stick around because I'm dishing on all the important details regarding week 23
of pregnancy specifically like relating to me. Welcome
back to my channel I am so happy to have you here today I'm
dishing on all the big things for my week 23 so if you are pregnant and
wondering what week 23 looks like for other women
well you've come to the right place because I am one of those other women my
name is Brittany I'm an RN but I am now a stay-at-home mom or a SAHM to my 20
week old or 20 week old oh my god pregnancy brain my 20 month old son Eli
and then I have baby girl coming due in March of 2019 so that's rapidly
approaching I'm currently five months pregnant or 23 weeks pregnant
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and talk about some stats of baby at week 23 of pregnancy she's about the
size of a large mango or grapefruit I don't have either of these in my
refrigerator but I'm sure you can use your imagination that's about a foot
long. what. I've never seen a foot long mango she's a little over a pound now
she doesn't have a lot of fat on her right now although her face is fully
formed and she's looking like a really miniature newborn she is real skinny so
not a lot of that baby chunk that everyone loves including me I can't wait
to squeeze it and she's listening to things she can hear what's going on
outside of the womb which is so exciting we have a German Shepherd so she barks
and I'm sure by the time this little gal arrives on
the scene the dog will bark and she's gonna be like that's what that noise is
okay. I did not post a video for week 22 I was actually on vacation so instead I
posted a video about pregnancy anxiety and my pregnancy fears if you didn't see
that make sure to hop on over to that one after this so I guess I'm gonna kind
of talk through it's gonna be more specific to week 23 but if I feel like
the symptom was more prevalent in week 22 or whatever then I'll let you know
but generally speaking there wasn't a huge difference between the week 22
and week 23 so this was a nice little break it was a good time to have this
this stretch of time because I don't think I would have had much to update
you on. My biggest symptom or even complaint is pelvic pressure so I just
feel this general pressure down down deep down under my whole life and even
after I had my firstborn Eli I know that my pelvic support is not very strong
I've never had the best like pelvic muscles so I knew that this time around
might be a little bit rough as far as that's concerned that has definitely
like ramped up and I have mentioned this in previous videos but the last two
weeks and especially this last week I've really noticed basically if I'm up on my
feet I'm just very aware of my pelvis I wouldn't call it painful it's just like
a pressure feeling so what I'm doing is I'm wearing the belly support that I
showed in my week 21 update so my last pregnancy update if you're interested in
that hop over and take a look at that and if you have any questions let me
know but it does help especially if I'm going
on a long walk which I did on vacation a lot I walked a ton and every time I
knew I was going to be walking for an extended period of time I wore that and
then I'm just trying to make sure to take frequent breaks if I'm
on my on my feet a lot something else new and specific to this week I believe
is Braxton Hicks contractions so if I've been moving around a lot I'll notice my
belly just feels super super super tight I assume it's Braxton Hicks contractions
it's not painful to me and I have this like a few times a day maybe so just
making sure to stay hydrated all the things are supposed to do take a break
if you feel like it's getting overwhelming or whatever if it's a lot in a
short period of time so there's been nothing scary or
anything like that okay let's talk about veins I've talked a lot about varicose
veins but I'm just going to talk about veins in general my veins are even a
little bit worse since my last update even though I'm really trying not to
stay in the same position for too long keep my legs elevated when I can yeah
that's been a huge bummer I'm super terrified of these veins because I'm afraid
they won't go away Which I know is petty it's like a small price
to pay for a beautiful baby but you know I'm a girl and I'd like to show my legs
off so I do have I do have a little bit more of that going on but then just in
general I am fairly I'm pretty fair-skinned I'd maybe I don't look like
it right now I definitely look like it right now I'm fair-skinned I just
went on vacation so this is my tan I've just noticed like veins in general I am
just kind of translucent I don't know but like I can see my veins everywhere
I'm just a veiny person right now another thing and I've experienced this
periodically over the last few weeks I just didn't it wasn't significant enough
mention until recently but I have had a few heart palpitations I have this
sometimes when excuse me I have this sometimes when I'm not pregnant so I
don't know if it's specific to pregnancy I think it is just like the extra blood
going through my body. heart is having to work extra hard right now but yeah I'll
notice like it'll just kind of skip a couple beats and then I go back to
normal so it's not symptomatic so I'm not experiencing shortness of breath or
anything with it it's just something I noticed periodically and baby is moving
around like crazy she's doing somersaults because one minute I'll feel
a kick over here and then I'll feel her turn and then I'll feel the kick on
the other side she is moving like crazy I need to try and capture it because you
can't actually see it outside the belly now my husband has seen it we've both
felt it my extended family has felt her kick she's a lot more active than I
remember eli being so i think she's gonna come out and just like hello this
is how things are now then i'm a little bit swollen so like i don't know if you
can see that this is my hand obviously kind of like hard to remove my ring
right now it leaves kind of a little indentation that's not normal for me
typically my ring is just like sliding on and off and then my shoes feel a
little tight so i am a little bit swollen those are
my major symptoms so i guess it's time to show off the baby bump so let's go
ahead and do that now okay here we go
and it feels really tight - she's growing like a little weed so that's it
for week 23 I have so many exciting things coming up exciting videos
obviously I'm gonna continue to do these weekly updates for the most part every
single week I will be doing a name reveal here soon once my husband and I
come to the conclusion so that'll be exciting to reveal and then I was going
to do some videos on postpartum depression and postpartum anxiety
because I did experience that with my son
I can't wait to share all of that with you if you like this video make sure to
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