Hey guys, my name is Shayla
and I make these videos every Wednesday.
My channel started in 2015,
when I was traveling full-time.
Now, I'm "prognant."
So we're going to talk about "prognancy."
I just did my pregnancy announcement video
two videos ago,
and people are very opinionated about it.
They are...
angry
that I am just going to talk about pregnancy now.
But like, well this is my life now.
The other thing is I said that we were doing natural,
the natural method,
and a lot of people were like,
"She's dumb."
"She did the natural method
and then she's surprised she's pregnant."
Well, I understand what you're saying
but you can use the natural method
to try and prevent pregnancy.
My cycles are just very...
They vary a lot,
and so, now we're pregnant.
So in the video, we were both very shocked
and people were like,
"They don't want to have a baby."
"They need to get married."
And it's like,
well, no, actually, it was just really surprising.
And...
Now we're really excited.
So.
I think, normally, these things would not bother me
but my hormones are like, "Whoa!"
"Why are people so mean?"
That's not what this video's about,
but if you do want to watch my announcement video
or my weird symptoms in first trimester video,
I'll link them.
But this video is about the symptoms that I was having
when I first kind of got like, mmm
could I be pregnant?
And I remember,
well I guess there's two things I want to say about it.
Thing number one is,
everyone's symptoms are different.
So I watched videos and I was like,
"No, I don't have any of those symptoms"
and I was pregnant.
Or I'd watch videos and be like,
"She's speaking my soul!"
It's- It's a weird, stressful time
because you have to wait to take the test,
but you don't want to get too excited,
or, if you're trying,
or you're like, nervous that you could be
and you're looking up all these symptoms
and a lot of the symptoms are the same
as getting your period,
which would mean that you're not pregnant.
Super confusing,
but I'll share with you some of mine.
I wrote them down
so I'm going to keep looking down to reference them.
Yes, I'm sitting on the floor,
by the way.
First thing is I had cravings.
Like, I always kind of thought that cravings were bull
I was like, "Okay, you're just like,
I can eat for two now, so I'm going to have all these-"
No.
It's not, "Oh, what do you want to eat tonight?"
and I'm like, "Well, I don't know,"
I'm like, "Mexican food."
Or I want...
miso soup
or I want whatever.
So, in the first two weeks,
I wanted tahini on everything.
And I said this in the first video of like
weird trimester things,
or weird first trimester things...
The fridge just shut off.
Well that's nice.
I wanted tahini on everything.
So much,
that I was questioning... like this is a lot.
Why do I want tahini on...
I finished a bottle.
So cravings can be something that's kind of weird
or just aversions to food.
When you find out,
so technically when you conceive,
you're at week two already.
That was kind of something that was confusing to me.
I found out on day...
23.
So that would be like,
that would be like three weeks.
Your period's day one,
a week later is week one.
Usually you conceive around week two,
and then I found out a week later.
Anyway, so cravings is something.
And then...
moody.
I am... I'm typically a pretty level headed person.
I don't get too moody,
I'm kind of like pretty chill in general.
Not this time.
Seth kind of said,
'cause I asked him to help me with some of these,
he's like, "You were just very quick to get angry at people
or just very quick to respond in an emotional way
and you were just like, kind of, fiery and really..."
'Cause we were working out and he did something
and I was just pissed.
And I don't know.
I went to a party with my sister
and I came home and just started bawling
and I was like "I don't think they like me."
"I don't fit in."
Like, crying.
And that's just not typically ... I'd be like,
"Oh, I don't know, I just don't feel like I fit in
or they don't like me or something."
The feeling's usually right.
It's the emotional response that's a little bit elevated.
I had to pee a lot.
I always have to pee a lot.
So this has kind of been a thing for me always.
But I had to pee a lot, a lot.
Like, more than usual.
So that could be a symptom?
So when I say we did "natural planning,"
or I did natural planning,
not natural planning, natural tracking.
There are three things that you need to check.
If you are someone who's into TMI,
you can stop now.
If you're like,
"Oh, what does this have to do with?"
I'm not going to go into all the details
'cause you can google it
and there's a lot of information that you can find.
But basically there's three things you look at.
You look at basal body temperature,
which is your temperature the first thing in the morning.
So you literally, before you do anything,
roll over, take your temperature.
Automatically go on my phone
so it tracked my basal body temperature
and when your temperature spikes
that's when you ovulate.
Then, you can track cervical fluid.
I'll let you google that.
There's just different consistencies
and it means like, you're pregnant or you're not
or you're about to ovulate or different things.
And then, I don't what they call this but like,
cervical tenderness, I guess.
So like, it's either,
feels like the tip of your nose or your chin.
And so, you can kind of tell
if you know these things ahead of time.
You have to start tracking it before you're pregnant
because then you're like,
"Oh, this is soft, this is hard."
And if it stays soft, then you're pregnant.
So, like, these kind of things
that I could tell from my body,
I was like, uh?
So I wrote it down.
I ovulated on day 12.
I had a negative pregnancy test on day nineteen
but if you watch my announcement video
there's a line.
And you will go absolutely insane looking for the line.
I had another friend who watched my video that was like,
"I will never be able to
take a pregnancy test the same again,
because I will always just look for that line.
Not happy with you Shayla."
And I was like, "Sorry."
Then, I don't why,
but I just took another pregnancy test on a random day.
Well, probably because I had these symptoms.
On day 23
and that one was like, "Girl, you pregnant."
There's a book.
I don't know what the book's called.
I'll look it up
and I'll link that below too.
It's so interesting to me.
Just, like, how everything works
and what tells you about the females.
It tells you about the males.
It tells you about all the things.
It was just, it's just so interesting to me.
There's a book called Mindful Pregnancy
and it's- I would highly recommend it.
It's made by the Headspace app guy.
And it just, kind of,
tries to coach you through just relaxing.
Fertility or letting your
pregnancy happen in a healthy way or whatever.
So, that's another book that I really, really enjoy.
Those were my symptoms.
I hope that this was helpful.
I also hope that...
You just try and relax
because I know this waiting period is not fun.
So all of my love goes to you,
and I hope that you are doing well.
And if you want to check out my other videos
I would love that!
If you want to subscribe to my channel,
it's going to be all about the pregnancy,
and giving you real, real tidbits of it.
So, thank you so much for watching
and I will see you next week.
Muah. Bye!