I just became a twin girl dad in this video. I'm going to show you my twin girls and give you an update on the nicku how we basically went out and back in. Well the first house hack babies are being born and we're on the way to go pick him up. Let's go Lauren What's in this box? You call it a push present? Yeah it is 3:49 a.m.

We made it to the hospital for hour time. change out here. let's go wash our hands first and then what are we going to do? Pick up some babies? Clearly? uh you are not pregnant and you have not been pregnant recently? No, it's been about five and a half years since you were last pregant. Yeah Why? uh.

so we wanted to have a baby in 2019 and we were going to go back to the fertility clinic cuz that's how I conceived the first two boys. Uh but then Co happened then once they reopened the fertility clinics I was doing a bunch of IVF rounds and it didn't work out for me and so then we had to go through the surrogacy r out to make it happen cuz it was taking a long time and it wasn't working out. so that's the the short of it. Look at that.

Ella and Claire meet Ella and Claire what they pound aart. So I don't think it's boys since they say you don't think you're getting click baited is what you're saying. Yeah, All right. So Lauren which baby are we seeing first? Ella Ella mhm Ella meet Ella Meline Paffrath 6 lb 2 oz born 850 6 p.m.

Ella Meline Paffrath. Unfortunately, the bigger of the two babies had a little bit of liquid left in her lungs as she came out via C-section and ended up having to have about 10 hours of CPAP to help clear some of that fluid in her lungs. I Didn't know this, but apparently that's actually normal. In fact, here's me talking about that walking out of the NICU So what I just learned is apparently when babies are born when one of the benefits of going through the birth canal and a vaginal delivery is the baby's lungs get squeezed and it squeezes all the fluids out of the baby's lungs right before it comes out to take its breath and then its lungs function.

But when you have a C-section babies don't necessarily get that squeeze and so they're more likely after a C-section to have to go to the Ncu to get what's called a CPAP machine which is basically just pressurizing their lungs to try to get them to, you know, cough up some of the moisture that's in their lungs. Meet CLA Rose Paffrath born 5 lb 2 oz 1 minute later of course. Also, via C-section Clair has perfect as she came out and hung out with Mom and myself in our hospital room. In fact, here's some up close shots of her.

keep in mind she's in one of these they call them incubator boxes just to keep her temperature warm. That's because both of them are technically prey babies. They're both pre term, which is relatively normal with twins. Yeah, that's so cool.

And the twin setup? Oh my gosh, she's tiny. She's so tiny. Oh my goodness. Oh oh my Gosh, here we go.

So amazing. Yeah, it's like it's like a little restart. Yeah, it is a restart. effective when Jack and Max are was 8 and 5 years ago she got her eyes open a you see your mom a see your dad a no oh going back to sleep on Dad no thanks.

Oh, not this guy. now. later that day, Ella was discharged from the niku which meant both babies were finally out of the niku. But then we ran into some problems which I'll touch on those in just a moment.

I Want to talk to you quickly about Jack and Max Jack and Max had a Legoland Adventure planned for Saturday which is 2 days after both of the little girls were born and the last thing I wanted to do was tell Jack and Max hey Jack and Max because of Ella and CLA we have to cancel your trip to Legoland. We want these twins to come into the world bringing happiness to Jack and Max, especially since this is going to be a big change for them. In fact, we're still trying to think of what gift Claire and Ella should bring Jack and Max as sort of a hey thanks for allowing me into your home gift. If you have any recommendations, leave a link down below.

So before I get to talking about CLA and Ella again, it's worth mentioning that Jack and Max and myself along with McKay since Lauren couldn't make it since she was with the twins went to Legoland I Took the boys to Legoland We divided and conquered Lauren Stayed in the hospital I stayed with the two boys as we explored Legoland Here's some pictures and videos from our time at Legoland which was a complete blast as some of these are playing. I Also want to remind you that International and United States non accredited investors are encouraged to invest in House Hack before. November 1st the 2023 fundraise for House Hack comes to an end. The long awaited fundraise comes to an end this week.

November 1st if you have questions, email us at IR Hous Hack.com Go to Househ Hack.com Make sure to read the offering circular. As of course, investing in startups is risky to try to mitigate some of that. We are raising money at a one toone cash valuation, which is almost unheard of in the Venture Capital space. But we're doing that because the only way we're raising money is through this YouTube channel.

As a thank you to subscribers and supporters, we're really, really excited to share that opportunity. And of course, here's a little bit more of Jack and Max Are you ready to go on a roller coaster ride? Are you ready? Yeah! What Are you ready for the roller coaster? Are you sure you're not going to be scared? Yeah, I might be, but well, a little bit. Yeah. What about you? How are you feeling? You scared? No, no, not at all boy.

Mr Max You ready sir? All right. The double deck. Go! Oh no. Now if you want more of Legoland which I Want to say it was amazing Jack on his very own channel has a walkth through a behind the scenes walkth through of the Master Builder Workshop at Legoland California So if you want to see that, check the link in the description for meet Jack's YouTube channel or check out the first comment linked down below is super excited to show you Legoland's Master Workshop Otherwise, phenomenal things to say about Legoland I'm so excited for the boys! I Had a really great weekend bonding with the boys staying at the Legoland Castle Hotel Together we hung out day and night watching Star Wars and building Legos was a complete blast and I'm so happy I Got to spend this time with Jack and Max right before Ella and CLA come home.

Okay, well we did not double the size of our stock portfolio, but we did double the size of our children. Children count yeah, children count two four. How do you feel about that? Great I Don't know why I'm losing my voice but yeah, great. This is really exciting, super exciting and I can't wait for Ella to come out of the NICU hang out I wonder if you put them in the same box? You put them close to each other? Yeah, probably not.

box per baby. Separate boxes keep them separate. and then this hospital has a really awesome thing for um, postpartum to wear. You can drop off your baby anytime you want to a nap as a mom or they'll get food or whatever I did not have that with Jack or Max that's really cool and it's like I don't understand why.

like it's not a given with all hospitals cuz it's so tiring after going through all the laboring process. I mean I didn't have to go through that obviously this time, but to not have anybody to help you I remember even asking like is there anyone that could let me like sleep just for 2 hours like on you? Yeah, so was rough. it's very rough and then it's uncomfortable too. and then you just went through the whole so yeah this is a great hospital.

This is really cool Mhm. So now I guess we have to keep that at 28.5 it's at 288. it's heating up. Co We'll catch up.

then when we have the other oh she's opening her eyes. Your eyes. You want to see those. Now we do have an update though on Claire because Claire is just 5 lb 2 oz.

She did, unfortunately fail her car seat test. Now you might not be familiar with what that is. It's basically where they put a child in a car seat for 90 minutes and and see if the child's circulation and blood oxygen concentrations remain stable. Unfortunately, Claire's did not, which meant she had to end up getting checked into the Ncu to get CPAP and get the same support that Ella had when Ella was first born.

This now delays discharge for Claire and Ella has already been discharged Ella is healthy discharged. everything with Claire looks good. She's just a pound lighter which when you weigh six p pounds is a big deal. It's like 20% smaller and we hope that Claire gets discharged within the next 24 hours so we can bring both of them home as Halloween presents to our family.

So here's the latest on Claire Apparently Lauren just texted me and said uh, she went to the NICU which Claire went to after failing the car SE test. Now quote: she had an event last night meaning she needed to be stimulated to get everything back to normal. Doesn't sound good. They said this is very common though for pries, but because of that, they probably won't be coming home Thursday or Friday.

They're still not sure though they don't even want to commit to that. Uh, because things change every day. So hopefully Claire improves really quickly. but sounds like uh Claire's still got some work to do which is interesting because she was not the one who went into the ncu at first.

Ella was Alo is the larger baby who went into the Ncu and got discharged Claire after failing the car seat test. went into the nicku and now it's trying to get ahead over there but needs a few more days. so come on CLA you got this anyway. Thanks all for the support! We'll get you an update video as soon as we have it and uh, fingers crossed for Claire and Ella.