Hello and welcome to the U-Up podcast. I'm Jared Freed and I am joined by today's very special

co-host, Dr. Naomi Bernstein. How are you? Good to see you. Awesome to be here. Takes a

village to cover a maternity leave. So it really does. It is a truly unbelievable thing.

The way you go, Jordana's on maternity leave and people are like, how can I help?

What can I do?

You hear so much negative, don't you think?

Like, we hear the noises, maternity leave isn't long enough.

I should get it for seven years and other countries do it this way.

But really, it is a beautiful thing when you're kind of involved with the maternity.

Like I'm involved in the least way you could be involved.

But just hearing how people have been so amazing.

No, I totally agree.

It's like, you know, when they say look for the helpers, you know, you can look for all the, you know, disappointing people and policy, but you can also look for the helpers, which is me and you. Yes, we are helping. I've never been a helper before. This is new for me. I'm usually the one running away scared. I'm usually the one running away scared. And nine o'clock when she's ready to go to bed. That's another way to help and take a baby.'s that you show up at nine o'clock at

jordanah's house who wait i'm sorry i got lost for a second i was laughing you can be a helper

by going to jordanna's house there's no way i'm ever going to do that at nine o'clock and snuggling a baby

i wouldn't i saw mike is in the picture with the baby and he's got the two babies, one on each arm. And it was like, dead man walking. Like he looked so out of his depths. And like, Jordana's like with the baby. You're like, this looks natural. Mike looked like, and he looked like how I would

look. Just like, did you have that with Jeff when you had your first kid? Oh, when they're newborns,

and it's your first one, it's like, it's so awkward. It's like holding a wine glass with like your

pinky. It's like newborns and dads, they take some time, I think, most of the time to settle in. But he'll get there. Well, he'll get there. Absolutely. Like, they all do, you know, like, that's what I told Jordana, the dumbest people in the world have kids, you know, so you're not the dumbest in the world. Yeah. So better than that. You're right. You're, you're somewhere between the smartest and the dumbest, so you're better than some.

Dr. Naomi Bernstein is here.

This is like the Jetsons meet the Flintstones.

This is like two podcasts coming together.

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