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12 Week Pregnancy Symptoms, Relief and Recap
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Feb 28, 2025
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hello and welcome my name is heaven and
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I am a St home mother and wife I have a
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four-year-old toddler boy named Noah and
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I am currently 12 and a half weeks
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pregnant so today I'm going to be
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sharing my first trimester pregnancy
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symptoms as well as the relief options
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that I use to combat and help me with
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all of those early pregnancy symptoms so
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if you are new here I would love for you
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homemaking and motherhood content that
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is motivational realistic and relatable
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I post once or twice per week and I
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would absolutely love to have you guys
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here so let's go ahead and dive into
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today's pregnancy content so I'm just
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going to go ahead and start from the
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beginning and as I goow through this
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video if you two are pregnant or you
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have been pregnant in the past or you
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are wanting to get pregnant or you are a
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seasoned mama and you have done this
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many times before or a couple or few
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times before I would love for you to
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comment down below and maybe share some
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of your tips and symptoms with me as
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well so that we can kind of compare and
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help one another out as well as help
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others out who come across this video so
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I am going to be doing a full rundown
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from 4 through 12 weeks I know some
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people say that the second trimester
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begins at 12 weeks some say 13 some say
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14 I am not pretty particular with the
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12 through 14 so I don't know as long as
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as it's progressing and as long as baby
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is healthy I don't care if second
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trimester starts at 12 weeks or 14 weeks
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so we are 12 and 1/2 Weeks currently I
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didn't begin having any pregnancy
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symptoms until I was 5 weeks pregnant I
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did find out that I was pregnant three
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weeks until my pregnancy so that was
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about a week after ovulation and I did
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take an early at home pregnancy test the
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did the digital one and that one did
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give me a positive about six days before
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my expected menstrual cycle and then I
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waited a couple of days and took another
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test that was a little too less
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sensitive just to you know get that
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double confirmation and then after that
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you get more and more confirmation as
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your symptoms arrive and then as you
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schedule your prenatal appointment and
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get the blood work all of that stuff so
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yes I'm going to give you guys the full
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rundown so
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at four weeks I didn't have symptoms
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that I thought were pregnancy related
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more so hormonal and that first symptom
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was just breast tenderness that was the
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very first symptom that I started
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experiencing at about 4 and a half weeks
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pregnant and then around 5 and 1 half
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weeks pregnant is when the early nausea
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began which is completely different than
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my previous pregnancy with my son I
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didn't really experience any nausea into
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until
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maybe 9 weeks I think I had a good week
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where it was the worst this time was
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completely different I did experience
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some strong nausea from 5 and 1 half
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weeks till about 11 weeks of pregnancy 5
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and 1 half weeks it was very mou just
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easy nausea but then by week six it
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really started to ramp up and become
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difficult and I experienced the nausea
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the sensitive breast tender
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as well as
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indigestion and bloating and hunger
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pains so all of those things really
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started to kick in for me at about six
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and a half weeks and some of the things
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that helped me with that was making sure
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that I stayed hydrated with like easy to
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digest liquids so pretty much just water
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as well as fiber drinks and liquid
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IV and with the water I infused it with
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lemon juice lemon drops or peppermint
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leaves or peppermint drops things like
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that because just the plain water was
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not very good to me it just didn't taste
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good so I had to add something that I
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thought would actually help relieve the
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nausea but that would also help me
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actually want to stomach the water I did
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not drink and eat at the same time I
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quickly learned that that would make me
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really full at once so instead I would
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eat and then an hour later drink
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something and then an hour and a half
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later eat something small again eating
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small meals frequently or just snagging
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throughout the day is what helped me not
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to become too full and too nauseous
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because it was like that thing where if
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you don't eat you're nauseous and then
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after you eat you're nauseous that's
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what it was for me for some I know that
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it's even worse to where you can't
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really hold any anything down I did not
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experience any actual vomiting I just
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was all the time nauseous and couldn't
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really get it to go away it didn't ever
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really completely go away until about 11
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and 1/2 week but there were just little
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things that helped me so the eating
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small frequent meals was one making sure
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that I stayed hydrated after I ate I
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made sure that I sat up straight for a
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while after eating even if I was sitting
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in bed I still made sure that I sat
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upright and didn't actually lay down
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until a few hours after eating I was
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probably able to lay down comfortably at
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about 4 or 5 hours after eating um and
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that was like at night or even during
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the day I would just pretty much sleep
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sitting upright or reclined slightly and
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then for like the full digestion where I
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felt like okay now my stomach is empty
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that normally took about maybe 8 hours
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so that's why the small Ms was very
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important to not feel too full too
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bloated and like tun washes another
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thing that helped me with the nausea
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were these nausea sweets by Pink Sor and
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they are organic lenes with the sweet
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peppermint flavor organic peppermint oil
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and vitamin B6 vitamin B6 is known to
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help Leaf nausea so this is the nausea
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sweets by Pink stor that helped me
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another one that um a lot of people like
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is the Peggy Pop Drops these ones here
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this is a really popular one and it's
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just sour raspberry and sour lemon
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natural drug free hard candies and this
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one also contains vitamin B6 in it this
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one contains 10 Mig of vitamin B6 and
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then this one contains 15 Mig of vitamin
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B6 an actual dosage of vitamin B6 that
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my OB recommended was 25 Mig up to three
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times per day I wasn't a fan of this one
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only because they were really hard to
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eat my tongue would become raw and it
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would actually scratch my gums they just
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were kind of rough to eat so the hard
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ones did not work for me this is a hard
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candy too but they were a lot more
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smooth and they were smooth all the way
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down until it dissolved so this was
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easier for me and then that peppermint
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flavor helped me with that aftertaste
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that pretty much stuck around like up
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until now it's like after I ate anything
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I would just have like a weird
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aftertaste peppermint helps with that as
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well as with some of the congestion that
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you experience as well another thing
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that helped was the daily fiber
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supplement it's like a powder fiber that
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you just mix in with your water water as
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well as a probiotic supplement and this
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is the florister brand these are the
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ones that helps me just one of these per
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day those are all the things that I did
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to help me with the nausea and I spent a
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lot of time just laying down in bit not
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moving too much because the motion
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sickness can add to the nausea as well
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so I didn't really get in the car and
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drive anywhere unless I had to go to a
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doctor's appointment or somewhere that
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was important I probably only got in the
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car and gone
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somewhere maybe four times
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throughout that 6 to 11 and A2 weeks
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right around 7 and 1/2 weeks is when I
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began to experience the pregnancy
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exhaustion where I was sleepy all of the
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time and um that lasted up until
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indefinitely because I'm still currently
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sleepy all of the time like all of the
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time um even at 12 and 1/2 weeks so that
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started and wrapped up around 7 and 1/2
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weeks and I've been very sleepy ever
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since but I had a really hard time
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falling asleep so that is another thing
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that i' had been dealing with was the
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insomnia to help with insomnia you could
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ask your doctor about these it was on my
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approved list of things to take for
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pregnancy I know some people don't like
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taking anything for pregnancy but this
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unison
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helps for nausea and it also helps you
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to be able to get to sleep because there
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are sleep tabs but it does help with a
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few different things actually it helps
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with uncomfortable like stomach pains it
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helps with the uncomfortable like
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bloating it also help with congestion
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nausea it helps you to fall asleep and
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stay asleep throughout the night just a
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half dosage was good enough for me but
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this is 25 milligram so I believe that
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the doctor said you could take a whole
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one but I just did have to see if that
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would work to start and that did so some
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nights when I just really really
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couldn't sleep at all then this Unison
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is what helped me to sleep sometimes
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took half of vitamin B6 only once in the
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morning and so interchanging those kind
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of helped me to just have a little more
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Comfort throughout the days another one
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is um draman draman was the first
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medication that I took for my pregnancy
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symptoms that actually helped I took
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drama in one day and I just I felt great
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for the first time for like a full day
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and I took that right
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around 9 weeks pregnant 9 weeks is
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typically where the um HCG hormones Peak
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I think mine's actually Peak right
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around early 8 to 9 weeks now that's
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when my HCG levels were really really
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high before they started to drop down
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and even out a little bit and so I did
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take a drum in because I knew I would be
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driving in the car for a little while
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and I didn't take the one that was just
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Ginger the ginger ones are natural and
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you can take those as well but you just
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want to ask your OB about any other type
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of drama because they have different
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brands and versions of it the one that I
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took was not the ginger one it was one
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that was approved
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um it was like a 12-hour relief one that
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I normally take when we're traveling on
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airplanes and things like that and that
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one I felt so good when I took that but
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um it's a stronger dosage than like the
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B6 and the unism and anything else so I
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just didn't take it anymore even though
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it really did give me some relief so if
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it's really bad for you you can
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definitely ask your OB about that one
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eight through nine and a half were the
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worst weeks for me throughout the entire
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first trimester and then week 10 maybe
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10 and a half is when things start to
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day by day slowly get better 11 and 1/2
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Weeks it was really getting better and
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then now that I'm 12 and a half weeks I
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mostly don't deal with a nausea unless I
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eat something that doesn't sit well with
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my stomach and that's normally like hot
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coffee anything hot gives me heartburn
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and then eating big meals still would
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give me that indigestion and bloating
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but not mix with the nausea so it
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definitely takes the edge off of it and
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it's really not as bad the breast
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tenderness began to get a little bit
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better around 10 and 1 half weeks as
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well it's still sticking around but not
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as bad and I think that also has to do
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with those hormone levels the HCG levels
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they're higher than I believe believe
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that the breast tenderness is worse but
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as it drops and evens out a little bit
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that gets better as well another symptom
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that I have experienced is dry skin I
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did experience this with my last
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pregnancy as well and by dry I mean
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really really dry my ha my lips my face
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and my whole body but really my back has
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been extremely extremely dry lotion just
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doesn't do it for me and almost feels
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like my back is stretching something
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that I have to look up like does your
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back stretch like wider when you're
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pregnant you know the answer to that
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comment below and let me know because
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that's how it feels you know how you can
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feel like your stomach is kind of dry
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you can feel it when it's stretching
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when you're pregnant and so you want to
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make sure you keep it moisturized but my
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fat it felt like that too because not
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only has it been dry but it's been kind
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of itchy so to help with that I've been
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using body body butter instead of lotion
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because the body butter it lasts longer
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and it melts into the skin and into the
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pores and the one that I've been using
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is a mango orange and tangerine one this
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one is completely natural and all it
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contains is shea butter coconut oil and
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then mango orange Tangerine essential
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oils with some vitamin E and I actually
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make these myself I sell them on my
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website bu organics.com and they really
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just came in perfect for me this one as
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soon as I got out the shower helped me
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to deal with the dry skin and congestion
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which you can probably still hear
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congestion has been at an alltime high
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and I already had pretty bad congestion
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just because I also have really bad
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allergies I'm allergic to cat dog and
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dust might as well as seasonal allergies
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and I have a dog the things to help me
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with the congestion are I use my warm
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mist humidifier in the room to make the
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moisture a little bit warm I can Infuse
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a few drops of peppermint and Eucalyptus
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essential oil inside of that so that the
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room has that peppermint and eucalyptus
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smell and scent to also work with the
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congestion and then the other thing is
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nasal strips I just have the equate
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brand but there's another one called
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Breathe Right a little bit more
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expensive I don't know if they work any
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better but these work as well sometimes
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and then the saline nasal spray as well
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those are all natural options for
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congestion as well as like the nasal
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rits like with the water and saine
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that's another one that helps naturally
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because there aren't a lot of
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decongestants that have been deemed safe
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psea fed is one but they do not sell the
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pseudo fed that's not that does not
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contain decongestion in in it in a lot
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of the stores so it has to be a
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particular brand of psea Fett and I
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think they have it at like pharmacy
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stores like CVS Pharmacy maybe Walgreens
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but my Walmart didn't have it Myer
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Target they didn't have that so the
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decongestion is pretty tricky the same
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with musex the rest of them are deemed
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unsafe
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tylena um only Tylenol Cold and Sinus
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but not Tylenol Cold and glue not
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Tylenol Sinus Max and again with the
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Tylenol Cold and Sinus it's really hard
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to find them so you have to be very
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careful with the decongestion first
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trimester it's safe to stick with the
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natural things and then maybe later on
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as pregnancy progresses you can try some
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of those ones that are deemed safe those
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particular ones not all of them just
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particular ones so of course with any
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medication check with your doctor your
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OB to make sure that it is safe as well
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as anything that you are eating and
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drinking like herbal teas um Seafood you
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know all of that type of stuff as far as
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eating I had a lot of food diversions
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this time around another thing that I
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didn't really experience with Noah I had
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a couple of things that I didn't like
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the smell of but it really wasn't a lot
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this time around there were so many
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smells that just turned my nose one of
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them was lavender which I love lavender
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so much and I know nor use this butter
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with in the lavender scent as well as
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lavender essential oil inside of my
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humidifier the smell of lavender I have
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painted it's been absolutely atrocious
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to me so Citrus and peppermint has been
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the scents that I could actually deal
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with his stomach anything sweet like
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super sweet smelling was a no it had to
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have like a Tangy scent Citrus scent for
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me to not have an aversion to it or just
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completely unscented so I switched to to
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unscented hand soap unscented dish soap
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unscented body wash um all the unscented
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or peppermint coffee was a huge no for
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me and normally I'm addicted to coffee
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but it wasn't hard for me to stop
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drinking coffee which I think you can
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have about 6 to 8 ounces per day of
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coffee safely but it was not difficult
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for me to not drink any coffee at all
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because the scent of it alone was I
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probably the one that I hated the most
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even more than lavender was the smell of
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coffee it made me so nauseous and so
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sick whenever like our trash bin was
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open like the drawer I would have to
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make sure it was completely closed I
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didn't like the sense of just the trash
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bag like the scented trash bags didn't
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like the scent of that it probably was
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lavender didn't like the scent of our
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refrigerator we could clean it out but
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just any type of smell from that fridge
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like any type of food or just the
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mixture of all the foods together was
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really terrible for me so fridge needed
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to be closed and whenever I would open
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the fridge you guys I would literally
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just hold my breath Hur up and get what
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I need and close the fridge back there
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were just so many things smells that
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just really turned me off
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cooking a lot of the s from cooking was
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a no so I really didn't cook anything
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throughout the first
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trimester some times I cooked and that
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might have been one time per week and
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then I cooked for Thanksgiving Christmas
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and New Year and that was really really
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hard for me outside of that my husband
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did majority of the cooking and he also
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did majority of the cleaning because I
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was always too nauseous to clean too
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sleepy to clean or too uncomfortable or
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too unmotivated to clean so lack of
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motivation was definitely an early
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trimester thing as well as the
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exhaustion in nausea and indigestion and
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dry skin so just a multitude of symptoms
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um constipation is another early
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pregnancy symptom that most pregnant
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women experience as well um and then
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bloating so even though you don't
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typically well I didn't and I didn't
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with my last pregnancy and a lot of
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women don't typically have like an
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actual bump yet because the uterus is
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still pretty small the baby is still
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really tiny so you don't really develop
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a pregnancy bump but that bloating would
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make you look like you're like four or
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five months pregnant so definitely the
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bloating has been something as well so
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things that I was able to stomach and
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eat was anything blend so for instance
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rice with not a lot of seasoning no
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gravy no sauce no butter no nothing just
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Bland rice as well as Bland noodles with
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no sauce on them
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toast cold sandwiches but unfortunately
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they say you have to warm up the meat I
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did it didn't like it as much but it was
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okay I was able to stomach it a little
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better because just like the blend like
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just the bread with just like some
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turkey me on it wasn't too bad for me
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and sometimes I would add the mustard to
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make it a little more acidic fruit was
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really good popsicles were really good
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bananas were good and sour apples were
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good even yellow apples were good meat
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probably like
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blend beef or like chicken mixed in with
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rice so like chicken breast shredded
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with some rice was okay ground beef
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mixed with like
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noodles was another thing but without
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the spaghetti sauce just all the Bland
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things were were working for me so not a
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lot of flavor and not a lot lot of sauce
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my taste Wass pretty much changed every
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single day so I could be craving
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something one day and then the next day
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I hate it don't want it anymore 11 and
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1/2 weeks when the nausea started to die
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down a little bit is when I went back to
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wanting healthy things but before that I
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didn't really care as long as it wasn't
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bad like for the baby if it wasn't the
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healthiest choice for instant fried food
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then if I could submic it then I just
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ate it because it was just the whole
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wanting to eat cuz just wanting to eat
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was already hard finding something that
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you actually wanted to eat was difficult
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normally prefer white meat or red meat
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but red meat I don't know maybe it's the
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protein is what I've been wanting more
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which suck because it's a lot harder to
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digest going forward I'm going to limit
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the red meats because I just want
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something easier to digest so now I'm
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more into like grilled chicken with rice
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and vegetables you know things like that
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still taking it one day at a time and
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week by week but that pretty much sums
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up all of my first
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trimester pregnancy symptoms that I
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experienced from weeks 4 through 12 as
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well as the things that helped me to
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find relief I was blessed to been able
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to have my husband to help me with a lot
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of the clean and a lot of um the cooking
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and things like that so for my M who do
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have to still do those things or even
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get up and go to work every single day
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if you have some tips for those moms
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like if you've been there before please
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leave them down below so that a pregnant
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mama who is watching this video who
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could use some tips in that area um
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leave them down below because that's one
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of the things that I don't exactly have
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a whole lot of information on I know
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they have stronger medicine that you can
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take that you can get prescribed from
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your doctor in case you just have to
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work I'm definitely looking forward to
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some second trimester relief in which
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I'm hoping to do a little bit of
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traveling get the nursery
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together and do a lot of decluttering
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and getting rid of a lot of things that
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we either don't use or don't love that's
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my R going forward if I don't love it
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and I don't use it I'm just going to
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throw it away or donate it so that's
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been the goal these days and now that
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we're going to be bringing in a lot more
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clothes a lot more toys a lot more
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furniture and a whole another person
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going to share you know go on forward
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pregnancy updates so I can try my stir
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Recaps and anything that have been
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helping me um another thing that I
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forgot to mention is the pregnancy
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pillow I know a lot of people don't try
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the pregnancy pillow until like later
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than the when they are a little bit
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bigger but I found that it helped me
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even in the first triester like with the
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blo because sometime my stomach would
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feel so full and heavy so buying a small
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wedge pillow and I'm going to link the
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one that I purchased down below I did
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get the mom cozy pregnancy pillow as
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well as the mom cozy back and stomach
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support and so it's a wedge pillow that
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you can kind of wedge up under your
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stomach and then one of which like
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behind your back and it just holds your
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belly so that your body can lay
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completely flat and not you know uneven
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and that helped with the nausea as well
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as the indigestion as well so I say
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invest in it earlier as well as a
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pregnancy belt and the belt just
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supports up underneath your stomach and
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it helps with a lot of that pressure
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that you feel in the pelvic area um even
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if it's it's like from the bloating or
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from um having a full bladder or
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hormonal whatever you know the
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tenderness and things like that the belt
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actually helps ha with that so these are
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things that grow with you as you go
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through your pregnancy is not just meant
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to be for second trimester trimester
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they are good for different reasons
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throughout their pregnancy at different
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times as you progress so I'm going to
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link everything that I've mentioned in
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this video that has helped me down below
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in the description box and then I'm
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going to get around to is putting it
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into a blog post as well so if you
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follow the blog at theom resource.com
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you'll be able to find it on there as
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well once I get that updated too um if
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you haven't subscribed to the blog and
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you would like to do so do that and you
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will get a newsletter as I update the
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information and things like that but
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that sums up my first trimester
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pregnancy symptoms and I hope that you
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found something to be helpful in this
27:09
video if you did don't forget to give it
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a thumbs up and of course I would love
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for you to subscribe to my channel for
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more pregnancy related motherhood
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related and homemaking content but thank
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you guys so much for being here and for
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watching this video I hope that you have
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a wonderful weekend bye
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