Well, hi. I'm Emily, and my hair is like a mushroom. Hi guys, I'm back with my seven
week pregnancy update. I'm going to be eight weeks tomorrow, so I'm going to talk about
how the last week has been, any symptoms I've had, and stuff like that. First, I just wanted
to say that the baby at the start of the week was the size of a blueberry, and now it's
getting more like the size of a kidney bean. That's pretty cool, and it's also got little
hands and feet now coming from like the arm buds and stuff. It's also got eyelids, a nose,
and the baby's brain is growing. It's all happening really. It's just so amazing, isn't
it, how quickly it all develops even though it's that tiny.
My uterus apparently has doubled in size in the past five weeks, which is probably why
I am feeling a little bit bloated. This is my third pregnancy, and I feel like I've got
a little bit of a mum tum already and just so much quicker than with my other two. Especially
Fraser, I definitely didn't show until well after 12 week mark. With Caleb, I felt like
I was showing from eight weeks. This time, again, I just feel like my body's like popping
out already. I've had no morning sickness so far, so that's
really good. I sometimes feel a little bit nauseous but absolutely no sickness yet, which
is great because I'm over halfway through my first trimester and I haven't had any of
that. That's really good. I definitely need to go to the loo more. I need to wee more
often, so I'm definitely feeling that side effect at the moment, but it's really tricky
because they recommend that you drink more during pregnancy, and I'm actually more thirsty
as well, so I want to drink more, but I'm constantly having to run to the loo. I'm finding
it hard to get through even an hour long meeting at work without needing to run to the loo.
Also a night, that's really annoying. I'm having to maybe get up in the night now and
go to the loo. According to my Baby Center app as well, I've
now got 10% more blood running through my body preparing for the baby. By the end of
my pregnancy I'll have 45% more blood running through my whole body, and I think that's
why you sort of feel so full of water and so puffy at the end of the... My youngest
has just woken up from his nap, so he's just laying on the couch watching Inside Out if
you hear that behind you, but I'll just finish this video while he's awake.
Still, I'm really suffering with sore breasts. They just feel so big and so sore. That is
the main symptom that I've had. It's just the pain of these, and if I'm not wearing
a bra it's really sore. I might have to invest in some you know the maternity almost like
sports bras to wear in a bed. Just tired still. Just a little bit more tired
than usual. Gone off a few foods, and most of the foods that I've gone off have been
vegetables, which is not great, but the other night we made bolognese with courgette seeds,
so it's just like courgette noodles, and I ate a few bites of it, and I was just like,
"Oh." I just couldn't finish it. The courgette just made me feel really sick, and I never
really leave dinners like that. I couldn't eat.
Smells are still affect me. My sense of smell is definitely still heightened, and I am smelling
smells like if there's anything off in the fridge or anything like that it just really
hits me. I've also been feeling really cold, and I don't know if that's just because it's
January or anything to do with the pregnancy. I've just had a few days now where I've felt
all day I have not been able to get warm. No matter how many layers I have on, I'm just
feeling cold. I actually felt really cold throughout the pregnancy with my youngest.
With my oldest, I was boiling how the whole time. It's funny because now that they're
here, Fraser is a really, really hot person. He sweats if he goes to soft play or anything
like that. Caleb is quite a cold person. I don't know if this baby is going to be a cold
baby. Yeah, one new symptom that I've had this week
that I've not experience until now is really vivid dreams. I don't know if it's my hormones
or something, but last night in particular I had the most horrendous nightmare, and it
felt so real like I can remember like names, places, people. It was so clear I actually
dreamed that I went to pick Fraser up from school, and he wasn't there. I'd asked where
he went, and he'd gone home with someone called Hamish. It was just this horrible dream where
I was trying to find him, and then I work up like, "Huh," like really, really, "Huh."
He was actually in our bed. I was just like cuddling him. It felt so real.
Still dying to know when my scan date is. I haven't had a letter yet from my doctor.
I just can't wait to tell people, because it just feels like this secret, and I just
want to tell everyone. I feel a little bit like I've lost a bit of color, and I just
feel a bit like, "Blah." I don't know if that because that's the way I feel, or if it is
actually showing in the way I look. It would just be nice to be able to say to people like,
"I'm pregnant. That's why I look so tired." We still have absolutely no names. We've talked
a little bit about names. All the names I like are probably more Canadian names, and
my husband doesn't really like them. We just have absolutely nothing, but we've got ages
still, so keep you updated on the name thing. Although I feel like this pregnancy is already
really slow, because I haven't been able to tell anyone, it is amazing how quickly you
can make and have a baby. My friend Lucy is getting married in 2017, like early 2017,
and I was thinking, "I'll have a six month old baby by then." That is just insane to
me that it's that quick. Anyway not a massive update this week, but
those are the symptoms I've been having in week number seven. Yes, definitely keep watching
if you're interested in how the rest of my weeks go. Thank you so much for watching,
and I'll see you very soon. Bye. Hi, guys. This is my six week update. I'm
at the very end of my sixth week of pregnancy. At the start of the week the baby was the
size of a lentil.