An Update On Our Daughter Sigrid & Gratitude For Community
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Summary
In this episode, we talk about the birth of our daughter, Sigrid, and what it was like being in the hospital during her birth. We also talk about how our community has been supportive throughout this whole process and how we managed to stay strong through it all.
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Yeah, village, community, building those strong friendships.
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I have to share that after having Sigrid, and I'll get into the story,
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but it was a very, very difficult two weeks because she came a month early.
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And so she had to be in Nikki for 12 days, and it was heartbreaking and just.
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Everyone's fine now, so it's not, you know, nothing went wrong, you know.
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No, but she had to be in Nikki for 12 days, and you know how the medical establishment is.
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Nothing was wrong, but they had her in there monitoring her oxygen, her body temperature,
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and making sure that she was eating, and it was just very heartbreaking seeing her, you know,
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in this incubator and, like, being surrounded by these other babies that were just so tiny.
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And then battling the medical establishment of all these ridiculous, unnecessary things
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and procedures that they wanted to do, and from the bad creams to bad formulas and, you
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And I was just constantly on guard, you know, keeping these medical zombies away from my
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And, of course, you know, no kids were allowed in NICU, so Henrik had to be taking care of
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I bonded with another mom that was in there going through a similar experience, and it
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was like, I felt like at one point it was like a medical prison.
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Let me take her home and, you know, feed her, and she will be okay, right?
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And it's like, no, we need her to gain more ounces.
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And, you know, what happened, as soon as she got out of there, thank the gods, was able
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to put pressure on, she started gaining weight and doing, you know, and she was already doing
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well, but gaining weight, stress-free at home, away from these beeping monitors and this
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I mean, one of the hardest things I've been through.
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And women with masks, but not all, but do you remember that?
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Many of them have masks on, too, so she can't, like, see their face properly.
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Masks, can't see their facial expressions and stuff, and then, you know, and the bill's
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But what I wanted to say before I mentioned that stuff was that when I came home, you
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know, we have this amazing community of people, and people brought food, they plowed our driveway,
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And all of this kind of just, not this, around this, but, you know, not around the birth of
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secret, but I'm saying what we had going on up here is this kind of, it just organically
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It wasn't like we planned it, you know what I mean?
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There's all these amazing people who have, like, been bringing meals and trying to make
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You know, it's like our friend, our old man, Stan, and I'm getting emotional.
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But he said, when you're crying about people in some, in a situation like this, and you
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know that you have built something special when you're crying, you know, tears of joy.
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And I just know that that can and will happen in many other areas too, you know what I mean?
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And there's people that stay connected with other groups, and you might not be able to
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be there personally, but you still, you know, you have a tie to that and stuff like that.
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Again, I sincerely believe that the wave of the future is going to be to find your people,
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seek them out, and go, if you can, go to that area and move there, you know what I mean?
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And, you know, in some cases, you might at least temporarily live under, you know, different
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conditions, or it might not be ideal for what you do, but man, is it worth it?
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I mean, I'd rather live in a trailer around good people in a good area versus having,
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you know, oh, this, you know, my house is great here or something like that.
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Don't say like, oh, Coeur d'Alene or Northern Idaho, it's hard, it's expensive, and it's
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Would you rather have a community and good friends and support, and by the way, prices
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will change, or have your beautiful house in this place that's surrounded by diversity
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And having like a bunch of women that help rally around another woman after she's had a
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baby or need support or if someone's sick or if they're old, we have that.
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We have built that, and it is something really special and powerful, and I want other people
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Yeah, so we've talked about that before, and I'll get on that.
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I'll be more disciplined on that of actually trying to reach out to our viewers and listeners
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out there, depending on what area they're in, and just start, you know, dropping one place
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You might be able to, you know, you have things in common.
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I'm not going to be like overseeing any of that, but I might be able to be a link in
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And then we'll go to another area, another, you know, town or another, you know, county
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We can do that all over the place, over Europe, America, Canada, you know, even in Australia,
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So that's something we have kind of on the back burner, something we want to do of trying
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to have this achieved, but in other areas, right?
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We've learned some things, you know, along the way that we can share with those people.
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Like you were saying, this is what churches do.
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We've got all kinds of Christian friends, you know, pagan friends, people that don't really
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believe in the other stuff, but we all rally around each other because we're racial family,
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And we have the same values and the same goals at the end of the day.
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And we need to have that model in a lot of different places moving forward so that we're
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We've seen other religions do this, but it's high time that we start doing that.
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I mean, I can't say, oh, it's going to all fall apart tomorrow.
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And I know there's a lot of people in this with this type of thinking that's like they're
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When the collapse happens, it's going to get better.
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I think it's going to get harder and worse in a way.
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But I just don't see how this could continue on like this for any extended period of time,
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And you have the most lunatic people in charge of many of these systems now and our legal
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But it's like it's becoming more and more obvious of how sick and infested it is.
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We just have to like find a new we have to create a new organism, essentially, that can
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like live on outside of that because it's just not going to work.
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And it's a process that doesn't happen overnight, but that process is beginning and you don't
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But those relationships form over time and you find those that you really gel with and
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And I know a lot of people have been asking about Cigrid and how to help because the NICU
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It's just like it's criminal, you know, four hundred thousand dollars for 12 days.
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I remember it was like after the first two days, they're like, oh, here's where you're
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And these liberals who are like health care is God and hospitals and insurance is God.
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And it's just like, no, it doesn't even pay for anything anymore.
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And, you know, we have a super high deductible about a policy for this.
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And I will share that because people said that they wanted to help pitch in.
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There are people out there even before we even asked this, you know, and it's no shame in
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You know, there's some people out there that they want they want to help out there.
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And they're thinking of other people and, you know, they want to help and stuff like
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But anyway, there are some people that already before we even had asked about this, who would
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just like, you know, send a donation, basically.
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They probably they probably know what the preemie thing is all about.
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If I haven't reached out and thank you or either of us have thanked you personally, we're going
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It's been very, you know, just compressed time compressed since we got home.
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We're still trying to, you know, do everything and do the show and stuff.
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So a little bit less on the on the email front and reaching out to people.
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So if you're watching this and if you've sent a donation, thank you so much.
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We don't expect it of anybody, obviously, but those who have helped out.
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And she's doing awesome and healthy and thriving.
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So we did start a give send go and I can share that detail there.