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  • OK, bye bye. Yea! We're having a baby!!!

  • [Life in Japan Theme Song]

  • Daddy, can I go up there and look?

  • Oh my goodness!

  • Oh my!

  • That's crazy! It is so pink, huh?

  • Super-duper pink!

  • I'm going to go down to the street...

  • Hey Debbie - can you get plates for the adults?

  • Yep.

  • We're waiting for the baby to come, but in the meantime, this is how she has to wash dishes...

  • Her belly's too big.

  • She has to stand sideways!

  • My goodness! Oh wow.

  • Your arms aren't long enough!

  • Taihen! (That's hard!)

  • 40 weeks! Oh come on Luiza!

  • Yeah, come Luiza.

  • Whoa, look! Everybody's chowing down here, huh?

  • I still can't eat. Is it so good, guys?

  • I wish I could eat but I can't eat because my food is still not ready.

  • We're celebrating a million views!!

  • One million views!

  • We had our first single video hit one million views,

  • About why our kids go to Japanese school and so we're celebrating here tonight.

  • The first of many. The first of many, come on!

  • I'm going to take this opportunity that three of my really good friends are here at my house,

  • And they've all had babies here in Japan.

  • So what was your favorite thing about having a baby in Japan?

  • Or the strangest, because you had one in the States too, and you had one in Brazil.

  • Right.

  • So what was different?

  • Well I had a C-section, which neither of you had C-sections,

  • So that was a big different experience between Japan and America.

  • Why?

  • You only had a C-section in the afternoon.

  • So in America it's first thing in the morning.

  • But here you like go to the hospital,

  • You check into your room. It's almost like you're going to a little hotel for awhile.

  • And the prep you until the afternoon when you have the C-section.

  • So that was a long process.

  • Your doctor who performs the C-section is the anesthesiologists,

  • Yeah, that's different. That was very different.

  • The recovery process, the most challenge part was that they don't give you much pain medicine in Japan.

  • No pain meds! But in America, they're very liberal with the pain meds!

  • You get the pump, and you pump the pump!

  • You pump the pump, so that was challenging.

  • But they treat you so well!

  • Like, oh my goodness, all the staff were like so, so nice.

  • And the bag of things that they give you!

  • It's like you're going to a retreat

  • And they're like "Here is all your luxuryall your pajamas,

  • and slippers and shampoos, towels.

  • You go the hospital with just pajamas and everything else they just give you!

  • They even give you underwear.

  • Yeah. It's glorious!

  • How was the food?

  • Oh amazing. Oh, the food.

  • So good.

  • So well presented, so pretty — you're just likeyou just sit there and enjoy it.

  • Does it make you want to have another baby just to stay there longer?

  • Ahhhhhhh... She is!

  • There you go, number 4 in Japan!

  • Four kids in Japan! Which one was the easiest?

  • It was the third one, but that's because I walked to the clinic

  • And everybody was like "What, you walked here?!"

  • But then I was in the elevator and my water broke,

  • And I sat there and I had it — it was like 15 minutes.

  • Oh my goodness!

  • That's such a crazy story.

  • I should walk! I should walk again!

  • There you go, Pri.

  • But you had Joey here in Japan.

  • Yeah, it was a very good experience.

  • I really liked the clinic.

  • Because in Brazil we don't have like nice clinics like that.

  • It's like a hotel and you can rest and everything's so clean.

  • And they have the music in your room,

  • Soothing... wow

  • It's so relaxing.

  • And everything is so organized.

  • Like the time for shower, the time for food,

  • It's amazing.

  • When I got home, I missed my hospital bed.

  • The bed and the comforterremember that comforter?! Oh, yes!

  • This amazing down comforter You could put it in every-which position you want.

  • And your bed can do all these kinds of positions,

  • And I just missed that when I got home.

  • But we all got private rooms, and I think that was a huge bonus.

  • Because we had our own toilet.

  • But it's just women, it's just a birthing clinic,

  • So it's nice to know that during the night you're not going to... oh, he's S.O.Sing!

  • During the night you're not going to run into any men or anything, it's just you women.

  • Waddling around because you're in pain because you just had a baby.

  • And all the chairs have those donut pillows on them!

  • In the United States they're all about in and out of the hospital.

  • You get in, you have the baby, and you're out.

  • But here they were very much about mothers recovering.

  • They didn't bother you so much during the night, they just really wanted your nighttime to be peaceful.

  • What I love about Japan is that they value the natural birth.

  • And I wanted that but in Brazil they really pushed for a C-section and I just had to fight for a natural birth.

  • And here that is protected, so I feel so safe.

  • I don't have to worry about it because I know they're not going to try to push that.

  • And they don't push for the epidural, because they don't even really give you that option.

  • Unless you're having a C-section, you're not getting an epidural.

  • Somebody just made a really good point, and it wasn't one of the ladies.

  • What were you saying, Ben?

  • It's way cheaper to have a baby here in Japan than in America.

  • So thank you so much! (Everyone laughs)

  • Debbie stayed for like 5 nights in the hospital, that would have been so expensive in America.

  • Birth from Dad's perspective. That's right.

  • It's cheaper here!

  • You guys all have amazing families. Thank you for living here in Japan!

  • Pri is starting to have some contractions,

  • So we're hoping that in a couple of hours she'll have to go to the hospital and have this baby.

  • And I get to go to their house and watch Joey while Paul and her are at the hospital.

  • Having contractions pretty often now, huh?

  • It's going to be soon. I hope tonight!

  • A couple of hours later...

  • OK, bye bye! Yea! We're having a baby!

  • OK, can you lock the door?

  • Oh let me... where's my keys, where's my keys, where's my keys?

  • Love you, bye! Love you.

  • I think this is it! Pri's going to have her baby.

  • We're getting ready to go. Ruth's here!

  • OK, cell phone, keys, wallet, let's go!

  • We're on our way to receive Luiza!

  • Thank you Ruth and Nate for your car.

  • Because it's nighttime we come in through the backdoor.

  • We can put them in here.

  • We're at the hospital, Pri's having contractions about every 4 to 4 minutes or so.

  • Strong contractions: the baby's coming right now, tonight.

  • I'm here at Paul and Pri's house watching Joey while he sleeps,

  • Because they went to the hospital to have baby Luiza.

  • So when we arrive on the 2nd floor, we are told to wait here.

  • When the nurse was ready, she came and got Pri,

  • She went in there and they're getting her all ready.

  • Soon I'll be called in to go with her.

  • It's the middle of the night. Ruth's still not here, I'm going to check my phone messages, see what's going on here.

  • Pri just got taken in to get ready and checked up,

  • And as soon as they're done getting her ready, they're going to call me in.

  • There's another lady giving birth over here too, you can hear her in pain as well

  • (Baby cries)

  • Can you hear? I don't know if you can hear.

  • Luiza's here! Oh my goodness!

  • Did I get you right in time? Are you going to cry?

  • Oh my goodness!

  • But you weren't crying until now.

  • Oh my, you cry so cute.

  • Joey? Oh! Tia Pri's in labor!

  • Wait, Tia Pri's in labor?!

  • So guess what? I woke up in the middle of the night and check my phone to see what was happening.

  • Tia Pri's in labor? And guess what I saw?

  • A picture of little Luiza, all born! What?!

  • Look!

  • Isn't she so cute?! Ah!

  • I thought she was going to be so big because the tummy was so big.

  • She is so big!

OK, bye bye. Yea! We're having a baby!!!

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