it has been brought to my attention that
everybody's favorite very really useful
always practical youtube channel five
minute crafts has been doing pregnancy
life hacks i'm mom and doctor jones a
board certified ob gyn a month four and
today we're going to see if five minute
crafts life hacks for doing basic tasks
while pregnant hold up to obstetrician
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okay we have a giant unicorn pool floaty
and an apparently
quite tolerant partner because my
husband would be
making his way to the couch if i brought
that to bed with me
and she's gonna sleep on her stomach on
it
i can definitely vouch for the fact that
getting comfortable while pregnant in
general but also while sleeping and
especially while sleeping is very
difficult but i'm not sure a giant
unicorn pool floatie is gonna be the
best way to go about that i mean i feel
like laying in that and hunching over
the edges would be incredibly
uncomfortable on its own but also why
the unicorn head is there something
inherent to the unicorn head that makes
you more comfortable than just a smaller
round pool floaty i don't understand if
i woke up in the middle of the night at
2am to pee for the third time and open
my eyes to that thing looking at me in
my bed it would completely freak me out
okay now we have dad playing with
toddler and a remote control car and mom
cleaning up popcorn that i spilled on
the floor she seemed to do okay until
she went to stand up um i feel like the
solution for that would be just
turn
the panhandle over so that you don't
drop it but i mean
she's sweeping it up again dad's still
playing with the toddler
they both notice mom needs some help the
natural next step would be to help her
okay
so we're sweeping it up with a broom
handle that's attached to the remote
control truck
innovative
i mean that looks like a lot of fun but
i can't understand why
we would go through all of that
destroying a long handle broom attaching
it to the kids toy instead of dad just
getting up and
sweeping the popcorn up for mom but
making the whole rcv
sweeper is probably way more fun clearly
practical
ah tying your shoes classic pregnancy
difficulty task yep
and
dad notices she needs help is he gonna
tie her shoe for her
nope we're gonna take the shoelaces out
and
use some hair bands
oh we used to do this like in junior
high i think
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yeah so we're gonna loop all the
all the hair bands
through to create some elastic shoelaces
and now our shoes are slip-on shoes i
got it i mean that's cute and probably
would actually make your shoes a little
easier to put on maybe i don't know how
practical it is i would probably just
you know wear a different shoe but
she seems happy about it
okay we're watching
her try to get a book from a shelf off
of the couch dad gets up he's gonna go
help
she doesn't want the basket
she doesn't want that book
has pregnancy also removed her ability
to communicate with her partner why
can't she just tell him what book she
wants
oh my gosh there's only one left why
didn't you just guess the last book that
he's tried everything else on the shelf
now she's looking he's going to get a
vacuum cleaner
and give it to her and she's going to
suction the books to herself
oh
i mean
you know that seems a little unnecessary
i feel like he could just ask her which
book and she could in whatever way she
typically communicates communicate to
him what book she would like or maybe
she could just you know get off the
couch and go get that book probably
easier than bringing a vacuum cleaner
into all of this but hey five minute
crafts you are on a roll every single
one of these totally practical
definitely needed things i would have
never thought of myself okay now the
difficulty getting the shoes on again
wait those are the same shoes
what happened to the fancy shoelaces he
made with the elastics we already
decided that that would be helpful
and they're tied
how come she can tie her shoes now but
she couldn't tie them earlier
why is he looking through the clothes
rack like that what is happening this is
so weird
so he's going to give her a meter stick
or a yardstick
and
use it as a shoe slip
yeah i mean i feel like that could work
they also have things that are made to
do that but i also just don't understand
why now she can tie her shoes
or why now she can put them on with them
already tied but not earlier
okay we're in the woods
she's struggling it looks like that does
not look like biodegradable toilet paper
but i what why is he in the tree
watching her pee despite being
very much not walking distance to a
toilet we happen to have a lawn chair a
toilet seat and an x-acto knife right on
hand where did they get all these
supplies all of a sudden life hack
assuming you have all of these things on
hand you can just make this
are all their videos like this i guess
all of their videos are like this
okay we're gonna cut that out great
uh-huh all right
this seems unnecessary so we've cut a
hole in the bottom of the chair we have
put a toilet seat on top of it and we
have put a plastic bag under it so that
she can do her business in the woods
without having to squat down
this might be a hot take but i'm just
gonna say if you are so pregnant that
you can't squat
in the woods to pee
and you are not walking distance to a
bathroom you're also probably a little
bit too far away from medical care if
you should need it usually in these
videos with i hope that you learned
something today but i highly doubt there
was any learning to be added thank you
for being here maybe next time we will
go through some packs for getting
comfortable or altering your clothes
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