BELLA: Oh. OK. Oh. Oh.

RENE: Oh.

OFF SCREEN: Congratulations.

BELLA: Take pictures.

RENEE: It was kind of like everything was running in fast motion.

AARON: It was, like, in slow motion.

SUZIE: It was not what I had pictured it was going to be.

STEVE: It's like a dream that you can really remember, though.

RENE: As soon as we got in front of the emergency room, she opened the door and flew out. I was going to walk around and open the door.

BELLA: I'll see you upstairs.

RENE: She's screaming, "Go park the car."

AARON: The baby's heart rate dropped really low, so the, all the nurses came in, and our family was in there.

LAUREN: It was, like, panic.

AARON: And she wasn't dilating.

STEVE: Meanwhile, I'm holding a leg, and the doctor is sitting in the chair.

AARON: “If things don't progress in the next hour, we're going to have to come in and give you a C-section.”

BELLA: All you see is, like, silence.

AARON: The lights were off, and we had the birth music on.

LAUREN: I'm, like, sleeping.

AARON: It's nice, she checks, she goes, "All right, you ready?" We're like, "What? Whoa. What do you mean?"

LAUREN: We're like, "What happened?" She's like, "Something good happened."

AARON: We're going.

BELLA: Is her head out yet?

NURSE: Not yet.

RENE: She asked, “Is the baby's head out yet?” I looked over, I'm like, "Oh boy." Not even a pinky is out yet, and she's asking if the baby's head is out yet.

LAUREN: “Whoa, honey, look, you want to see? It's so cool.” And he's like, down there, and into it, and everything.

BELLA: I was focused. I was like, “OK, I'm going to have this baby, I'm going to be OK.” I had no meds, no epidural.

BELLA: Ahh.

SUZIE: We were laughing, and everything was normal, and then all of the sudden, bam — your whole life changes.

STEVE: Yeah, here comes this crying baby.

AARON: It's etched into my brain. That was the first time I was scared for the rest of my life. You know, if that makes sense.

BELLA: At that very moment, I was becoming that mother that I had anticipated being for such a long time.

STEVE: So, Leo popped out, and I immediately felt like a father.

SUZIE: There's this element of surprise, of what he looked like.

LAUREN: I just looked at him, and I was like, “That's us.”

BELLA: It was like we were a family, and it just felt so real. Like, it felt so good to, like, know that I had my family. We were complete.

AARON: Where?

LOGAN: Up there, on the lemon.

AARON: Right on the lemon?

LOGAN: Yeah, right there.

AARON: Let's see. Can you see him up there?

LOGAN: Wow, right there.

AARON: Right there?

LAUREN: We weren't even married yet, and I went through a year of chemotherapy and radiation. I had Hodgkin's lymphoma. He showed me how strong he is, of a person, and was my rock. If two people can make it through that — you know, we can do anything. Pretty much. Anything that life gives us.

AARON: She would have made it through that without me.

LAUREN: No. I wouldn't have.

STEVE: Hey. Go get Mommy.

SUZIE: Come here. Look at that little monster.

SUZIE: The reason I wanted to have a baby with Steve, he was sort of known as the baby-whisperer among our friends, and he just seemed like the guy who would be a perfect dad.

STEVE: She’s so creative and dramatic. I thought she would, uh, which we, we have a, a little drama baby.

SUZIE: Yes, we do.

STEVE: A little theatrical boy.

BELLA: For a whole lifetime now, I always envisioned the day I would have a baby. Um, and it made it that much more special because it was with my husband, Rene. He's been my childhood sweetheart, and you know, we've been together for such a long time, over twenty years from the time we dated to the time we actually have now been married.

RENE: She's an amazing mother, and I knew this back when we were dating. And, this is exactly the reason why I wanted to be here at this moment with her.

BELLA: As a new parent, I have a million concerns on whether I'm doing things right or wrong.

SUZIE: We have sleep issues, we have food issues.

AARON: We're trying to potty train. I'm worried that we're not doing it right.

BELLA: Am I feeding her enough? Is she eating the right way?

SUZIE: Safety is always a concern.

STEVE: He can reach the top of the stove.

RENE: I don't want to see her sick. I don't want to see her with a rash. I don't want to see her with an earache.

LAUREN: And now with the baby on the way, things are going to get harder.

SUZIE: You know, a lot of it's instinctual, but a lot of it's not, I think for at least for us, it wasn't.

LAUREN: You know, every child is different. Every child’s going to have their own issues.

SUZIE: At every stage, there's new things you have to deal with. So every time you think you've mastered a challenge, a new challenge comes along.

LAUREN: Having a group to discuss parenting issues is brilliant. I mean, I think that that's the best way, sometimes, to help resolve a lot of problems.

SUZIE: I think it’s nice to learn from someone else’s experience.

STEVE: Yeah.

SUZIE: And sort of have that older-sibling kind of thing.

STEVE: Look, Leo.

LAUREN: Hi.

BELLA: It’ll be interesting to, to know more about them, as parents, and seeing how we can learn from that.