5 Things I LOVE About Being PREGNANT!
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5 things I love about being pregnant! I m so excited to be a mom and can t wait to have my little one in the near future. In this episode, I talk about the things I m looking forward to feeling the baby in the next few weeks.
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Hello Classic Crew and welcome to today's video where we're going to be talking about
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So if you are new to my channel, make sure to subscribe and hit that notification bell
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so you can follow along with my pregnancy journey and also with our parenting journey.
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But if you are new here, I am 20 weeks pregnant when I'm recording this, so it'll be 21 weeks
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I went through a miscarriage earlier this year, so this is our rainbow baby.
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And I'm just so looking forward to meeting our little one.
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And I just can't wait to be a mom and to see my husband be a dad.
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And today I wanted to share five things I love about being pregnant.
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Now, pregnancy is interesting because some women have an easy time of it.
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Other women are sick the whole time, have a terrible experience.
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And then you have people like me who the first trimester was a little bit rough.
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And now I am feeling a lot better and just enjoying the pregnancy.
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I also think that your perspective on pregnancy changes a lot if you've had a miscarriage.
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Because then, anytime you're sick, anytime you're not feeling well, it's proof that your baby is healthy.
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And after having lost our first baby, when I feel sick, I am so, so grateful.
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So every part of pregnancy, I just feel grateful.
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I don't think we need to downplay how difficult pregnancy can be in order to justify the life of the child.
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So I am so grateful to be going through what I have gone through.
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Any struggles or anything that means the baby's doing well, I'm fine with.
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And that I think that pretty much every woman could feel good about.
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So, even if you're having a hard time with your pregnancy,
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hopefully some of these things give you some good perspective on why pregnancy is great.
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So the first amazing part of pregnancy is feeling the baby move.
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And I've started feeling the baby move around 16 weeks.
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And there are other days that I don't feel it so much.
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The baby's still not big enough that you would be feeling it every single day.
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And just about 5 days ago, I felt the baby kick.
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And it was the most amazing feeling in the world.
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I was talking to Jacob and all of a sudden I gasped.
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Because it felt like I was being poked from the inside.
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It feels like something is poking you in your belly from the inside.
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I mean, it doesn't feel like anything else you've ever felt before.
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The little movements I felt before that, they almost feel like a fluttering.
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I love knowing that my baby is thriving in there.
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I look forward to later in the pregnancy when I can feel the baby more consistently, more regularly.
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I just, I feel God's presence when I feel the baby move.
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And I feel so lucky that I get to carry my baby.
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And to know that I am getting to create a home for my child.
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The second thing I love about being pregnant is dressing the bump.
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It's a fun thing to try and figure out what feels comfortable, what looks good,
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what's going to accentuate the bump, what's going to hide the bump.
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It's hard to figure out what your new body type is because I had to go to the store and
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I was shopping and I wasn't really able to find things that worked, looked good on me
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and felt comfortable and were flattering and were the right size.
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But then when you kind of figure out what you need from your clothes and what you like in
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your clothes, it is so much fun dressing the bump and wearing things that make you
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Like this top I just recently got, it's kind of like a dress, but I think it'll
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So I have bought mostly non-maternity items that just sized up because I assume after I
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have the baby, I'm probably not going to be right at my pre-pregnancy weight right away.
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So if that's the case, it's nice to have some clothing that I feel comfortable wearing
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for the first however long until I get down to the size that I like for my body.
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And so I have been enjoying kind of buying things that can be used during pregnancy and
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after pregnancy, but also just really make the bump feel special.
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Number three is the urge to take care of myself for the health of my baby.
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So I think we all struggle a little bit with needing to take care of ourselves and actually
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So before I was pregnant, if I didn't eat that healthy, it was like, okay, whatever.
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If I didn't exercise for a couple of weeks, it was like, okay, whatever.
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But when you're pregnant, you realize that everything you do is affecting your baby too.
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So it really encourages you to want to be better and be healthier.
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I want to provide a good home for this baby and make sure that I'm taking care of myself,
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not only to create a good environment for the baby, but also because I want to have,
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So I'm not saying that things are going to go smoothly.
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I do not know, but it is good to try to do everything you can to make that a possibility.
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So eating healthier, exercising, being more mindful of what products I use on my skin so
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that it doesn't get through to the placenta, that kind of stuff.
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It's kind of a nice thing to know that your actions have a direct influence on your baby.
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So it makes you be better about taking care of yourself.
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The fourth thing I love about being pregnant is loving my body for what it's doing, not
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I know that pregnancy can be a big challenge for many women as they have to adjust to their
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And I struggle with that a little bit, but mostly if I even go into that territory where
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I start to be questioning my figure, I immediately respond with, but think about what your body
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Why would I care what my body looks like when it's doing this incredible thing?
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I, for the most part, don't feel any sort of vanity about my body because I'm so grateful
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So being able to recognize that my body is doing this incredible thing really takes the
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attention away from the vanity side of things and the question of, do I look good today?
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The last thing that I love about pregnancy, I don't know if I would say love, but I've
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noticed about pregnancy and I wanted to include it, is how time moves differently now.
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I said to Jacob after we got pregnant and through the first trimester that it almost feels like
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Like before this time, one or two or three years, yeah, it passes and you notice it,
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But when you're pregnant every week, the baby is growing so much.
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And then when the baby's born, the baby's going to grow so much every year.
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And all of a sudden time means something because I'm growing a person and then that person is
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going to grow and be a part of our lives forever.
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And it's an amazing thing to recognize that time now exists in a sense.
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You recognize how short life is and that's a beautiful thing and also a sad thing.
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But I'm grateful to have this feeling of, okay, I know now what it feels like when time moves.
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So that's really an exciting thing that comes along with pregnancy.
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So those are five things I've been loving about being pregnant.
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Let me know in the comments if you are pregnant or have been pregnant.
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What are some things that you loved about being pregnant?
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If you're not pregnant yet, let me know in the comments which of these things you're looking forward to the most.
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Thank you so much for watching and make sure to subscribe and hit that notification bell
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