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Nicole: There's just so much I can't eat because she's sensitive. I eat really bland [food] – chicken noodle soup, vegetables, fish. I had to cut out milk, no tomatoes, no lettuce. You think you have to cut everything out when you're pregnant, but you really have to cut everything out when you're breast-feeding.
How was the birth?
Joel: The whole pregnancy – the whole thing was easy. Well, I'm not saying the birth was easy for you.
Nicole: It actually was!
How did you know it was time?
Nicole: I just didn't feel well.
Joel: She was like, "I think it's going to be soon, so let's go while it's 2 a.m." So we snuck into the hospital . . .
Nicole: And we just settled until I had the baby [on Jan. 11]. It was really mellow.
How long were you in labor?
Nicole: I don't know, because I don't know what time I actually went into labor, but I pushed for 10 minutes. Three pushes and she was out.
Joel: She came out and she was crying. The doctor goes, "Well, it looks like you got a little girl!"
Nicole: They put her right on my chest and I breast-fed her. I didn't know anything about breast-feeding, so I fed her for 35 minutes on one side! And the doctor was like, "You should probably switch sides."
The experience seems like it was comically easy for you!
Nicole: Well, right after I had her, I remember saying to Joel, "I need food. Get me apples."
Joel: I ordered her a steak.
Nicole: I don't know what I was asking for but I felt like I was going to die. [Gesturing to Harlow, who is stirring] She woke up for the story. She likes this story!
Joel [to Harlow]: This is the story of how you were born!
Who was the first to cry?
Nicole: I cried right away.
Joel: Right when she came out, you know that cry that's like an internal cry where you shake a little bit? [To Harlow] You made me cry!
Nicole: She came out, and I just knew she looked like me, and I was holding her, and it was something that was so much bigger than me. Now she looks a little more like Joel, but when she was born, it looked like Joel had nothing to do with it.
Joel: Thank God she looks like Nicole!
How did you pick the name?
Nicole: We couldn't agree. I wanted a hippie name and he wanted a more Biblical name.
Joel: I really like Jean Harlow the actress, and she likes Shalom Harlow the model. Harlow's cool because it feels like a classic name.
Nicole: And no one has it.
Joel: Winter was so serene and quiet and that's how she is
. Nicole: I always liked the name Kate, but I knew I'd never name my kid that because it was just too plain.
