that are, and he's like, I am never wrong. Donald Trump is going to be president. Tick. Simpsons picked that, though. He was like, and you're having a boy. A hundred percent, it's a boy.

And then out pop, Lola. I think I even said on the- podcast, I even said on the podcast, I will eat my own shit if it ends up a girl. And Lola is absolutely a girl. And then with Poppy, the same thing. We had a ghost psychic on who gets messages from fucking ghosts. Who do you think, plan that one, Britney? It was me.

Sorry, guilty. The ghost psychic looks at me and she goes, there is the energy of a young boy around you. And this was before I was pregnant. She's like, you are having another baby and you are having a boy. And I have never had a boy. And everyone has always been wrong. Can I, do you want to say one thing, though, about the whole questioning as to whether you should find out or not?

Everyone has a very different experience of like whatever version is that they wanted. And I think there's some people whose personality types won't allow them to wait for the surprise. And then there's other people who love the surprise. I have had two surprises and one where I found out. So both Mali and Lola were surprises. And Poppy, we found out because Matt, every time he wanted to find out, and I vetoed. And for the last baby, I just gave him that.

You're also like, I've done it. Whatever. I was like, you can win one. Not knowing and having that experience in the delivery room is one of the most incredible experiences of my pregnancy journeys, like of my birthing experiences. Because like I felt as though I didn't have any expectations or thought on who this little person was. I knew nothing about it, just knew that they were a little person. And then all of a sudden I was like, oh, it's you. Like, of course it's you.

And it was really, really, really special. I loved it so much. So, yeah, I have this vision of, I'm sure this is not how my birth is going to go. I have this vision of pulling it out myself. I'm like raising it up like it's a boy. But you do. I mean, not every time. It depends on what happens in your birthing suite or whatever.

But like with Poppy, I pulled her out of me and pulled her straight onto my chest. Like no one else touched her. And so I did, and it was amazing. I assumed that I will be laying there, looking beautiful, my hair done, not feeling anything and being like, pop, oh, it's here. Like, there it is. I think I'm going to do a big cough. Yeah, there it is.

To be fair, though, you might. You might do a cough. I know it's only, I'm second trimester, but it's all, every measurement from birth is big. Yeah, but it's not that. Don't worry. Don't overstress yourself. I think there's too many really scary birth stories out there, and there's not enough people who talk about like the awesome birth stories.

I'm not scared. Yeah, but I just, I know you're not scared. I'll be so high. I'm not scared. I'm not feeling like that. It's not that you're not scared. I just think in the same way that people are worried about saying the good outcomes from IVF because they don't want to upset anyone, people are also worried about talking about

the good outcomes of birth because there's so many people who have experienced birth trauma. But that's not necessarily the norm. It needs to be voiced. There is a place for those stories. they absolutely need to be shared. But there are people who have incredible birth experiences as well. And I think that those are not spoken about as much because there's just more to it when people are like, this is what happened and it was dramatic.

Not to talk about, I mean, I've had three, so I feel like I have a good benchmark of what it was. One of them was hard. The other two were incredible, you know? And so all have been with epidurals. Fantastic. But yeah, I just think like you don't know what you're going to get until you're in that room.

Have you just seen? excited what you want to go like you're going midwifery. Are you having a cesarean? Like what does that look like for you? So I'm in the midwife program, which amazing. I mean, I didn't even know this was a thing, right? So I don't have private health insurance. I never thought I would give birth in Australia because of our situation. I always thought I'd end up overseas somewhere. I also didn't know when I was going to do it. So you have to have health insurance for a minimum of a year to be able to use it for maternity. So I don't have that. And so I am in the midwife program, which is an amazing program where get the same midwife for your whole time, they looked after you, and for uncomplicated births,

they birth your child. But I am also on the cusp of high-risk pregnancy as well. And so because I'll be 40 IVF baby, big baby, hip dysplasia, my migraines, all the things that I have migraines for with my neurologist, it goes into high risk. Hip dysplasia, as in you have hip dysplasia. So my hips pop out all the time. And so like if you are trying to birth a big child and you have that, it can cause complications. Like, pelvic girdle's going to be your best friend. I know. I'll give you mine.

And so I'm as much as I'm in the midwife program, we'll see how it goes. And if things, blood pressures and things go south, I will switch into a high risk. But I don't necessarily want to use high risk unless I absolutely have to. That's where I'm at the moment. So is high risk than an obstetrics program? Like, do you go with an obstetrician? Yeah, you can stay in the midwife program, but you get seen by a high risk's ob's guiney at the same time.

Yeah. Because my sister also has preeclampsia of both babies. She's pregnant at the moment, preeclampsia again, preeclampsia with her first baby. And so that's hereditary. So family connections, they treat that as something as well. So, like, I have that on top of everything else. I'm going to see how I go for now, but I do, I've got a while to decide, but I do alternate between having a plan C-section and a natural birth.

I will never go natural drug-free. I just, I don't think I need to be that person. I know some people naturally and. and I respect that, but I don't need that. Like, I just don't need to experience it. I just want this to be the baby to come out well. I don't want to feel like I'm dying, being ripped from wherever to wherever. Like, I just...

And epituril is going to be your best friend. Yes. And don't worry about the rest. The baby's going to come out. It's going to be the best thing that ever happened to you. So many other things to consider. Like, we just don't have a normal relationship. So if there's a chance that Ben will be overseas, not here anymore.

Yeah, talk us through that a little bit because I think that, you know, You mentioned it earlier how the fear and the stress around the possibility that you'll be here doing it on your own. Why would you stay here and do it on your own? And why does Ben have to be overseas? Or why is that a possibility? Because he's here now. He's been here for much longer than you expected. Yeah.

So a big reason why he's here now was this for IVF purposes. He made a real choice to want to be here and support me and commit to that. And, you know, that was a choice for his career at this time. But come January, which is the next transfer window for football, that's when, you know, you can move potentially to any team in the world. So in January, we will know either way what's going to happen. He'll either be living in another country and he's signed a deal or nothing presented to him is worth sacrificing family for and he will not take that job and he will move to Australia.

But we won't know until January and we won't know until offers are presented. And so if that happens, I will give birth here. The Australian medical system is so good and you just don't know. my sister and she had such a traumatic birth overseas. Her baby was in hospital for so long, so unwell. And I can't fathom that happening in another country where you don't have the insurance where you don't speak the language. It just, the thought of that, the thought of giving birth in a hospital and not being able to understand anybody because the language difference and it just doesn't feel right. You also by then in January will have had all of the continuity of care

from like July. Exactly. You know what I mean? So that's a long time to leave someone who knows your story to start fresh with a whole new hospital team. It's a really hard decision and I know people, I know there will be people that'll come for me about that decision and I know there'll be people that will support me. It's not easy. It's not easy to say Ben won't be there for the birth of his child. For me, for him, for like, he doesn't want that. I don't want that.

But it's not about us. It's about the baby. It's about whatever's going to be best for the baby. I am expecting and planning to give birth alone without him, which is crazy. And it's taken us a long time to get a head around that. I was really upset. I still am really upset, but I can't control it. You won't be alone.

I'll be there. I'll pull the baby out. She's got practice. Have me in the room. That's what? I'll get you the best birthing playlist. And if you can't pull it out, I'll pull it out for you. I'm about to cry, but I've had so many people like my best friend Shannon since we're five.

She messaged me out of the blue the other day. And she's a teacher in Queensland. She has two kids of her own. And she messaged me and she said, I just want to know you to know I've put my leave in. And I will be there to help you birth. And I will stay to help you won't be alone. And I was like, oh, that's so sweet. Because, like, there's a moment that I thought, oh, my God, I've almost pictured the whole thing.

There's a moment of me being like, I'm in labor, but no one's there. I'm alone. And then I'm like, guess how. I know. It's just like, it's really scary. I know, but this is also one of those things where obviously the outcome with Ben, if that's what the decision is. Well, I thought about calling you, but then you'd be like, I'm in Nala. No, I won't.

I also would be like, see you later, Matt. Take the three children. I've got my fourth baby coming. Don't worry. Locky and I will be there with the cameras, the mic, the mic, just as you want, Britt. You know, you always do it on Mike. It won't be a match to capture.

Pop. Yeah. I've got a baby. It's magnificent. Oh my God. What's that? I've already said it. No, I just don't want you to catastrophize the worst options and the worst outcomes because

it is never that, you know? And I think like, I want to be careful with it because I also like don't want to minimize it any way and I want to be careful with how I say it. But like you have so many people here who will rally, who will take care of you. Yeah, I know. Who will be there. We will all be there, you know. And if Ben can't be there.

there because he has a work opportunity that you both unanimously together decide is something that he can't miss out on pursuing, then there are enough people that are here that love you that will make sure that there is not a fucking second where you were alone with this baby. Well, and that's the thing. And I don't know what, but it's like, I want to, I want to be alone with my baby. And I'm like, no, you will not. That is my baby and you will not be alone with it. I'm like, Laura, can you bring my baby back?

She's taken home. Whatever you need. You know I'm obsessed with babies. It's not the birth. It's that I'm panicked about. It's like the two months after. Because Ben doesn't just miss the birth. He won't be there for months.

And is there a world? And I don't know this in professional football, but like they're allowed a day or two off or three days off here and there. Like if he knew something or he knew around the time. It depends on the team and the manager of the team, like the coach. I mean, short answer is no, not this far. Just in the World Cup a couple months ago, his teammate missed the birth of his child. And we had a convo on the pot about it, actually. but to them it's like this is your job and we need you and this is the biggest competition

in the world and so he watched the birth on FaceTime. Other coaches will say there's nothing more important than the birth of your child. But I feel like that's more of a minority and that's often more when it's in the same city. Whereas for Ben, it takes like 28 hours to get here. I just want to say though, Brit props to you because I don't know if I would have the capacity to be that understanding about someone's work. Like I don't think I would have that in me. And I mean that.

Like, I might regret it one week in. It's not, what have I done? It's more of a situation of like, you don't know what you don't know, right? Like, you don't know what it's going to be like. You haven't done this part of life yet. And I think that making big decisions around a choice when you actually don't know what it's going to be like whilst you're doing it, I don't think I could do that. So, like, it's really very big of both of you in your relationships that you are able to make these

sacrifices together and still like get to the end of the day and not resent each other or be like fuck you you know now's the time that you should be making sacrifice like it's a really really big thing and I don't want us to glaze over it yeah yeah I think a lot of people would listen to that and be like that's a pretty massive thing to not be there for the birth of your child as even just a possibility yeah it is massive and it wasn't taken lightly by either of us but I'm pretty proud to say that there's not one bit of resentment on either of our sides and we spoke about it a lot If I said to Ben, I'm not going to do this without you, you'll be there. He would probably give up his career.

He is absolutely not the one driving this. But he's also nearing the end of his career. Like he's only got a year, two years maybe left. And I want him to enjoy that. He's not going to not be a part of his child's life just because he can't be at the birth. And he will also still try, which circles back to why I said maybe an elective Caesar is the way to go. Because if there's a date booked in, he has more capacity to try and plan. to plan around it with his team or whatever, even if he comes for three days.

Like travels for a day, is there for a day. Travels back? Yeah. And so, like, that's in a world where we might do a C-section as well. But I'm also not going to stay away from him for a year. So if he signs for a year, I will have a baby after probably two months when the baby is, if it's healthy and fine to travel, I'll travel over to be with him for the rest of the year. And the pod will just be distance for that time.

But I'm not, we're not going to keep each other apart. But we do have to make a decision based on the baby, both of our lives. what works and it's looking like that's the way it's going to go. Hey, I wanted to ask you a question because I saw a couple the overwhelming response. About my boobs. Ask me. No. Just how big are they? The boobs have been. I want to wait, actually put these scales in so we can weigh each individual tip. No, I wanted to give you the opportunity to clear it up because mostly everyone's just like so overwhelmingly excited for you. And then there have been the few random comments that I've seen where people like, hey, weren't you speaking about infertility and then

what does this timing mean and how can you be infertile but then also now be pregnant? I read some of those comments and I felt very angry about them and I kind of wasn't sure how you wanted to respond to that. Well, because having infertility issues doesn't mean you'll never have a baby. It means you haven't been able to and that you have issues that you have to go and use IVF and science for. I found out I was pregnant a couple of, I can't remember the exact time from a couple of weeks after I posted my last reel that went viral that was like, fucking stop asking me. Yeah.

Obvious why I stopped asking. Yeah. If anyone was confused. And so that was it. And so, I mean, it's very easy for people to comment that. It's also you haven't seen the last four years of us trying. And the four years of ludicrous amount of money that you spend trying to get there,

trying to get embryos, testing sperm. There's so much that goes into it. And so at that point, didn't know if I'd ever have a baby or be able to have a baby. And when you've been thinking about that day in and day out for four years, that's your reality. The fact is, I was like, hey, guys, stop asking me. I still have a great life. If it happens, I'll have a great life.

If I don't, it'll have a great life. And then I feel pregnant like maybe three weeks, four weeks later or something. I just, I really feel for people going through it, any kind of infertility because there's so much judgment around it as well. There's so much judgment about. Prove that you're infertile. Prove that you've had problems with your fertility struggles. Totally.

And I feel like I don't have to prove anything. Yeah. And actually, no one has to prove anything. But if anything, I've talked about it to you guys for four years. All my OGs, all the OGs, no. Can you as well? I mean, like, you know, you've made a couple of jokes being like, and then I found out, oh, the stress.

You've spoken so much in the past around the pendulum swing of not knowing, thinking that you want to, then getting to a place of like being like, yes, I do, but then still having reservations. When you found out and now that you've obviously had time to process it and you're past like that period of panic, panic, how do you feel? I'm so excited. I'm really excited and I keep trying to visualize what it's going to be, what it's going to look like. The thought of Ben being a dad is probably the most exciting actually.

And I don't know if you felt that, Laura, but it's like seeing your partner, because he was the one when we were like, do we or don't we. He was the person that was like, yes. Like if you make me choose a side that I want to be parent or not parent, he's like, yes, I want to do it. It was a real driving force of, oh, there it is. We're going to be a family. He wants to be a family. And so when I pictured him as a dad, that's like. like really wholesome to me. The panic is still there as well. And sometimes I read things

because I always used to read about when I was trying to decide to have kids about the people that regret having kids. I did send something in the content group chat today. I know yesterday. Laura sent a whole article. She sent it twice. She said it last week and this week. It's a different article. I sent the one I said. The one I said was like several weeks ago. It was a substack that had been written. And this is long before I knew that Britt was pregnant. But I keep getting fed the same content because I think what's happened for my algorithm, because I've read a few things recently about people being really open around like their regret of having kids, which I would also say is very rare, but because I have engaged with that type of content. And to the internet,

I have three children, the internet's like, you regret having kids. Here's more articles. Here's another one. Here's another article. And so I'm getting it all now. Yeah, but that's been me for years. Remember we've had these conversations over the years where I used to say to you, I hear and see so many people regret having kids. And I was like, what? Because I had been reading that for years. And so I just moved past that and got pregnant. And then Laura all of a sudden wants to talk about regret in having children. I was like, fuck. And this is like a weird thing to talk about on this episode. So I don't want us to go down the rabbit hole of this. I think it is such a minority. And I know obviously every conversation, every story has to have a discussion. It's like the

ying to the yang, right? But you in the past have been so adamant and spoken about. And at it to me specifically and you know amongst us that you were like I think that if I have children I am going to regret having children you were getting fed so much of that content at the time that you were believing it and if anything I think the discussion more so is around the opposite like I went into having kids thinking is it for me do I really want to be a mom I don't know like I didn't I never had the maternal pull I never the whole pregnancy with Mali there was not a moment during that pregnancy where I was like oh mother I was born to be a mother I was like what the fuck am I doing and when I when I found out I was

pregnant with Mali, I did the same thing. I sat on the floor and I bowled my eyes out. Not happy tears. Yeah. I was hysterical because I was like, what have I done? And then she arrived and I was like, holy shit, I have never loved anything like this. And I know that that even of itself makes some people annoyed. When you say, like, I've never had a love like this. There's people who feel frustrated because it undermines their version of love. I get it. But my experience has always been for my kids that every time a new one arrives. I'm like, what the fuck is this drug of being in love with a human? Yeah, I can't describe it. I think it's why I like giving birth so much. The drug that you did. You actually just like, epigurals. That's what you like. That checks out. I do. Even the birth of it, there was a

period after when Marley was born that people would talk about their birthing stories and I would feel jealous because I was like, it's the call. If I had known this, you could be my surrogate. I love it. And I think, I think it's because. I thought, maybe I feel so passionate about it because I was so wrong. I was so wrong. I was so cautious and so scared and it has been my biggest joy in life is having kids. Yeah. How refreshing to hear. It is.

And it is. And I need to hear that after the article she sent about regretting kids. No, I am the same. I have never been maternal. And I kept waiting for it to come through my 20s into my 30s. I'm 39 now. I kept waiting for it to come. It hasn't come.

And that's not to say, I mean, I love kids. Of course. So many nieces and nephews. I have so many friends with kids. I just never, I was waiting for that pool to be like when you look over at a child and you're like, I just need that in my life. It just never came. Having said that, I can't imagine my future without a family.

So it was trying to wait for that time that I had the overwhelming feeling and it didn't come. So I had to make that decision. I've made the joke. It is a joke, but it's also not a joke. I've made the joke many times where I'm like, I'm going to be a bad mom. I'm going to be a terrible mom. You're going to be an amazing mother. I don't think I'm going to be a good mom in the sense of and hear me out.

and I might have trouble explaining this. And I guess what is a good mum, right? Is my child going to be so loved, so taking care of, want for nothing, a beautiful family, it's going to have everything it needs. The child is going to be so loved. But when I say good mum, I just can't see myself doing all the arts and crafts with it, going to all the volunteering at the fucking fate and shit like that. Like that's not who I am at my core.

But I also don't think that that's the benchmark of being a good parent. And maybe that's what we've been. led down the garden path. Like, I, you know, I have, I have these conversations a bit with my friends. And one of them in particular was like, I don't enjoy playing. Like, she's like, I know this sounds like a horrible thing to say, but I don't enjoy playing with my kids. And what I mean by that is like, I don't enjoy sitting and doing tea parties and dressing

dolls up. And I was like, but of course you don't. You're a 40-year-old woman. You're not in your spare time going to do a tea party with your friends. But some people do love that. I know, but I don't think that because you dislike parts of parenting that you're not a good parent or mother. And that's okay.

You know, the benchmark for being a good parent isn't how deeply and thoroughly you can entertain your kids when they're bored. That's not what it's about. Well, I saw you on the weekend, for example, pressing florals and making some, I don't know what you were making. Yeah, but you misinterpret that as well. So that's part of a family tradition that we've created. And that's something I feel really passionate about is having traditions in families, right?

Our traditions around Christmas is that every year we make a Christmas decoration that goes on the Christmas tree. still, I'd buy them. You will. And you know what? I challenge that because there will come a time when this baby is here earthside where it's not about playing dolls. You're like, I want to make core memories with them and so that when they're older, they can have core memories that they tell their kids. And a big part of that is around traditions in families, repetition, creating those memories because no one else is going to do it. You become the memory maker of your family. No, and I know, and I know I get lost in a loop of like seeing those arts and crafts

moments. And I don't know I'm going to suck on arts and crafts. Once again, okay, Brits, send your child. My fourth baby can come to me and I can make a bobble with him or her. I know. And I know, I don't want people to misinterpret this that are listening and like, I'll fucking get over it. You don't want to do arts and crafts. That was symbolic. The arts and crafts were symbolic. I also think the bar is so low for me that I think I'm going to be so thoroughly surprised at how much I enjoy it. Because I have just talked myself into the years that I'm not meant to be a mom, that I'm not going to like it. And I'm not meant to be a mum because I wasn't going to like it.

And like I ravelled those two up into this little tight ball and I don't know which way it was up. But I know, and we've talked about it before, a big part of that was self-preservation. And a big part of you trying to convince yourself that it wasn't for you was because you didn't think it was going to happen for you. Yeah, 100%. And so I just hope and I think that when I have it and maybe this is a future message, we'll come back to this episode once I've had it. I hope I walk in here and I'm like, this is the best. thing I've ever done. Like, I expect and hope that to be the reaction. And you know what?

Yeah, there will be parts that are really hard. There always is. I won't experience it. You know, you will. But when it's hard and it's witching hour, you just call me and I'll be there, you know? The hard is inevitable. There is always going to be parts of this that are hard. That is the reality of the choice of becoming a parent. But I do often think that we get caught up in only talking about the hard and we forget to talk about the joy and people aren't going back and having a second and third baby because there isn't joy in it. Totally. And so I think that like sometimes those conversations and those stories need to be happy.

I remember when Jesse Stevens had her first baby and she sent me a message and she was like, I want to say thank you for making motherhood not look like it's just a constant struggle because that was my version of it. That's what I thought. And she was like, and I have been so deeply surprised by how much I love it from the get-go. She's like, but I thought it was going to be this unfathomably hard thing. And of course there are always going to be times where people find it hard. There are people who find it incredibly hard.

But everyone's experience of what this looks like is so different. And there's just not one size fits all for anyone. You know the hard parts, if anything, I think. You need to be told the stories of the joy. And I was never made to be a young mom. The person I am in my personality, I think I am. My boobs could have never taken it when they were in their 20s. I could have consumed you.

We do need to talk about that quickly. My boobs. And I know it was the giveaway to so. many of you. I know there were so many of you in the last couple of months. And I know because some of you accidentally were messaging me instead of forwarding them to your friends when you were trying to talk about my breasts on your stories. So I got many behind the scenes conversations about my boobs and stuff sent to me accidentally. They are ginormous. They are ginormous. So big. I was there in New Zealand with Brit. So there was the one comment that really riled me up in the

Facebook group. It was someone being like, as if Laura didn't know, she was in New Zealand with Brit. She had to know guys. Guys, firstly one, we were in New Zealand for two days. We stayed in separate rooms. And the reason why I didn't have a spa barb. The reason why I didn't put down the size of Brit's boobs to pregnancy is because I saw how much she ate on that trip. And I was like, wow, comfy in her wedding. She is married and she has reached a whole new level of comfort.

Love that. And like I said on Patreon, fucking let the girl live. Yeah, I could not stop eating. Imagine if I'd said to you, hey, Brit, you've put on a bit away. Do you reckon you're pregnant? Like, imagine. But people were in the comments. I did have to lie to Laura's face.

Okay, let's set the tone here. Back to the progesterone. You take vaginal progesterone twice a day. And what progesterone does, it's like being on steroids to get your body to think you're pregnant. But one of the, I guess, side effects is you get boobs from it. And so I got ginormous. I had to take it for the two weeks before and then eight weeks. Gynormous.

And when I say ginormous, this week I went and got some of Keisha's old bras. So Keisha used to have massive boobs. And she's like, hey, I've got leftover bras from when I had really big boobs. Do you want them? And I said, what size are they? She's like, they're F. And I was like, oh, yeah, great, I'll grow into them. Can't fit them.

Dude, my boobs are more than an F. Can you, I know. And so I'm so lucky I wasn't sick at all. No nausea. The opposite. Feed me. Potato gems all day long. No vegetables, no food.

Just hot chips, fries, all hours of the night. Ben was like, I think you need some vegetables. I'm like, shut up. You're like potato is a vegetable. It's like, look it up then. It's a complete food. Look, am I going to be one of those people that stays the same and just gets a belly? No, like that's not going to be me.

I know that I'm going to continue to grow in every ounce of my body and I'm okay with that. Ask me again in a couple of months. It might be a bit of a mental battle. If there's ever a time in life where you can blow the fuck out, that's what I said. Let it be this. Like there is so much pressure. And I know that a lot of people feel really self-conscious during their pregnancies because they're like, you don't look the same. Like sometimes you get swollen face from water retention.

And like I understand that it's not always the most comfortable thing. But I absolutely reject the feeling self-conscious during it. It's like if there has ever been a time as a woman where you were allowed to look however you look. Totally. And shouldn't feel self-conscious about it. Pregnancy has to be it. Like it has to be. Yeah.

The thing that I want to say about it is it's not the weight that I'm worried about putting on it. I couldn't care less. I know I'm growing a body and I know it's once in my life. But I'd been lying if I said there's not already a mental shift that is for the first time in my life, you have to relinquish control. I have always been really into fitness, really healthy, I eat really well. I am lucky enough that I can have a pretty stable size and weight. You know, I have to work harder the older I get when my metabolism slows down. But I've always been in control and loved fitness.

And the mental barrier that I am experiencing now, and I know so many women will experience, is just not being able to control that anymore. You still can go to the gym as much as you can, and you cannot control that your body is going to go into it a time and a position that you've not ever been in. I don't have any, like, no clothes that fit me. I do not have a pair of pants that I can put on. I know we say we shouldn't care about it,

but you'd be lying if you said you don't look in the mirror and not recognize who you are during pregnancy and after pregnancy, and that's also okay. But I also think that there is an important exercise in accepting and also in buying clothes that fit you. You know, like, I lived in Kmart drawstring pants, and that was my entire wardrobe. I found it hard to dress my pregnant body, but I sure as hell got to a point where I was like, I just want to be comfortable.

I think for me, I just want to be showing. That's all it is. And then my brain might be able to make the connection more. If in the YouTube, I'll have a look at YouTube now, I'll put a photo in of where I currently am in my pregnancy. I'm just not showing. And I think that my brain will understand when I have a belly. A baby there. Yeah, like, a baby belly.

Yeah, because at the moment, I don't know where the fuck it is. I'm like, oh. And your boobs initially? Yeah, is it growing in my left breath? They accidentally inserted it into your tips. Like, yeah, what? It comes out my nipple.

No, it's so immature girls. When are they grow up? Ben, what I will say is Ben has been nothing. Like, a mate, he loves my changing body. He cannot get enough of the curves. And every time I'm naked, he has to say out loud, he cannot control it. He's like, oh my God. He's like your boot.

He has to come and hold them. He's like, he like, lifts them. up? He's like, is that a weight off your... He just like holds him on a plate, like, on his hands. And I'm like, yeah, that's really nice. And just following me around. He's like, it's really nice for me too. Like a platter of titty. Yes. We haven't even spoken about Ben yet.

How is he... The guy on the title of this episode. Now that he's obviously had time to process everything, how is he feeling about it all? He is really excited and he's been so good. So as much as I said, I wasn't sick, I had no energy in the first trimester. I couldn't do anything, just wanted to eat. He's made me every meal, no matter when I wanted it, he's gotten up to go and get me chips late at night when I wanted chips.

There was ages there. I couldn't even walk Delilah because I was like, I cannot fathom getting off the lounge. Guys, I cannot believe it. I cannot believe the pregnancy fatigue. I think I fell asleep on the toilet once. Yeah, it really is. Like the pregnancy fatigue, even if you don't get other symptoms, the tiredness in first trimester is unlike anything I've ever experienced before.

And I used to get home from work and Claire, our GM would come and want to do work. And I was like, you need to live. I was like, I need to. But I couldn't say that. I was like, I need to nap. Well, I'm kind of meeting now. With my God. No, he's been really, really good.

He's come to every appointment. I'm lucky that he, because if he didn't sacrifice his work this season, I would have just been here alone doing that as well, which is fine. But it's so much nicer to do with somebody. Of course. Yeah, he can't wait. But we can't agree on names. We can't agree on anything.

Do you have some names shortlisted? We are. We're shortlisting. But every name that I bring up, the European names are so different. and he'll bring up like, Alberta, Vincenzel or something. And I'll be like, baby in Australia, that's going to get, Vinnie! It doesn't, the names that work there don't work here and vice versa. So we're going to have to find a happy medium.

I'm also, cannot even fathom thinking. For me, this pregnancy, the birth is so far away, even though it's really not. It's far enough away. I could give birth on maths. So we are hosting the Married at First Site after the dinner party. Full term. I know. Think of the pregnancy fits.

You're going to look bomb. No, you know what it's giving. All I can think of is I'm going to look like Kim, Ash in when she wore that full-length couch. That's all I think is going to be. It's not going to be. Britt, you're never going to wear a full high neck. I've already ordered it.

I ordered it. I ordered it. I ordered it. No, I'm going to do it. It's going to be great for content. But no, so in terms of like when I'm doing stuff, hypothetically, if everything goes to plan, I will be able to do that entire show and then it will come later that month.

There's a chance. Things don't go to plan, baby. There's a chance. Things don't go to plan. So I'm hoping everything just stays in, stays tight. But do you remember how many jokes you made when I was pregnant with Poppy about wanting to give me a stretch and sweep? Yeah, you can do it if you want. I've got no one else to do it.

I've learned about perineal massage too. What is a stretch and sweep? Oh, sweet. Well, you can wait. That might be for a later. People who have made it this far in the episode, probably most of them would know what a stretch and sweep is like if you are wanting to go into labor, but you're like running late as in like, you're not dilated yet. Actually, you have to be dilated a little bit, but you're just, the baby's not coming. People put their fingers in basically in life.

You basically massage the membrane. You literally do this. It's this and then it's that and then it's that. They do it three times, I think. It can kickstart things. And I was begging to do Laura's. She would not like me. Yeah, I've had an obscene amount of stretch and sweeps.

From Brittany. Yeah, from Brit. Only from Britain. When you were pregnant or just for fun? She still does them. That's also on Patreon. I've had an insane amount of stretching sweep. They never worked for me.

I just got fingered for fun by my obstetrician. That's why you loved giving birth. We've come back to it. She got fingered for free. Obstetricians are not cheat, so I actually paid a lot to get fingered by him. Yeah, that's true. Good times. Good times.

Great memories. What a time you're like, well, Brittany, Britney is having a baby. I hope I answered enough questions then, but Brittany is having a baby. I'm so happy for you, honey. I know I've said it a thousand times. The shock, I'm on the other side of the shock. I'm just in complete joy for you. Yeah.

I will be there in any and every way that you want me to be there. If Ben can't be there, I'll be at the cold face. I'll do it. You'll pull it out. I'll pull it out. I'll pull it. Yeah. You tell me what you were.

Or I'll back off. If that's too much, I can back off too. I can do as much or as little that you want. But yeah, we just were all so, so happy for you. You're going to be an incredible mum. You need to be a little bit kinder and a little bit gentler to yourself during this period. Yeah, I know. You really do.

I'll be better. You won't. I know. Guys. No, no, I'm super excited. Again, thank you to everybody that has written or commented, except for the people that questioned my infertility. And for the people who accused us all of fabricating a surprise.

eyes because, you know, it's really, sometimes I'm shocked. Sometimes I am shocked by what's going on to that group. Also, just to anybody that's going through infatility now or IVF or anything, I get it and I feel incredibly lucky that in terms of the IVF side, I only had one implantation and I know that that is lucky. I know some people get that and I know other people don't. Yeah. And I know some people that never get their happy ending. And I just want to say, I'm thinking of you and I know what it feels like and I know you can feel alone and like there's no light at the end of the tunnel. But I truly hope that you find a way, I've said it before earlier, but find a way to still find the joy in things in life too and not let it completely consume you. And I know that's easy

so than done because I'm on the other side now. But I do think it's important that you find your people and know it's nothing wrong with you. You're not broken. And I just, I'm thinking of every single one of you. Fertility is incredibly complex. We have over the last seven years spoken about every single version of it. And I think it's really important to remember that just because somebody has the happily ever outcome of having kids doesn't mean that their journey towards that wasn't really, really challenging. And I think that sometimes all we see is the destination. And that can be a really hard thing to see when you're in it, when you're struggling with these things. But it doesn't mean that that person hasn't gone through miscarriages. It doesn't mean that that person

hasn't gone through their own incredibly challenging fertility journey to get to that point. And if it wasn't for science, Ben and I, Ben and I, back in the day would have been the couple that were infertile and wouldn't have had children. It's amazing. The science world is absolutely incredible. You know, I'm a woman of science. Anyway, I can go through that. I thought we're going to get through an entire episode without saying that. Thank God. Guys, we also want to say a very big thank you to every single person who's like subscribed to the Patreon thus far. It's turning into such a cool community. If you, if you haven't subscribed and you want to, the links will all be in the show notes.

We did do an episode last week that came out, which was, I mean, it caused quite the stir. It has about 10 minutes at the start of us talking about Brits' pregnancy because it was recorded literally straight after when Britt... Five minutes after. Which was always our schedule. None of us knew that Britt was going to tell us that she was pregnant except for Brits. So if you're going to be angry at anyone, be angry at her. No, you just reminded me.

What I also wanted to say is that was not planned, not in one iota. It was basically because we had staff members away the two weeks prior. And I wanted to make sure everyone was here for the announcement. I didn't want to feel anyone to feel left out. My intention was to tell you guys. I was pregnant like two and a half weeks before. But then we had our GM overseas. We had a videographer really unwell.

And I was like, we need to make for the whole team. So anyone that thinks that like we, I sold my unborn baby to Patreon, we absolutely didn't. Patreon's an amazing community if you want to join it. It's also so fine if you don't. It's like we're always going to give you the same amount of content. We love you guys. We appreciate you in whatever capacity you show up and listen to us every single week.

And we're just so glad you've been on the journey with us from day one. Yeah. And I think what I wanted to say in terms of last week's episode, is there's 10 minutes of our genuine reaction to finding out. For everyone who has listened to it, you know, they can also attest to the fact that it's just real joy of 10 minutes of like processing the fact that we just found out. Yeah.

And there's a few questions in there. But then we do get into what is like basically going to ask us anything. I listened back to the episode. I think the part that I actually enjoyed the most about it in terms of like separate to talking about your pregnancy was us talking about conflict and us talking about like the times where we've had conflict in our relationship, the times. where we've, I guess, like, had to overcome whether we've ever felt jealous of each other. There was a lot of really intimate conversation about our relationship, the inner workings

of life uncut. It's just different types of content to what we would put here. It felt like a conversation that we would have off mic, just as much as a conversation that we had on Mike, I think. It's $6.99 for the month, or you can get 20% off on a year's subscription. The links are all in the show notes. Join it if you want to. If you don't want to, once again, reiterating, you're not missing out on any of the content that you would have already received.

And we don't love you any less. You won't, yeah, you still get your four episodes a week, but you get more if you subscribe to Patreon. Because that's the whole point of it. It is more. You want to learn what a stretch and sweep is. I'll show you on Patreon. That's where you're going to go. Britt can do a demo on Patreon.

Anyway, guys, that's it from us. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We love you. Supporting me, everyone. We love you. We're so excited.

Oh, I forgot to talk about the farts. That can be next week. I can't wait. Pregnancy Farts. Tune in. Hold on. Keep that one for Patreon. You know the drill.

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