Birth Story + 3-3-3 Rule!
We Met At Acme
Dear Media, Lindsey Metselaar
4.2 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Baby Daisy is here! I am talking all about the beginning of Daisy’s life and our NICU experience. Then, we get into the 3-3-3 rule of 3 weeks, 3 months, and 3 years.
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00:28 Life Update: Becoming a Mom of Two
01:41 Unexpected Delivery: Daisy's Birth Story
08:30 NICU Experience: Challenges and Emotions
12:19 Reflections on Motherhood and NICU
19:07 Daisy Comes Home: Joy and Relief
19:54 The Three Week, Three Month, Three Year Rule
22:17 Relationship Milestones and Advice
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:18.7 | Hey guys, welcome back to We met at Acme. |
| 0:22.6 | Crazy to see you again. |
| 0:25.6 | Well, I'm not seeing you, but to speak to you again. |
| 0:29.8 | A lot has happened. |
| 0:31.2 | First of all, happy new year officially. |
| 0:34.1 | I know I've released episodes since the new year, but I recorded them before the new year. |
| 0:39.2 | So now I'm saying happy 2006. |
| 0:43.1 | Wow, did it start off with a craziness, a whirlwind? |
| 0:48.0 | I am a mom of two. |
| 0:51.6 | I think by now, by the time this episode is out, I am praying that I will have my |
| 0:58.1 | Daisy home and I will have already shared the news on Instagram, which I have yet to do now. |
| 1:05.9 | It is January 2nd at the moment. And I'm going to give you kind of my life update. And then we're going to get |
| 1:11.9 | into the three week, three month, three year rule because that has been highly requested as an |
| 1:18.2 | episode. And we've talked about it in episodes before, but never done something dedicated to it. |
| 1:23.7 | So life update and three month, three week, three month, three year rule. So my whole plan was to be |
| 1:31.2 | induced, or not induced, rather, to have my scheduled C section at 39 weeks. So that would have |
| 1:39.1 | been December 30th. Well, I guess that was like 39 and two days. So it could have been December 28th, |
| 1:45.8 | whatever. Like we were going to kind of just flow with it and see. And luckily my OB was in town |
| 1:51.0 | at that time. I had gone in for a routine appointment at the hospital where they kind of do |
| 2:00.3 | an ultrasound. And they had told me that my |
| 2:05.8 | daughter was measuring small. And so they were a little concerned and they wanted me to come in for |
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