Classically Abby - September 21, 2023


Second Trimester Recap With Baby #2! ⧸⧸ How I'm Feeling, Weight Gain, And Gender Disappointment？ 🤰


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19 minutes

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188.82033

Word Count

3,754

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187

Misogynist Sentences

3

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2


Summary

In this episode, I talk all about my second trimester of pregnancy and what it has been like so far. I talk about some of the things I've been dealing with so far, and answer some of your questions!


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Let's talk all about my second trimester of pregnancy.
00:00:05.060 If you are new here, I am currently pregnant
00:00:07.360 with baby number two, and I am 28 weeks today,
00:00:12.060 so I can actually talk about my full second trimester
00:00:15.540 right now, all of the symptoms,
00:00:17.980 everything I've been feeling,
00:00:19.140 and wait till the end of this video
00:00:21.260 because I'm going to be answering questions
00:00:22.800 directly from you guys about what this pregnancy
00:00:25.860 has been like so far.
00:00:26.980 As you can see, it's fall in the Roth household.
00:00:29.700 We've got a fall picture on our TV.
00:00:32.060 We've got fall clothes.
00:00:33.660 We've got fall decor.
00:00:35.180 It might be 100 degrees out in Florida,
00:00:37.520 but it is fall in my heart, and that's what matters.
00:00:40.880 I'm really excited to share all about
00:00:42.740 what this second trimester of my pregnancy has been like,
00:00:45.780 and here on my channel, we talk about classic living
00:00:47.920 and traditional values, and lately,
00:00:49.740 I've been focusing a lot more on homemaking and motherhood.
00:00:52.480 Those have been my interests lately,
00:00:54.900 and so I've really wanted to share those with you
00:00:57.180 because I'm really passionate about homemaking and motherhood.
00:01:00.400 In today's modern era, I think that it is a lost art,
00:01:03.920 and so I am constantly looking for ways
00:01:05.800 to fulfill our potential as women at home
00:01:09.000 and ways to enjoy making our houses into homes
00:01:13.240 and really just embracing this kind of feminine lifestyle,
00:01:17.920 so I'm really excited to share all of that with you.
00:01:20.860 If you subscribe, then you will get to see all of my videos
00:01:23.200 whenever they're posted, but I wanna get right into my pregnancy,
00:01:27.580 onto my second trimester symptoms, so let's get started.
00:01:30.400 So if you watched my first trimester video,
00:01:32.740 which I will have linked up here somewhere,
00:01:35.440 you will know that I had morning sickness
00:01:37.800 between five weeks and 13 weeks,
00:01:39.940 so I had eight weeks of being sick, did not love it.
00:01:43.240 I mean, I don't know anyone who likes morning sickness,
00:01:45.820 but I really don't like morning sickness.
00:01:48.180 I felt a lot better starting around 13 weeks,
00:01:51.020 but the exhaustion that I felt in the first trimester
00:01:54.360 didn't really pass until about 16 weeks,
00:01:57.260 so I was still taking long naps in the middle of the day.
00:02:00.680 Even though I felt better, I was still tired,
00:02:03.700 but once we hit 16 weeks, I started to feel a lot better.
00:02:06.700 Now, this pregnancy has been different than my first
00:02:10.220 because in my first pregnancy,
00:02:12.520 your body's still fresh and new
00:02:14.860 and doesn't know how to do all this yet,
00:02:17.780 so it's kind of like, it's just interesting and fun.
00:02:21.140 You're taking in all this new information
00:02:22.440 about this incredible thing that your body is accomplishing,
00:02:25.760 that you're growing a human inside of you.
00:02:28.000 It's so exciting.
00:02:30.380 This time around, I feel like I haven't been as comfortable,
00:02:33.500 and so my glowing trimester,
00:02:36.980 they say the second trimester is supposed to be
00:02:38.660 the trimester where you're glowing,
00:02:40.520 and it's easy, and it's wonderful.
00:02:41.660 That, for me, was really only from about 16 weeks
00:02:45.220 to like 24 weeks, as opposed to 16 to 28.
00:02:49.040 I would say I've had a lot of uncomfortable symptoms
00:02:53.080 this pregnancy, but nothing terrible
00:02:55.940 in the sense that I can still be around for my son,
00:02:59.180 and I'm, you know, for the most part, feeling pretty good,
00:03:02.740 but not nearly as good as in the first one.
00:03:05.600 So one of the pregnancy symptoms that I have had
00:03:07.920 is sciatica, and I think I got it really early this pregnancy.
00:03:12.480 Like, I had sciatica at maybe 10 weeks,
00:03:16.740 and I don't know what that was.
00:03:18.840 I don't know if it's just the position of my uterus,
00:03:21.200 whatever it is, but just pain on my right side,
00:03:24.780 in my right hip, and that has been pretty consistent
00:03:28.820 throughout, although I will say there are some days
00:03:30.900 I barely feel it at all, and there are some days
00:03:32.980 where I'm like, ooh, I can't walk.
00:03:34.680 When we were with my family on our family reunion,
00:03:39.040 I actually pulled a muscle in my back
00:03:41.380 and the sciatica on that side.
00:03:43.220 Like, I woke up one morning, and I legitimately couldn't walk.
00:03:46.160 Thank goodness I was able to do some pressure points
00:03:48.460 and stretches, and I was able to work that out,
00:03:50.760 but for about a week and a half after that, it was great.
00:03:54.520 It was useful to get a prenatal massage.
00:03:57.360 Highly recommend those, by the way.
00:03:58.860 I started to feel baby kicks this time around
00:04:02.220 by about 18, 20 weeks.
00:04:06.500 This one, he's a little mover and groover, which we love.
00:04:10.720 That is the same exact thing as it was with my first boy.
00:04:13.420 Little man, he was also always moving around in there,
00:04:16.460 which, if you know anything about being pregnant,
00:04:20.020 it is a huge relief when your baby moves a lot
00:04:23.640 because there is a concern that if your baby stops moving,
00:04:27.400 you would have to go to the hospital,
00:04:28.900 just make sure everything's okay,
00:04:30.080 but if your baby is an active baby like mine happened to be,
00:04:34.140 you don't have that same concern
00:04:36.360 because my sons move around a lot, which is lovely.
00:04:41.140 It's very reassuring, and so this boy,
00:04:43.700 he has been moving and grooving since about 18,
00:04:46.240 18, 19 weeks, I think, and he's, you know,
00:04:50.600 sitting on the right side, but he moves around.
00:04:53.860 Currently, I found out he's currently head down.
00:04:56.460 Not that that matters at 28 weeks, but I'll take it.
00:05:00.720 Please God, it stays that way.
00:05:02.680 And he's just super fun.
00:05:05.360 I do think he has his days and nights mixed up
00:05:07.460 as of right now.
00:05:08.240 He moves during the day, don't get me wrong,
00:05:10.480 but at night, it's like, what's up?
00:05:12.780 Like, let's hang out.
00:05:14.560 So I actually had stretch marks in my first pregnancy.
00:05:18.180 I know a lot of women, you know,
00:05:20.560 swear by all these oils and lotions.
00:05:22.460 It's genetic.
00:05:23.260 If you're gonna get stretch marks,
00:05:24.320 you're gonna get stretch marks.
00:05:25.880 I got stretch marks in my first pregnancy,
00:05:27.980 and I think I have more this time around, too.
00:05:30.460 I fully expect and anticipate
00:05:32.820 that I will get more stretch marks
00:05:35.180 with each subsequent pregnancy.
00:05:36.820 I used to care about it.
00:05:38.360 Nowadays, I don't.
00:05:39.640 I'm like, you know what?
00:05:40.440 I'm growing a person,
00:05:41.660 and this is a battle wound, a battle scar,
00:05:44.320 whatever you wanna call it,
00:05:45.200 but it's honestly a really cool thing
00:05:48.440 that my body can do,
00:05:49.540 so if I happen to get stretch marks afterwards,
00:05:52.080 that's okay.
00:05:53.560 I'm going to be using some oils
00:05:56.060 that some people I follow online recommend,
00:05:58.360 some, you know, different lotions, whatever,
00:06:01.000 but they're never gonna go away completely.
00:06:03.120 It's just a part of who I am now
00:06:05.000 and the fact that I bore children,
00:06:07.260 and that's okay.
00:06:08.620 Now, I recognize that's a difficult one,
00:06:11.580 and I think I even have a question about that
00:06:13.180 that I'm gonna answer at the end of this video
00:06:15.180 just about how you deal with stuff like that,
00:06:17.320 but what I'll say is right now,
00:06:19.440 it's just so not a concern
00:06:21.560 because there's nothing you can do about it,
00:06:24.220 and my husband thinks I'm beautiful.
00:06:26.720 If I continue to eat healthy
00:06:28.940 and try my best to be fit and exercise,
00:06:32.880 you know, that's the stuff that matters,
00:06:34.400 and the only person who is seeing my stomach
00:06:36.880 is my husband,
00:06:37.820 and he knows what those stretch marks are from,
00:06:40.560 so he loves me for that,
00:06:42.740 and that's a wonderful thing.
00:06:45.560 Spider veins.
00:06:46.540 I have spider veins in my legs.
00:06:48.860 Now, what's funny is that I actually had spider veins
00:06:51.000 before I ever had babies.
00:06:52.200 I had a few spider veins in my legs,
00:06:53.680 but this pregnancy, I definitely developed more.
00:06:56.020 I don't have varicose veins, thank God,
00:06:58.340 because I know that those can be uncomfortable,
00:06:59.940 but I just have little spider veins all over my legs,
00:07:02.860 so we'll see if those go away after pregnancy,
00:07:05.240 and they're not the most attractive thing in the world,
00:07:07.500 but they're also not painful.
00:07:09.160 They're not terrible.
00:07:09.920 They are what they are, and that's fine.
00:07:12.860 So in the second trimester,
00:07:14.100 we have had far fewer,
00:07:16.940 maybe even one ultrasound.
00:07:18.820 I think we've had one ultrasound in the second trimester.
00:07:21.400 In the first trimester,
00:07:22.280 if you watched my first video about this,
00:07:24.160 we had like an inordinate amount of ultrasounds,
00:07:27.000 but this trimester, we've only had, I think, one.
00:07:30.800 So the baby's sounding great on the Doppler.
00:07:34.240 You can hear his heartbeat, and it's very strong,
00:07:36.900 and he's moving a lot, but I'm super excited
00:07:39.620 because I think our next ultrasound,
00:07:41.260 we get to do the 3D ultrasound,
00:07:42.520 and I'm so curious to know
00:07:44.520 whether this baby looks like our first son.
00:07:47.260 I'm so curious.
00:07:48.560 So let's talk about my feelings a little bit this time around
00:07:52.680 and how I've been feeling in the second trimester.
00:07:54.800 I will say, this pregnancy,
00:07:56.600 as compared to my first pregnancy,
00:07:57.960 I'm so much less worried about how things are going.
00:08:01.480 First trimester is always stressful.
00:08:03.820 You just don't know exactly how things are gonna turn out,
00:08:06.480 and you know, after my miscarriage,
00:08:08.420 it's a concern.
00:08:09.680 You just don't know how your first trimester
00:08:11.780 is gonna turn out,
00:08:12.660 but in the second trimester,
00:08:14.420 I don't really have the time to worry about things
00:08:17.040 like I did the first time around
00:08:18.040 because I have a son to take care of.
00:08:19.860 I have a household to take care of,
00:08:21.140 and so it's nice.
00:08:23.760 Like, you're not thinking about it all the time.
00:08:25.840 You're just kind of enjoying it,
00:08:27.260 and I'm not worried nearly as much,
00:08:29.560 and that's a very comforting feeling.
00:08:31.680 Also, just seeing your belly grow
00:08:33.740 and knowing your body is doing something good
00:08:36.480 and strong and healthy,
00:08:38.820 I felt more confident in this pregnancy
00:08:41.280 than I did the first time around.
00:08:42.820 As far as baby number two,
00:08:45.360 like bringing in another baby into the house,
00:08:48.700 I would say that's the thing
00:08:50.080 I've been struggling with the most
00:08:52.480 is the emotions around that
00:08:54.560 because I just love my son so much,
00:08:57.520 and it breaks my heart to think
00:08:59.200 that he's gonna think I'm not with him as much
00:09:02.360 or that I don't love him as much,
00:09:04.140 but the truth is he will love having a sibling.
00:09:07.360 Like, he's so extroverted.
00:09:08.600 He's going to love having a sibling,
00:09:10.500 and I know that it's going to be
00:09:12.380 so much more important for him
00:09:13.700 to have brothers and sisters
00:09:15.580 than it is for me to have
00:09:17.860 this very directed relationship with him
00:09:19.840 for his entire childhood.
00:09:21.980 I want him to have a family
00:09:23.760 and not just parents,
00:09:25.000 but it is hard to imagine
00:09:26.640 what that's gonna look like
00:09:28.080 because we're now in a really good rhythm,
00:09:29.960 we have a good routine,
00:09:30.840 and I know that's all gonna go out the window
00:09:32.240 in a few months,
00:09:33.600 and it's very emotional
00:09:36.420 just thinking about how
00:09:37.980 your first becomes your oldest
00:09:40.520 as opposed to your only,
00:09:42.500 and I am, you know,
00:09:45.620 wrapping my head around that.
00:09:47.160 I think every parent goes through this
00:09:49.860 as they have their future children,
00:09:51.540 and I think part of it is just that
00:09:52.980 until his baby is born,
00:09:55.420 he's a stranger to me in a sense.
00:09:57.320 Trying to imagine what you're gonna feel
00:10:00.500 for a person you've never met,
00:10:02.680 it's impossible.
00:10:04.020 So I know that I love this baby.
00:10:05.740 Of course I love this baby,
00:10:06.820 but I also have never met this baby.
00:10:08.760 So picturing loving two people this much
00:10:12.740 is so difficult,
00:10:15.580 and you can't really do it.
00:10:17.620 And I know that that's just part and parcel
00:10:20.340 of parenthood and having a second child.
00:10:23.920 I definitely had this even more so,
00:10:26.220 this fear even more so this past week
00:10:28.940 because I got the flu,
00:10:30.880 I was feeling awful,
00:10:32.220 and then at the same time,
00:10:33.160 my son came down with something
00:10:34.600 totally different,
00:10:35.620 but he was spiking 104 fevers,
00:10:37.460 he had colds,
00:10:38.140 he needed me to be with him,
00:10:40.140 like constantly.
00:10:41.100 So I was with him in the middle of the night,
00:10:42.720 wasn't sleeping,
00:10:43.620 I was holding him for all of his naps,
00:10:45.320 and I remember thinking during this whole period,
00:10:48.960 like, how am I going to do this?
00:10:50.860 How am I going to give him my full attention
00:10:52.680 with a newborn if he needs me at some point?
00:10:57.540 And, you know,
00:10:58.720 that's why we moved near family,
00:11:00.900 is I will be able to give him my full attention
00:11:04.120 if my mom is here to help, you know,
00:11:06.760 we'll have hands on deck.
00:11:08.340 My husband can help, of course,
00:11:09.640 he works during the day though,
00:11:10.820 so, you know, realistically,
00:11:12.240 how do I get it done during the day?
00:11:13.900 And it's having a support system,
00:11:15.700 it's having a village.
00:11:16.900 And this is what gets me,
00:11:18.960 this is a little off topic,
00:11:20.200 but it gets me these jokes that you see online
00:11:23.940 about like, okay, I had my baby,
00:11:25.860 where's my village?
00:11:26.660 And it's like, your village doesn't just all of a sudden
00:11:29.580 pop into existence when you have a child.
00:11:32.680 You have to cultivate that.
00:11:34.520 You have to choose to be part of the village
00:11:36.520 that will then come and support you
00:11:38.200 when you're going through the nitty gritty
00:11:41.120 of parenting, right?
00:11:42.620 So when we had our son,
00:11:44.420 it was very clear to us,
00:11:45.420 we need to live near family,
00:11:46.460 we need to be part of a Jewish community,
00:11:47.840 and that has been such a blessing for us
00:11:51.020 because we have friends who will come
00:11:52.780 and drop off care packages.
00:11:54.420 We have my parents, we have Jacob's parents,
00:11:56.460 we have siblings,
00:11:57.780 we have people who can come over and help as needed
00:12:00.540 because we put that village into place.
00:12:04.040 So that's the thing I always have to remember
00:12:05.820 is I tend to go into this very modern nuclear family ideal
00:12:11.520 of like, well, it's all gonna be on me,
00:12:14.240 how am I gonna get it all done?
00:12:15.560 And that's just not really how it's supposed to be,
00:12:17.960 and that's not how we've created our life, thank God.
00:12:20.380 We are going to have support,
00:12:22.720 we are going to have help,
00:12:24.120 especially in those few first months
00:12:25.920 when things are adjusting and are so difficult,
00:12:28.600 we will have help,
00:12:29.740 and I don't have to be alone in this.
00:12:32.000 So that's a very helpful and good reminder
00:12:35.140 when I start to get a little more overwhelmed.
00:12:38.040 As far as my weight gain,
00:12:40.700 I know that I am always curious
00:12:42.840 how much people are gaining during pregnancy
00:12:45.980 because I know that there's a lot of different levels.
00:12:49.300 I mean, some people gain 50 pounds,
00:12:51.540 some people gain 15 pounds.
00:12:53.020 It just depends on the person.
00:12:54.220 As long as your doctor thinks it's healthy, you're good.
00:12:56.800 And so my weight gain in this pregnancy so far
00:12:59.500 has been 22 pounds.
00:13:01.020 So I'm 28 weeks along, 22 pounds.
00:13:03.980 With my first pregnancy, I gained 35 pounds.
00:13:07.060 I anticipate that I'll probably gain
00:13:08.760 around the same amount this time,
00:13:10.140 and I ended up losing 30 of the 35 pounds.
00:13:14.260 And I never lost those extra five pounds
00:13:16.160 because I was breastfeeding the entire time
00:13:17.720 right up until I got pregnant.
00:13:19.340 So that's just, I think,
00:13:22.140 what's going to be kind of what my pregnancies look like.
00:13:24.540 But we'll see.
00:13:25.360 We'll see how the pregnancy progresses.
00:13:26.880 I will say that as I get more pregnant,
00:13:29.540 I get less hungry.
00:13:30.480 So I don't tend to gain as much weight,
00:13:32.940 actually, in the last trimester
00:13:34.260 as I do in the earlier trimesters.
00:13:36.460 But we'll see.
00:13:38.320 So I'm going to show you
00:13:40.220 what the bump looks like currently.
00:13:42.420 It looks like this.
00:13:44.240 It's definitely there.
00:13:46.160 It's not too big yet, I think.
00:13:48.640 I mean, some people might think this is really big,
00:13:50.540 but for me, it was actually more uncomfortable
00:13:53.860 earlier in this trimester than it is right now.
00:13:56.840 And I started wearing a maternity band.
00:13:59.080 That really helps.
00:13:59.840 But this is my bump.
00:14:01.920 And I'm very happy
00:14:04.360 because it just means that the baby's growing well.
00:14:06.580 Okay, so let's get into some of your guys' questions.
00:14:10.380 So the first question we have is a general question.
00:14:12.700 How do you embrace the changes in your body and weight?
00:14:16.080 And I kind of mentioned this earlier,
00:14:17.980 but I would say that this time around,
00:14:20.700 I felt less confident in my body
00:14:23.540 than I did the first time around.
00:14:25.040 Probably, again, because in the first time,
00:14:26.580 it's just a miracle.
00:14:27.500 You're just so...
00:14:28.240 You just can't believe that your body's doing this.
00:14:30.420 It's amazing.
00:14:31.360 The second time around, you've done it before.
00:14:32.680 So you're a little more like,
00:14:34.400 oh yeah, this is a really cool thing that my body does.
00:14:36.700 I'm so grateful.
00:14:38.080 But it's not as mind-blowing the second time around.
00:14:41.880 But I will say,
00:14:42.880 the thing that really has made a difference for me
00:14:44.840 is exercising and getting my steps in
00:14:47.000 and eating healthy.
00:14:47.900 When I do those things,
00:14:49.400 I don't feel bad about how my body looks.
00:14:51.860 I have no issues.
00:14:52.960 Because I'm like, you know what?
00:14:54.140 I'm doing what I can to stay fit,
00:14:55.960 to stay healthy.
00:14:57.000 And that's good for me and the baby.
00:14:58.900 If I just eat whatever I want
00:15:01.260 and never exercise and just sit all day,
00:15:04.560 then I start to feel a little more self-conscious
00:15:07.500 about how my body looks.
00:15:08.720 Even if my body looks literally exactly the same,
00:15:11.320 it's like a mental game.
00:15:12.740 So that's been the best way for me
00:15:15.640 to feel confident and strong in my body
00:15:18.280 and not be so worried about the body changes.
00:15:20.460 And also, because the first time around,
00:15:22.980 I was able to lose the weight
00:15:25.440 and I know I can do it,
00:15:27.820 I think that that also gives me
00:15:29.440 a little more confidence the second time around.
00:15:31.440 Okay, I had to quickly readjust something.
00:15:34.140 So number two, question number two is,
00:15:36.620 having been through birth before,
00:15:38.480 are you more or less nervous to give birth again?
00:15:41.400 So for me, I would say that I am less nervous
00:15:44.960 to give birth again
00:15:46.120 because this time around,
00:15:48.280 I am planning on getting an epidural.
00:15:50.640 The first time around, you know,
00:15:52.280 didn't know what to expect,
00:15:53.120 didn't know what my body would be able to handle.
00:15:55.120 And so I tried to do it without any medication
00:15:57.000 and it wasn't as enjoyable of a process for me
00:16:01.740 because of that.
00:16:02.680 This time around, I know I wanna have an epidural
00:16:04.600 and so I'm not going to play games with that
00:16:07.200 and I wanna enjoy the experience.
00:16:10.060 So that's my goal and that's why I'm less nervous.
00:16:13.040 Did you start showing sooner with your second pregnancy?
00:16:15.840 Yes.
00:16:17.540 Way sooner, way sooner.
00:16:19.400 Did you have gender disappointment?
00:16:22.260 Actually, no.
00:16:23.660 We love boys.
00:16:25.600 We love our son.
00:16:26.760 We were actually hoping to have another boy
00:16:28.900 because we wanted them to be little buds.
00:16:31.960 They're gonna be so close in age,
00:16:32.940 they're gonna be 21 months apart
00:16:33.920 that we just loved the idea of them being brothers
00:16:38.160 and being able to make trouble together.
00:16:40.780 I wonder if we would have had gender disappointment
00:16:42.640 if we had a girl.
00:16:43.460 So that's an interesting question.
00:16:46.360 Maybe, but at the same time,
00:16:49.720 you know, we're just blessed to have a healthy child.
00:16:52.540 A few people asked,
00:16:53.720 do you have more energy in the second trimester
00:16:56.400 versus the first trimester?
00:16:57.760 Absolutely.
00:16:58.540 It's like a totally different world.
00:17:00.400 First trimester, zero energy.
00:17:02.680 Second trimester, you have way more energy.
00:17:05.300 Like, I'm a human again, which is awesome.
00:17:08.180 There's like, you know, overlap between the trimesters
00:17:11.100 where you're still tired,
00:17:12.120 but like by the middle of the second trimester,
00:17:14.340 yeah, it's a totally different ball game.
00:17:16.320 Okay, so last question,
00:17:17.580 and this is relevant to this time of year
00:17:19.440 because we are in the high holidays.
00:17:20.800 It's Rosh Hashanah.
00:17:21.800 We're heading into Yom Kippur.
00:17:23.420 How do you manage high holidays plus pregnancy
00:17:25.800 plus little man?
00:17:26.920 So we'll kind of broaden that out
00:17:28.600 to just like busyness and life.
00:17:31.200 I would say that the first trimester was super hard
00:17:33.620 and that was, you know,
00:17:34.800 you needed family around to help,
00:17:36.260 especially on those days
00:17:37.180 where the morning sickness was just getting you.
00:17:39.100 But the truth is your kids will love
00:17:41.780 if you just lie on the floor with them.
00:17:43.080 Even if you can't be super participatory,
00:17:45.920 just being on the floor next to my son while he played
00:17:48.200 made him very happy.
00:17:49.800 And that's how I managed it in the first trimester.
00:17:52.240 But now I would say that, you know,
00:17:55.440 it's really just about time management and scheduling
00:17:58.280 and giving myself the breaks that I need
00:18:01.440 so that I can stay the best mom that I can.
00:18:03.800 So what that means is scheduling
00:18:06.720 in a prenatal massage every month or so
00:18:08.740 or however often I've had one prenatal massage,
00:18:11.760 but still.
00:18:12.960 Like taking breaks as needed
00:18:14.700 or taking naps if I can.
00:18:16.940 Going to sleep early
00:18:18.120 because I know I'm gonna wake up early.
00:18:20.340 And treating my son's energy as exercise.
00:18:26.140 Like I have to chase him around.
00:18:27.760 I don't really have to go for walks most times
00:18:30.040 because by the end of the day, just by having a toddler,
00:18:32.880 I've gotten 6,000 steps in.
00:18:34.820 So that's a pretty positive way to look at it.
00:18:38.580 And, you know, it's fun.
00:18:40.160 I get to include him even though he doesn't really know,
00:18:42.720 but trying to talk to him about, you know,
00:18:44.960 you're gonna have a baby brother
00:18:46.200 and you guys are gonna be friends
00:18:47.500 and aren't you excited to meet your baby brother?
00:18:49.780 That kind of thing has been really special.
00:18:52.580 I would say that being pregnant with a toddler
00:18:56.020 is a challenge,
00:18:58.200 but it's also a really beautiful time
00:19:01.540 that I get to enjoy him before we have the next one.
00:19:04.960 So that is my second trimester update.
00:19:07.240 I hope you guys enjoyed it.
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00:19:17.900 that you didn't know before?
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