Olivia & Alex Parenthood Season 1 Episode 4

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00:01Sparking memories and creating magic

00:04Olivia and Alex Parenthood brought to you by Glade fragrances. Do you know what cervix is? Yes, somewhere down there

00:14I have to eat six dates a day. Is this an old wives tale?

00:18Well, it could be but apparently there is actually like proven trials of it softening your cervix that makes it easier for you to dilate

00:24It looks like that and then that dilates so it like does this. Oh

00:32My god

00:52Ball time

00:54Ball time

00:56Mommy has to do her funny exercises

01:02Look at these hips

01:04Stop stop stop

01:06I've seen them live

01:08In all their glory

01:10That's how I got pregnant

01:14Go

01:16We've got to do round the world

01:18Round and round and round

01:20I'm impatient at the best of times

01:22But obviously waiting to meet a baby that's been in my belly for nearly ten months like it's hard

01:28We've been doing ball exercises

01:30We've been raspberry leaf tea situation

01:32We've had

01:34Dates

01:36We've been doing curb walking

01:38I actually did a sprint across the street the other day to see if that would help

01:42Do you want to help me squeeze the boob milk out

01:44No I do not want to help you squeeze boob milk

01:46No I do not want to help you squeeze boob milk

01:48Squeeze boob milk

01:50So the other thing that you do when you're 37 weeks which I've been doing for a few like couple of weeks now

01:54Is

01:56Is

01:58Harvest colostrum

02:00Yeah I know what you've been doing

02:02What are you doing Abel?

02:04Do you want to see it?

02:06There's like 4,000 tubes in there

02:08So what's it do?

02:10Before you have the baby it's called colostrum

02:12And it's really high in like

02:14Abel careful

02:16Fat and vitamins

02:18And it's really good for the baby

02:20Do you want to taste it? It's frozen

02:22You have to have fresh you want some fresh

02:24No

02:25Do you know what I think is mad is that you think trying my boob milk's mad

02:29But you'll have a cow's tit milk

02:33Yeah because that's like I don't know

02:35It's like a social normal thing to do eh?

02:38Well

02:39It's not right though is it?

02:41Yeah but you can't go in bloody like a supermarket and just be like

02:44Oh there's like Jessie's boob milk on the side

02:46It's Jess

02:47There's Sarah's

02:48Who's Jess?

02:49Look at this at Olivia I want to say random names

02:52Like oh there's Sarah's there's like Vicky's

02:54That's my mum

02:55Yeah, yeah

02:56Oh my god

02:59I can't try boob milk can I?

03:01That's mad

03:03Do people try it? Is that a thing?

03:05That's mad

03:08I'm training for my men's physique bodybuilding competition

03:11I don't know I'm on a very strict diet at the minute so breast milk was not on my plan so

03:17Liv

03:18What?

03:19How many calories are in your boob milk?

03:21I'm going to see if it's on my meal plan

03:23I'll check in with my coach

03:25Google it

03:26Google it

03:27Oh my god please message me and be like can I drink my wife's milk?

03:30What?

03:31He'd be like right

03:33I'm going to laugh then

03:36Easy mate

03:41I was just wondering like I know it's a bit of a mad thing to ask

03:46I know I'm on like a certain amount of calories

03:49How many calories?

03:50How many calories?

03:51I mean boobie milk

03:53See I know it's probably not on plan I just feel like it'd be a good thing to do you know?

03:58Oh my god he's going to hate you he's going to block you

04:05What is it?

04:06It's called boobie milk

04:07This is insane

04:09Like you know it's just a fluid from my body it's not like it's

04:13Just try it

04:14Are you going to give me a buzz on it or something?

04:16Maybe

04:17What does it taste like?

04:23Just milk

04:24Just tastes like milk?

04:25Yeah well not like semi skimmed

04:30I'm quite impressed that

04:47It's coming from really far

05:03Okay

05:04The last part of our stick fill in three minutes

05:13This does not do well

05:14It's like makes me emotional

05:16I'll get it it's fine

05:17I'm not in a bad way

05:19I'm not in a bad way

05:20I'm just like

05:21I know

05:22It's amazing

05:23We've got this

05:25We're proud of you

05:26Will do

05:27Alright let's soak this out so we're more set

05:33That's it just

05:35Try and relax

05:36As best as you can

05:37Breathe in

05:38Oh my god they are coming so fast

05:41Good

05:42That's what we want

05:43That's good

05:44They really do this yeah

05:45They're coming

05:46They're on the way

05:57I just feel like I'm going to cry constantly

05:58You got the poopy scooper?

06:00Poopy scooper for your poop?

06:02I actually haven't had poo

06:04Maybe you got poo?

06:05Oh I can't get it out now

06:06You can't poo now

06:07It's up to you I don't mind

06:09I'll scoop the poop

06:11No

06:12Not that you scoop

06:13Well I'll scoop up your poop

06:14That's love you know

06:15If you can scoop

06:17Little wife's poop

06:18It's all good

06:19Right

06:20We're left now

06:21It's coming up

06:22Do you want anything from Ben's bed

06:23Erm

06:25I don't know

06:26I'm confused now

06:27It's like happening really fast

06:28Sit down on the bed and we're like

06:29I can't

06:30No

06:31No

06:36Um

06:37Heya I'm just calling

06:38To let you know about my wife Olivia Bowen

06:40She's actually like

06:41Going through a lot of contractions at the moment

06:43She has been since last night so

06:54Okay

06:56Yeah

07:01Okay

07:02Yeah that kind of makes sense

07:03Alright thank you very much

07:04Bye

07:05Bye

07:06Bye

07:07I wasn't worried about Alex he was being amazing like he got all the pull out and he was making

07:26sure I was okay he was texting the doulas so like he was absolutely fine but because I know him so well I knew he was a bit nervous about the home birth still so I'm not sure he's completely relaxed

07:36Oh my god this is really strong

07:49Oh my god this is really strong

07:50When the doulas got here it was starting to get very very painful and to me it felt like I needed to push

08:05To push

08:06Oh

08:07As the contractions get worse, there's literally nothing that men can do.

08:32You've literally just got to be there, just be positive, and that's pretty much all you

08:37can do.

08:38I'm an emotional person, like, to see Liv in pain, it's just not very nice, but you've

08:45just got to kind of, like, switch it on and be like, it's not about you, it's about Liv,

08:49like, just be there for her.

08:54You're gonna see?

08:56Yeah.

08:57You're gonna see?

08:59Yeah.

09:01You're gonna see?

09:02Yeah.

09:05Oh, no, no, no, no, no.

09:35Oh, no, no, no, no, no.

09:39She was in so much pain and she said it feels different to what it did before.

09:44Obviously, she wanted the home birth and the doulas wanted that to happen as well.

09:49But that just isn't the way that it went.

10:05Sparking memories and creating magic.

10:09Olivia and Alex, Parenthood, brought to you by Glade Fragrances.

10:15Sparking memories and creating magic.

10:19Olivia and Alex, Parenthood, brought to you by Glade Fragrances.

10:30Love Island star Olivia Bowen is fighting for her life tonight.

10:35After being rushed to hospital...

10:36...close to the family say Olivia suffered severe complications and lost several pints of blood.

10:41According to close friends, doctors made the urgent decision to perform an emergency situation...

10:45...at the scariest moment of our lives.

10:49Glade Fragrances

10:53I mean...

10:54...in a world of our parents to still have a lot of things...

10:56...we can take the shoes off...

10:58...we can go there...

10:59...we can take the shoes off...

11:01...and it's not trying to do this.

11:02...

11:02...so, I don't know what your time is.

11:05Super.

11:05This is Sienna.

11:33This is Sienna.

11:35It feels very surreal that she's actually in my arms here.

11:40It's a very strange feeling.

11:42Yeah, it's crazy.

11:43Like, you just instantly...

11:44I am just instantly in love with her.

11:46Like, I just think she's a little doll.

11:47She's just so sweet.

11:50We had a plan, didn't we?

11:52But it didn't quite come off the home birth

11:55that I sort of planned for unwanted.

11:58So, labour started, so the doulas came over

12:03and the midwife came and it was obviously really ramping up.

12:07I felt something that didn't feel right

12:10and they checked and they were like,

12:12you are quite swollen but it's just your cervix.

12:14I was only five centimetres dilated after about...

12:18I don't know, like, ten hours of, like, strong contractions.

12:22But I was really determined,

12:23so I was like, right, I'm just going to push through

12:25and we'll just see what happens.

12:26So I think we gave it another couple of hours.

12:28But then again, I felt this thing even worse

12:31and it was like a lump.

12:32This is going to get quite graphic.

12:34It's like a lump in my vagina, basically.

12:36So I ended up making the decision to go to hospital.

12:40I'd been at it, like, 24 hours.

12:42And it turns out that I had a really bad bladder prolapse.

12:47So my bladder had fallen down into the, like, cervix

12:52and was basically obstructing the exit for the baby.

12:56So there was no possible way

12:58that I could give birth to her vaginally.

13:01So then I made the decision to have a C-section

13:04and I was really scared about the C-section.

13:06I've...

13:07It's just a surgery that I've never had before

13:09and I've not really had surgery in my life,

13:11so it's quite a big thing.

13:12And knowing that you're being, like, cut open,

13:14it's not the easy way out.

13:16She come out crying.

13:17It was...

13:18Like, I've got the most amazing picture of her coming out.

13:21And you can see her immediately crying.

13:23It was just, like, incredible.

13:25Like, such a beautiful experience.

13:27They gave me CNR and I had her on my face,

13:31but I started to feel very dizzy and, like, out of control.

13:35And then all I remember is hearing the nurse, like,

13:38calling out how much blood I was losing

13:40and she was, like, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7.

13:43It was going up and up so quickly.

13:45And then, like, the fear really started to set in.

13:48It was very scary.

13:49Cos then they started, like, tannoying.

13:52Like, major haemorrhage, major haemorrhage

13:55all around the surgery room.

13:56That's all I really remember.

13:58And there was loads of doctors in and out

14:01and no-one would really tell me what was going on.

14:04It got to the point where I started to feel really sick and dizzy

14:07and Alex was, like, the blood just drained from your face.

14:10Like, you went so pale.

14:12I had to give her to Alex.

14:14I couldn't hold on to her anymore.

14:15Like, my arms just went.

14:17I remember thinking, like, just don't close your eyes.

14:20Cos I felt like I was gonna pass out or, like, worse.

14:23Like, we were both just very scared.

14:25Like, it was very close.

14:27I ended up losing about 2.8 litres of blood

14:31and you only have 4.5 litres.

14:33So it was over half blood loss.

14:36To feel like you're that close to, like, losing your life.

14:41Like, it was very, very scary.

14:43But the doctors were absolutely incredible.

14:46Like, the NHS was absolutely amazing.

14:49Like, I literally feel like they saved my life.

14:52I just remember laying there, like, obviously full of medication.

14:56I felt completely...

14:59I don't even know where I was.

15:01And it's hard because I wanted this natural, unmedicated birth

15:04where I was aware and I ended up having the complete opposite.

15:08But just going through that and feeling like I was about to literally lose my life,

15:13it's just made me not give a shit about what happened

15:17because, at the end of the day, I'm here and she's here.

15:20I just feel so lucky to have at least one year.

15:23Yeah, it's a lot harder than I thought it would be, the recovery.

15:33Obviously, your whole abdominal muscles have been completely cut through,

15:37so you have no strength.

15:39You can't drive for six weeks.

15:41You obviously can't work out or anything for six weeks.

15:44Recovery for me is even harder

15:46because I don't have the capacity in my body to actually recover

15:51because of the amount of blood that I've lost.

15:53So the doctor was kind of saying, like,

15:55it's going to be at least three months until you feel back to yourself

15:58or have the blood levels that you should.

16:00I need to just try and relax.

16:04And, yeah, Alex is going to have to be up and down those stairs.

16:09Every beck and call.

16:11If I could, would I go back where we started?

16:15I know you're still waiting, wondering where my heart is.

16:20Praying things won't change, but the hardest part is

16:25You're realising, maybe I, maybe I am

16:29Just trying to just, like, do as much as I can, really.

16:41Even if it's, like, small things, like, just make her a cup of tea,

16:44she needs food, like...

16:46Obviously, I'm going to probably have to take the reins of Abel a lot more now.

16:50But, yeah, it's just something, like, new to navigate, I think.

16:53But the main thing is we've got Sienna really,

16:56which is, like, the best thing ever.

16:57Like, she's just so beautiful, like, I absolutely love her.

17:04Are you OK?

17:06Yeah.

17:07There's a tea there.

17:08Do you want some toast?

17:10Oh, actually, peanut butter and toast, but, like, loads of butter.

17:14How much butter are we talking?

17:16Like, a whole block of butter.

17:18OK.

17:19I'll be totally honest, I don't know what I'm feeling.

17:22Like, seeing Liv the way that she was on that table, like, proper, like, scared the life out of me.

17:29And I don't know, it kind of...

17:33Like, people, women have amazing births.

17:35Like, people say it's the most beautiful thing ever.

17:38Like, for me and Liv, like, there were certain moments in it at the start when I think Liv, like, obviously it is, it's amazing.

17:46But then when things happen like that, like, I don't care how the baby gets here, I just want the baby here and safe, so...and leave, so...

17:57Thanks.

17:58Top fine cuisine.

18:01Thank God you can make toast.

18:03Hey, I've made two decent fry-ups.

18:07Ever since we went to the wilderness thing, you've been, like, fry-up kids.

18:11Yeah, I can't eat them and I just love the fact that I can do one and it actually looks good.

18:16Thanks.

18:17Do you want to hold her up, just let her?

18:19You're bringing, like, life into the world and you've done that together.

18:23Like, the woman does most of the work, let's just be honest about that.

18:26But, like, you've both brought this little thing into the world together, do you know what I mean?

18:31It's a beautiful thing, but on the other hand of that, like, you can also have a traumatic way to get there,

18:37which, like, makes you realise how much you do love your partner, do you know what I mean?

18:41And I love Liv more than anything in this world, so...

18:44I feel like I'm not as affected by it this time around.

18:46Like, I feel like I've processed it and I'm happy...

18:48I hated it.

18:49I'm happy with what happened.

18:50We got through, like, nearly 20 hours of labour at home.

18:53Like, that's a huge achievement to do.

18:55Yeah.

18:56I think you were more traumatised seeing me, like...

18:59Yeah, I'd never want to see it again.

19:00It was the worst thing I've ever seen.

19:02Do you know what?

19:03I just look back and I'm like, yeah, it was quite bad, but...

19:05Yeah, it was.

19:06It was bad.

19:07But, like, something happens to a woman's brain and they're like,

19:09yeah, it was bad, but...

19:11No, no, there's no a but.

19:12It was bad.

19:13For you, it doesn't work like that.

19:14It was horrible.

19:15Like...

19:16I guess I just try and see, like, the best of it now

19:19because it's happened and she's...

19:21She's using the best of it, is she?

19:22Do you know what I mean?

19:24I definitely feel the most womanly I've ever felt

19:27and after Abel's birth I felt like I'd failed,

19:30whereas this time I'm like, look what we went through

19:32and look how we're recovering and look what we're doing.

19:34Like, it's just a completely different mindset

19:37and I have to put that down to the prep from the home birth

19:40and this is why I would have loved to give birth at home,

19:44but everything I did to prepare for that

19:47prepared me for everything else that happened.

19:49So, it literally changed the game for me.

19:52Oh, can you fill my water up as well?

19:54Where's my bottle?

19:58So it begins.

19:59You know what's funny, yeah?

20:01Are you going to keep this going?

20:03So, you'll probably go to the doctors and be like,

20:05yeah, you're fine now, come back and you'll be like,

20:07I've still got to be done like this for six weeks.

20:09You know I'm not like that.

20:10I'm joking.

20:11Where is your bottle?

20:12I don't know.

20:13I haven't had any water this morning though.

20:15That's not good.

20:16No.

20:17That's her husband's job to moan about his wife not having water.

20:20Yeah.

20:21You need to ask me how much I'm drinking like 20 times a day.

20:28Feeling awful.

20:29Because I'm hungry.

20:31Bad.

20:32I just feel so fatigued.

20:36My calories have dropped for this show, but I'm trying not to show it to live.

20:39So, when I'm in the same room as though, I just kind of switch it on.

20:43Like, I've gone to the gym like three in the morning, not being able to train properly,

20:47because I was that fatigued.

20:48And then come back, got seeing her at like five, because she was awake.

20:52Had her on my chest for an hour.

20:53I ever woke up at six.

20:55And you've just got to go and just tick the boxes and get it done.

20:58Like, at the end of the day, like family's more important than me competing on stage,

21:03even though it's like three weeks away.

21:05Just got to be there for Liv now, there for Sienna, there for Abel as well.

21:09Probably more than anything.

21:11It's nice to just like, sit with her.

21:25No, no.

21:26Are you pooing?

21:28How do you actually feel, like, towards her and being a dad of two?

21:33Like, how, like, do you actually feel?

21:37I'd be lying if I said a part of me mentally wasn't struggling.

21:41Do you think that's because of...?

21:44I think it's a mixture of everything.

21:46When you've got her all the time, then when I try and go for her,

21:50I have her for a little bit, and Abel just pulls me away

21:52and I've got to go somewhere else.

21:53So it's harder for me to be with her.

21:55Mm.

21:56And I am struggling with it a little bit.

21:58Like, it's hard.

21:59I know it'll get better and it'll change.

22:01It's just difficult.

22:02Yeah.

22:03I think, like, on days like today where Abel's at nursery,

22:06like, when we have a minute, you just have to take it in as much as you can.

22:09Yeah, that's what I want to do.

22:11Hello.

22:12It's hard because, like, I feel like your mind is occupied.

22:17My mind is occupied.

22:19By the whole bodybuilding thing.

22:21And I feel like you can't fully invest into it.

22:23I'm in the last stretch now.

22:26Yeah.

22:30Can I smell it?

22:31I can smell it.

22:32I smell too.

22:33No!

22:34Yeah, I'm just trying not to be moody and irritable.

22:39I mean, it has been hard, to be honest.

22:44Yeah, I know.

22:45I just don't need to whine a bed.

22:47I just need to get on with it.

22:48Even though I've only got two meals left for the whole day now.

22:51I had my other meal, I couldn't.

22:53What?

22:54I couldn't not have it.

22:55Wait, but it's 11 o'clock.

22:56I know, I couldn't not have it.

22:57Because I was going to pass it out.

22:59I was walking around, um, shopping.

23:01You can't feel like that, though.

23:02I couldn't lift my legs.

23:03Yeah, but that means you're losing fat, which is good.

23:06I just can't comprehend it.

23:08I just think it's wild.

23:09It is wild.

23:16Sparking memories and creating magic.

23:20Olivia and Alex, Parenthood, brought to you by Glade Fragrances.

23:27Sparking memories and creating magic.

23:30Olivia and Alex, Parenthood, brought to you by Glade Fragrances.

23:36The sleep situation.

23:52I am tired.

23:54We've got Sienna next to me.

23:56And she's waking up, like, every couple of hours for a feed.

23:58And Alex does the odd nappy change.

24:00We're just, you know, we're surviving at this point.

24:03You'm in the middle of this.

24:04And the rest of you, colocond, is there.

24:05You're watching the music.

24:06I was not sure.

24:07I'm sorry.

24:08I'm sorry.

24:09You're coming up about it.

24:10But we're feeling great, too.

24:12We're shooting the music.

24:13I'm sorry.

24:14You're feeling a little different.

24:15But we're feeling good.

24:16We're feeling good.

24:17I'm sorry.

24:18You're feeling good.

24:19We're feeling good.

24:20But we're feeling good.

24:21These are some of the people.

24:23We're feeling good at you.

24:24I need you to go now, right?

24:38Shhh.

24:49Like, sleep deprivation is literally...

24:51It is the worst.

24:53You can't heal properly, you can't think properly,

24:56you've got, you know, no patience.

25:02Daddy!

25:16Mummy, chicken's coming now.

25:20Mummy, chicken's coming now.

25:23I'm going to go upstairs.

25:25I'm going to go upstairs.

25:30She's loud all the time.

25:40Let's go, look up there.

25:41Let's go.

25:43Let's go.

25:45I'm so tired today.

25:56I think it's starting to creep up on us, these split nights and hourly waits.

26:02It works quite well, because Alex gets up and he has to be the active one with all the energy.

26:07Obviously, where he's training for the show, that energy is nowhere to be seen.

26:10He's going to go upstairs.

26:12He's going to go upstairs.

26:13He's going to go upstairs.

26:14He's going to go upstairs.

26:15And then he's going to go upstairs.

26:16All right.

26:17You guys got to put washing away.

26:19I'm food.

26:20Come in, sir, and hang on.

26:32I'm trying not to be, like, rude and that, but I'm just, like...

26:36I'm struggling a little bit to...

26:38I'm just tired.

26:40What, baby?

26:41Can you help my talk?

26:42Yeah, I'm coming now.

26:43Let me just put this food away and I'll help you.

26:47I don't know, I'm just... I'm just tired.

26:50Edward, just go in the lounger set, please, and I'll come in.

26:52Just wait.

26:56I'm just tired.

26:57Like, I'm hungry.

26:58Like, I'm struggling to just, like, have any energy to hold my arms up.

27:01I'm just struggling.

27:03Like, I'm just trying to get through the day.

27:17Aw, that's a nice cuddle.

27:21We've got to make sure we get there on time, otherwise we can't go to Spain.

27:24We've got to get the birth certificate so that Mummy can book a passport appointment,

27:28so that we can go to Spain, because she's not got a passport.

27:31Are we going now?

27:32Going where?

27:33To Spain.

27:34To Spain?

27:35No.

27:36We're not going to Spain now.

27:37We're going to town.

27:43That's the middle.

27:44I need a YouTube tutorial.

27:46This is the first time I've walked up to town.

27:50It's like a ten-minute walk, so it's going to be quite strenuous on me.

27:53I'm already tired.

27:54We're just kind of mumbling through.

27:56Are you taking her in now?

27:58I'm going to see if it works, because she was asleep.

28:01She's not now.

28:05You want to sit in the pram, or are you going to walk?

28:08I'm sitting in the pram.

28:09Yeah.

28:10Or the pram then?

28:11I win.

28:12I win.

28:13Let's do this.

28:14Have you got the red book, passport?

28:15Yeah.

28:16OK.

28:23I want to get out.

28:24No.

28:25I want to.

28:26Oh, we could have brought a single pram if that was the cage table.

28:29Get out!

28:30Well, I'm not picking you up or carrying you.

28:32You've got to walk if you get out.

28:33That's a fact.

28:34Want to hold my hand?

28:40Can you hold her foot?

28:42I want to go to the park.

28:47We're going to go when we've done the birth certificate,

28:50then we're going to have some lunch, maybe get a milkshake.

28:53Do you want to paint some pottery again?

28:56Yeah.

28:57In the cafe?

28:58Yeah.

28:59So done.

29:00I actually feel like my legs are going to get away.

29:03It's not good.

29:04You're a nightmare.

29:05You're a nightmare.

29:06Two weeks left, baby.

29:09Come on.

29:10Stay right.

29:12I remember with Abel, like, the birth certificate was really significant for us

29:15because it just felt like, oh, they're a person.

29:17They're real.

29:18They're actually, like, they've got their name.

29:20So, Siena's birth certificate, like, it was, yeah, really exciting to get that planned and in.

29:26It's official.

29:27She's official.

29:28We have a Siena.

29:30A Siena Bowen.

29:34Come on.

29:35Shall we go celebrate with some lunch?

29:37Coffee time.

29:38Coffee.

29:39It's actually so surreal.

29:40I know why.

29:42Oh, my goodness.

29:44We're planning to go to Spain, so we need a birth certificate to get a passport to go to Spain.

29:47So, I wanted it to be a momentous occasion.

29:50She wrapped up like a burrito.

29:59Do you want to paint some pottery?

30:01Yeah.

30:02Yeah?

30:03Can you hold her for a bit?

30:05Oh.

30:06She knaps well good in that.

30:15Here.

30:16It says reserved.

30:18Can you make this for drinks?

30:20Er, yes, please.

30:21I've got chocolate.

30:23Please.

30:24Prima marshmallows.

30:25What do you say?

30:26Please.

30:27Good boy.

30:28Yeah, good boy.

30:29Oh, just a black americana, please.

30:31You're not eating, are you?

30:33Can I get a cheese and tomato toasty for him?

30:36Yes.

30:37And then could I get the smoked salmon and cream cheese and cucumber, please?

30:42Amazing.

30:43Thank you so much.

30:44Do you want to go chew something?

30:45Yeah.

30:46Yeah, come then.

30:47Alex is exhausted.

30:48He's still in his calorie deficit, which is really bad at the moment.

30:51He's barely eating.

30:52Oh, look, they've literally got Fairy in here.

30:55That's so cute.

30:57I'm trying to be the happy one.

30:59I'm trying to make him feel happier.

31:01He does it for me sometimes.

31:02Like, you take turns, but it's not working.

31:05It's clearly not working.

31:07Ooh!

31:09Abel.

31:10Large.

31:11Ooh!

31:12I'd love to know why.

31:17Yeah.

31:18I'll go there.

31:19She's past it, mate.

31:22I wish I was past out.

31:23I'm so tired.

31:24Same.

31:28Same.

31:29Do you have a competition of who's more tired?

31:33I don't really care.

31:34I'm just tired.

31:36It's not a competition.

31:37It is.

31:38It's not.

31:39It is.

31:40I'm done.

31:41That's the rule of some.

31:42We just compete on who's more tired than the other one.

31:44You're a bundle of joy.

31:45You're chatty.

31:46It's brilliant being out with you.

31:47I feel like, as a parent, it's always a fight for who's the most tired.

31:50You're always like, I'm tired.

31:51You're like, no, I'm more tired.

31:52But, like, I've just had serious surgery.

31:53Like, I was close to losing my life.

31:54We know that.

31:55Yet, Alex is the one struggling.

31:56And I'm like, this was my time.

31:57There we go.

31:58Right.

31:59Yay!

32:00We got some!

32:01Oh, you fish your eye was beautiful.

32:02Oh, thank you.

32:04That's a big coffee.

32:05I might bring your personality back.

32:06I don't think it will help.

32:07I'm feeling stronger.

32:08I feel like I'm dying.

32:09Like, my stomach feels like it's eating itself.

32:26Backs of my legs, I'm aching.

32:27I can't lift my arms.

32:28It's the same as that one, but I'm just I was fine.

32:34It's the same as that one, baby.

32:35I'm just running on empty life.

32:37Oh, look at that! Thank you.

32:39I've just got nothing to give.

32:41Safe to say you would never do it again.

32:43Yeah, I'm never doing it again.

32:44He's putting my food up, end of the week.

32:47But until then, I've just got to try and, like, just soldier on.

32:51But I've had no lunch yet. Yeah.

32:53And I'm out here, walking about, so...

32:56Apologies.

32:57Eh? Apologies. Yeah, you should be sorry.

33:00I'm joking. You are watching my house. I'm joking!

33:04I would never let you quit, because I know, like...

33:09You'd feel even worse if you didn't finish it, do you know what I mean?

33:12Oh, thank you. Oh, look, Abel.

33:15Hey!

33:16Look at that!

33:18Do you want to finish that and then... Chris.

33:28Abel, wait.

33:29What are you doing, then? What?

33:32You going to the park?

33:34Yeah, I'm going after her.

33:35Well, I wasn't planning to come to the park.

33:37You ain't going to come.

33:38You can just carry straight on and I'll walk back with him in a bit.

33:41I want to go now, Abel.

33:46All right.

33:50You want to lift her out? Yeah.

33:51I want to lift her out.

33:52Yeah.

33:56Come on.

33:59Just got to make sure we're in there nice and tight.

34:02Bye, then.

34:03See you in a bit.

34:04I want to see you all.

34:05All right?

34:06All right. See you later.

34:07Sorry, boy.

34:09Meet you back at home.

34:10I feel like I'm meant to be the one that's being difficult

34:15and I can't be.

34:16I'm the one that's holding it together.

34:18For him, I've just...

34:19I've literally just given birth and almost died.

34:25Got a complete scar across my stomach.

34:28Looking after a newborn baby that's feeding off me,

34:31waking up all night,

34:32yet I'm the one holding stuff together

34:34and having to be the happy one.

34:40All right, you ready?

34:41I just don't want to have, like, bad energy around Abel.

34:45Like, he's had his world turned upside down

34:49and I would never want him to give up,

34:52but it's really affecting me now.

34:55Don't get me wrong, like, he's helping as much as he possibly can,

34:59but it's just, like, situations like that

35:01where the mood is just not good.

35:02Alex just seems unhappy

35:09and I know that Abel will be able to read that.

35:12Like, all he can think about, really,

35:15is what he's got to eat, when he's got to eat it,

35:18when's his next meal, when do I train,

35:20when do I get my cardio in?

35:23Where does Abel and Sienna fit into that

35:24and are you losing out this early family time

35:27and not having, like, the time to really just relax

35:31and enjoy that little, like, bubble that we're meant to be in

35:34that everyone talks about?

35:36But maybe that's just not our lives.

35:37Like, maybe we just don't get the bubble.

35:39Can we go on now, please? Daddy needs to eat some food.

35:42No.

35:47Oh, my God, the hill.

35:48Like, two friggin' buildings.

35:56Winnie!

36:02If I don't laugh, I'll cry.

36:03Don't need it right now, Winnie.

36:06I have to wipe Abel's bum, clear up Winnie's poo,

36:11wipe this little girl's bum.

36:13Do you know how many times I've pooed with a baby on my lap

36:16more than I'd like to admit?

36:19Abel!

36:20Sparking memories and creating magic.

36:28Olivia and Alex, Parenthood, brought to you by Glade Fragrances.

36:33Sparking memories and creating magic.

36:38Olivia and Alex, Parenthood, brought to you by Glade Fragrances.

36:43I was in hospital for three days, two nights.

36:58I should probably have stayed,

36:59but I needed a cuddle from Abel, like, bad.

37:02Everyone, Mummy, you've got to be careful about that, Lee.

37:04I was just sat there with the baby girl in her little cot thing,

37:11and he'd brought cupcakes that he'd made for me

37:13and her, it was just the cutest thing ever.

37:15Why?

37:16You're sleepy, well, luckily you've been laying here with me.

37:20We did do things to kind of make sure that it went smoother

37:23than it could have done, so we had her in the cot.

37:25I wasn't holding her, I was separate.

37:27I went for a cuddle with him first.

37:29Like, we didn't ask him to hold her, we just let him go to her.

37:32Like, there was no, like, forcefulness.

37:34I know, I wish that she could come home with us now,

37:37but she's got to stay in a little longer with me,

37:39cos we got to be looked after by the doctors.

37:42He sat on the bed and he was, like, looking at her,

37:44like, just...

37:45I don't think he could connect the dots.

37:47Like, he's only three.

37:50He sat there and then he put her on his lap

37:52and, like, looked at her and you could see, like,

37:54his little face light up, it was so, so cute.

37:57To finally see that moment come to life was just, yeah, amazing.

38:01Such a good job.

38:04He was proud as punch.

38:05Like, he definitely felt like that proud big brother,

38:08even at his little age.

38:12At the start, Abel was amazing.

38:15He was so gentle, he was quite quiet and he was in love with her,

38:19proper cuddly and helpful and all of the things that you'd love

38:23for your three-year-old to be like.

38:24As the days went by, I think he started to realise she wasn't leaving.

38:31Hang on, Princess.

38:32And I guess he realised that our attention was elsewhere.

38:36Hey, Abel, do you remember when you was little you had a fart or shoot?

38:38We're going to text Sienna for a while.

38:39Pew, pew, pew. Pew, pew, pew.

38:41He is acting out a little bit, he's being a little bit louder,

38:43a little bit more brash, a little bit more difficult.

38:45He's just feeling a lot.

38:46Hey, Abel, look at me.

38:47What have I said about being a good boy?

38:48Fire.

38:49Mate.

38:51He doesn't really know how to kind of navigate it.

38:52Are you stressing me out?

38:53And, like, kind of lashing out and playing up a little bit

38:55and being naughty is his way of doing it and getting attention,

38:59I guess.

39:00I can't do it.

39:02I can't do it.

39:03You can't do it.

39:04I can do it.

39:05I can do it.

39:06I can do it.

39:07That's a bit of fun.

39:08On the other side, I can do it.

39:09I can do it.

39:10I can do it.

39:11I can do it.

39:12It's just a bit of fun.

39:13I can do it.

39:14I can do it.

39:15And I can do it.

39:16I can do it.

39:17I can do it.

39:18I guess you don't want to go mad at him because that's kind of what he wants but

39:30you don't want to let him keep getting away with the actual keep doing it so

39:33it's like what what's the balance where do you kind of deal with it

39:37right look look come here calm down okay

39:42I'm sure I wasn't meant to carry anything

39:56sorry baby that's very sunny isn't it window shades that's what we need

40:07I'm gonna have to

40:26wait he acts able to fall asleep which is probably good though

40:30because I mean Liv can get Sienna's done then once he wakes up leave him in five

40:35minutes and I'll bring him in and I can do that double shots and she's sleeping

40:39now but I don't know I'm gonna fall asleep it's so different with two yeah I'm a

40:51little bit worried he's gone to sleep he gets a bit moody when he wakes up he

40:54should be all right how long have you been to sleep for ten minutes and did he will he have long

40:59do you know I think I might give him like 20 more minutes even when he wakes up if

41:03I'm doing her he can always have a little play around and yeah and then when he's

41:06ready yeah we're gonna read yeah cuz I think that if we try and make him do

41:10something no he's really not you know he's like right you just do your thing it

41:14then yeah white noise as well yeah the shusha

41:20so

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41:52Look, you sit on the sofa with Daddy in here.

41:56How often has she been going to do something? Quite often, yeah.

41:59But she usually falls asleep.

42:02Oh, my God, let me get in.

42:05No, it's fine.

42:06She's in a pub.

42:07She's in a pub!

42:08Oh, dear!

42:14You just have a picture with Sienna, and then we go...

42:17And then Daddy's going to take you for a little walk.

42:19Yeah.

42:23If you have a picture, yeah, then we can go to the pub

42:26and get your ice cream.

42:27How about that?

42:32Can you just do it for, like, ten minutes? Five minutes?

42:35Yeah.

42:37Can I have a walk with Daddy?

42:39Let's go for a little walk.

42:41Me and you.

42:42See, then I can get some pickies, and then we'll have one picture

42:45when we get back, yeah?

42:47No.

42:48You're going to have no strawberry ice cream, then?

42:50That's the way it works.

42:51You do constantly question yourself whether you are doing it right or wrong,

42:55but there's so many different opinions.

42:58Like, everyone could be right, everyone could be wrong.

43:01It just depends on how you want to parent and how you want to deal with it yourself.

43:05Look, just look at Daddy. I just want to talk to you.

43:08We all have to do something that we don't want to do, and it'll take two seconds,

43:13and it'll make Mummy really, really happy, OK?

43:16It could be a lot worse than it is, and I just feel like we've just got to show Abel

43:20a little bit more attention than what he's getting, but that's what I mean.

43:23Sometimes it is difficult, but you've just got to do the best you can.

43:26I just felt like, oh, God, like, he was doing really, really well,

43:54and now he's seeming unhappy, and I just don't want him to be unhappy,

43:57but I always tell myself it's not a bad thing to learn,

44:02it's just a hard thing to learn.

44:04I literally repeat that in my head all the time.

44:06It's not a bad thing to learn, it's just a hard thing to learn,

44:08and he's going to, you know, he's going to be a better person for this.

44:14Where do you want me?

44:15Oh, so we'll have Abel standing on that little stool.

44:19Do you want to sit on that?

44:21He wants to sit on my lap.

44:22All right, come here.

44:23You can sit on Daddy's lap.

44:25I'll just do one at that.

44:26Oh, boy, baby.

44:27He'll make Mummy very happy.

44:28Aw.

44:29Look, your little sister's beautiful.

44:30Look, she's got a little dress on.

44:32Look, it's that.

44:33Yeah?

44:34Do you look nice?

44:35That's your little sister.

44:37Are you going to look after her?

44:38That's okay.

44:42She's looking for you.

44:43I want to reach over.

44:45Ready?

44:46Look, just sit here.

44:47Sit here.

44:48I've got you, I've got you, I've got you.

44:49All right, all right, all right, all right, relax.

44:52It does kind of give you that look into what things could be like.

44:57I mean, it's already chaos and we're only a few days in.

45:00I'll tell you what, why don't you stand on one and Daddy stand on one

45:03and see who's the tallest?

45:04Yeah, do you want to do that?

45:05Yeah.

45:06Oh, oh.

45:09Daddy's taller.

45:10Daddy's taller.

45:11You stand on that one now.

45:12Go.

45:14Aw, you're going to give her a cuddle.

45:17Do it again.

45:18One more time, Abel.

45:19One more cuddle.

45:20Aw, you're such a clever boy.

45:24Now you kiss her, you kiss her.

45:26Lovely.

45:27Oh, you're such a good boy.

45:28You're so clever.

45:29Aw, you're so clever.

45:30Well done, baby.

45:31Ready?

45:32Cheers, Olivia.

45:33Oh, Abel.

45:34That is so good.

45:35I cannot believe we're a family of four.

45:37Like, pinch me.

45:39Gorgeous.

45:40Good job.

45:41Good boy.

45:42And you're all done.

45:43Now you get strawberry ice cream.

45:44Woo!

45:45Woo!

45:46Woo!

45:47Woo!

45:48Woo!

45:49Woo!

45:50Woo!

45:51Woo!

45:52Woo!

45:53Woo!

45:54Woo!

45:55Woo!

45:56Woo!

45:57Woo!

45:58Woo!

45:59Woo!

46:00Woo!

46:02Woo!

46:03Woo!

46:04Woo!

46:05Woo!

46:06Woo!

46:07Woo!

46:08Woo!

46:09Put up your attitude.

46:10It's your attitude.

46:11How is it my attitude?

46:12Alex is doing his competition.

46:14I am feeling a bit like I'm doing everything.

46:16It's just the timing.

46:18The timing is horrendous.

46:20And it's having a knock on effect.

46:22All right, don't be upset, please.

46:24Please.

46:25I feel like I can't do it all.

46:27I picked the worst time to do it.

46:29Nice.

46:30Well, he did say that.

46:32We're going for a bit of a hard patch, I'd say.

46:35The kind of, like, newborn bubble gets birthed eventually.

46:40Let's go.

46:41Let's go.

46:42Let's go.

46:43Let's go.

46:44Let's go.

46:45Let's go.

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