- So today,
is like day seven or week seven and a half-ish
and I'm feeling like garbage.
I would say my first trimester was a lot of nausea.
I need to eat something, but I don't want to get up.
And a lot of tiredness and exhaustion.
(yawning)
I don't know how people do it.
And I think if you're going through the first trimester
and those are your symptoms,
give yourself a freaking break.
Hey guys, my name is Shayla
and I make these videos every Wednesday.
I started this channel 2015 and I was traveling full-time.
Now, recently I just found out I'm pregnant.
So, the channels taking a bit of a turn.
So excited about because I get to talk to you about
all of the real things that are happening.
It is a very beautiful process,
but there's also like weird stuff
that you just don't know when you first start.
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or you know someone who's pregnant or a new mom,
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The first thing that I want to say,
from what I've learned from hearing from everyone
is everyone's experience is so different.
Person to person and pregnancy to pregnancy.
So, if you're not experiencing
the things that I'm experiencing, it's fine,
but I just wanted to share with you what I am,
because I don't know, some of them are funny.
First things first, I was not trying to get pregnant.
There is a natural planning method that you can use
to track your ovulation, track your cycles,
that's what I was doing.
So, I was not really like being like,
oh I need to take my pregnancy test, whatever.
Seth was actually the one that's like,
could you maybe pregnant?
And I was like (laughs)
I wanted to have Tahini on everything.
Tahini I think is like a sesame seed butter,
like not peanut butter, but sesame seed butter,
I don't know.
I was like mixing it in my hummus
and being like why doesn't everybody
put Tahini in their hummus?
Putting it on my eggs, putting it on my salads,
like putting it on pasta, everything.
I wanted Tahini on everything.
And this is like four weeks.
So, this is not, I don't know.
Like, sometimes I questions if these are actual symptoms,
'cause they're so soon,
but I talked to a hormone doctor
who said when you get pregnant
you're body just goes click, click, click, click, click
and all these things change immediately.
You just might not realize them right away.
The other thing is I was super emotional.
I had just gone to a party with my sister
and I came home and just started crying,
because I didn't feel like I belonged.
I felt like an outsider and I felt like they didn't like me.
Usually your feelings are right,
like you can't be like, oh well she's pregnant.
I don't know why she feels like that.
Your feelings are valid.
For me it's the response
that's a little but more heightened.
Like, normally I would be like,
I don't know, I just don't really feel like they like me.
This time I was like, I just don't feel like they like me
and I just don't feel like I belong anywhere.
Like, pfft.
Like feelings, real.
Reaction, hormones.
So, those two things Seth was like, um?
Let's go through a couple more things.
Okay people, I would say a lot of us
have just a little pooch, just a little pooch,
under your belly button just a little bubble.
Just a little extra somethin' somethin' right there.
None of us like it, but most of us have it.
Well, when you find out your pregnant
and your like trying to see if you're growing
or if like am I showing yet?
You're like is this pooch that I've always had
or is this the baby?
And your baby's like this big.
I remember being at wedding
and just going like this to Seth.
Like this is our little (laughs)
this is the size of our baby.
I can't wait to watch these video in a couple years
and be like, wow she was a little crazy.
I felt like I just kept confusing the pooch
that I knew has always been there
with like, am I showing now?
Is this me showing?
So, get ready for that.
All of the sudden I had no need for tampons.
Tryin' hand 'em out like Tic Tac's.
Like, oh you got your period, you want a whole box?
You need to borrow a tampon?
How 'about five?
Because you're not showing, you're not pushing out,
but baby's still getting bigger,
you're uterus is still getting bigger,
things are still getting bigger.
So, all of the sudden you're just getting
fuller and fuller and fuller on the inside,
nothing is pushing out yet,
but you're just like, I feel like full.
Your insides are growing and its very strange.
You feel nauseous, you feel sick.
Some people describe it as a hangover.
I described as like feeling car sick all the freaking time.
Things that I can recommend that desperately helped me.
Saltines, I bought an entire box of saltines
and I kept them in my car and they were just there.
So, that if I needed snack or something ever,
I could eat them.
You need to make sure that you eat,
because when you don't eat, that's when you get nauseous.
For me, maybe it's different for you,
but like if I started to get hungry,
I started to get sick.
So, then sometimes I would eat and eat and eat
trying to get rid of this nausea,
and then I would cause more nausea,
because I ate too much.
They say small, but a lot of meals.
The other things that help are these things.
These we just bought at Target.
They're like little, I don't know,
they're little, they're acupressure.
And so, it's suppose to go on your wrist.
You just put them on and you wear them
like cute little bracelets, that's it.
There's a couple different versions, these are great,
but they actually helped me.
I just wear them all the time.
Ginger chews, these are also super helpful.
I got these at Kowalski's,
but they just help to like settle your tummy
and then obviously essential oils, peppermint.
Just like rubbing it all over you to stop the nausea
or peppermint gum.
Yeah, nausea's real, nausea's not fun,
but as soon as the nausea goes away,
your like am I even pregnant?
Am I even pregnant anymore?
I don't know.
I don't know, it's this battle that you go through.
The other thing is you can't drink, obviously,
but you also are not sharing that your pregnant yet,
'cause your not suppose to share until the second trimester.
So, you're going to things and your like,
no I don't need anything to drink
and for me, I'm not a big drinker,
so it wasn't a huge indicator for people.
I was like what can I do instead
and soda water and lime, first of all, taste's great.
Second of all, it kind of looks like a cocktail.
So, that's what I started drinking
and now I still drink it even though people know
I'm pregnant, because I just kind of like, it's like,
oh it's bubbly and I feel like I'm drinking something.
You can't have Kombucha from what I've read.
Or mocktails, mocktails are so fun.
My favorite is a mojito.
I tried like ginger beer or ginger ale
and it's just a lot of sugar.
Like I said, I'm not a big drinker,
I'm not somebody who is,
but we'll go to a movie and Seth's like I'll have a beer
and I'm like can I smell it?
I keep trying like NA wine,
like wine that doesn't have any alcohol in.
Just tastes like grape juice and Amber's like,
it kind of is just grape juice.
I have a filtered water bottle.
This made me feel very comfortable
about getting water at airports.
It's got a whole filter inside.
So, you just feel up the water bottle
and then you just drink the filtered water.
Cravings are also very real.
So, I went back and forth from having like,
like I wanted miso soup.
I was like Seth, I want some miso soup,
can I have miso soup?
We went to the sushi place
and he got me two cups of miso soup.
We didn't even get sushi, 'cause I can't have sushi.
So, we got two cups of miso soup to-go
and when he got in the car I was like,
did you grab soups?
He's like, oh I forgot to grab spoons.
(loud slurping)
I don't care, I was drinking the miso soup.
Then I wanted chocolate almond milk.
We went to get it and as soon as we get out
of the grocery store, in the car chugging chocolate milk.
Like I wanted pickles, then I wanted beans,
then I wanted this, then I wanted this.
He'd be like, do you want to go out to eat tonight?
And I'm like ,yes I want Mexican food!
Like I knew exactly what I wanted.
It was the opposite of like,
I don't know, what do you want to eat?
I just like knew exactly what I wanted.
Then I was like I don't want anything.
I have an aversion to everything.
Pickles, meh.
Ice cream, meh.
Like I was craving side salad.
Like with the green lettuce and the like cherry tomatoes
and the cucumber, the croutons, and like ranch dressing.
I was like I want something simple and basic
and that's what I want.
I just wanted really light food.
It was very, it's just so weird.
I am 10 weeks pregnant and it's still a secret
which is so difficult for me.
Not like to keep it a secret,
but I still want to talk about it.
Two more weeks and I can do that,
but what I'm learning is that I have major aversions.
Like I don't want a lot of things.
Like I can't decide what I want,
'cause nothing sounds good.
So, I'm hoping that that changes in two weeks,
but I'm also learning.
I was like soup, soup works.
I can have a soup and I eat it and like it's great.
So, I just went to the store
and bought like four things of soup,
and now I'm like, oh I don't want soup,
I'm going to have too much soup.
There's just no winning and I'm learning that like,
the budget right now for me,
the place where it's increasing the most is groceries.
So, wish us luck.
When you think about your food,
you're literally concerned about everything you can't eat.
You can't have deli meat,
and I feel like this is different country to country,
because like sushi, I feel like in Asian countries
everybody eats it, but maybe it's a different kind of fish.
I don't know.
There's a lot of herbal stuff.
A lot of the hippie things are like,
oh we don't know about that.
Google, it now just cues.
I'll be like, can I have blank
and then it will be like when I'm pregnant,
and I'm like thank you Google.
And so, I'm looking it up all time,
because I'm just so hyper paranoid about what I can do.
I think that this is just me being like psycho
about everything, because my sister's like, oh I ate that
or like I have friends that are like,
one cup of coffee, pfft.
The very first time I went through the airport
and I was like, I know that Google says
these machines are safe and I know that you're saying
these machines are safe,
but I don't want to go through your machines.
And they're like, well we can do like a pat down
and I was like, okay.
One girl was like is this your first pregnancy?
I was like, how do you know?
(laughs)
She patted me down and I was good and I was good to go.
And I was like, yeah I did that for my baby.
(laughing)
Oh my Gosh.
This phone has like the face recognition
and I'm like no, I don't want it to know my face.
Then it's going to be on my data base,
but here I am on a YouTube channel, like.
I'm sort of hell bent on not buying maternity clothes,
I don't know why.
Well, these leggings, I just bought them.
They go all the way up to here.
So, they're suppose to cover your belly
and they're super stretchy.
Can you see that? (laughs)
We'll see if I can partner with them
and do a giveaway or something,
but they're suppose to like go all the way up,
all the way up to here. (laughs)
And just be super comfortable.
I'm not big enough yet, so they just keep falling.
That's the other thing!
I'm not big at all.
My jeans aren't buttoning
and there's like a hack that you can do
with your ponytail where you loop it through the hole
and then you hook your button to it,
so it gives a little give.
Been doin' that, 'cause I don't want to buy new clothes.
I'm like I can just wear yoga pants,
which is actually working out fairly well.
Everyday, every single day I'm like, Seth am I showing?
And if I eat a huge meal, whoa then I'm really showing,
but I always qualify with like,
well if someone looked at me they wouldn't be like,
that girls pregnant, they'd just think,
oh she's really wide. (laughs)
Part of me wants to be just like huge
and be like I'm pregnant and everyone knows it
and the other part of me is like,
well then after the baby's born
I want to go back to not being huge.
So, it's just a lot, a lot is going on.
Hormones are raging,
I like need to make sure I take my vitamins,
I need to listen to everyone's advice,
I think I'm kind of just like up here about all the things,
where I need to just like chill a little bit.
I'm going to start meditating, that should be helpful.
And because I'm not growing,
because I feel like I'm not growing,
I don't take update pics as often as I should be.
Anytime I had a symptom in the first trimester,
I'd be like oh, I feel sick or oh, am I being hormonal.
Oh, this, that, whatever.
My sister'd be like, I feel like you're too early
to be having symptoms.
Well, that's not how I feel.
I feel like I'm really having symptoms.
I would say my first trimester was a lot of nausea
and a lot of tiredness and exhaustion.
And I think if you're going through the first trimester
and those are your symptoms, give yourself a freaking break.
Let your body start to do what it does.
Then around week 13 for me is when my nausea
started to like wear off.
Apparently, the placenta
then takes over most of the hormones.
So, it kind of relieves your body.
So, now that I'm in the second trimester I am moody AF.
I've already cried this morning.
I was talking to Amber this morning and I swore
and she yelled at me for swearing
and I came downstairs to cry.
I just can't right now
and I came downstairs laid in bed and cried.
I know that I'm not that crazy.
Like I can be a little crazy,
but I'm not that crazy.
So, when this stuff happens,
I use to be able to identify it
and be like, (laughs) sorry.
Now, I'm like I can't stop.
I know that this is silly, but I can't stop,
but whatever you know?
So, zero judgment people.
Zero judgment to all of you.
Also, if you get those apps, I have three on my phone.
So, I can read each of them and I'm like what?
Four inches, the other app says four and a half.
You said avocado this week,
the other said avocado last week.
Avocados can be this big, I've seen avocados this big.
I'm like what do you mean it's an avocado?
Like what does that even mean?
Yeah.
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So that they can,
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Thank you guys all so much for watching.
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Comment below with any symptoms
that you had for your trimester,
because I'm curious to see how they're different
or the same as mine.
Thanks for watching.
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See you guys all next Wednesday.
Bye.
(gasps)
[Ultrasound Tech] kicking all over.
- [Shayla] Oh my gosh.
- [Seth] That's awesome.