Secret Mum Club with Sophiena - The Baby Special... With Chris!

Episode Date: April 4, 2024

Sophiena’s back and this time, SHE HAS A BABY! We’re officially welcoming little Renley to the Secret Mum Club with a special episode all about his journey into the world. And whilst Emma is busy recovering and enjoying her own bundle of joy, we’ve roped someone in to help. Making his debut is Chris! (AKA Daddy, AKA Pizza Dick.)  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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We had a baby! Now, Emma also has some very special news too, but we'll have to see more from Emma very soon. For now, I wanted to catch up with you all and tell you a little bit about the new addition to our family it's baby redley and who better to join me than the one and only pizza dick himself it's your debut oh it's your debut this is brilliant this is brilliant yeah the debut of the first i feel honored to be on the podcast you should yeah this is this is a big deal even really smiling even really even found that funny as well this is a big deal because you're like the first true guest of the of the podcast how does it feel the first and the best one it's your virginity isn't it great podcast virginity have you ever been on a podcast

no no never never so the true question is people want to know how did it go how'd the pregnancy go tell them everything the pregnancy how was the pregnancy for you that's a good place to start how was the pregnancy for you for me it was long it was long people didn't believe me when i said it was long but i felt like it was really long it was long considering he's been here now it was a long nearly four weeks it was 24 hours wasn't it of like 24 hours I meant the pregnancy in general oh sorry I thought you meant the birth the whole 35 weeks oh yeah that was long yeah that was very long considering he's nearly a month old now and where's that month gone it's flown past hasn't it

it's flown past bless him and now considering that we waited 35 weeks that was long so yeah how was the whole pregnancy for you i found it quite tough you obviously found it tougher because you were struggling a lot more yeah because the baby was inside me yeah that's what i mean yeah so for me it was tough it was tough seeing you struggle so much and in so much more pain and discomfort but yeah i i found it quite hard but you struggle so much and in so much more pain and discomfort. But yeah, I found it quite hard, but you obviously found it a lot harder than me. But you did amazing.

It was mainly just the growth for me. It was the growing the human in my uterus. And he's always like this. Basically turned into a boxing match. And then labour. Tell him about the labour. I feel like it's a fun time for you to share your experience on the labor how was it for you for me yeah the labor was quite long

wasn't it it's quite a long process wasn't it so if people for people that didn't because i did talk about on instagram a little bit but not too much purely because it was just so sad the whole lead up to renly's arrival into the world because I went in my waters broke your waters broke on the Tuesday morning like 1.30 in the morning

didn't they 20 past 1 on Tuesday morning my waters broke and you woke up like I don't know if my waters are broke or if I've pissed myself so what did I ask you to do

sniff the bed which I did and I everyone was like why would you make him do that and I couldn't give an answer because i said i don't think it smells like wee and i don't know what the waters basically smell like so i'm unsure what to do yeah we didn't really know what to do so i kind of left it a bit

didn't we rang my dad thank god big up dad he was awake and alert so i rang dad to come and sit with the babies because that was the first one i thought was going to be awake at like three in the morning yeah so dad rushed over didn't he to watch the children yeah i didn't i didn't get dad to sniff the sheets did i no no no i feel like in my deluded state did i ask dad to sniff the sheets i don't think i did it was just me just you yeah but i did we did um we did then leave it till about half past four and I phoned the hospital didn't I and the

lovely hospital said to come on down come on in Bruce's price is right so we went on in didn't we yeah

that was about six it was it was about half past six in the morning they did some checks I had an internal check speculum

TMI and they couldn't tell if the water they did some checks i had an internal check speculum yeah tmi and they couldn't tell if the water or they said they couldn't be clear the water was about broke were they no they were unsure whether the water was had break so then we had to wait for a scan yeah do you remember that yep went in to have a scan and they confirmed that the waters had reduced but they couldn't see if the waters had gone completely but there was enough water around him so they basically admitted me up onto the ward yeah for 24 hours of monitoring that was still tuesday i didn't come out until i had the baby it wasn't 24 hours it was a lot longer than 24 hours we went in on the tuesday and didn't leave the hospital until the following following friday

following friday no it wasn't it was the following friday no because we had him on the saturday oh yeah yeah because then so then wednesday thursday friday and then slowly kind of friday night was it was saturday early hour saturday morning i basically had contracted from tuesday all the way through until we'd had him saturday yeah so on and off contracted um and my body just wasn't dilating on its own was it it was giving us all the gear but no idea like renly was like i know i should be coming out but i don't know how i meant to be getting out yeah so yeah then we went down on the friday they thought i was going to have him i got put back on the ward at 2 30 in the morning yeah you went down you went back up again to which somebody

chucked my dentures away come back up from nearly thought they're on ebay somewhere right now anyway they're sold 25 25 million to somebody my gammy retainers any who's and then saturday the the doctor came around and was like just so you know we're gonna have the baby today that that calmly just we're just gonna have the baby today enough's enough the water is reducing around you you're having some leaking the baby is okay but we've gone on for a long time now with the water's reducing so we think it's best to just have the baby yeah today so that nonchalantly i called you didn't i and went i don't know what time you want to get here but they they're considering

we just have the baby today yeah you were like sorry what yep so you have my life i said you warned me i was too busy trying to clean the house and she's like you i think you were taking the mic here you thought i was taking this you said you're taking the piss i said i'm not they're taking me down now. They take me down at 11.30, although they didn't take me down until about 2.30 because it was a really busy day, wasn't it? Yeah, yeah. And then that was that.

My sister and my mum were there. They bought me a McDonald's breakfast and my sister decided to stay for the ride, didn't she? Yeah. So I said, right, Roxanne's staying with me. You need to get here quick, sharp. And I did my best. You were there? I was there in half an hour safely yeah i wouldn't obviously be yeah half hour i got there he wasn't speeding no um but yeah and

then yeah it all began they took me down to the paradise city where the grass is green and the girls are pretty they were pretty i did not look pretty in labour. And then, yeah, we had to wait. They decided to do the gel. And we had to play some games. You pissed me off a little bit. You fucking jerk. Always, yeah.

I was too busy getting stuck into FIFA mobile. Luckily, Colby downloaded that on my phone for me because we were there that long. Also, your whole dilemma with your takeaway burger. What about that? You spent like a fucking hour trying to find a burger yeah and then you went to the burger shop i nearly gave birth i picked the big yeah i picked the big busiest burger shop to go to as well which was yeah it was a shit burger and then when i got back turns out they're all plain

mine was raw mine was plain so all in yeah, a great experience, wasn't it? I, at this point, I was on the ball. We were playing the music game. Guess what? Guess the artist. Guess the artist. Yep. Guess the artist.

We took a walk around quite a lot. To be fair, I was having heavy contractions. How was the contractions for you? To be fair, you you were if there was pregnancy in the dictionary pregnancy or labor labor sorry in the dictionary your name would be in there because you just literally aced it because you were just you just literally you didn't even there was there was ladies in the other rooms, you could hear them, couldn't you, going, and Soph's just going, oh, oh, yeah, oh, that's a big one, oh, oh, and then Nick's, you know.

Are you joking with me? No, I'm being serious. You were just like, a little bit like, oh, yeah, oh, and then it got to about, what? Here comes the poo. Then you got to about 75%, 75%, and then you, then when you asked for the gas and air. I remember asking for the gas and air because it was getting a bit too claustrophobic, Darren. It was, it was. So then you had that build up of the contractions where you were just a little bit like, yeah,

and then you start the gas and air. And then for that 15 minutes, it was gas and air, a few pushes and a few grunts. No one would have even known you was giving birth. They walked past the room. You was that quiet, honestly. And then a few pushes and a few grunts. No one would have even known you was giving birth. They walked past the room. You was that quiet, honestly. And then a few pushes. No, I'm being serious. I'm being so serious.

Yeah, so serious. Yeah. You were so quiet, honestly. About the only time in my life. And then next thing you know, little man's here. In 15 minutes, he's out. Bosh. He was out pretty fast.

Yeah. So we did have a little bit of a traumatic, traumatic. He come out like Superman. He just come out too too fast he came out with his fists across his eyes um and he gave himself a little bit of head trauma didn't he yeah and he had a little bit of a struggle breathing so he had to have a little bit of help didn't he yeah and he went off to the neonatal unit which may i add i you know i take my hat off and give credit to i think i naively thought like the neonatal unit which may I add I you know I take my hat off and give credit to I think I naively thought like the neonatal unit I thought oh yeah everyone just goes to the neonatal when they have a preemie baby um and the babies are little and that's not the case at all and I think I've been know that is vomit god on my tit oh renly you came and you puked on my boobie and we've also got a little renly struggling a little bit with the vomiting

it's okay though i think your fast action into the world superman um it's just it's got a little bit of a slow digestion so yeah you went down to the neonatal didn't you yeah i reckon i would say the neonatal unit humbled me and they were just incredible aren't they i think you you you go in thinking you're going to have this you only go in there because your baby's tiny and my gosh it's a very humbling experience in the fact that not only do them midwives and doctors work so fucking hard, but it is a very, very surreal feeling being in there. Yeah. And I think that took me back a little bit, didn't it?

It was a little bit hard. I was only able to be in there because I was hot and stuff from giving birth. And they take you, they take the baby straight in there. Because all the little incubators and stuff down there as well. It's warm in there. i was hot and stuff from giving birth and they take you they take the baby straight in there and stuff down there it's warm in there and i just kept going really light-headed so i was only able to do like five ten minutes stints and i think you're so like taken aback with you've just given birth your baby's now in an incubator in a room with all of these doctors um and it was really hard wasn't it it was hard yeah really hard really really hard really really hard thing and i truly don't think i would have been able to do it if it wasn't for you because you

just took it like a champ just took it like a champ literally just took him just went off didn't you yeah and then my sister went and i had to have a few stitches and just have everything checked over but i honestly take my hat off that was a that was a hard experience wasn't it and then he was in neonatal for what was he in there four days three days he's in there three days three days yeah three days three or four days um and then we went up to the ward we went up to the ward and we had a few things like we had billy rubin yeah so he spent a few more days underneath the heat lamps and the mats didn't he and that was hard that was hard being i struggled with that bit being hot that was so hard to be away from the babies like not only had i'd spent four days

before the babies yeah before having him to then spend another five days up there with Renly. Still not home. No. But people are dying to know, like, how did we tell Colby and Dottie? We didn't, did we? We didn't tell them to start with. I think because it was all a little bit rushed and I was a little bit freaked out when we were just like,

oh, we're having a baby. And then I was like, what should we do? And Chris was like, don't tell them. So I went to my sister's and they they had a fun day and they spent the night there didn't they yeah my mom and dad picked them both up from school and then we just i just brought them up to the hospital didn't i i brought them up to the hospital and then colby was like um why are you holding a baby and i was like this i tried calling you didn't i tried calling you when it was we went up to your you basically in the neonatal you literally you lose hours

you go in there and you just you lose all track of time it's so busy in there and you're so consumed with your baby yeah you lose hours and hours and hours and i wasn't concentrating on my phone so christian i just hear these little voices come to the door yeah so i tried to call you then you were down there with him yeah feeding them like was you feeding them or was you colby was like hello mommy you're hugging him or something literally like this just holding renly i was like hey darling you all right and he was like yeah whose baby are you holding i was like this is your brother really he didn't know what to make of it did he was a little bit emotional colby he was a little bit taken back he couldn't find his breath could he where it's so warm in there as well couldn't find his breath and he was a little bit yeah taken back and dotty

ever the one to make you feel fucking great just went if the baby's in your arms why is your belly so big well it doesn't really work like that, but she didn't understand. And then she got, when she see Colby was getting upset, she was getting upset. And it was a very wonderful experience, wasn't it? It was, it was a good experience.

It was great. I'm glad they met him there because they both, we wanted them to know how special it was for them to have him, obviously. But it was hard. We didn't know whether we should do it in neonatal or whether we should do it up on the ward. But I think you were a little bit taken back by everything that had gone on.

Oh, yeah. And Colby was so stressed with not being up the hospital. It couldn't have been any more perfect, could it? Yes. If we'd planned it, it wouldn't have gone that great. No. So they sat on the chair, didn't they,'t they with him yeah they both got to hold him give him his first hug they both instantly loved him yeah we had mother's day in the neonatal unit

we had the photos where they took photos of us they took photos on mother's day of us as a family like our first ever family photo i got given a gift on monday i got a bag which had body shop products in it a cost of voucher they made a card with renly's footprint didn't they yeah so good like the detail honestly when i tell you they couldn't have made me feel any more special in the unit well the whole the whole experience in hospital from being on... I was on the Lindhurst ward, then I was on the Burley ward. And then obviously we had him on the Labour ward. Then we went down to neonatal.

I saw everybody. Every part of the hospital. Every part, every angle of the hospital and everybody. There was just so many people that I truly... There's just not enough thanks was that to give to give everybody but out of 10 how was it the experience for you would you do it again absolutely yeah 10 out of 10 well you'd have another baby yeah even even being that a little bit traumatic yeah because there's no guarantee

that it's going to be no the same do you there is there's no guarantee if you could take him out of the sunroof yeah

him or her the next one I feel like we no I'm not going to I was going to say I feel like we need an even number nope

no actually it'll be twins and then we'll be back to square one we're insanely grateful and feel very lucky that he's here safe and sound but we've had some lovely messages so i'm gonna i'm gonna hand over to chrissy chrissy's gonna read out some lovely when i say there's a handful of messages we have as us personally but also the

podcast have received the most insane amount of messages and truly it is so hard to even narrow out some of the ones that we've that we've received but there's just so many and honestly from my whole heart thank you for everybody that sent such beautiful messages everywhere to the podcast emailed in to the management to us personally like there Like, there are so many. And it's overwhelming, isn't it? Yeah. Poor Christmas. I was trying to get Chris to read through them to try and stay on top of them.

I can't keep up, yeah. And it was just a massive thank you from, not only from me and Chris Renly, but obviously Culbers and Dots as well, because so many people have been so thoughtful about Culbers and Dots as well. So we're so very, very grateful. We are indeed.

Thank you very much over to Chrissy now because I can talk for England yeah the lovely Hannah said congratulations on your new novel

such lovely news beautiful news thank you for keeping me entertained during many sleepless nights with my little one countless times have I had to

stifle laughter whilst rocking him back to sleep that's the worst thing isn't it when you're feeding the baby and you're um trying so hard like the amount of times I've been feeding him and I've been watching a funny video and I'm like and your belly laughs and wake them up and you're like oh I don't know whether I'm going to pop a stitch or wet my pants or wake the baby and you're like what was i doing there was that i was rocking the pram with nothing he wasn't even in it before he was in it i was just rocking he wasn't even

there he was rocking the pram back and forth and i was like why are you rocking the pram he's like fucking hell there's no baby in here who else do we have keely keely says ah i feel like my best mate just gave birth how lush congratulations oh no isn't that nice that is really i feel like my best mate just gave birth. How lush. Congratulations. Oh. Isn't that nice? That is really... I feel like I've just given birth to, like, the nation's baby. Like, I feel... I feel like royalty. Like, I feel so special.

Don't we? You are royalty. You're royalty in this house, anyway. I'm not. I'm not. I'm just... I'm just mum. So, keep on sending your messages in if you want to message a secret mom club just search secret mom pod on tiktok and instagram or you

can email us on hello at secret mom pod.com we'll be back with more as soon as we can might be a little less regular than normal for now and hopefully we'll be hearing from emma very soon so thanks for listening and we'll see you next time on the secret mom club acas powers the world's best podcasts. Here's a show that we recommend. Halloween horror is about. This spooky season with these hair-raising podcasts. The Magnus Protocol. Catch you next time, dearie.

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