[Kody] Previously on Sister Wives ...
[woman] I love this property.
It goes clear back.
If Janelle were to move, it would devastate me.
[all laughing]
So Tony and I are pregnant
-with twins! -With twins!
Oh my gosh, that is so much work.
[Kody] Meri told me that she's gonna go to
meet with our church leaders
and basically request a divorce.
It's called a release in our church.
[Meri] I've been living in limbo.
I'm just not gonna keep doing that.
It's been done, and over for years.
He's not talking to me.
I think I'm gonna have to lawyer up.
I am going to move forward and find happiness
and joy outside of my club.
'Cause it was my club and I got kicked out of it.
[opening theme music playing]
[instrumental music playing]
[Christine] We're going to go to a wedding,
and they don't wanna have anything to do
with the fact that we're public.
So we're just gonna have a good time there.
The bride and groom,
last time I talked to the bride,
they'd been told that Kody wasn't gonna go.
Same thing with Robyn.
I don't know if she's even gonna go.
I think the goal is to just be friendly,
not friends, but friendly.
I'm a little nervous.
I am.
I'm a little nervous
just to have us all together.
[Kody] I spoke with the bride and groom at one point
and said,
I think maybe I better not come.
The reason I suggested I shouldn't go
is just all the hate that I'm getting
from family members.
And mostly just all the [bleep] talk
from Christine and Janelle.
We're all culpable in this.
I'm out at Cayote Pass and re-measuring things.
I'm just trying to figure out what's the best configuration.
I don't know the answer.
I don't think Janelle and Meri
are gonna end up there.
And to be honest with you,
it's a source of a lot of heartbreak for me.
[Robyn] The person who's getting married
specifically asked Kody and I to come.
It's a little tense.
I am a bit concerned about
Sol and Ari getting sort of caught up in that.
I don't want them to get hurt.
[Kody] I don't wanna be there
with people looking at me but not talking to me.
I'm still terribly hurt
by everything that has happened.
And so I'm... I'm not in a place
where I'm like, "Oh, I'm just forgiving you guys,
so it's all good now."
I'm just not there yet.
[Christine] The last wedding we went to... gosh!
It would have been Aspyn's and Mitch's.
It was the last wedding.
What a difference, right?
Aspyn and Mitch got married over
four years ago.
[chuckles softly]
And gosh, a lot's happened in four years.
Yeah, Aspyn and Mitch's wedding,
we were like, we're a team still.
[all cheering]
[Aspyn] I love you and I'm so excited
to have you by my side for rest of my life.
[crowd cheering]
Oh my gosh, the whole day was great.
Kody and I were great.
At that point, I never thought that I'd be leaving.
[Aspyn] He's officially part of the family.
-[man] I know. Congratulations! -Thank you!
It's just so painful to think of where we were at back then,
at least where I thought we were at, I don't know.
I don't even know anymore what's real anymore.
Aspyn got married a month and a half,
six weeks before we moved to Flagstaff.
And that was really our last hurrah.
If I really am honest about how everything was
at Aspyn's wedding, it was wonderful.
Even for Christine and I.
[instrumental music playing]
[crowd cheering]
[Christine] We're not the same family
that went to Aspyn and Mitch's wedding.
Or Mykelti's wedding or Maddie's wedding.
We're not the same.
This is a very different... family.
Sadly enough, Mykelti and Tony and Avalon can't come.
The doctor put her on extreme bed rest
'cause she's pregnant with twins
and she's due in a couple of weeks.
So the doctor's like, "Uh, no, you're not going."
Which is crazy
because she's like such a good mediator.
We're all adults, and we've got this.
I think we'll be okay.
[instrumental music playing]
[plane whirring]
[Janelle] I am nervous about the initial interaction,
and then after that, I don't care.
'Cause I can ignore everybody after that.
Yeah, between me and Christine,
it's just hostile.
So you can hear the... all the hubbub.
I don't know why I have--
I'm nervous. I have butterflies.
Yeah. I mean, my kids are upset with their dad,
but they're not gonna make a scene
or do something stupid.
This is just gonna be ignore each other
and pretend like you don't exist basically, I think.
The kids don't need to be involved
in the issues with their parents.
[exhales] I wish that things weren't like this.
The last time all four of the adults were together,
Ysabel's graduation party--
I mean, that's the last time a lot of us were together.
Was Ysabel's graduation party.
That was like over a year and a half ago.
This is the deal, we say a lot of things
behind each other's backs.
We just do.
And it's pretty terrible to hear what everybody says
about everybody behind their backs.
I can't stand
knowing what everybody thinks about me.
I would hope that we can all behave.
So I'm home from the event, and...
it was a little bit bittersweet because... um...
We didn't really talk to each other,
Kody, Robyn.
I nodded at Meri.
Christine and I sat together with the kids.
Um, Kody and Robyn... sat elsewhere.
Um, you know, I waved at Meri, talked to Meri.
Um, I didn't really talk, but I saw her.
It's just so weird.
Being at the wedding was a little bit awkward
just because there are some people in the family
that don't really want to interact with me.
Um, I'm...
kind of in the middle of this breakup.
You know, it's just kind of... weird... [laughs]
You know what I mean?
But then at the same time, there's definitely people who
are okay with me being in their presence.
And those are the people that I hang out with.
You know what I mean?
Um, Kody did kind of at least say "Hi" to me
a couple of times in passing, and it's just so weird.
I'm not quite sure...
Look, I'm happy.
It's obviously over.
Um, which is so weird after 30 years or whatever.
And we both have said mean things about each other.
But-- Or whatever
trying to prove justify our case.
But... justify the case for why we feel the way we do.
Robyn and I were put over, kind of in a corner,
probably for our safety. [laughs]
You know, we were kept, it was just in the back.
And Robyn's said, this is just...
This is just not right
that this family isn't together,
that we're not one family.
Some of the family came up and gave me a hug,
and I just embraced them back.
And um,
I got an "I love you" from Gabe.
And I told him I loved him back.
I saw Janelle
and I didn't want to talk to her.
It was hard. It was hard.
I was...
Whether I'm right or wrong, it just still feels just deep,
deep wounds of betrayal for me.
There were so many family members
that it was just like,
"Hi, I love you and let's get away from each other."
I just inserted myself as best as I could into the fun.
It... was awkward enough.
It's just weird,
it was so weird to be at this event
and to act like we didn't even
know each other or were acquaintances.
I saw Christine there as well, but I didn't talk to her.
I did feel like some people were trying to look
like they were having more fun than me. [laughs]
I mean, this is how childish this whole divorce has been.
Such a teenage drama.
I don't like you any more than you like me.
You know it's civil war.
Total civil war.
[Robyn] I felt like there could have been
more positive react--
interactions there that weren't there.
It's over. It's bittersweet.
It kind of hurts, kind of bugs me.
But I wouldn't...
I wouldn't change the trajectory
of where I'm going I guess.
It's just...
It's gonna take me a couple of days, I think, to process it.
And I'm glad that these events won't be all the time.
[Kody] Overall, the whole wedding
was just sad for me.
We used to go places as a family,
and now it's like those who were my partners
are now almost like enemies.
It's awkward.
[Christine] I don't know what the solution is.
Separations are harder than I thought.
Divorces are harder than I thought.
[Kody] When Christine moved my stuff out of the house
and she said, I don't want you to stay here anymore,
It felt like a betrayal, but I wasn't sure
that she was being serious.
And I'm looking back now and feeling how stupid that was of me.
For Christine and I,
I think that if we would have just broken up as friends,
it would have been better for the whole family.
Like, make it so we can get back together another time
instead of polarizing everybody.
I'm dealing with some of my own
just situational depression.
[all exclaiming]
And I miss family members.
[amusing instrumental music playing]
[birds chirping]
Meri and I have officially broken up, I think.
If I were single and Meri was single,
would I date her?
No, I wouldn't.
She is upset that I've dragged this out so long.
I don't blame her.
I'm looking in this triple breakup
like Christine's, then Janelle and now Meri,
I don't want Meri to be in this place
where she's taken this toll, th-this...this direction
that both Christine and Janelle have taken.
"Oh yeah, I need one more enemy right now."
So I'm trying to be in this place with Meri,
where it's like, "Hey, can we just
be friends and move on?"
Janelle and I don't really communicate very much.
To be really honest with you
I don't understand why we can't reconcile.
[Janelle] When we moved to Flagstaff,
Kody found it a lot easier to be away.
Couple of times I had to remind him
that he needed to come to my house,
like he in the very beginning,
he's like, "Well, I'm really tired."
I'm like, "Well, you can rest at my house
just as much as you can rest at Robyn's house,"
it just started to become more separate
and more reasons to just be separate.
[instrumental music playing]
[Kody] They never do.
[boy] Well, here's three. Here's three.
[Kody] Oh so that's not stairs.
-That's not-- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. -[boy] Uh-oh.
[Robyn] This is your apples.
Your caramelized apples.
[Kody] No, no, no. We can do it upside down the other way, don't we?
[Robyn] There are more relationships that are struggling now.
I've tried several times to reach out to family members
to want to talk and...
and, you know, to the kids and stuff like that.
They're just not ready, I guess
'cause I just don't hear back.
[Kody] Can I...can I go from the middle,
or can I use--
You can go from the middle and the sides,
but not from the top.
-All right, so you go first 'cause you're the youngest. -So we're stacking over...
[Kody] When I talk to Janelle about our relationship,
she's like I'm just enjoying my time away from you.
Oh mom, I didn't even leave you a chance, did I?
[Robyn] I'm so mad at us for doing what we did to our family.
And you know that we-- That we collectively
messed with something that was working.
[Robyn laughing] Ah!
We didn't even get anywhere with that.
-That game's lame. All right. -We? What do you mean we?
Well, we, as a family, as a group.
The rest-- Oh all of you got to pick one,
-and that was it. -[indistinct conversation]
My day to day is I've got this family
in my house with my wife, Robyn,
and we have a day to day--
We have an experience. Every summer we're playing, you know,
the girls are doing music all summer long.
We do stuff like this game right here.
Uh, only It's usually with guitars and music.
Yeah, that was... that was one and done.
That's what, how that went.
[indistinct conversation]
[Kody] We have this nice family experience
almost perpetually.
And if you get through this one,
I won't have any more caramel apples.
Why?
[Kody] 'Cause I know--
I'm betting I don't think she can get through this one.
-You see? -Ohh! Wait a second!
That was stuff.
-[Kody] Well, -[boy] Be careful.
-Why did you bet that? -Ooh...
'Cause I didn't think she was gonna last.
[Robyn] Solomon and Ariella, don't, really--
They are not really tracking
what's happening in the family.
We had to go through COVID and it sort of prepped them
for this separation that's happening.
[indistinct conversation]
I'm really struggling with the idea of
whether or not I remind them
about their siblings and talk about them
and show them the pictures and stuff like that.
Because that's gonna create the question
of "Where are my siblings?
Why aren't they seeing me?
Why didn't they send me a birthday card
or something like that?
Why aren't they here for my party?
Where are they and why aren't they here?"
Every once in a while they ask,
"Is our whole family coming?"
And I'm just like, "No, not the this time."
[Janelle] With Robyn, there was always a very separateness.
My children, like were scolded
if they would open up Robyn's fridge.
[Meri] When Robyn came in the family,
there was a lot of like
tension and conflict.
You know, just because, like whenever somebody new
comes in the family, like it just is.
It's what happens.
[Robyn] Meri across the board was very accepting
of my kids and I.
But the rest of the family really struggled to accept
my kids and I.
All we wanted to do was be a part of this family.
My kids didn't like going over there
because they saw that Robyn
and their dad were a couple and he wasn't in our home.
So they were frustrated at different things.
[Kody] Christine and I were always romantic at her house.
And I think we've forgotten that.
My memory about Robyn come in the family
doesn't come with nearly as much angst
and frustration and struggles that we had 30 years ago.
My marriage with Meri
and Janelle coming in the family,
Christine coming in the family.
The experience of that coming together
for years was just difficult.
[kids giggling]
[Kody laughing]
I remember Ari Just making a little statement one time,
"I don't like Christine."
And I kind of corrected her
to say, you don't know her at this point
well enough to like her or not.
"Well, she left Dad, and I don't like her."
Well that showed some loyalty.
And here's the dumb thing.
As I understand it, I tried to correct it.
But she, that same kind of loyalty
is happening amongst others in the family.
Ari's the youngest, of course, she should act like a child.
[boy] When I say go, I'm gonna just...
[Kody] One experience I had was I was trying to leave the house.
I was headed to Janelle's.
It's getting interesting!
Ariella was melting down.
She grabs my leg and won't let me leave.
And I'm like, "Robyn, I need you to drag her off of me."
And she says she's expressing herself.
You're gonna have to take five minutes
and let her do it.
But I had to explain to her
there's another wife that needs me, another mommy.
I've got other kids that I need to see me.
And she's just dragging along on my legs, screaming,
"Don't leave me, Daddy, Don't leave me."
And I'm like, "God, leave me, this is hard."
My kids were always, like, from the very beginning,
they knew that their dad was not gonna always be there.
I always felt like...
that Kody and Robyn mismanaged
the situation with her children.
He couldn't be away
for more than three or four days.
Because Ari just gets so sad or whatever.
I'm like, I feel like that was poor parenting.
Through all history of the family,
the other kids did it.
And they're fine. They're well-adjusted adults.
I think they're fine.
She loves her dad.
She wants to be around her dad. Yes.
But did it ever stop Kody from going to another mom's home?
No, it didn't.
I wouldn't have allowed it.
[all exclaims]
-I got it out then it fell. -I'm sorry. I didn't believe in you.
It wasn't you. It was the stack.
[Robyn] I'm going through a lot of mourning.
Loss and grieving of the relationships.
And dealing with some of my own
just situational depression from it.
It's just so sad, and I miss family members.
[Kody] What I'm thinking is with time going on
and just a phone call once in a while,
that these relationships will come back,
and then I'll be like,
in full fellowship with my children again.
[Robyn] It's not normal to see Kody smiling lately
'cause of everything that's been going on in the family and stuff.
He's really struggling.
[Robyn] It's just completely devastating
what has happened to us,
devastating, just over the top.
[indistinct conversation]
You are set up for an induction.
I'm gonna turn it to a C section.
Are you okay with that?
Losing the chance to be able to hold my child...
first thing right on my chest,
in my arms, is something that I'm having...
I'm just having a hard time with.
[upbeat music playing]
-Ready for this? -Yeah. Ready.
Come in. [chuckles]
Hey, Dr. Bean.
-How are you? -Going good.
Are you excited?
Yes. Getting ready.
[Christine] Dr. Bean was my doctor
when I had Truely.
And we've been friends ever since.
Like, he was the second person I told
we were moving to Vegas
back when we were moving, forever ago.
Anyway, I love the guy.
I'm also getting excited.
Well, of course, you are.
[Christine chuckles] Oh, God. Let me move down here.
You got an easy part.
Where you just get to enjoy the view.
[Christine] Yes, so true.
All right. I think you are pregnant
Ugh, what gave it away?
I was kind of hoping to hide it.
-Yeah? -Yeah.
You can't hide this.
Do you know how many?
[Christine] 53, 53.
Pretty close. 52.
[Christine] You're measuring 52 weeks.
You're only how many weeks?
Thirty-seven.
52 weeks is just the size of her.
What we're really looking for
and what the real concern is,
is how big are the babies getting
for them to be born naturally,
'cause she wants a natural birth.
All right. We're going to take a-- Tell you what...
I'm gonna look at the babies first.
Just make sure of their position.
Yep, there's that.
[Christine gasps] Oh, we can see 'em.
Can we see them?
Yeah, that's the cranium.
Yep. [indistinct conversation]
[Christine] Oh, my gosh.
So they're both feet down.
-Breech? -Yep. Okay.
[Christine] Oh, they're feet down.
That's what breach means.
[Dr. Bean] Yep.
Unfortunately, I can't turn this baby.
So, we just gotta see what happens.
-Okay? -Okay.
So, next week you are set up for an induction
I'm gonna turn it to a C section.
But, if this baby's head goes down...
[Mykelti] In the next six days...
...in the next six days...
[Christine] Is there anything that she can do
to help the baby's head go down?
You know, when you're...
When you just have a singleton,
there are some things that can be done
and there's some things we can do.
With twins. It's just... they're just not.
There's just not enough room and stuff.
There's just not enough room.
I know Mykelti's trying very hard
to have these vaginally,
and I I'm all for that
because I've had a C-section
and the recovery, is very hard, from it.
The vaginal birth is better.
At home or without the painkillers,
I know it sounds hard,
but the recovery is ten times easier.
When you have C-Section,
I mean, they've basically cut open your abdomen,
so they've cut all those muscles.
So think about any time you turn in bed
or you try to sit up,
or any kind of movement,
it's really miserable.
So, are you okay with that?
-I'll get over it. --I'm sorry.
Better a scar than a scarred kid.
Yeah. That's a good way to embrace it.
Losing the chance to be able to hold my child...
first thing right on my chest,
in my arms, is something that I'm having...
I'm just having a hard time with.
I don't know if it's a cultural thing.
I don't know if it's a polygamous thing. I don't really know.
But I was always raised
that natural home births
were the best way to go.
I loved the recovery of the home birth.
It was wonderful.
Also, an epidural, though, kicks butt.
So, you know, it's a tough call.
Mykelti likes as natural as possible,
and the girl is as tough as it gets.
We can't change reality,
but we can change what our expectations are, okay?
I'll take the safer option.
[Dr. Bean] Okay. Sounds good.
It is what it is.
And I'd rather my kids be safe and healthy,
and me be safe and healthy,
versus the possibility of something wrong happening.
I prefer home births
to hospital births.
Most births are just natural.
It's a very natural experience.
Birthing is very natural.
[Christine] So, we can't be in there
if it's a C-section,
[Dr. Bean] No.
[Christine] So, we'll be like in the...
-waiting room, right? -[Dr. Bean] Yeah.
Every extra person that's in the OR.
It's an... it's an infection risk.
And so that's why they don't let...
You, know, you're favorite mother.
-It's interesting. -[Christine] Awkward,
What? Not that it wasn't awkward during your delivery
when questions were being asked about...
[Christine] Oh, yeah, that was funny.
Yeah.
When I was in labor with Truely,
I was sitting there in the hospital
and Kody and Dr. Bean were talking
about Meri's infertility issues...
So, who would you recommend for a fertility doctor?
What do you mean?
Um, if we wanted to do in vitro fertilization.
[Dr. Bean speaking]
'Cause I've got a wife who only has one.
Dr. Bean knew we're a polygamist family already.
We've been up front.
We've been open with him.
He knew everything.
While I'm here, like in labor, it's kind of classy...
Yeah, that's kind of weird.
Talking about the other wife's fertility.
-[Dr. Bean] Yeah -Meri and Christine--
I was looking at you like,
she doesn't have any problem.
Yeah, Meri and Christine have always had
a really close relationship...
He just thought it was really funny, too.
That here I am in labor,
talking about Meri's infertility stuff with, with...
but I mean, whenever you're gonna get an opportunity
to talk to somebody, you know.
So, it was... it was fine.
It was great.
Hopefully, we'll see you in six days.
-Hopefully, not sooner. -I know.
Six days.
-For once I agree. -Me too.
-Okay, come. -Please.
Thank you.
I'm hoping that everything goes right,
everything's good.
I don't need to see Dr. Bean and tell that.
Because that means that everything's going right,
if I don't have to see my doctor.
The next time you see me,
I won't be pregnant.
Weird.
[Christine] Those doors are so hard to see.
'Cause you know you're the child is on the other side.
And there's nothing you can do to help them.
[soft music playing]
Today is the day before
the twins are going to be born,
they could be born tomorrow.
Isn't it so weird you can schedule
a day for a birth?
I'm excited for these little babies
to come, really excited.
This is a really big deal to me,
and I'm excited to be there and be Grandma.
And, um...
just support them through this.
How are you feeling there?
I'm good.
I'm excited. I'm ready.
I'm hoping Christine is cool and easy about this, too.
I don't want any drama.
I don't want any stress.
I mean, I care about Christine.
I want her to be happy
and, um,
and I,
I respect and honor her position
as Mykelti's mother.
I'm ready to be done.
-Whoop whoop! -Forever.
This is the last time we're gonna see you pregnant.
Yes. This is t he last time I will ever,
hopefully, knock on wood,
but this is the last time
I will ever be pregnant again.
I love the idea of, in the future,
maybe having more kids,
but they will not come out of my body.
Pregnancy is miserable.
It is literally awful.
I've come to terms with it.
Like I'm gonna get over the fact
that I can't have them vaginally,
but I'm not too happy about it.
But you'll be able to see it, too. We were saying.
They set the cloth here, though, right?
So, I'll have a like a top, like a a curtain.
I'll have a curtain over, in front of my face
so I won't be able to see them
actually do the procedure.
But Dr. Bean did say
that he would put a mirror down there.
So if I wanted to, I could.
[Aspyn] Why?
Why not?
Sign me up for that, too. So cool.
I want to see it, because if I can't feel it,
I want to at least know what's going on.
We have to, like cut layers by layers, too.
'Cause they've got to cut the muscle
and the... like the skin,
and then they've got to cut the uterine wall.
And I'm just... It's just all so cool.
Cool and gruesome.
I wonder how Avalon is gonna react.
She's going to have siblings, plural.
It would be great, and no one's ever left out
with three kids.
No one's ever left out.
There's always someone.
Should be left out a lot, they're twins,
they're gonna stick together.
-[Avalon laughing] -[Tony] Absolutely.
I am really excited about tomorrow.
The next time you see me,
I won't be pregnant.
Weird.
[Robyn] Mykelti has her C-section scheduled.
I loaded up my car
and I drove there and on the way,
I picked up Maria, Tony's mom, in St. George.
Tony and Mykelti, you know
kind of at the beginning
of finding out that they are pregnant, said,
"We want you at this birth."
First, Christine is concerned.
I just made a decision very early on
that I was going to put aside any of my hurt,
my sadness or my feelings of betrayal
and just... That's between Christine and I.
I am going to say something here
because Mykelti is getting really beat up for this.
But, you know, Mykelti has
a good relationship with Robyn.
Robyn came at a very important time for Mykelti.
And it was very valuable
for Mykelti as a teenage girl.
And I don't think any of the kids
should be denied
or looked down on for having a relationship
with Kody and Robyn.
[Kody] Mykelti and Robyn had a really,
really special experience together.
Um, and what that did is
is that special experience
between Mykelti and Robyn
actually improved the relationship
that Christine and I had with Mykelti.
Hey, there.
[chuckling]
[Mykelti] When Robyn first joined the family,
I was trying to figure out who I was
and she made me feel special,
and she made me feel seen.
Robyn was there for me
when I needed somebody.
She was there for me
when I needed somebody
to hear me, to love me.
Robyn gave me a chance to be heard.
[Christine] I don't think I remember
when Mykelti told me
that Robyn would be there,
I just always knew Robyn would be there.
I don't know what there will be for us to do,
except to wait in the waiting room together.
There's a lot of pain there.
I can't predict somebody else's choices or actions,
but for me, my plan is to play nice.
[Mykelti] I'm ready to give birth.
I'm feeling good. I feel like
I didn't sleep at all last night.
Anticipation of the next day just...
sleep's not gonna happen.
[Robyn] They came in, they kind of prepped Mykelti, talked to her,
and then they put Tony in this, like...
[chuckles]
It looked like a beekeeper suit.
It's from, like, head to toe.
Tony's nervous.
He's really nervous.
They put him in a suit.
[Robyn] You know, we gave Mykelti
our hugs and kisses and...
told her we loved her, and...
and she was wheeled away.
It's hard.
It's really hard, emotionally to have your kids have
any kind of procedure like that.
It was really difficult.
[Mykelti] The entire pregnancy,
my heart rate never spiked.
I never had issues with blood pressure at all.
But as soon as I was in there,
getting my... getting the numbing for the epidural
and then getting the epidural,
my heart rate started spiking
and my blood pressure started going up
and I started to go into a panic.
[Christine] Those doors are so hard to see
'cause you know your child
is on the other side
and there's nothing you can do
to help them.
[Mykelti] I am extremely upset
that I can't have Tony
in the operating room with me
while I get the epidural.
The doctors and the nurses in the room
were like, something's going on.
What's wrong?
My body was shaking
just 'cause I was... just anxiety.
There's... the only solution
is get me my husband,
As soon as Tony entered the room, though,
he was finally able to come in,
and immediately I started to calm down.
I started to feel better 'cause I had him there.
You just trust these doctors so much
that everything's going to be okay.
I was really glad Aspyn was there.
And Robyn was there in the room, too.
So the three of us just sat and waited.
For it to be done.
It's... it's just surprising, a little scary,
what it takes to get those babies out of her.
I was really happy
I could be there during the operation,
because it... I know it means the world to her
and I wanted to be there.
Seeing everything, really cool,
being there for my wife,
super, super important.
Having kids come back, best part.
[Mykelti] When I have Archer in my arms, I just...
just instantly start calming down
and everything is fine.
And then Ace comes out,
they wrap him up a little bit
and then they bring him over in my other arm.
I'm able to hold him, and at that point,
I'm like, this is great.
I'm happy. This is awesome. Yes!
I could hear the voices of my moms'
and Aspyn in the other room.
It was just like this...
an incredible experience.
I had my boys.
They were safe.
They were here, they were healthy.
And it was just this, just...
over joyous experience of...
everything's fine.
[Kody] Robyn and Christine are together.
I don't know how much they're interacting.
I don't know what the experience would be like.
They're not here for each other.
They're not here for anybody else.
They're here for me.
So it's very honoring.
Humbling and super special,
because this is one of the most incredible
and memorable moments of my life.
And to be able to share it with my moms,
I think is really important to me.
[Robyn] I was handed Archer first,
and it was just love at first sight.
[chuckles]
The same time Christine was holding Ace.
And so it was kind of like, we were,
you know, holding...
[exhales]
We're just holding our grandbabies together.
I just wish it was under different circumstances.
As far as Christine and I are concerned,
and it was kind of sweet 'cause... [sniffs]
[sighs]
For a moment, I could just forget all that.
[breathes heavily]
[soft music playing]
Tony and Mykelti want me there
and they want Christine there.
And Tony's mother is really close, too.
She's at home watching Avalon.
She'll be coming in later, too.
What Tony and Mykelti wants is what's important.
[Mykelti] My mom spent last night
with us in the hospital
to help me with the twins through the night.
So now she's going to go home
and hang out and be at home.
And Robyn's gonna spend
the night with us at home
to help us with the twins again through the night.
Avalon's there. Tony's mom, Maria is there,
and then that's it.
We're just gonna keep it kind of a small house.
As we go and introduce
the boys to their sister.
[indistinct conversations]
Hey, buddy.
Avalon, do you wanna meet your brothers?
Do you want to meet your brothers?
[gasps]
Look at the baby.
[Tony] Whoa! [chuckles nervously]
So soft.
[giggling]
Jeez, she went straight for his eye.
She's a tough kid.
She rough houses a lot.
And so, these are very fragile babies,
like, I was absolutely nervous
about her hurting one of them.
Avalon look, there's another baby over here.
[Avalon fussing]
[Robyn] Avalon...
looks stressed out.
Do you need his hat off?
[Avalon fussing]
Good job.
She finally realized.
These aren't just babies, and they're not toys.
They're actual humans, and they belong to Mommy and Daddy.
I think it just, it was honestly heartbreaking.
You got him? You got him? Okay?
-[Tony] You sure? -Thank you.
[Tony] Okay, okay here.
You're not ready.
I mean, I guess, you know, having a plural family, and we
at that time, all lived together.
Um, it was very different
than having two parents and one child.
[Kody] I had three wives before I had any children.
We sort of did...
all pitch in with the baby.
[Avalon crying]
[Robyn] It's a big change.
[Kody] I don't, personally recall...
any of my children
being specifically...
weirded out by a new baby,
[Mykelti] Come cuddle.
[Avalon fussing]
[Aspyn] This is when she's...
She's understanding now a little bit.
Here she's excluded. She just left.
I don't know if our kids really had time
to, like, grow up to be a toddler,
to be like, "Wait a second.
Who is this other child?"
There's just always another one coming.
[chuckles]
There was some weird stuff that happened.
I mean, like, I had my first child
and there was a mother that was jealous.
Come here, Logan.
-[Christine] Meri, call him. -Come here.
[Kody] It was Christine who got jealous
when Logan was born.
Logan was absolutely lovely.
What I was going through was
the first year of being in plural marriage.
It was so hard.
I felt like I lost my identity completely.
[Kody] Having all those kids that young,
we were all involved.
It was supposed to be
um, this...
extremely benevolent experience,
and now that it's all come apart for me,
I'm just going, was it...
was it just suppressed jealousy?
Or was it sometimes suppressed rage?
I don't know.
All right, Tony, Let's go upstairs.
Here, Aspyn. Will you take him?
Let's go.
This is Archer.
[Tony] Protect the law of Archer's church.
Oh, I just shocked him.
Sorry, baby.
[Archer crying]
[cooing]
[Christine] They look nothing alike at all.
They are fraternal twins,
which means they are not identical.
They don't look alike at all.
And they look nothing like Avalon.
[Mykelti] No, stop. Let go.
-God, don't do that. -[Tony] Okay.
[Mykelti] Robyn's gonna stay with us
for the next couple of days.
Help us through the night.
She's just gonna be here kind of 24/7.
[Robyn] Well... [chuckles]
[Mykelti] This was really nice
'cause Robyn was able to get
this bonding with her grandkids.
So, when Robyn goes back home,
Mom will be able to have her bonding
as well with her grandkids.
Then Maria being able to come up
and have her bonding as well.
It's just... it's really nice.
Yeah. Yeah, this is the bed
I gave birth to Avalon in.
All Robyn's kids love Mykelti.
She puts a lot on herself.
She puts a lot of all of this on herself,
about bringing the family together,
and having it be her role,
because she gets along great with Robyn.
And she gets along great with me.
Kody and Robyn are grandparents to Avalon,
and they'll be grandparents for the twins.
Well, no. I technically gave birth
to Avalon on the floor.
[Maria] Yep, that's true. [chuckles]
It's crazy 'cause people think when they get...
when they split, when they divorce or whatever,
that they won't have to see each other.
And that's not true.
You'll always be in each other's lives
somehow or another.
I'm going to be the one
kind of helping the most.
And then I'm sure Christine
will kind of step in after I leave
and I'll hand the baton off to her kind of a thing. So...
[Christine] Having Robyn there, to me,
just showed that...
I don't know how long it's gonna take
for all of us to get back together again
and be okay in each other's presence.
It was awkward.
And it's going to be awkward for a while,
and I don't know what the future looks like.
We'll do it for our kids, but...
it's not gonna happen,
anything that I want to have happen, soon.
[Kody speaking]
You want some dark...
This is the first Thanksgiving
that Robyn and I are having
with just our children.
[Meri] I've heard Kody say
how awkward it is
because he can't show the affection
to Robyn and I'm not gonna inhibit that.
-Robin slept in the closet -Seriously?
and she had both boys with her,
and when they would wake up and be hungry,
I'd feed one of the boys
and she'd go back to bed.
I said, "I'll take the closet.
Like, you should stay in the bed with her."
And she wouldn't do it.
[Robyn] I was putting pressure on Kody
to work on his relationships with his kids.
I'm tired of being angry.
Well, I'm having a hard time,
not...
losing respect for you a little bit.
I think that Kody should be camping out
on their doorsteps.
Your kids need you.