Classically Abby - October 25, 2021


Day In The Life Of A Pregnant YOUTUBER! ⧸⧸ Get a behind the scenes look...


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In this episode, I give you a behind the scenes look at what my day looks like as a content creator and a YouTuber. I also give you an update on my pregnancy and talk about the things I do to stay healthy and happy during pregnancy.

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00:00:00.000 I'm kind of showing you a day in my life as a YouTuber and a content creator.
00:00:04.040 I'm going to record something for a composer friend.
00:00:08.020 I have to write an outline for a video I'm going to record.
00:00:10.380 So that's what we're going to do now.
00:00:30.000 Hi guys, welcome to today's vlog.
00:00:54.520 So today I'm going to be doing a video where I'm kind of showing you a day in my life as
00:00:59.960 a YouTuber and a content creator.
00:01:02.300 Often I don't like to film on these days because I feel like it can be boring for you to see
00:01:07.200 what I'm doing behind the scenes.
00:01:09.280 But I thought that I could kind of make it interesting, show you what I'm actually doing,
00:01:13.360 kind of give you a behind the scenes look at some of the stuff that I use and just kind
00:01:17.500 of what my day looks like.
00:01:18.720 And because I work from home and it's remote technically, my day is a mixture of chores
00:01:26.920 and work and also going to the gym because I try to, especially during pregnancy, take
00:01:32.720 care of myself.
00:01:33.460 I need to be better about that generally.
00:01:35.540 But during pregnancy now, I really want to obviously make sure that I'm doing all that
00:01:40.500 I can to give this baby a good and healthy home.
00:01:44.840 So I wanted to show you kind of what my day looks like.
00:01:47.180 So the things that we're going to be doing today are I have to write an article for my
00:01:51.640 sub stack.
00:01:52.840 I have to make outlines for a video I'm recording for my channel, as well as the podcast that
00:01:58.520 I'm going to be recording.
00:01:59.840 And I have to make a content calendar.
00:02:03.420 I have to record something singing wise for somebody who asked me to help them out with
00:02:08.940 something.
00:02:09.340 So I'm going to be doing that.
00:02:10.660 And I'm also going to be going to the gym.
00:02:13.320 So much of being a content creator is about managing your creative energy because I come
00:02:18.720 up with so much original content.
00:02:21.380 So that's what a lot of today is going to be.
00:02:24.020 And then if I have any extra time, I might like do something fun because I just have extra
00:02:28.120 time in the day.
00:02:28.780 But because my job is flexible hours, it's a mixture of the stuff I have to do to take care
00:02:35.540 of my house, you know, stay at home stuff like chores, making the bed, doing laundry,
00:02:41.540 which I'm going to take you guys downstairs and I'm going to do some laundry, and then
00:02:45.320 doing the stuff that I need to take care of myself.
00:02:48.320 So cooking for myself, going to the gym, and then my actual work.
00:02:52.200 So it's a lot of time management.
00:02:54.340 And that's always a struggle, probably for many of us, but I find that sometimes it's a
00:02:58.440 struggle.
00:02:59.480 And yeah, so that's the plan.
00:03:01.540 But on another note, I'm also pregnant.
00:03:04.640 So it does change things.
00:03:06.440 It means that I can't go five hours and forget to eat.
00:03:09.840 Like I'm going to get hungry and I should get hungry and I should take care of those cravings
00:03:14.020 and eat.
00:03:14.940 And also just being pregnant changes things a bit.
00:03:17.460 So I did want to give you guys the pregnancy update for the week.
00:03:21.240 So I'm officially 18 weeks.
00:03:23.640 And what that means is the baby is the size of a grapefruit.
00:03:26.520 And let's talk about what the baby's up to.
00:03:29.940 So the baby is now covered with vernix, a white protective coating that protects the
00:03:35.120 skin from damage in the womb.
00:03:36.940 Some babies are born with this coating.
00:03:38.560 However, it decreases as the delivery date comes closer.
00:03:41.960 Your baby is looking more like a baby now with proportionate arms and legs, presence of
00:03:46.500 fat layers under the skin, and clearly defined facial features.
00:03:49.860 The sex can now be identified on an ultrasound.
00:03:53.000 Right now, your baby is awake for only about six hours a day.
00:03:55.980 So as far as my symptoms, I'm not really into 18 weeks yet.
00:04:00.640 I'm only 18 weeks and two days.
00:04:02.240 But 17 weeks and into 18 weeks, I have been super moody.
00:04:07.520 And I thought that was like more intense in the first trimester.
00:04:10.440 But for me, I found that in the first trimester, my moods were really surrounded about my worry
00:04:15.420 and anxiety about the baby being healthy.
00:04:18.400 And now it feels really hormonal.
00:04:20.480 Like I'm just moody.
00:04:23.020 And it's hard.
00:04:24.220 I mean, there are days that it feels like I could get pulled under by being sad or something
00:04:28.840 like that.
00:04:29.500 And it's just a lot of that I say would be the biggest struggle is is fighting with that
00:04:35.280 hormonal urge to be down and say, no, this is not this isn't real.
00:04:40.680 You can be happy and everything's going to be okay.
00:04:44.020 The good news is that it's not all day and it comes and goes for sure.
00:04:47.900 So that's helpful.
00:04:49.000 But when I feel those negative emotions, that moody mood swing sort of thing, I just have
00:04:56.240 to make sure that I don't allow myself to get too dragged in by it.
00:04:59.600 I'm also having such intense dreams, crazy dreams every night.
00:05:04.700 Like really, I woke up one morning and I didn't know where I was.
00:05:08.240 Like I thought I was back in Los Angeles is where I grew up, which was crazy.
00:05:13.240 That's literally never happened to me when I've gone to sleep for the night.
00:05:17.420 I've sometimes woken up from a nap and been confused as to where I am.
00:05:20.300 But from like waking up in the morning, that's never happened to me.
00:05:24.100 So that was super weird.
00:05:25.360 But yeah, so the pregnancy is going well.
00:05:27.660 I'm just excited for, you know, the next part.
00:05:30.580 We're getting into the halfway point in just two weeks, which is crazy to think about.
00:05:35.020 Also, my birthday is coming up November 8th, which is such a weird thing.
00:05:40.280 It feels like my birthday came out of nowhere.
00:05:42.680 So I don't know what I'm going to do for it, but maybe we'll do something fun.
00:05:46.580 And yeah, so let's let's go do some things.
00:05:48.940 Let's go get this day started.
00:05:50.880 Okay, so first things first, I'm going to record something for a composer friend.
00:05:56.140 So he needed me to record something that he can send some people.
00:06:00.180 And so I'm going to be sitting at the piano, going through the music that he sent me and
00:06:04.260 just sending that off to him.
00:06:06.020 So I'm going to be working at my piano for a bit.
00:06:08.140 Okay, so I'm going to do some laundry that I don't know if you can see that is the laundry
00:06:27.260 room right there.
00:06:28.200 It is not pretty.
00:06:29.740 So I'm not going to show you my laundry room, but I'll show you the putting the clothes into
00:06:34.520 the washing machine and into the dryer because literally our laundry room is like totally
00:06:41.520 unfinished.
00:06:42.280 So it's just kind of like not the best to look at.
00:06:45.380 So but I do laundry probably at least twice a week and I fold laundry, put it all away.
00:06:51.160 I actually don't mind the chore of laundry.
00:06:52.820 I used to hate it, but now I like it more because it used to be down like two flights of stairs
00:06:58.080 and it was super annoying to get done.
00:07:00.120 But now it's like in the main part of the house.
00:07:02.300 And so I don't feel like I have to go out of my way to do laundry.
00:07:05.340 So it doesn't bother me so much.
00:07:06.960 So that's what we're going to do now.
00:07:09.120 Sometimes it's part of my daily routine to wash the laundry, dry the laundry and fold
00:07:13.160 the laundry.
00:07:19.920 Now it's time to head to the gym.
00:07:22.160 So I recently posted on Instagram that I only just started going back to the gym because
00:07:26.160 I was feeling so sick for the first trimester.
00:07:28.060 And then it kind of lingered into the second trimester a bit and then I started to feel
00:07:32.640 a little bit lazy.
00:07:33.560 So now I'm going back to the gym.
00:07:35.140 Jacob gave me a list of exercises to do that are safe for pregnancy that have like some weight
00:07:40.960 lifting involved, but not heavy weight lifting at all.
00:07:43.380 It's just to keep up my muscle tone.
00:07:45.560 And it's good to exercise when you're pregnant. 1.00
00:07:47.180 And I'm also going to be doing elliptical.
00:07:49.180 I go for walks, stuff like that.
00:07:50.840 So today I'm going to be going to the gym and then we'll come back and finish all of
00:07:56.700 the YouTube content creating stuff because there is quite a bit more to do on that score
00:08:02.440 today.
00:08:20.840 Okay, first up on the agenda for content creation, now that we're back, we're changed, we're done
00:08:30.900 with the gym, is that I need to record stuff for an Instagram reel.
00:08:35.540 So I will show you a little bit behind the scenes of what I'm doing and you can see the
00:08:40.500 final results.
00:08:41.380 It'll be on my Instagram.
00:08:42.520 So make sure to follow me on Instagram.
00:08:44.480 It's just classicallyabby.
00:08:46.100 And yeah, let's do it.
00:08:50.840 Okay, so that is done and dusted.
00:08:54.780 It is posted on my Instagram.
00:08:56.200 So make sure to go check that out if you're not already following me there.
00:08:59.020 But next up, I'm going to be just sitting at my desk and writing some outlines for content.
00:09:03.920 So I'm going to be writing an outline for my podcast.
00:09:07.100 I think Jacob's going to join me this week.
00:09:09.160 And I have to write an outline for an article that I want to write.
00:09:12.460 And I have to write an outline for a video I'm going to record.
00:09:15.160 I don't know that I'm going to be able to record the video today or if I'm going to
00:09:18.300 have to record it tomorrow, but I need to write an outline for it.
00:09:20.840 So that's something that I do pretty consistently.
00:09:23.540 I have a ton of notebooks around the house.
00:09:25.800 So I'm going to use one of my notebooks and take some notes and outline.
00:09:35.700 So I'm done outlining.
00:09:37.820 I have an idea of what I want to write about and what I want to video and what I want to
00:09:43.040 podcast about.
00:09:43.860 So now I want to tell you about podcasting.
00:09:46.480 So I have a podcast that's exclusive for my premium Substack subscribers.
00:09:50.700 So if you're not already subscribed, head over to classicallyabby.substack.com so that
00:09:54.580 you can get access to my podcast, which is really fun and also has some really interesting
00:10:00.100 kind of takes that are different from what I do on my YouTube channel.
00:10:03.520 But when I'm recording, I use this mic.
00:10:06.600 It's a Blue Yeti.
00:10:07.800 It's very well known in the podcasting community because it's very simple.
00:10:13.440 It plugs right into your computer and it has a bunch of different settings.
00:10:16.720 So if I'm just talking into it, I can use one setting.
00:10:19.600 If Jacob and I are podcasting together, we can use a different setting and it's just easy
00:10:23.880 and great.
00:10:24.480 And like I said, you can plug it right into your computer.
00:10:26.140 I use the program Audacity and it's really simple to learn and it's free.
00:10:31.420 So that's really nice.
00:10:32.400 So that is how I podcast.
00:10:35.040 And again, make sure you check it out.
00:10:37.100 My last podcast was about modesty and talking about it, not just from the perspective of
00:10:42.560 clothes, but from the perspective of how it can affect who you are internally and how
00:10:48.280 it actually can make sexuality less effective in today's day and age.
00:10:54.080 It's a very interesting podcast.
00:10:55.220 You should definitely check it out.
00:10:56.900 So yeah, that's how I podcast.
00:10:58.600 I'm not going to be podcasting today because Jacob and I are going to be podcasting, I think
00:11:02.780 tomorrow, but that is how I do it when I do podcast.
00:11:06.640 Last but not least, I want to share with you guys my content calendar.
00:11:09.740 So I have this opened up to just a blank page in January, but this is what I use to write
00:11:14.760 down all of the content I'm going to be doing for the future months and weeks.
00:11:19.300 So I go through and I write down, okay, what video is going to be what day?
00:11:23.360 When do I have to edit?
00:11:24.980 What articles am I writing for my Substack newsletter?
00:11:27.820 What podcasts am I recording?
00:11:29.620 What book we're reading for the book club and when I'm going to be doing live streams
00:11:32.560 and stuff like that.
00:11:33.280 And all that has to go in this calendar because I have so much to keep track of that if I
00:11:37.380 don't put it in my calendar, I will forget.
00:11:39.640 And that's obviously not something I want to do.
00:11:42.760 So the content calendar is great.
00:11:44.260 I need to go through it because it's a little bit outdated and I had an idea for what I was
00:11:48.880 going to do week by week with the pregnancy, but I also want to continue to do regular classic
00:11:53.600 content on my channel.
00:11:54.940 And I realized I forgot to put in a gender reveal video.
00:11:58.420 So I'm definitely going to have to do that.
00:12:00.300 But that is one of the projects that I have to do.
00:12:03.380 I have to check in probably every two weeks.
00:12:04.900 I try to do a content calendar that's like very laid out for at least two weeks in advance,
00:12:10.240 usually more, but just in case I like to go in and check every two weeks.
00:12:13.640 So I'm going to do a little bit of that too.
00:12:15.100 So I still have to fold the laundry and we have leftovers for dinner.
00:12:19.260 So I don't have to worry about making dinner, which is great, but that's pretty much my day.
00:12:23.800 That is like an average day in my life is the content creation, trying to take care of
00:12:29.460 housework and chores as well as taking care of my body and exercising.
00:12:33.860 And I feel like I have a really hard time getting everything done.
00:12:36.640 I don't know if everyone else has this issue, but I'm sure everyone does.
00:12:40.380 Just because there is a lot.
00:12:42.260 And I consider some of the chores to be my work.
00:12:45.980 I consider that part of it.
00:12:47.440 Now it's not necessarily work I get paid for, but it's work that's valuable to our family.
00:12:52.040 And I don't mind taking on that role.
00:12:54.120 I'm here.
00:12:54.740 I have the ability to do it.
00:12:56.600 And that is something I've had to forgive myself for is if I end up getting chores done,
00:13:01.400 but I don't end up getting as much work done that day, that's okay, because that's the
00:13:05.420 schedule that needs to happen that day.
00:13:07.460 So that's pretty much it for today.
00:13:09.400 Thank you guys so much for watching today's vlog.
00:13:11.600 Make sure that you're subscribed to my channel and hit that notification bell so you can get
00:13:14.800 notified of all my new videos.
00:13:15.920 And make sure to follow along for the rest of the pregnancy. 1.00
00:13:18.700 This is going to be so much fun.
00:13:19.940 I'm so excited.
00:13:20.560 I know that this video wasn't so focused on the pregnancy, but there will be more videos,
00:13:25.420 definitely about the whole process and it's going to be a lot of fun and I'm really excited
00:13:30.200 about it, obviously.
00:13:31.980 So make sure to subscribe.
00:13:33.940 And if you're not already subscribed to my Substack newsletter so you can get access to
00:13:36.880 all the exclusive content you kind of got a behind the scenes look at, make sure to do
00:13:40.180 that.
00:13:40.980 You might as well follow me on Instagram.
00:13:42.460 I made a reel today, so go ahead and do that too.
00:13:45.320 And I'll see you guys in my next video.
00:13:47.460 Bye!
00:13:47.820 Bye!
00:13:55.420 Bye!