The One About Twin Birth & Pandemic Pregnancy With Ariana Joy Christie
The Papaya Podcast
The Papaya Podcast
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Today we welcome one of my best friends onto the podcast, Ariana! After discovering we were both pregnant and due within months of each other, we had plans, BIG plans, for how this would look and be for each of us. A pandemic... had other plans. For Ariana, this was her first birth, and a birth of twins, who came premature when she went into labour on her birthday. The rollercoaster of emotions, and the reality that was a twin birth, a month in NICU and so much more was something I wanted to sit down and talk with her about, unpack, and share in the moments of it all. I’m so happy she came on and opened up her story to us today.
Ariana is newly documenting her story as a twin mom on social media as well, on IG @Ariana_Joy_Christie
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:05.5 | Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm your hostess, Trin Hermostis, Sarah Nicole. |
| 0:13.1 | And each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed in with some seeds of wisdom or something like that. |
| 0:20.7 | So get ready to get inspired, get candid, |
| 0:23.1 | get real, because we are all in this digital space together. It's very rare that I got an |
| 0:33.1 | opportunity to bring one of my friends onto the podcast. And today is just such a unique opportunity for that. |
| 0:40.8 | To give you a little bit of back story of my friendship with Ariana, I'm going to take you back |
| 0:45.3 | about six years. When I showed up for a job interview at a restaurant and saw this beautiful |
| 0:52.1 | girl with the most stunning eyebrows I've ever seen and immediately |
| 0:55.7 | decided that she must be a bitch because pretty girls can't possibly be nice girls. |
| 1:00.4 | I was so grateful to be wrong because in the weeks following and in the months following, |
| 1:05.8 | while my world and life changed completely, I remember sitting one time after my shift and she asked how |
| 1:12.3 | things were going for me. And she ended up being one of the first people that I told that I had |
| 1:17.4 | actually recently left an 11 year marriage. And we didn't really know each other at this point. |
| 1:21.8 | We were kind of just coworkers, to be honest. And I was 30. She would have been 21, and she started showing up for me |
| 1:30.3 | in the most amazing ways, helping me host birthday parties, taking the kids grocery shopping for |
| 1:36.1 | me, just hanging out with us and making me feel less alone every step of the way. Within a year of |
| 1:41.6 | each other, we got engaged and we got married to two guys who happened to |
| 1:45.2 | be friends, but we met them separately and went to her wedding last January. I served as a |
| 1:50.6 | bridemaid and her wedding last January in St. Lucia. And right after that, we joked about the fact that |
| 1:56.7 | they're going to have a baby, maybe we should try for a baby too. And I honestly didn't think that |
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