- Hi guys!
So today is my 13 week pregnancy update
and I'm gonna talk about
all of the past symptoms that I've had
and things that I've been feeling in the past week.
I'm also gonna update on the down syndrome screening test
that we had at our 12 week scan.
They basically measure the fluid
in the back of the baby's neck in the scan
and then they did a blood test on me as well
and then that's all sent off to a lab
to then come up with a result.
So I got the results in the post
and I'm very pleased to say that my baby is low risk.
There is a chance.
It says "Your actual risk is one in 17 1/2 thousand."
So I think that's quite low risk
because I can't remember what Fraser's ratio was
but I remember Caleb was one in eight or 9,000
so this baby is like one in 17 1/2 thousand.
So the chance is extremely low of them
actually having down syndrome so that's brilliant news.
Anyway, the baby this week is the size of a kiwi
so it's still growing really, really fast
and I definitely feel like I'm starting to show.
So lots of symptoms this week have been letting off.
I've been feeling a little less tired which is brilliant.
I've been going to the loo a little bit less.
I've only been getting up once in the night
and really it's more at, like, five a.m.
I've been having really vivid dreams
and I think it's my body's way of waking me up
and hormones as well.
Like, my dreams have been so vivid and some quite scary
and just really, like, they feel so real.
At five a.m. most mornings, I wake up from a nightmare
but I think it's because I need to go to the loo
so I think it's my body's way of waking me up
to then go to the loo.
So for instance this morning,
I woke up at five because I had this nightmare
that I got into an elevator and I pressed the up button
but instead of going up in floors,
the elevator just started closing in on me.
Like it just started getting smaller and smaller
and, like, you couldn't do anything.
And I woke up like
(loud gasp)
Absolutely no sick feelings at the moment.
I'm still feeling really lucky about that.
I'm feeling really well and clear and bright and everything.
Just one symptom this week that's
been really getting me down.
And it's the major symptom that I've felt this week really.
It's just feeling a bit low and not--not depressed.
Just feeling a bit down about my body and stuff.
Cause I'm in that awkward stage.
I actually hate this stage of pregnancy
and I forget every time that I hate this stage
and now that I'm here, I'm like "Ugh, I hate this bit."
I don't really look pregnant but
then I don't really look normal.
I just look a little bit chubby around the middle.
I just look a little bit like I've got a pot belly
or something and yeah, I've just been feeling like "Ugh!"
And then in one of my 12 week updates,
I put up a picture of my bump
because someone would be like
"You're not showing your tummy.
You're not showing your tummy."
But really it's just showing, like,
it looks a little bit like my overweight tummy.
So I didn't really want to just show that off.
But anyway, so I showed it and then, like,
some people were like "Oh yeah, it's really big.
Like, it's a really big bump at 12 weeks."
And I was like, "Cheers!"
It just doesn't make you feel very good
and, like, I think I actually
just hate comments during pregnancy.
People always comment on my bump
and people always comment on my boobs
and I just think you would never, ever comment
on somebody's body or chest or something
if they weren't pregnant but as soon as you're pregnant,
people think it's like fair ground to just go
"Wow, your boobs are massive.
Oh my god, you're legs have grown."
Or "Your bump is huge."
Like, in previous pregnancies
because I am 5'3 and I think I get quite big in pregnancy.
I waddle really early and my bump has been huge.
I had quite big boys.
I had an eight one and then a seven seven.
So yeah, I had a few people in the past say
that I was the biggest pregnant person
that they'd ever seen in their life.
Loads of people making the twin comment like
"You sure it's not twins?"
Or loads of people predicting that I was gonna pop early
cause I was so big and I was late with both of them.
And yeah, I don't know.
I just think I'm feeling a bit like "Ugh!"
Obviously when you're trying for a baby,
all I was focused on was getting pregnant
and having a third baby and that's my main focus
and I'm, like, so pleased that I'm pregnant.
I'm so, so happy that we're gonna have another baby.
But now that I'm getting bigger,
I'm like "Oh yeah, like, I'm gonna have to get huge
and deal with these comments and probably get
more stretch marks and probably get,
you know, I just feel a bit like ugh."
Like you are just giving your whole body up to something.
And it's hard for, say, me to, like,
explain it to my husband because, you know,
he's having another baby.
He doesn't have to give anything up.
He doesn't have to get huge and then lose it
and then like bleh!
(making blowing sounds)
How I'm acting at the moment is not very me.
Like, I do feel like it's hormones
because I'm, like, a really positive person.
I'm not really, like, worry about it later.
Like, I'm sure I'll get it back
and I'm sure it'll all be fine
but, so I just feel like
something else is, like, taking over.
The thing that's really been helping this week though,
you may have seen it, is G. Fletcher.
She posted a picture of her post-baby bump
and basically commented saying that a woman,
like a stranger, had said "Oh, mommy's still got her tummy"
11 days after she'd given birth.
And basically how she was so grateful to her body for that
and if she has a bump then,
and stretch marks, like, who cares?
Yeah and she posted a video on her channel.
It's like her latest video.
I'll link it down below if you want to check it out
but it just really, like, kind of helped me
put things into perspective.
Like, I'm not even massive yet.
Really, it doesn't matter what's happening to your body
because you're gonna get something
so beautiful at the end of it so that's gonna bring you
joy and happiness and love and all of this amazing stuff.
So, just need to, like, suck it up.
But it was really timely actually.
Her video on that and me feeling like that this week.
It was actually, like, it really did help me
so thank you for that, G.
I think this has been a bit of a downer this week.
But basically I'm perfectly healthy.
The baby's perfectly healthy.
My major cravings.
I've been drinking a lot of lemon water, I must admit,
because water I'm still finding a little bit too, like,
plain and makes you feel a little bit nauseous
so lemon water has been great and hot lemon water as well.
Mueller Lights I'm still obsessed with
and fruit I've been loving eating loads
of pineapple and fruit and stuff.
Just want to say thank you so much for all of your support
and all of your lovely comments
and to everybody who has sent me messages
or commented on my videos and things.
I read every single one of them
and I just really, really appreciate it.
It really has helped.
I don't think you'd realize how nice it's been.
I think that's it for this week
so thank you so much for watching
and I'll be back next week and hopefully in a better mood.
And I'll see you very soon.
Bye!
Where it's got its little leggy!
Like stretched out.