34 Week Pregnancy Update + I've never been soooo tired ⧸⧸ symptoms, nursery update, getting close!
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I am officially 34 weeks pregnant with my third trimester baby boy, and I wanted to give you guys a quick update on how things have been going so far. I talk about how I m feeling and how I ve been adjusting to life as a mom and wife. I also give you a quick bump update and how it s grown!
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Hello Classic Crew and welcome to today's video where we're going to be doing my 34-week pregnancy
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update. Before we get into today's video, make sure you're subscribed to my channel and hit
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me on social media, it's at classicallyabby absolutely everywhere. So I am officially
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34 weeks pregnant, which is crazy. That means we are six weeks away from the due date. We are now
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sitting in one corner of the nursery. We are going to be doing a nursery reveal on my channel,
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but now you're getting like a little sneak preview of one of the little corners that I really love.
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This is kind of my corner of the nursery because this is the glider and I can rock little man to
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sleep when he's born, so that'll be really nice. And I'm really excited to share the nursery reveal
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with you. I'm actually going to go into that a little bit today, but I'm excited to talk to you
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guys about just where I'm at in the pregnancy, what I've been feeling, how the third trimester has
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been going, and all of that good stuff. So grab a cup of tea, grab some coffee, even just some water.
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I'm having some seltzer with orange juice. That's just what I wanted today, so that's what we're doing.
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And let's get into today's video. Now I'm going to give you guys a quick bump date. I don't know
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that this is the absolute best outfit for it, but you can see the bump and it has grown. So let's do
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that real quick. So as you can see, the bump is there. It is loud and proud, but it's so funny
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because my mom keeps telling me that I have such a small bump that I like really am not big at all.
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And to me, it feels huge. So you guys can let me know in the comments, is she just being nice or do I
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have a small bump for 34 weeks? Let me know. I'd love to hear. So the biggest thing that I have
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noticed during this part of the pregnancy is that I am exhausted. I am so tired. And I've talked about
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this on my Instagram. I've talked about it on my sub stack. I've even talked about it here on my
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channel, this feeling of slow living that I've just needed to embrace, that I can't get everything done
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because I'm simply going to get too tired during the day. And that needs to be okay. Slow living,
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this concept of slow living, and I will link that video up here, that has really given me such a good
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perspective towards this part of pregnancy. I think a lot of women could feel like frustrated and fight
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against it or feel like they were a failure for not being able to get everything done. But once you
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recognize that you just can't do more than your body can actually physically handle, it's a lot
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better. And it just feels like you're accepting where you're at. So oh my gosh, though, I have been
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getting tired so early. And then as soon as I'm tired, I just like want to go to sleep and I fall
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asleep super quickly. But unfortunately, even though I go to bed really early, I don't sleep the best
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and I wake up early. So I don't get to actually get like a full night, you know, eight hours sleep
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generally. I would say in the last week, I've been able to sleep actually a little bit better. And
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I've been sleeping through the night a little bit more. But for a while, I was waking up like every
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morning between 4am and 5am for an hour and a half and just kind of like, now I wake up, I use the
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restroom, and then I get back in bed and I can fall back asleep. So that's kind of where I'm at.
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Sleep wise, my belly has definitely grown. And the difference from week to week is really intense.
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My skin kind of doesn't feel the best. If I don't moisturize, it can feel kind of painful,
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like it's like it's stretching. I mean, there's a whole human here now. And so I definitely can feel
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like my skin trying to stretch to fit him in there. One of the things I've noticed is like pain around
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my belly button. I just get like that, that feeling of things pulling around my belly button. But the
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Honest Beauty Company makes a balm, like a belly balm that I really like. It like doesn't have any
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scent and it just feels really good on my skin. Nivea cream is also a really good option. And those
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really help on the nights where things feel a little more tight. But the best thing ever is that
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the baby moves all day. I love it. He's awake right now. He's moving a little bit. And it's so
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much fun. I just love it. And there's nothing in the world that makes me happier than feeling my
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little boy moving around. Now the movements change throughout pregnancy. And I kind of want to talk
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about that a little bit. Because early on, it really does feel like little pokes from the inside.
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Like it feels like somebody is poking you from your belly. And it's a weird kind of feeling. But it's
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a little more understandable and easy to describe. At this point in the pregnancy, it doesn't feel like
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pokes. It feels like shifts. Like he's shifting an elbow or he's shifting a knee or something. And I can
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feel his little hands sometimes. And it feels like they're going like this. I don't know if that's what
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he's doing. But that's what it feels like. And I can feel his feet up under my ribs. So it feels a lot
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more like a human is moving around in there as opposed to just like random little pokes and
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movements. So it is a very different feeling. And it is hard to describe. But it's very special. And I
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can't. That's the thing. I started crying about this a few weeks ago. I'm going to miss having
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this baby inside of me. I'm going to miss feeling his little kicks. And that's what I'm looking forward
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to in all of my future pregnancies is kicking. I just I love it so much that I'm like gonna miss
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it when he's born. I've also been getting swollen ankles. So that's a fun thing. When you're pregnant,
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the blood flow is a little bit disrupted because you're carrying all this extra weight. And also
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it's all in this one area of your body. And when I stood for a really long time one day, I was standing
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for a really long time. I looked down at my ankles. I was like, I don't know why my legs look kind of
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puffy. And I looked in the mirror. I was like, oh my goodness, my ankles are very swollen. So if I stand
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for a long time, my ankles can get pretty puffy. So I just wear compression stockings. And that really
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helps. I usually wear them every day. And the problem is I only have three pairs. So I have to
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wash them every three days. Speaking of which, I have a load in the laundry and I need to put it
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in the dryer. Remember this for after this video. But the compression stockings really help. I have
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been getting a little bit of nausea here and there. And I hear that that's pretty common in the third
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trimester. I asked my doctor about it. And he was like, yeah, your stomach has this much room now.
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So like eat smaller meals. So when I eat smaller meals, I'm usually a little bit better. But I can
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get nausea if I push it. And it's usually later in the day, not so much earlier in the day because
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I'm pretty good about snacking throughout the day as opposed to just sitting down and eating like a
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huge meal. But this morning for the first time, I got dizzy. Like I was sitting in the sunroom and I
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just was talking to my mom on the phone. And all of a sudden, I was like, oh my god, the room is
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spinning. So there's all these weird things that you get in the third trimester, just throughout
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pregnancy really, that kind of come and go and pass. But it is funny. I also, the big thing I
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have had is hip pain. Now that's been like somewhat throughout the pregnancy just from sleeping on my
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side. But as I've gotten bigger when I'm sleeping at night, my hips don't feel great. But they're
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starting to feel better. So I think it just kind of comes and goes for me. As soon as I feel like,
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oh, I'm not having hip pain anymore, it comes back. So I'm not having hip pain right now. But
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that doesn't mean that I won't have hip pain in a week. So I asked Jacob, okay, what kind of things
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do you notice about me in the third trimester? So he said, exhaustion, like you're tired all the time.
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And I said, pretty much, yeah. And he said, he notices because we go for walks together every day.
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He's noticing how hard it is for me to actually walk, like I'm huffing and puffing. But I make it
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through and we do like a 30 minute walk every day. But it's just tiring. It's something that my body
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is like, oh, we really got to, we got to work this. We got to work through it. He can't walk too fast or
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else I'm left in the dust. So that's something he thought he wanted to remind me about. And the last
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thing is that whenever little guy moves, he said, you always say, hey, little man. Hey, little man.
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And I do do that. When he moves a lot, I feel like I have to have a conversation with him. Like,
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hey, little man, what are you doing in there? Are you having a party? And that's kind of how we have
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a conversation. I talk to the baby a lot in the car. I like feel like we're hanging out together when
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I'm in the car. So if he starts moving and grooving in there, I'm like, oh yeah, how are you doing?
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I'm doing well. And we just have a little conversation. So that's kind of like the
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symptoms section of this video. Let me know in the comments down below, is this similar to your
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pregnancies or if you haven't been pregnant before? Are any of these things something you'd never heard
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of or are surprised to hear? I'd love to know. But from a more practical perspective, the nursery is
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set up. I am so happy. It was so stressful to me to have this not be ready to go. I am somebody who
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loves to just have things organized. And we couldn't do that because we were moving. So as soon
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as we got into this house, we got everything unpacked. And then I was like, this is going to
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be my main focus. Yes, I might not get my work done as quickly, but I need to get this done. I need to
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get the nursery set up. And we did it. And I love it. And I'm so happy. And I'm going to do this tour.
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I'm going to show you guys everything and kind of explain just how we decided to set everything up.
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And I love it. It's not only cute, it's actually really functional. And that's fantastic. So I'm
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really excited to share it with you guys and see what you guys think. Yeah, so that's awesome. So happy
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that the nursery is finally set up. And now we're just getting ready for him actually being here,
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him actually being born. It's such a crazy thing. We're only six weeks away. And I have to prepare
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myself for labor. So we've been doing a birth course, which I think I mentioned in a different
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video that we're going to do this birth course. And then I want to do a review on it and tell you
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guys whether or not we really liked it. As of now, I love it. I'm really enjoying it. So I'm excited
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to share my experience with it. So we're doing that. And we're just kind of mentally preparing.
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We're just really excited about it. I mean, things are going to be really different. And my mom's
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going to come and help us for the first few weeks, which I'm so grateful for. But then we're getting
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into Passover right around his due date. So that's kind of crazy. So yeah, there's a lot to look forward
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to. And I am really, I'm really excited about it. So that is my 34 week pregnancy update. Let me know
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your thoughts in the comments. I would love to hear. If you're not already subscribed to my channel,
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