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- Hi, I'm Hannah, I'm the world's OK-est mom,
and I am filming this on my couch on a weekday evening.
This evening, I'm going to answer
your most asked questions about pregnancy.
So, what I did was post on my Instagram,
it's right here if you don't follow me,
if you think of a question, feel free to ask me,
and I opened it for questions from my followers
and I compiled the most frequently asked questions
and that's what I'm gonna be answering this evening.
So, for those who don't know,
I'm probably six and a half months pregnant at this point.
I've been pregnant several times
so I know, quite extensively, the ins and outs of pregnancy.
I'm not a doctor but I feel like
I'm equipped to answer a lot of these questions.
The number one most asked question is,
what am I craving?
Well, it has changed from child to child.
This time around, my craving is Flamin' Hot Cheetos,
very spicy food.
I'm obsessed with popsicles.
Oh, and Caesar salad.
I cannot get enough Caesar salad, I love it so much.
In terms of weird cravings,
this time around, I've been craving raw bread dough.
I don't know what it is,
it's something about the smell,
it just smells like it would taste really good
and I just, I wanna take a bite.
How did you know you were pregnant?
Now, this is a fun one to answer
but it's also not the most fun answer
for everybody out there, I'd say.
I just, I had a feeling.
Maybe it's just intuition or a hunch
but with each of my kids, I knew I was pregnant
before I took the test.
Somebody wanted to know if it's normal to have swollen feet
all the time.
It really varies from person to person.
I get pretty swollen by the end of the day.
While they talk a lot about swollen feet
and your feet growing during pregnancy,
it's actually your whole body because you have
a lot more blood in your body when you're pregnant.
Is it safe to color your hair during pregnancy?
This is something that I always instruct people
to talk about with your doctors.
What product you're using, who's doing it?
Where are you located?
Are you in an enclosed room?
There are so many factors that go into
the safety of coloring your hair
that I can't give a yes or no answer to that,
it's definitely a conversation to have with your own doctor.
Do you really poop during labor?
Ugh.
It varies from person to person.
I don't think there's a concrete yes or no to that.
And to be honest, when you're like trying
to push your baby out,
that is the last thing you're thinking about.
How have each of your pregnancies felt different?
They've all been very different, actually.
With Jackson, he was an enormous baby
and so it was extremely uncomfortable.
It was also my first, so my body was adjusting
to being pregnant for the first time,
so it was pretty painful.
And then with Wyatt, it was a little bit different.
I think because my immune system was fairly low,
being pregnant compromises your immune system,
but I got sick a lot when I was pregnant with Wyatt
to the point that I'd vomit so much
I had to go to the ER to stop contractions
because the vomiting was causing my body
to start having contractions
and think that it was time to go into labor.
So, my pregnancy with Wyatt was a little bit more
tricky, if that makes sense.
But with Wyatt, I was so emotional.
This time around, I just feel a lot more emotionally stable
and a little more clear headed about everything.
Maybe it's maturity, maybe it's,
this baby's pretty chill.
I don't know, I'll take it.
Which trimester is the worst trimester?
Basically, second trimester is the only decent one,
I'll say that.
First trimester is just, you feel icky.
It's like one permanent hangover.
Third trimester is the time that everything's getting big,
nothing fits, it's uncomfortable to sleep,
you're feeling the size of the baby
in other parts of your body, like your lungs
and hips and your pelvis
and your muscles across your abdomen.
And so, in my opinion, I'd say third trimester
is probably the worst.
What is the scariest part of pregnancy?
Honestly, all around, pregnancy is pretty scary.
There are so many risks and complications
and things that can happen to you and to the baby.
This time around...
Right now, I am really scared of delivering the baby.
Not because of how I will feel or how it could impact me
but recently, I had a very unpleasant experience
having my miscarriage at the hospital
and it really caused me to lose a lot of trust
in hospitals and my doctor.
And I think part of it is probably irrational,
part of it is probably just feeling trauma
from what happened.
But I can say right now that my biggest fear
is having to go to the hospital.
I don't know, I just, I feel a little bit lost right now.
But I have some time, there's time for me to get better,
feel better about it.
What does it feel like when the baby moves?
Can you feel which body parts are moving?
Can you feel where the baby is inside of you?
And what exactly does it feel like?
It's really hard to explain.
Somebody wrote, "Please don't say
"it feels like an alien inside of you."
But it kinda does feel like an alien inside of you.
I think the closest thing I can compare it to is like
big bubbles moving around in your stomach.
Like, if you have a really, really big
air bubble moving around
like, that's kind of how it feels from the inside.
Sometimes I can tell what the body part is.
Like, you can, if it's bigger,
you can kind of tell it's like their butt
and if it's more jabby, it's either like a hand or a foot.
But it is hard to nail down where exactly he's positioned
and like what body part is doing what.
It's more of just an overall like blalalala.
Does your skin hurt as your belly stretches?
I wouldn't say it hurts, it more itches for me.
Hi, honey.
(kid mumbles)
I'm right here on the couch, I'm making a video.
What is the best and worst thing about pregnancy?
So, the best thing for me this pregnancy
is I work at BuzzFeed and I work at Tasty
and everyone is so nice to me,
when they wrap their shoots,
they save me some of the leftovers
and so I'm constantly fed at work.
Another thing I love this time around being pregnant
is my kids are old enough to understand
and so they're very sweet
and they like to talk about,
"Oh, who's gonna teach the baby how to read?
"Who's gonna teach the baby how to play soccer?"
And then they throw out name suggestions
and they're really funny.
And they just, they get a lot of joy out of it
and so, that's been really amazing to watch.
The worst part of this pregnancy
has got to be what's called round ligament pain,
which I do not remember having with my other kids.
But there's a ligament that stretches
across the base of your stomach
and if you are exercising or exerting yourself
or even coughing, it really, really hurts.
It's like this shooting, stabbing pain.
Like when it first happened to me,
I did not know what was happening, I thought I was dying.
Is pregnancy painful?
Yes.
It is painful, it's not very comfortable.
I probably have a very different perspective than
somebody who loves being pregnant.
Do you want another baby after this one?
No.
How do the kicks feel?
I feel like a lot of people have this perception of
the kicks being like, "Oh, oh, how cute!"
But my kicks are like, boom!
Like, he's just banging on the walls.
Are the doctor's appointments invasive?
At the beginning, not really.
Towards the end, they will be more and more invasive
as they check to see if you're dilating,
which is your cervix opening in preparation for labor.
So, they will be like feeling and checking for that
and so it does get invasive.
That's why it's really important
to be really comfortable with whoever the OB may be.
Are you allowed to complain?
Yes, and loudly.
I mean, I think pregnant women
have every right to complain,
to vocalize any discomfort,
to vocalize any unhappiness.
I think that is the key to having
a healthy pregnancy and postpartum
is to be open and honest
because it is not all rainbows and butterflies
and the more we try to pretend that it is,
the more unhappy it can make somebody.
And last but not least, I got asked this question
at least a hundred times.
Does labor hurt?
The short answer is yes.
But the long answer is I think everybody
has a very different experience with labor.
Even from my first to my second child,
it was completely different.
But one thing is for sure, it hurt like heck.
By far the worst pain I've ever experienced
and it's very strange, it's very weird.
I only remember it because I wrote it down.
I can't physically remember what the pain felt like.
It is something that anyone who has been through
should be proud of
because it is pretty metal.
So, that's all I got for today.
I'm Hannah, and if you have
any more questions about pregnancy,
leave 'em in the comments
or you can message me directly on Instagram
and I might answer there
or I might see it in the comments and answer there.
And if I get enough, maybe we'll just make
a whole other video about it.
'Til next time!
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