Hi guys. This day is going to be my 18 and 19 week pregnancy update. I was going to split
the updates up, but every time I posted a video I just got so many comments and messages
about the gender reveal. When is it? Have you got the ring back? Do you know what you're
having? All these messages, and I was like, if I knew, I would tell you. So I was like,
wow, I'm not posting another video until it's my gender reveal. But that is up now. I'll
link it below if you haven't seen it. But I'm going to spoil it now. We are having another
boy, we found out. I'm going to be a mum of boys. I'm going to have three sons, and I
was so emotional when I found out, and I think anyone else who's found out will probably
know what I'm saying, but it just makes it so real to think, right, there's a boy in
there, and he's coming out, and he's going to be my son, and I can now say he and him.
And I've been feeling so much movement lately. Yeah, it just all feels very real, and I've
done this twice before and I'm nearly halfway, so I don't know why I'm feeling like oh my
gosh, but it's just amazing, isn't it? He's doing really, really well, though. We had
a checkup this week. It was actually my 16 week checkup, but I had it in my 19th week
because everything's a bit behind. So, yeah, so at the moment he's about 14 centimeters
long, which is about the size of a grapefruit or a mango, so getting quite large. At this
stage, as well, his skin is starting to get color, so up until now it's been translucent,
but now he's now getting some color in his skin. He can even start growing some hair
now. In my midwife appointment this week, as well,
I got to hear the heartbeat, which was really, really nice. I panicked a bit at first, because
when she first put it on my stomach, all you could hear was my heartbeat and it was obviously
a lot slower. And she had to go right down to my pubic line to hear the heartbeat, and
she said I carry very, very low. Could then hear his heartbeat. It was 136 beats per minute,
and that was interesting, because apparently if your baby is under 140 beats per minute
it's a boy, and if it's over 140 beats per minute it's a girl, so that was correct and
that's been correct on my scans, as well. It's always been around 135, 136. So yeah,
you could hear it. It was really strong, and she said it was, sounded like a very happy
baby. All of my bloods came back normal. No HIV,
AIDS, syphilis, all that good stuff. I'm immune to rubella, and everything was just normal.
She did my blood pressure and she was really pleased with that. It was like 98 over 60,
so that was really low, apparently, for pregnancy, so that's good. So yeah, everything was just
really, really good and routine and standard, so she said the way things are going I would
be a perfect candidate for a home birth, so I'm still thinking about that. But I need
to just see how the rest of the pregnancy goes. I don't have to make any decision until
36 weeks. As I said, as well, I'm feeling loads of movement,
and she said that my placenta is actually posterior, which means that the baby's positioning
is also in the back of me or something, so she said that's another reason why I'm probably
feeling so much movement. And now some of the kicks are actually taking me by surprise.
I'll be at work, and I'm like, ooh, oh yeah. So sometimes I forget that I'm pregnant, where
it's my third and I'm so busy, oh yeah, there he is. So it is taking me by surprise sometimes.
But yeah, a really lovely feeling, and I am feeling it most when I sit down and relax
in the evening and I chill out on the couch. Then he really goes for it.
Still feeling really, really well. I was thinking about it, and I actually think that this pregnancy
has been my easiest and best one so far, which is great, because he's my third. If it had
been a really hard pregnancy and I still had to try and look after the boys, it would have
made things really difficult. But I'm feeling so well. The tiredness is gone. I feel completely
normal. The only one thing that I do get sometimes is breathlessness still. Apparently that is
just your hormones, but sometimes I feel so unfit because I'm like ... when I'm just chatting
or go up some stairs or something like that. So I've only had a bit of breathlessness and
a little bit of dizziness lately, but apparently that can be hormones, as well. So if I stand
up really fast, sometimes I'm like oh, I need to just kind of get my balance back.
So the baby and I are doing really well, and because it's a boy I've been thinking about
what I need to plan, what I need to do to the nursery, and I basically have absolutely
everything that I'm ever going to need for this baby boy. We have all clothes. We have
all toys. We have everything. So that's all really good, and I'm so, so pleased that we
kept everything, because you know, you're putting bags and bags of stuff into the loft,
and you're like, am I ever going to need this? But yes, I'm so pleased that I actually did
all of that. My eldest son's reaction to having another
boy has been so, so sweet. Fraser has been so excited, and he's been talking to my stomach
now and he's talking about how he's going to have another brother. He's obsessed with
the name Leo. I have no idea where he got it from, but he really, really wants to call
the baby Leo. And we actually had a different name in mind, and he said that he actually
hates the name that I like and that the baby's going to be called Leo, and he's now talking
to my stomach and saying, "Hi baby Leo," and stuff, so I don't know what we're going to
do, but we've got 21 weeks to try and change his mind. But my husband and I were saying
now we might have to have the name Leo as a middle name or something, because he's just
got it in his head. So I think that's all I wanted to update on
in this video. We have our official 20 week scan at the hospital next week, so I'll let
you know how that goes. It's another chance to see the baby, which is always nice. And
yes, I think that's it for now, but I am officially the mum of boys. Wish me luck. Actually, now
I'm going to reread the book Raising Boys. I read it a little while ago, and it was so
good, but I'm going to reread it and remind myself about boys. Let me know in the comments
how you're getting on if you're pregnant, and if you like the name Leo, because I think
I'm going to have to get it in there somehow. But yes, thank you so much for watching, and
I'll see you very soon. Bye. Hi everyone, so today is our long-awaited
gender reveal.