Shadowing Practice: Learn Real-Life English: Life with a Newborn - Learn English Speaking with Video

Hello.

This is not an English lesson.

This is learning English with real life.

And we think that's the best way.

So today I've got my beautiful wife Ingrid and my beautiful baby daughter Abigail.

She's sleeping.

You guys can meet her in a later video.

But my lovely wife and I, we are going to tell you guys in a nice, calm, real life English about what it's been like

the last three weeks being new parents are you ready

so let's talk about what labor was like

and what labor is guys is

when a mother is having the baby okay she's having pain in her stomach

and it's one of the hardest but most beautiful things

that a woman will ever experience

so i can't tell you guys what labor was like i can tell you what it looked like for me

but let's hear what my wife has to say about labor okay

so I don't know where to start um I was hoping

that it wasn't that bad how people always say

because you can just hear bad experience from other women like oh

that was terrifying like that was crazy painful that was like even traumatic.

Traumatic?

Traumatic.

And of course, I was afraid of those things, but I was like, no, that there has to be a way that it can it can be better.

You know, like I read so much.

I watched so much, so many videos.

So I pray so much.

I ask God, like, please give me a different story

that I can share with other women that it can give them hope in some way, you know, because I want to be that person who has a different story

and know like the bad and bad and bad.

And that's how it was, guys.

But of course, I won't say it wasn't painful.

It was.

But when you are in a situation that is stressful and like painful and things like that,

I think it's normal to feel like the time is longer

but my my i don't know my story was different

because i asked i told my husband like

that was like one hour in pain for me in my brain

but it was actually i don't need like eight hours maybe

but like painful painful was like four hours you know like the real deal

but i want to know from your point of view

so guys it went by fast for me too

and she was in a lot of pain for a long time

but she was very strong there were some times where she

said i can't do this i can't do this i need a break

and when i saw she was starting to like lose her control i told her breathe for me baby breathe

and we focused on long deep slow breaths and then she got back into that That's true.

Like meditation and back into the zone focused.

And she was so strong, guys.

My point of view was I had no idea my wife could be that strong.

And especially at the time where you have to push the baby out, she was

so strong let's let's talk about what was the funniest moment was there anything funny in all of

that because I have one that was funny we didn't know it was funny

while it was happening but

if we had been somebody else looking at would have been hilarious she almost squeezed my head off guys so

while she was pushing for this she was holding on to

my neck like this i could feel my face turning purple she was squeezing

so hard guys my neck and my head um

and i felt like i used to do jujitsu

so i know what it's like somebody choking you she was choking me guys very hard wow how strong was

that it was strong because she was pushing so hard

but i just had to be strong and not say anything and take it because she needed me right there.

She needed my strength.

So what have these first couple weeks actually been like?

Because I thought, you know, I haven't been to work in two weeks now, and I thought being home with them was going to be much easier than being at work,

but it turns out I've been working way harder here than I've ever worked at my job.

So what is different from how you thought it would be to how it actually is these first couple of weeks.

I think for me it's like the, I don't know, the hormones are, you know, all over the place for me.

And, you know, like I get very sensitive if she don't want to eat or I get very like,

you know, anxious sometimes, but it's normal because the hormones and all of those things.

But I think like I knew it was hard to have a newborn, but yeah, Sometimes it feels harder.

So not having time to eat and go to the bathroom when you want and take a shower.

I have it because I have pen, but if I don't have pen, it would be crazy, impossible.

Another thing, guys, that you need to be ready for if you're going to have a baby, really work with your partner.

Because if we weren't working together as a team, neither one of us would have slept at all since we've been home from the hospital.

But because we work together, I'll stay up with the baby for four or six hours.

Then she'll take care of the baby while I go sleep for a few hours.

But if you're not working together as a team and giving each other time, you're not going to sleep at all.

No sleep.

And that's very hard.

Okay, guys.

Abby woke up.

Abby is what we call Abigail.

That's her nickname.

And a nickname is a shorter version of your name that your family and friends call you.

So I think Abby wanted to say hi.

Abby says, are you ready to learn some real life English with comprehensive plan put?

Well good, let's go.

Abigail is hungry guys so she's going to eat while we finish the video.

So what are some things that nobody tells you to be ready for

when you have a new baby that you found out?

I don't know.

I think like the crying part, like you can't eventually it's gonna happen.

Like I thought it just some babies, you know, some babies get more fuzzy.

But the true guys, i think is every baby get very fussy sometimes

and you need to be strong to handle that

so fussy means crying and there's nothing you could do to help yeah like no reason right

so this happened to us last night guys for like two hours

or more three hours she was screaming we couldn't feed her

her diaper was clean there was nothing else we could do guys

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so finally i took her in my car

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and drove around put her in her little car seat and

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that finally got her to stop so guys you know you think like okay

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if they're crying something's wrong i could fix it i'll give her her bottle or i'll change her diaper

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but sometimes there's nothing you can do and my wife

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and i were talking how good that we have each other in this moment

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because imagine if you're just a young woman all alone nobody to help you

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and your baby's screaming for three hours

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and you haven't slept in three days yeah oh that's the

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the other part nobody told me you know like you're not

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gonna like you know oh you're not gonna sleep good

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but not like this like i every night my best sleep like what four hours three hours

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and like how you say like two hours you are awake

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and then later to another two hours again

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because i have him otherwise it would be impossible she wakes up every 40 minutes every 30 minutes every hour

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but no more than that.

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She doesn't sleep more than that yet.

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Another thing, guys, about sleeping is babies are loud even while they sleep.

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That's so funny.

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So you think like, oh, I could just sleep while she's napping.

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But when she's sleeping, she's making noises like, She sounds like that sometimes while she's napping.

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So try and sleep when your baby's doing that.

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You think something's wrong with her.

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it's hard and it takes a

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while to adjust to this is called burping a baby

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and she pats her back she pats her on the back

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and the gases in her stomach there you go can come out she did it yeah see

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and then the baby feels better sometimes they'll stop crying i

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just want to talk real quick about has this changed our relationship well yeah i mean not

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because we want to you know What relationship?

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We haven't been together like sleeping in the same bed since she was born.

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Because we need to take turns.

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So that means I take the night shift, she takes the day shift or the other way around.

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But that means I have to take care of her for a while so she could sleep.

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Then she has to take care of her so I can sleep.

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But we can't sleep together anymore.

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And I love holding my wife while I sleep.

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So we really miss that.

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Yeah, but I know it's going to be better, you know.

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It's not going to be like this forever.

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So that's the only thing you need to keep in mind.

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It's like if there's a bad day, it's not going to be like that every day.

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And it's going to, the time is going to pass, you know. So, yeah.

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So it's been hard, you know.

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I wouldn't even say it's been hard on a relationship because I love you more than I've ever loved you.

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Me too, I'm like.

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Honestly, guys, in the hospital, I've never loved and respected her so much,

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but it is hard not to be able to sit on the couch with her

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and watch a movie and just be together.

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We always have this little thing in between us now.

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But like my wife said, we have to remember, this is just a small piece of time

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and we have a new member of the family for the rest of our lives

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so it's worth it

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but these next these first few weeks are hard where do

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you see the next year of our life how do you think our life will be

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so different in the next year than it was in the

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last five together i can't even think about it i don't know i don't know

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so when i think about that I think about traveling now.

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Like, traveling right now would be impossible.

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Like, there's no way we could take this baby on a plane

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and then she screams for three hours and there's nothing we could do.

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I mean, you could, but it would be terrible for everybody on the plane.

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The whole plane would be looking at us like this and we'd be like, well, what do you want us to do?

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It's a baby.

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So guys, the next year, you know, as she's growing up might be difficult,

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but I'm really looking forward to watching her grow and giving her a much better childhood than we had.

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And, you know, our parents loved us and everything and did the best they could.

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But from all that we've learned and done, I can't wait to see her have the opportunities that we never dreamed of.

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This baby's going to be on a plane before she's a year old.

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This baby's going to leave the country, you know, and have a passport when she's three.

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And this baby's going to see her mom and dad doing awesome things.

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and things that we would have never dreamed of growing up in simple families.

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So we're excited to watch her grow, and you guys will be able to share a little bit of

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that process because you know on this channel I share my real life to help you learn real-life English.

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Anything else you want to say, baby?

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Besides everything, I'm happy to have the beautiful baby.

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Yeah, I'm just so excited for the future

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and see her like how she's gonna look like

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because it's different to see a newborn and then

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when they are two like they are toddlers you know toddler toddler they look

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so different so i'm excited to see her face

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so newborn is what we call a baby

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that is newly born she was just born

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and i think you call them

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that up until they're like three months old two two months

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so we have newborn for another month hopefully things will get easier

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and we'll be able to get more and more sleep

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but i just want to make this little video

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and share with you guys what's going on in our life give you some good real life english

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so thank you guys as always thank those of you who were

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so sweet and kind to us on the instagram

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if you want to follow my instagram

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and see other you know inside looks in my life i'll put

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that down below check it out uh you could check out the native english starter kit

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which i've added some really cool content to and

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if you feel like practicing your english click that link to sprout

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and you can talk to kyle ai for a week free thank you guys

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so much and see you in the next video

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