72. Giving you birth stories, sleepless nights and baby must-haves
Give It To Me Straight
Dear Media
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the world, Lucy Grey! Alex and Jon had a baby and she’s more perfect than you could ever imagine. In this week’s episode, they discuss their trip to the hospital and what it’s like to finally have their daughter in their arms. Yes, it's a bunch of sleepless nights and a complete change of lifestyle, but they couldn’t be happier. Even in the throws of new parenthood, they still have time to answer your questions and give advice. Take it lightly, though. They’re running on negative 10 hours of sleep.
0:00 - Intro
41:09 - Lady Bits
42:09 - Most Unexpected Thing About Giving Birth
42:31 - Tips For Supporting Your Partner
42:57 - Shocking Thing About Birth
44:08 - What’s Easier Than Expected?
45:24 - Should We Get a Midwife?
47:04 - Recovery After Birth
48:23 - Baby Products: Buy vs. Skip
01:00:02 - My Mother-In-Law Needs To Back Off
01:02:52 - Resenting My Husband Postpartum
01:06:09 - Too Many Newborn Opinions!
01:08:04 - Navigating Labor and Delivery
01:11:33 - Sharing Your Secret
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:03.0 | They're telling Alex to like push, push, push. |
| 0:04.8 | I feel like I should be contributed. I'm like, yeah, push Alex. I almost like look at John as he's cheering me on because I could tell it's like not. It's forced. Yeah, it's forced. It's so forced. I feel like they were looking at me like I wasn't being supportive enough. I'm like holding your hand. I'm like, uh, go, go, go, go, push, push, push, push, push, push. |
| 0:24.3 | You have been actually more supportive of me on the |
| 0:27.0 | squat rack than me giving labor. |
| 0:34.7 | Hey welcome back to give It to Me Straight. |
| 0:38.5 | I'm Alex. And I'm John. |
| 0:39.2 | And I'm a mom. |
| 0:40.3 | And you're, and I'm a dad. |
| 0:42.6 | I almost said, |
| 0:44.3 | Daddy, but I just hate that. |
| 0:46.8 | You are a daddy. |
| 0:47.6 | Daddy. |
| 0:48.4 | Daddy. |
| 0:48.9 | Gross. |
| 0:50.3 | Man, how do you feel, John? |
| 0:52.4 | This, I feel rusty, you know. |
| 0:55.2 | Rusty, but also I'm like in a fever dream. |
| 0:59.1 | Like, I don't even know what day it is. |
| 1:01.3 | It makes me, number one. |
| 1:03.5 | So let's apologize ahead of time if we sound dumb as rocks. |
| 1:07.7 | We're going to be all over the place. |
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