Classically Abby - J.K. Rowling TRANSPHOBE DRAMA, Motherhood Update, And What I've Been Reading ⧸⧸ The Scoop Is BACK!

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00:00:24.800 abby.substack.com guys the scoop is back we're doing it it's happening i don't know if it's

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00:00:36.960 be posting the scoop but this is happening you guys asked for it and it's back if you are new to

00:00:43.360 my channel i used to do a series on my channel called the scoop and every week i would talk about

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00:01:09.280 all the comments so make sure to leave something down below but i'm really excited to be bringing

00:01:13.840 the scoop back i'm trying to get into the practice of putting out a little bit more content on my

00:01:18.720 channel here now that mr baby is old enough and yeah i think i'm going to start sprinkling in my

00:01:24.320 motherhood updates into the scoop rather than separate videos um just because then i can also

00:01:29.760 talk about other things but i am so happy to be back we're gonna i'm gonna give you the scoop on

00:01:35.360 what's been going on and yeah let's hop into it grab a cup of coffee cup of tea maybe some seltzer

00:01:42.000 let's get into it okay let's start off with my motherhood update so i kind of teased that i wanted

00:01:49.120 to talk about my motherhood update just like in a video a couple videos ago maybe last video who

00:01:54.160 knows when this is going up but yeah and i want to talk about it mr baby is seven months old i like

00:02:01.040 legitimately can't believe it it feels like i just had him a day ago and now he's a full grown little

00:02:07.680 boy he's the cutest he is so much fun he's got the biggest personality he's a sweetheart everybody loves

00:02:15.280 him he is so much fun and he's a snuggle bug which i i love it i just love it and he's really the

00:02:22.480 easiest baby i'm so blessed in that way although i will say my friend said something to me that made

00:02:27.200 me feel so good because mr baby doesn't really cry when he wakes up from a nap unless he woke up hard

00:02:34.960 normally he'll just kind of make noise and then i know that he's in there and i'll go grab him

00:02:39.520 so when we were going to a friend's house for lunch he fell asleep in the stroller and we brought him

00:02:44.880 into the friend's bedroom and i was checking on him every few minutes because i knew he wouldn't cry

00:02:49.760 and i wouldn't know if he was awake so i mentioned that to a friend of mine and and he said something

00:02:55.840 to the effect of that's a baby that's well cared for okay i remember exactly what he said when i was

00:03:02.880 filming i couldn't bring it to mind but now that i'm editing i remember and what my friend said was

00:03:09.760 that's a baby whose needs are being met and me and he kind of explained that it means the baby

00:03:16.240 knows that his mom is there so he doesn't need to cry now i'm sure that's not the case with every baby

00:03:22.080 but it really made me feel so good because often when you have an easier baby people kind of downplay

00:03:28.800 it and they make you feel like oh that's an easy baby you're fine and for someone to give me credit

00:03:34.480 in that way was just really really sweet so yeah he's he's really truly the best so he is eating

00:03:41.040 solids he's really eating solids like two or three times a day now and he's eating purees mostly i bought

00:03:47.440 a book on how to feed your baby and i know there's a lot of stuff on baby led weaning there's a lot of

00:03:51.440 things on purees we kind of do mostly purees but some baby led weaning stuff and he just loves food

00:04:00.400 for the most part although we have to try all these different techniques to like get him to eat because

00:04:06.160 he's very picky about the way he eats so for a while it was only if he could like drink it out of a cup

00:04:12.000 and now he wants to eat it from the spoon but then there was a time where he was only eating out

00:04:16.080 squeezy pouches it's been a whole process getting to figure out like what and how he will eat um and

00:04:23.360 it's different every day but i just started preparing his purees myself rather than buying

00:04:27.760 them which i probably should have done from the beginning but i just couldn't wrap my head around

00:04:31.520 it and i eventually actually bought a little puree maker which is amazing and i will post it down below

00:04:37.360 i'm loving using it it's really fantastic and that's been exciting he's really been liking that

00:04:43.760 um he's definitely getting ready to crawl he is on all fours and kind of scooches and then falls down

00:04:50.000 but he's really close i think in like the next week or two he's going to be crawling which is

00:04:54.960 mind-blowing um he's sitting by himself he falls down still he doesn't have like perfect balance but

00:05:00.160 he's really very good at catching himself at this point i just have to be there just in case because

00:05:05.040 he could fall and clock himself so he's getting really good at sitting by himself he has two teeth that

00:05:10.960 have sprouted up from the bottom right here it is the cutest when he smiles we're doing family photos

00:05:16.160 honestly i wanted to do family photos because i know how cute it is when he has those two little

00:05:20.560 teeth i just wanted family photos with that big old smile and those two little teeth poking out 0.71

00:05:26.800 so we're doing family photos actually today which i'm really excited about i hope my hair looks good

00:05:32.800 but i'm excited about that and really truly the big news is that mr baby is in the 60th percentile

00:05:40.480 for weight huge news okay because if you've been following my channel for a while you know we

00:05:46.400 really struggled with acid reflux for him for a long time he dropped from the 63rd percentile when he

00:05:52.000 was born down to the ninth percentile by week four because he just was spitting up so much he went on

00:05:58.000 acid reflux medication which was amazing he went off at about two months ago now which is crazy to think

00:06:04.720 about and he is thriving we figured out all of his breastfeeding stuff he's been eating solids he's

00:06:11.920 doing so good he still spits up a lot so i do want to say the spit up doesn't go away but it doesn't

00:06:16.960 matter because he's putting on weight and as he was climbing the percentiles for weight we were just

00:06:22.480 over the moon because that was what stressed us out so early on so i'm so excited for that but that

00:06:29.040 is really the update with mr baby motherhood is as good as ever honestly it only gets better and i i

00:06:37.360 love it so much i'm so grateful i've never felt more meaning more fulfillment more purpose my entire

00:06:45.040 life view has changed becoming a mom and i should i could talk about that ad nauseam and maybe at some

00:06:52.080 point i will just sit down and just share all my thoughts because i've shared a few different videos

00:06:57.760 on it but man i've got so many thoughts and feelings about it all now that i'm a mom i got this shirt

00:07:04.480 for my birthday my birthday's coming up um it's a sweatshirt and i was gonna wait and wear it a little

00:07:10.640 bit later but i wanted to wear it in these videos so i'm wearing it it says mama i've been waiting to get

00:07:17.280 this sweatshirt i mentioned it in a video established 2022 i love it so cute so as far as the house we are

00:07:26.080 house owners which we've mentioned which is so cool um i i love being a house owner we try to do

00:07:32.960 projects ourselves but we've also got a handyman who's really wonderful really nice and he comes

00:07:37.440 and helps us sometimes um but we just ordered some furniture so we ordered an outdoor table which we're

00:07:44.080 really excited about because we're in florida like how much out of the year are we going to be eating

00:07:47.600 outside a lot um and it's a 10 seat table so we can really host and have our my whole family here

00:07:55.040 and we can have big big groups over from our community so i'm really really excited about it

00:08:00.160 it's being delivered tomorrow so that's exciting and we also ordered a bed which was something that

00:08:06.080 we've been wanting to do and we wanted to wait until we got a house so we've had the same bed since

00:08:11.680 we got married it was just a cheapy thing we ordered on amazon but this is the first time we're buying a bed

00:08:15.600 that's like really beautiful and it's upholstered and it's really amazing and i can't wait so that

00:08:23.440 is coming tomorrow also i think so we've got some furniture coming in um the house is coming together

00:08:29.520 but it's definitely a process and a project i still need to do a house tour so let me know if you guys

00:08:34.480 want to see a house tour in the comments down below if you're a homeowner what advice do you have

00:08:40.880 share it i'd love to hear if you have shopped for furniture where did you shop for furniture

00:08:46.000 what kind of furniture did you shop for first when you got a house i'd love to hear your thoughts in

00:08:50.080 the comments i also wanted to talk about my curly hair journey so i recently talked about how i got

00:08:56.800 a haircut and i styled my hair today because we're doing a photo shoot tonight but i really didn't want

00:09:02.400 to because this morning when i woke up i washed my hair i only washed my hair twice a week and i washed

00:09:06.960 my hair last night i used a moisturizing conditioning mask my hair was straight up curly today that has

00:09:16.240 never happened to me i love this hairdresser so much i need to go there and give her a hug because 0.62

00:09:23.040 i'm so stoked about it but i have to share my my curly hair like hacks because i've got just two products

00:09:33.120 that i use that have made a really big difference in my hair and then the conditioner and the shampoo

00:09:38.240 that i use which is a new thing so all of these things together these products i feel like have

00:09:42.000 really brought out my natural curls plus my haircut so that's been really cool okay so things i've been

00:09:50.240 reading i recently got the newest kindle during the last amazon prime day and it is a game changer i love

00:09:59.280 reading on this kindle it makes reading a joy and i have all my books at my fingertips which is awesome

00:10:05.040 i'm reading some books on homemaking because for next month's book club i want to do a book on

00:10:11.040 homemaking um people have been asking about that topic plus for me i'd really like to get good about

00:10:16.000 it so i'm reading like three different books right now on it and i'm really excited because i think

00:10:20.560 they're really great i love a book that tells me how to home make i love a book that tells me how to do

00:10:25.840 really anything i like instruction books so these are really i'm really enjoying them and then we're

00:10:31.040 reading treasure island for book club which is a fun adventure book and what's funny is is it keeps

00:10:36.640 reminding me of the way that joe march wants to write in little women but then chooses not to

00:10:44.240 that's what it feels like to me but um it's a lot of fun and i'm enjoying it so if you aren't already

00:10:49.520 subscribed to my book club make sure to subscribe so you can join we're discussing it soon so you

00:10:54.880 should definitely sign up last but not least something i saw in the news again was jk rowling

00:11:01.680 again so jk rowling has she's the author of harry potter but she's also come out against

00:11:09.040 the idea of transgenderism erasing women and womanhood which is awesome if you ask me 1.00

00:11:16.720 but she's very clear i don't hate transgenders i have transgender friends it's nothing like that

00:11:22.640 i just think that men and women are different and that women are being erased

00:11:29.280 she's right obviously but of course everyone wants to call her a transphobe including why

00:11:35.440 she's up in twitter again in the twitterverse again uh daniel radcliffe the star of harry potter by saying

00:11:43.200 that you know i know that trans this book is really important for a lot of trans people

00:11:49.040 and it really makes them feel seen because harry was an outsider and they're outsiders and jk rowling

00:11:55.120 is just a transphobe okay so let's talk about this idea of transphobe this psychologization right

00:12:02.480 the idea that you're afraid of transgenders the people who oppose transgenderism are not afraid of

00:12:10.800 transgenders they are morally opposed to it they are saying that it is wrong that it's erasing women

00:12:17.520 they're saying that it's used on children and that it's genital mutilation they're not saying

00:12:22.000 they're afraid the idea that you have to psychologize this that you have to say that

00:12:27.200 people are afraid rather than that they think that something is wrong that something must be wrong with

00:12:32.960 them if they're saying it don't let anyone push you into that corner don't let anyone try and tell you

00:12:40.320 that you are a transphobe you are not you are morally opposed to something and that is a perfectly

00:12:49.680 legitimate reason to stand up against it jk rowling is not wrong and for the people who suffer with

00:12:58.160 gender dysphoria it's awful and it's not downplaying that but it's saying that that doesn't mean that

00:13:06.800 women and men are now the same because you a man say you're a woman in a man's body you do not have 0.99

00:13:15.040 a woman's lived experience you are not a woman men and women are different there are biological

00:13:21.680 differences between men and women and it is wrong to erase women and say that men are better at being

00:13:29.360 women than women are and in any case it's ridiculous that daniel radcliffe is coming out against jk rowling

00:13:35.760 when the only reason daniel radcliffe has a career is jk rowling and harry potter is amazing i enjoy it i'm

00:13:43.040 sure you enjoy it i can't wait to go to harry potter world at some point very excited about it when it

00:13:49.440 happens i also really enjoy the books personally but that's it for today's video i'd love to hear

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Classically Abby - November 03, 2022

J.K. Rowling TRANSPHOBE DRAMA, Motherhood Update, And What I've Been Reading ⧸⧸ The Scoop Is BACK!

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