- Good morning, guys.
I am hanging out with Livia and Toby.
Hi Toby, good morning.
Today, we thought we'd give you a little update
about how she's doing and what it's like
having baby number seven,
Livia Hope, out in our family now.
Can you say hi, Livia?
- [Toby] Hi Livia.
- [Dad] Toby, you can say hi Livia, huh?
(upbeat music)
- Sleep last night was rough.
I don't think I even got an hour of sleep
until I woke Tim up at eight in the morning
and just had to say, "I can't do this anymore.
"You've gotta take Livia.
"I need like, at least give me half an hour
"so I can have some kinda sleep."
- It wasn't just Livia, it was the other kids too.
Hannah was up a few times.
Hallie was up.
Ya know, just was coughing and stuffy noses
and sore throats and just kinda sickness.
- I try to take care of them one of those times
whenever I was already up anyways and was like,
"Well, I'm awake so I might as well
"take care of them while Tim sleeps still,"
so we can balance each other out a little bit.
I got a good solid hour of sleep in from eight to nine
in the morning.
- Yay! (laughing)
- Awe, you're talking.
(baby sneezing)
- Little sneeze.
Those are little baby sneezes.
The other kids have loved having Livia around.
Have you loved having Livia around?
But it's kinda disappointing for them that
most of the family is sick except for me, Livia and Dana
and with runny noses and coughs and things.
So, we're trying to keep our distance a little bit
'cause we do not want Livia to get sick.
That makes you sad, doesn't it?
'Cause everybody really wants to hold her,
really wants to take care of her.
Nice that you have such a loving family around you
who really just wants to be with you.
Hopefully soon, Zeke, if you feel better.
Keep washing your hands, get some rest.
- Thank you so much for taking her.
- Yep.
- And letting me have some rest.
- I didn't mind getting up.
I kinda like having some time with her because
Dana gets most of the time, like all of the time.
(laughing)
I'm kinda glad I finally get a turn
just me and her for a little bit.
- She is fun to hold and cuddle.
I just wanna get some sleep too.
After such a rough night, I was actually looking forward
to getting to see some people today.
I mean, it's been a few days.
I feel like I've been cooped up which has been good
'cause I need to recover and I want a good recovery
before making it worse 'cause I have a record of--
- [Jim] Trying to work too quickly too fast and then,
it taking twice as long to recover.
- Being in here having such a cute little baby
helps a lot to, I mean, all my babies have been cute but,
you've been especially good at helping me recover
and stay in here and stay put.
- I thought you were gonna say I was
especially good at being cute.
(laughing)
- That too.
- I thought that's where you were going.
- That too, you've been especially good at being cute.
- Thank you, you're awesome.
Dana's doula just arrived this morning to check up
on Dana and the baby and do some other things.
So, that's what's happening now.
Kara's just put a big poopy in the toilet
for the first time.
Yay! All by yourself.
She wanted to.
- Did you go potty?
- [Dad] Yes, first time I haven't had to change a diaper
from her.
- My doula and my midwife both has said like
how well I did and it was a fast one.
So, it was just fun to get to see my doula,
visit for a little bit and then my midwife came over
and I got to visit with her, do some paperwork,
but just fun to see them.
I mean, they were at a huge part of our life,
of our family, a huge family event that they were at.
So, it was cool to get to see them.
- You're doing really well.
You couldn't wish for any better recovery, honestly.
- No, no.
I've been shocked by how well recovery's going.
- [Woman] Yeah, when I walked in, I was not expecting you to
just be even doing this well.
- Oh really?
- I mean, just being up and moving around.
- Functional?
I got one hour of sleep.
Thanks to Tim this morning.
- [Tim] She worth it?
- Oh yeah, she's definitely worth it.
It was lots of hard work but she was worth it.
- [Tim] Hi, you opening your eyes?
(baby crying)
The common question we get about having a home birth is
what about their birth certificate
and their, all the legal stuff that goes along.
Well that's what we're working on right now.
We're getting all that paperwork done
for her name.
Be officially Livia Hope Schmoyer.
- She's officially gonna be a person.
- [Tim] Yay, on record.
- I think she's gotten more beautiful.
- Thank you.
- Sweet girl.
- I love catching her dimple that she has.
- She does have a pretty cute one, doesn't she?
I wondered if you'd see it right away.
- And then I was really looking forward to you
taking Livia out of the house
so I could get another nap in today.
- It was her first time in a car seat,
first time in a car ride, first time out of the house.
- With most of our kids, we have taken them to the
chiropractor just shortly after being born and so,
Livia's gonna go see the chiropractor for her first time.
She's all dressed up in her first little outfit.
Leaving the house.
So she's gonna go get a little adjustment.
(soft music)
All tucked in, ready to go.
- [Tim] Say bye bye, Mommy.
- [Dana] Bye.
(baby crying)
First time to be separate.
I'm gonna nap.
- We do need to get a swing.
(soft music)
She's not liking that.
Turns out that Livia really does not like her car seat,
but she really does like cars in motion.
So, whenever we come to a stop light or stop sign,
she would start crying and then, as soon as we got like,
started driving again--
- She would calm back down?
- She would calm down again yeah,
so she really likes motion.
This is the chiropractor that we've been using, Dr. Heather.
Gonna adjust her, make her all aligned so she poops
and burps and eats and sleeps and everything.
- Zeke, our second kid was the first one
that went to a chiropractor as a newborn
because he was having some digestive issues
and I just wanted to get some kinks worked out,
figured he probably needed to get a little bit
of an adjustment to make sure things were flowing well
'cause they weren't before.
- They started flowing really well after that adjustment.
- At the appointment.
And so after that, all of our kids have gone in
for newborn adjustments and so, I just wanted
Livia to have an adjustment too just to make sure
that things were aligned correctly and that first day,
when she was drinking colostrum, she seemed to have
a little bit of a reflux issue and so, I figured,
eh, kinda like Zeke.
We'll go ahead and just call and set an appointment,
see when we can get her in.
(soft music)
- It can help a lot with digestive system
and getting things flowing through them.
It can help with-- - Which did work.
- Livia had her first dirty diaper since having,
as soon as my milk came in, she hadn't had a dirty diaper
in about a day and a half.
- [Tim] After being adjusted?
- [Dana] So, after she was adjusted,
things got flowing again.
- Helps with a whole range of things,
so that's why we thought it was a good idea to do it
and our chiropractor takes good care of us
and does a good job.
- While Tim was gone, I got a couple of text messages
from friends that had gifts to bring over of food,
which is like the best gift ever.
(laughing)
- That's like the season of life.
When I'm doing all the cooking 'cause Dana's up here.
- So that helps you out a whole lot and I enjoyed
the good food.
I'm sure you're a good cook but it's just a lot
easier when you have help with it.
- [Woman] Lasagna.
- Lasagna. - And bread.
- I saw some bread in there.
- All the carbs for the Schmoyers.
- Woo hoo!
Yeah, this is not, after like Dana gets back
her energy and stuff, her and I are both gonna start
losing some weight but right now, just time to celebrate
that we have baby Livia.
I think it's fun when other people are as excited
as you are about your baby.
That's what makes you get like ah, even more excited.
People bring things over and whether it's just like
cookies or meals or even just on Instagram
or something, ya know, when you have all the comments
of like, "Oh, she's so cute."
You're like, honestly, she probably just looks like
another newborn baby to you 'cause all newborn babies
tend to look the same.
But I think it makes a difference when you feel like
other people are sharing in your joy and your celebration
and excitement.
(upbeat music)
- I was really glad that you showed up after,
like right after she got here.
That way, she was able to see Livia and hold Livia
before I got to see Livia because I figured,
as soon as Livia knows Mom's around, then--
- She's gonna want to eat again?
- Yeah.
- She got to have some time.
- So she got some time with her before I was around.
(upbeat music)
- Another friend of ours came by and dropped off
some cookies that she made.
Has Livia Hope's name and initials on it.
There you go.
- Such a cute job, wow.
- [Tim] Good lookin' cookies.
They taste as good as they look?
- Mmhmm.
- Been fun that you guys have shared in that excitement
with us as well, including a little gift we got
from a subscriber of ours in New Zealand.
- It's adorable.
- Dear Schmoyer's, as soon as I saw your baby girl's name,
I just knew I had to get her something monogrammed.
Congratulations on your seventh edition, Livia Hope.
I wish you all the best as a family of nine.
Lots of love, a long time viewer,
Laura from New Zealand.
It's a little dress. - A little monogram.
- [Dana] Oh my goodness, how adorable.
- [Tim] Yeah, isn't that cute?
- Wow.
That is so adorable.
I love the back of it too.
- [Tim] This big bow and then the front that has
her initials.
- That's so cute.
(laughing)
- We're really looking forward to showing you guys
more about how the twins and the rest of our kids
have been interacting with Livia, how they've been
sick so we've been kinda separating them a little bit
right now but hopefully, next vlog you see,
they will be together having fun.
Can't wait to show you guys that.
So follow along our family story
and we will see you guys again on Monday, bye.
- Bye, think we both need some sleep.
- Yes.
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