Sex, Love, and What Else Matters - No Sleep, No Formula, No Problem?

Episode Date: September 28, 2025

Episode 168. This week, Kristen and Luke open up about the beautiful chaos of balancing life with a baby—from sleepless nights to unexpectedly running out of formula. The crew shares the sweet (and slightly stressful) story of Kaia’s first-ever train ride and their trip to San Diego. They also dive into what shows they're excited to binge this season, chat about football being back, and celebrate a few new Kaia milestones. Plus, with BravoCon 2025 right around the corner, you know there’s some Bravo chatter on the way! Whether you’re in the trenches of parenthood or just here for the pop culture and laughs, this episode is a fun, relatable ride. Sponsors: Nutrafol: For a limited time, Nutrafol is offering our listeners $10 off your first month’s subscription and free shipping when you go to Nutrafol.com and enter the promo code DOUTE. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Okay, fair. But from this podcast, we've been a little missing in action. And it's because I need to hunker down and find the balance between baby and other life, like life's to do's. I'm having a difficult time balancing baby and Kristen. I'm mastering, I'm trying to master being a mom, and then I'm like, wait, there's other stuff. That's hard. It is. It's like a whole, well, you're probably doing this just got tossed out the window and completely filled up with one primary thing.

And we're tired. Can you tell we sound tired? We sound tired. We need to liven up a bit. Kai is asleep too. So I'm not going to liven up too much. Okay, fair. And bless that because we just drove back from San Diego.

And she's out. She got out, out, out. And we took a train to San Diego. Kaya has now been on a train, a plane, and an automobile before four months old. It's so true. That's wild. A boat is next. It is.

A surfboard. A boat. A paddleboard. A four-wheeler. A four-wheeler. Not a motorcycle. A tractor. Not quite.

Not yet. She can't even hold her head up. But still. You can't put her on a tractor. She'll be holding her head up by time we are in progress. proximity to my tractor. Fair enough. When's the first time you ever went on a train?

How old were you? I don't know. I literally have no idea, like aside from a little like Christmas theme park like run around train. No, like a real train. Did you guys not do that in school trips and stuff? Because we did. Maybe we actually, I think it was a train to Chicago.

I think it was a trip in Washington, D.C. We didn't take a train to get there, but we took a train in D.C., I think. Like a real one or like a Choo-Train? No. I like it. talking like city to city like we just did la to san diego i know there was another time but all i can think of is spain spain yeah Barcelona to madrid and back it was pretty cool those trains were really fast so fast train was super fun it is a very ideal way to travel with a baby when you're going

you know like a handful of hours because the thought of having her in her car seat for that trip was like stressing me the living fuck out like I was so stressed because her travel stroller not her favorite stroller I get it it's a wonderful stroller we love the duna who doesn't but some parents of parent parental some friends of mine who are parents aka nia and danny they love that damn duna and their daughter their baby addie will like sit in that duna she like lives and breathe the Kaya's like absolutely not. Put me in my up a baby or my back's cozy. Like stick me in my posh one. So hours and hours. I don't know. I just, I was very excited about the train and it ended up being glorious. My friend Kelly came in town from Charleston. I've talked about Kelly the Kaya whisper

before. She flew in and went with us to be like our travel nanny. And it was just so, like, weighed off my shoulders. It was so nice. It was. Don't you think? Yes, absolutely. Like Kelly being around gives us time to be us versus just parents us, like you were saying, as far as the balance.

I know child care is a difficult thing, a different, difficult transition since we didn't start with a night nurse, you know, it's been all us the whole time. And just recently, what just last week was the first time we had any type of like regular or child care daily. Yeah. So this transition. That is a really good point because we did not start with it. We didn't do it for, yeah, I mean, first 13, 14 weeks of her life.

And it was really hard for me. Like we found childcare, I guess, a nanny. I don't know. It's like nanny babysitter. What do you call it? Like, I don't know. But we found this wonderful lady who was highly recommended to us, like personal reference. So I felt really comfortable.

And I'm like, oh, my God, I have to give her a schedule. Like, she has a life too and she has kids and, oh, like, I don't know what I don't know what I'm comfortable with. I don't know what I'm ready for. So we gave her a schedule that was like a pretty regular, like Monday through Friday. Let's try these hours out. And after day one, I was panicking. She was amazing.

But I was like, she is amazing. She is amazing. She is still with us. But I was. really like, I wasn't busy the whole time, like the hours that were given. And I was home. When we wanted to try it that way, like, well, let's try it while we're both at home, but we have like a lot of stuff to do or we have like an errand to run. But one of us will always be home. And I was like, wait, I don't, I like just being with Kaya the whole entire day. Now, granted, my

to-do list builds and builds. And then I stress out and I freak out. And I'm like, oh, my God, I was never to do. But it was just like very odd for me personally not being the one putting her down for naps and not like sitting on the couch and contact napping and not feeding her. And like I was like making bottles and she was like I got it. But you got shit done, didn't you? I did get shit done. So I have to find that balance.

Right. I still need to get her shit done. But I will say the trip to San Diego, the most I have missed Kaya yet was I felt like I went a whole day in proximity to. her and didn't like get time with her and I don't know I like really missed it and like give her to me see you know I feel now oh she's just the best you know so that being said about psychotically being obsessed with her and loving her we put a nanny cam in our house that we did and it came in handy day one it really did because so we were like we plug it we get it all set up. It was a ring and we have ring cameras. And I was getting ready and

I was messing with my earrings. And this is like off. It's like in a place in the living room where I was like in a mirror, the nanny cam did not see. Right. And Britt came over, Brittany. And Brittany was holding Kaya while I was trying to put my earring in. And all of a sudden, Kaya like projectile spits up. So, of course, I just drop everything and run over, and I'm like, here, give her to me and like Luke's, you know, grabbing towels and whatever. And I pick up Kaya, take her to a changing table that we have in the living room. And I'm like stripping her clothes off and like, get me a washcloth and blah, blah, blah. And through that chaos, I was like, shit, where did my earring go? And guys, this isn't just like a whatever cheapy earring. This is my Alexandria

push present. Kaya's birthstone, one of the rarestones on earth, more valuable. in a diamond stud that I love that I rarely, rarely ever take out. And I had taken it out because I was like trying to be cool one day. But regardless. Well, also all that being said, it's a small stone being a rare. It is. It's a little stud. And it's a little stud. And it's not easy to see. No. And Alexandria, if you don't know it, like changes color in different lighting. So that's even worse. But I then can't find said earring. And I'm just like, okay, we're going to find it. we can't vacuum, vacuum until we find it, or at least vacuum in the proximity of where I think I left it. I did not find that bitch a week later. And how did I, like, we were scouring the

floor, like with flashlights and like, don't dust bust here, don't swiffer there. Oh my God, what do we do? I used my dang ring cam. I used the nanny cam, which is what I used to do when I had a nest camera when I had Bowie and Gibson only because I wanted to see if Gibson was like peeing in the house or when Bowie was sick, are they doing okay? We didn't have that anymore. So I'm like, let's let me watch it and like see if I can tell where I lost this earring. And I did. I had the earring in my mouth the whole entire time like in between my teeth while I was changing her and I took it out of my mouth and I set it on this tray we have in her play area. And I was like, I found the earring.

You know what's so funny? It was so awesome. You used it for that in the first couple times. Like when you started doing that, I didn't, I don't know, it is a useful, like, trait that that has, I guess, that you can, like, go back on versus just, like, checking on your dogs or kids or whatever. But you would do it to find your keys, to find the remote,

to find your wallet. Yes. To find your phone. Yes. All of the above. Because I tend to walk in. from running errands, like, chaotically, because I, listen, I don't like leaving the house, balance. I'm trying to figure that out. But, like, when I leave the house and I'm, I tend to do

a lot of things all at once. Like, if I have to run one errand, I'm running 17, and I'm coming in, and I'm cleaning my car out on my way in. So I have a lot of things in my hand. And then I'm, like, hands. And I'm like, where did I put my keys? I have found my keys inside of a grocery bag. Like, I'm grabbing groceries out of the car. back in the day, and I would throw my keys in the grocery bag and then walk in. And I've, like, thrown them away before. But then I see it on the camera. Does not surprise me in the least.

Listen, if you're ADHD like me, invest in a ring cam or, like, a nest, a nanny cam, just for your own benefit. And one day, I hope it will help us with Kaya in case, what if we, like, missed, like, a cool milestone and it was, like, on camera, then we have it. Very true. You know. I mean, we trust our baby. babysitters, but maybe one day we have to hire a babysitter we're unsure of.

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Yeah, football. That was before I was born. There are very few players I know from before I was born, like Vince LaVarty. Yeah, I know that name. Okay. Fair enough. Like Dicka. I know that name. Oh my God. In Google, it says Dodger, Freddie Freeman's aunt is a golden bachelor contestant. Love Freddie Freeman Love Chelsea Freeman Well okay I'm definitely gonna watch Golden Bachelor Golden Bachelor

Mel Owen's father has ties to Detroit And Diana Ross All right I'm in I'm curious what you guys think About these fun new shows I don't know Do I have time in my TV budget To watch that with all the football

That's going on That's fair That's three days a week No more than that because college Four days a week The Hoosiers And good morning football Who who

Hoosiers are looking pretty good. Yeah, you guys won like 60-something to something smaller. It was like 63 to 10 against a top 10 team murder in the streets. I need to, yeah, I used to really be into college football because I felt like it was more exciting to watch sometimes than pro football because they want it so badly. But now that I play fantasy football, I think starting a few years back when I started doing fantasy football, I love all professional football now, not just my own team. So now college, I'm like, I don't know who these people are, but I wish them the best. I mean, your team would be Michigan, not Michigan State, correct?

No, I'm a state. I'm a Michigan State. I don't know. You're not a college girl. Don't judge me. I'm just kidding. Yeah, football's the best. Very excited about that.

Luke might be going to the Colts game this weekend. It's a plan with my boy. We got tickets to the Rams and Lions game. fantasy teams are kind of crushing it. Knock on wood. I want to knock on the table, but then dogs work. Knock, knock, knock. I'm three and O in one league.

I'm two in one in the other one. Dang, girl. I know. Even when you tried to dupe me by telling me to drop someone and then you picked him up. I haven't played him. It's a potential long-term play. We love Sunday football days. We have a barbecue every Sunday thus far.

So far, we're three-for-three and having an open invite to our good friends. because Chris doesn't like to leave the house and I actually love to host and I put an 85-inch TV on the patio. So it's perfect. And we have a pool and it's just so nice and I don't like leaving the house so it is really nice that all the friends

want to come over. Yeah, and I'm totally down. I like the work that involves in hosting and also that it's football because football's more fun to watch it with your friends. 100% I agree. All I want to do is talk about Kaya. Can I just tell a little quick story

Because I have people asking me all the time, like friends, like, what are her milestones? What are her milestones? And I'm like, oh, I have all these apps and blah, blah, blah. But for me, I had like a cool moment the other day. So, like, in one of my apps, it's like, she'll start blowing spit bubbles soon. And I'm like, please, she's been doing that. She's so advanced. Like, she's been doing that for weeks.

And Luke had some guy friends over. I mean, there are friends, but he had, like, guy friends over the other night. And I was inside with Klai. and I was like, okay, when she goes to bed, like, I'll come hang out. And then she didn't end up going to bed. It was just like a whole thing. So I ordered pizza. And I was like, I'll order you guys pizza and I'll order myself something. And then the pizza didn't come. And it said it came. It said delivered by Domino's. I checked my Domino's tracker. Nothing's happening. I call Domino's and I'm like, it's busy and it's busy. The signal's busy. And I'm like, oh my God, this is even a real

store like they the store is like you know what i mean like it's not it's not really a busy signal like they have their phone disconnected or something like i'm so irritated for no reason so they answer the phone and the guy's like out of breath and he's like hi domino's like i'm so hi and i was like hey yeah my order said it was delivered and it wasn't and he's like oh my god you must be one of the orders our driver got robbed uh color me humble i was like i'm so sorry like what a dick i felt like I'm sitting, I'm getting ready to be like, my order didn't get delivered. And he's like, my driver got robbed. Did he get robbed of pizza or did he have money?

That's a very good question. I don't know. That's a good question. Because nowadays, very few people pay cash. The police weren't there. He said, the police are here right now. And I said, I'm so sorry. I hope he's okay and safe and like ignore me, K-bye.

But I didn't actually, Luke, I didn't think about that. What I did think of was, who the fuck woke up in the morning and went, I'm going to go rob a pizza man. I doubt it was a morning thought. It's probably a spur of the moment. I bet this guy has money and I'm hungry. I doubt it was a professional. We'll put it that way.

It was an asshole is what it was. Truth. A hardworking man, just trying to do his job, and then you go take his money or his pizza or both. Rude. Rude. Hurtful, not kind. So that was wild, and I felt awful.

And Domino's people, I'm really sorry, if I gave you even an inkling of attitude because shit. But then I was all frazzled, of course, because I was like judging myself and they didn't have, the boys didn't have the pizza. And it was like, I made it my responsibility. And I was just feeling very frazzled. And then Kaya was laying on the couch, just like mine in her business playing and like, you know, blow and spit bubbles doing her thing.

And I was like, Kaya, I'm so sorry. I like took a moment. And I was like, Kaya, I'm so sorry. I'm my negative energy like right now. I need to smile and chill out, and this isn't that end of the world, and, like, you're the coolest, and I'm just, I'm so sorry if my negative energy is rubbing off on you. And she looked me dead in the eye, and she went, stuck her tongue out and blew spit bubbles. And I was like, how lucky am I right now?

She's so awesome. She's so much cooler than me. And that's all I've ever wanted. Just waiting until she's. on her feet and speaking she is going to be a talkative girl she is trying to talk so hard already yeah she makes a lot of noise and she's getting new sounds and sometimes the new sounds scares or startles her she's like did i like that sound that's true it's funny it's so cute her her when she sneezes scare her when she sneezes at the same time she does it startles her she's like

whoa i'm like hey i get it if it happened to me i'd probably be like whoa too doesn't happen to everyone When I sneeze, I always fart when I sneeze. Can you just say toot? I always toot when I sneeze. Seductive. You always toot when you sneeze? No, I'm lying. Oh, I was like, wait, is that real?

It's definitely happened before, but it's not every time. It's just so funny. Babies are so funny and weird and cool and awesome. Things I've never thought about, like the first time you sneeze. Like, wait, what's that thing? When you were pregnant, every time you sneezed, you'd pee a little. That's true. I did do that.

every single time. And usually if I coughed, like if I had a tickle in my throat, I'm like, no, no, no, no. But sneezing was a real thing. Like, I would feel it coming and I'm like, no, what's going to happen? And like clockwork, man. How weird is it to be a baby, though? You're just like, what's that noise? What's that thing coming out? Like, figuring it all out. No wonder it makes her nervous. What else about babies? I mean, I have so many things I could share. I don't know if it's like irritates you guys, but you're probably mostly parents if you listen to us now. Also, like I said, our baby's just cool. Oh, you want to hear something that's not cool? Speaking of baby toots, we ran out of formula. Oh, yeah. That was, oh, I felt so bad for her.

I have so much empathy for the parents during the pandemic because I remember reading the headlines, like, you can't buy formula, you can't find formula. The shelves are all, like, there's nothing on the shelves, like, oh, my God. And I was like, man, that sucks. And I'm not going to lie. There was a moment where I was like, oh, don't most people like breastfeed? I guess if you don't, you do formula. Because I didn't know, because I was a fucking asshole, okay? I was ignorant. I was ignorant. Like, I really didn't know. I was uneducated. And the formula we choose to use is from Europe because she has a very weak belly digestive system right now. And we can get it in California, whatever. These details don't matter. But our subscription based situation was not coming.

and we were leaving town to go to San Diego and full panic set in. So we used a comparable American formula, and it ruined her belly. The screams just, like, give me nightmares. I hate how bad cheek. It's awful. Yeah, I had hard time tooting and pooping. And, yeah, it was really uncomfortable. You could tell it was stomach pain.

And did the myelicon, did the toot whistle, whatever you call it. I call it a toot whistle also. Yeah. That's what I literally wrote down on the path. It was like very temporary relief and lo and behold, how did you come by finding this formula? Babe, I thought of you. Facebook Marketplace. I did go on Instagram and said like if anyone in L.A. has it.

But simultaneously, I've never once listed something on Facebook Marketplace personally and I've never bought something immediately like Luke does it. but like Luke does it for me. I'm like, oh, I want this or like, let's sell this thing or whatever. And I went on there all on my own, called Luke, of course. But I was like, okay, I'm going to do this. Does anyone have, you know, or I looked it up. However, I did it. Anyway, I found it.

I found it in two different places. I messaged those people all on my own. And then I called Luke instead of will you drive. 30 minutes? 30 minutes. And he's like, I absolutely will. 100%. it makes my stomach hurt hearing her cry yeah facebook marketplace really pulled through we made it happen

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You're in a sleep regression. I'm in a sleep coma degradation. No, that's not the right word. I don't know. You're tired. You're not working. That's the right word.

You're tired. I'm exhausted. We are tired. But do you know what a regression really is? It's a leap. Mm-hmm. See, I'm learning. In the baby world, I'm learning how to spin things being positive.

It feels like a regression, but it's actually a leap forward. Her brain's developing well, and we get a little less sleep. Yeah. look at us oh let's talk about bravo con for like one second so stephen mcbee who we just had on the pod we asked him privately when we were talking to him uh through the pod if he was doing bravocon and he was unsure and we were like oh man that's weird i like totally thought that he would be well they have now announced he's going to be there i'm guessing the whole family but i truly don't know he in his post he said we will be at bravocon so i assume that means the mcbee's

we'll be there. Which makes me so happy, because we haven't met them in person yet, but I did Google, did they announce season three? They have not. But me thinks... But it's kind of assumed, I feel like. Yeah, but we really don't know for sure. But me thinks season three is a coming.

I hope so. It should. That's exciting. It's a great show. It's a great show. Like we said when we were on with him, like the show could go on forever. Like you're a family.

It's my favorite non-competition reality TV show. So that's exciting too. And we will be there. Of course we will be. And we have less than 50 days. What? Less than 5.0 days until. The chaos that is bravo con.

Oh my goodness. James May will be a bravocon. Twil at twill at twill. I had a bunch of people message about the engagement t-shirt that Zach had made for us when we got engaged in Maui and you wore Luke the other day. And I posted it on Instagram. And I got a show. a ton of messages asking if we were going to sell it again. And I'm like, oh, my God, people actually want this?

Like, that's really sweet. I mean, I love it. But, yeah, so James A, we are going to sell it right before BravoCon if you want to have it to bring to BravoCon. And we just may sell it at BravoCon. So stay tuned for that. There may also be some BravoCon only designs released by James May. That's true.

Also, it's going to be really fun. I'm pretty excited. time around. I'm too exhausted to be excited at the moment, but there are times when I'm really excited. It's going to be exhausting, but I can't wait to meet all the lovely people. I went two years ago with you. Yeah. I was basically your purse carrier and tagged along.

I'm like, you're doing great, honey. Yeah, I went for one day. I was pregnant then. You were? First time around. Wild. I will not be pregnant this time so I can drink. It's really fun.

What else, babe? Anything else you want to share? Anything else on your mind? Well, things that are on my mind. I only want to share with you. Oh boy, I love you. I have two fun facts I'd like to share. Hit me with them. Did you know that Mountain Dew was created as a mixer for whiskey?

You didn't know that, did you? I did not. In the early 1930s, it says after moving, these brothers from Georgia, they miss their favorite mixer, which is a local soda called natural setup. They moved from Georgia to Knoxville, Tennessee. So then they were like, we're just going to create it ourselves, like create like their own mix with whiskey. Oh, and this was during prohibition. But it was like this lemony lime flavored caffeinated drink. And they called it Mountain Dew as a nod to the term for moonshine. I didn't know that. I read this. I read this.

And I was like, wait, this is so cool. Why is it? I don't know. I've never once thought, like, who the F made Mountain Dew and why? I'm not a Mountain Dew girl. It's really a cool name if you think about it. Are you a Mountain Dew guy? I'm not.

Were you ever when you were younger? No, but most of my friends, like, it was definitely a big thing in my, like, high school. Everyone loved their Mountain Dew. You go to Taco L to get the Baja blast. Yes. My best friend, Amy, you know, my very best friend of all time since we were teenagers, that was like her crack. Amy would have empty Mountain Dew 20-ounce bottles in the backseat of her car like nobody's biddeness.

And I'm like, this has to be eating away the insides of you. Now, granted, I was a Coca-Cola drinker. That means that her backseat was like a piggy bank because you guys have a deposit on those bottles. That's all so true. Does Indiana have a deposit? No deposit in Indiana. Oh, that sucks. Do you guys recycle?

We do. And I actually, to raise money for my high school frisbee team. went through my neighborhood and took all the cans out of their recycle bins, like at night before, you know, they came, and we had a truckload of trash bags, and we made like almost $200, but it was a big help for us at that point. Wow. Yeah, it was a lot of cans, though. Yeah, that was a lot of cans.

Because they were paying, I think it was like 50 cents a pound or something like that. That's how many cans we had to have. Oh, wow. Yeah, so my brother and I used to, like, when we were really young, we would, like, take all the cans and bottles and like take them up to the little local liquor store that was like two blocks away and we get cash for it so we could buy jolt jolt that's an energy drink right it's like it was like a cola like a cola with like illegal amount of caffeine oh like the old four logos and my mom would be like you aren't allowed to have jolt and we were like totally and then we

go do it anyway we'd like pound a jolt in two blocks you know kaya's gonna listen to this one day they don't make jolt anymore they make way worse they Kids eat tie pots these days. That's not going to be my daughter. I already told you what she's going to be like. She's going to tell me everything. We're going to be very best friends. I'm going to go home schooler, so it'll be all right.

So anyway, that happened with Mountain Dew. Okay, I have one more fun fact. Pez dispensers were created to help adults quit smoking. How'd that work out? You didn't know either of those things? How'd that work out? In the 1920s, Pez was created as a breath mint. In 48, they created a dispenser,

which had a single premise. Instead of reaching for a cigarette, smokers could pop a Pez candy into their mouth with the dispenser mimicking the feel of having a cigarette in their hand. Wow. So you just hold on to your, it's like holding a vape, but you're like,

oh, let's hold my Pez Spencer. Now people could potentially quit vaping with Pez now days. They could try. Yeah. A straw, a pez dispenser. I have a fun fact for you. A toothpick. What?

Tell me. Have you heard of an Argonaut octopus? Did you just tell you. me about this the other day or was it Kelly? I don't know. Does it have a beak? Well, all octopus at beaks. Oh, I didn't know that.

Kelly told me that the other day. They have beaks like in their vagina mouth. The argonaut octopus has a detachable penis that swims its own way, finds a female argonaut and works its way in there and unloads. Is there consent? Probably not. Can the female have her beak vagina mouth and be like, no? Probably.

There's probably some defenses, but it's really, you know, who has the strongest penis? Ooh, got to be strong to swim in the ocean. Can you imagine swimming in the ocean? So really, it's about the motion in the ocean? Yeah, you think you... What? Imagine a bunch of penises swimming toward your, between your legs. Sounds like my worst nightmare.

It sounds like most people's worst nightmare. It sounds awful. No, except the only fans girl who wanted to have sex with like a thousand people. She did do that. Okay. So her best case scenario. No, she did that for fame, not because she wanted a thousand penises at one time. Anyway.

You guys, thanks for sticking with us and understanding we're super tired parents. And we love podcasting and we love chatting with you and we're really going to get our shit together. And that's that. And we love you. Lots of stuff. We love your emails and your DMs and we love hearing from you. And we just love you and thank you for being so patient. We will also be lining up some guests.

If you guys have suggestions, there's people you. you want to come on and question. Do you like us to ask? Hit that email and yeah, let us know. Email, DM, whatever it is. Let us know because we like your ideas. Okay, we love you and we'll talk to you next week. Thanks for listening. Bye. Make sure to follow us on social media. You can follow me on all platforms at Kristen Doty and follow Luke on Instagram at Luke double underscore Broderick. Be sure to click the subscribe button so you can stay up to date with new episodes. Thanks for listening. See you next week.

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