- Hi guys, welcome back to my channel.
Today I am joined by the very lovely Louise
- Louise. (laughter)
- Louise Pentland.
And today we are doing a video about
the 10 things that no one tells you about pregnancy.
- Pregnancy.
Got one in the oven already.
- That's right.
Louise is--
- Especially for this video.
(laughter)
- You're how many weeks now?
- 30. Well by the time this video goes up.
- Oh my gosh!
- Oh my God, by the time this video goes up
I'm going to be like 38 weeks.
- So Louise is about to drop
when you're watching this video.
- Could have even had her.
- Yes.
(gasps)
- So exciting.
So she's heavily pregnant and there are a few things
that no one has told us about pregnancy.
And, yeah, so if you're squeamish,
you might want to miss this one.
Because we are going to be brutally honest in this one.
- We did try and think of some positives.
We tried really hard.
- When you get pregnant you think oh it's going to be,
I'm going to be glowing. I'm gonna just be lovely.
It always happens. Yeah, yeah, so number one is
Leg cramps, like really, really bad ones,
that wake you up in the middle of the night in agony.
- Yeah, or like whenever I'm having one I am shaking my leg,
a little bit, twitching it. I don't know why.
- Yeah, apparently it is the pressure on you all day,
but it can also be pressed blood vessels in your legs
that cause the leg cramps.
- Nice.
- There were a few times when I would literally
wake up in the middle of the night,
and Matt would think that I was being murdered because
they were so painful.
- The next one is your, I don't know if it is the DNA,
or the structure of your hair will change, and I know this
because I recently went to get my roots done because
I am not a natural pink believe it or not.
I am actually a dark brunette. They had to bleach it first
which is safe for pregnancy I checked, I checked.
They had to bleach the dark bits, but my hair would not take
the bleach. So, it just went really yellowy-orangy instead
of like an ashy blonde like it normally does.
I had to go back the next, after a couple of days
to do it again because you can't obviously put bleach
on twice in one day, and they said it was 'cause
I was so heavily pregnant that all the hormones in my body
affected the make-up of my hair.
- Crazy.
- So, yeah, not know that until I found out the hard way
which is why my hair is not as pink as I would like it
to be, it is apricoty, which is what I am calling it.
- The third thing is that you will be going to the loo
all the time. You need to pee constantly, don't you?
- Yeah. I think that people know that you pee a lot,
but Emily told me the reason why, and I was like.
- So, the reason is 'cause you have so much more blood
running through your body, and when you're pregnant,
and it actually produces 25% more urine
so that is why you need to go all of the time,
and then also obviously later in pregnancy,
like now, you're actually getting pressure.
- The baby has sat on it all of the time, and something
that I would like to add to the urine point, it's not
about politics today, is you will get very used to weeing
on your own hands when you go. I don't know
if it is different in different countries, but in the UK
when you get to the middle of appointments, they give you,
you have to do a urine sample for them to check your sugars,
and proteins, and things, and they give you
a test tube size pot for you. First of all, I can't see
all of myself. So, you have to put your hand under
there, and think screw it, I am just going to feel
with my hand as long as some goes in the tube.
So, I have become very accustomed to just urinating
all over my hand.
- At every prenatal check.
- I wash my hand thoroughly.
Number four, this is something that I did not know.
Babies love it when you have an orgasm. I know that sounds
really weird. So, when you have an orgasm, you release
a lot of happy hormones which the baby really likes,
but also mostly they can hear your heartbeat increasing,
and beating harder and faster, and they really like it.
So, often, women will find that you will have an orgasm,
and the baby will really move around,
- Crazy.
- be quite energetic which is quite weird.
- Yeah. It's the oxytocin that you said, yeah, 'cause
that's why they say have sex to bring on labor 'cause
that's what helps you.
The fifth thing that I was surprised about during pregnancy
is that I experienced anxiety quite a bit, and generally
being anxious about growing this live, and also when
it is out, how I'm going to care for it and stuff.
That is a thing that is quite normal in pregnancy.
- Yeah. I've talked about this a lot and through my videos.
During the summer, in my second trimester, I actually
started to feel like I was loosing it a bit because
I was hyper-focused on what if scenarios and things.
Especially with my daughter who is six, Darcy, I would think
she is going to be in an accident. I would be really, really
be a lot more intense. Number six - Heartburn. My friend,
Marie Bitzer, told me that it takes three times longer
than it normally would for food to go from your mouth
down your esophagus and into your stomach, and that
is why pregnant women suffer from a bit more heartburn,
or acid reflux.
- I had it really bad when I was pregnant, when I was
heavily pregnant at the end. I could feel that,
really, really, I use to have Gaviscon and stuff before bed.
- I was just downing it like shots. Shots, shots, shots.
- Number seven is, although you will wee a lot more,
you may actually poo less. So, this is so TMI, isn't it?
- I'm fine with the poo. I'm okay with it.
- When you're pregnant, it is really normal to get
constipation, but I had no idea that was going to happen.
It is actually because the hormone Relaxin. You get that
hormone that relaxes everything, getting ready for the baby
to come out, but it also relaxes your intestines.
So, shit literally stops moving, I guess,
who going to say that?
- I love how freaked out you are.
- I can't even swear.
- I've actually been fine. I've been very regular.
- That's good. Do you drink a lot of water?
Because you are supposed to drink three liters a day,
or something silly.
- Moving onto our next point, you are so thirsty,
I have had four of these since we have been here.
I drink water all of the time. I am always parched.
I need more water. Maybe that is why I am okay with
point number seven.
- Yeah. Do what she does.
- Glad to know.
- Number nine is that you get out of breath very easily.
I don't actually know why that is. Is it less space?
- Because there is less space. So, all your organs
that used to be here are shoved up here
which crushes your lungs a bit.
- Yeah. Do you get out of breath when your flogging?
- Yeah. Then, I am so unfit, but to be honest, I used
to get out of breath before.
I get all of the good ones.
This last one is libido. While some women will
say that they don't want to do anything
while they're pregnant, some women are super more
up for it because your hormones are like come here.
- Crazy.
- Come over here. I don't know how much I can go into this.
I don't think anyone wants to know.
- No, no, no. When I was about 20 weeks on,
I felt like a man probably failed.
- Emily was up for it.
- Yes, yes, Matt loved it, no, just kidding.
(both laughing)
- Leave it in, leave it in.
Emily was up for it all the time.
- It's a shame because you want to, but then you're huge.
- Yeah, it is more challenging, I'm finding
because the logistics of things.
- Well, anyway.
- That's that. That's our 10 things.
- Thank you so much for watching. That was our 10 things
that no one tells you during pregnancy. I really hoped
you enjoyed this. Give me a big like if you did,
and don't forget to go over and check out Louise's channel.
She is obviously due to drop any day, and so, there'll be
lots of pregnancy baby related things.
- We just did a video on pregnancy tag.
- We've also just done a pregnancy tag on Louise's channel,
so definitely go and check that one out.
And, thanks so much for watching. Bye.
- Bye.