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hello and welcome to my first Vlog of
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2024 as well as the start of new
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blessings and Beginnings I have some
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news to share with you guys but first if
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you are new here my name is heaven I am
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a stay-at-home mom and wife and I'm also
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pregnant so this is officially my
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pregnancy announcement video I currently
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have a 4-year-old son who will actually
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be five in about 3 more months birthday
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is April the 11th so I have not done
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this in quite some time now our little
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one will be born in July of 2024 so Noah
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our four-year-old son will be 5 years
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old and I will be giving birth 5 years
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after the last time I did so of course
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there are a lot of things that are
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different this time and then there are a
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lot of things that are also very
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familiar from the time before and so I
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do plan to share all all the things with
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you guys we do already know what we are
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having as far as the gender goes we did
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the sneak peek gender reveal so I am
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going to share all of the details with
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you guys so that if you are expecting to
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and you were wondering or you're on the
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fence about if you want to know the
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gender of your baby or if you are
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considering doing something like sneak
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peek results then I can share a little
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bit more about that with you guys so
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again if you are new here and you enjoy
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homem videos motherhood videos and now
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as well as some pregnancy and birthing
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videos then definitely stick around I
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would love for you to subscribe to my
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channel I will be posting once or twice
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per week and I love to have you here I
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know that it has been a while since the
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last time I posted I feel like I missed
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the entire Christmas season and you guys
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I had a lot of content that I actually
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made for you guys that I wanted to share
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and I literally never even got around to
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editing the video just getting out of
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the bed or getting motivated enough to
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want to edit a video felt like a lot for
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me and that's mostly because a lot of
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the things that I had to do I kind of
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had to prioritize and of course being a
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mom comes first and being a wife comes
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first above you know work and that's
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just you know how my household goals my
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marriage and my beliefs is that you know
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as the wife of the home then I put my
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wife and motherly duties before I put
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like my work my career and things like
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that and so because I only had not much
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energy I'm going through this first
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trimester and I am currently 11 weeks
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filming this video so I'm still in that
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first trimester nearing the end of it
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about 12 or 13 weeks is when you begin
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the second trimester but throughout the
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first trimester I had like zero energy I
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was often very like sick very
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unmotivated and just going through all
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of the things I started off vlogging the
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entire process around 6 weeks or so and
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honestly you guys it has been a journey
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like I really have a lot of things to
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share with you guys and I think you guys
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might find helpful
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motivational um maybe even relatable but
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of course we are happy and we are so
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blessed and we are so grateful I prayed
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for this little one and so God
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definitely answers right on time um my
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husband I already told him and I will
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share more about how I told him I bought
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like a little announcement thing off
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Amazon that I'm going to show you guys
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and I'll be sure to like link it it's
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the cutest thing ever and we have at
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this point now already told our friends
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and family so I wanted to make sure that
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we personally told anyone that was close
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to us and then I went ahead and like did
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like a social media announcement and now
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I'm sharing it here for the world to
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know um so I feel like now that we are
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near the end of the first trimester and
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going into the second trimester now it's
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kind of like that safe spot to be able
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to share it I know a lot of people share
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even before then and a lot of people
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wait until like that 20 week Anatomy
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skin just to be sure that things are
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progressing well so this is around the
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time that I felt most comfortable to
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share I don't know if you guys can hear
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probably so in my voice that like I have
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a lot of congestion so that's definitely
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one of my first trim symptoms that I
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have been having is like just non-stop
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congestion it hasn't been terrible it's
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definitely been manageable um thus far
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but yeah that would explain why my voice
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sounds kind of muffled I'm not
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sick um at least not like with any
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illness or anything just the normal
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things like the nausea and the
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exhaustion and the indiges you know all
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of those things that we are not going to
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get into for this video I really just
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wanted to check in and say hello because
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it's been been a while since I shared a
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video I didn't get to share any of my
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Christmas decor videos I started
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decorating I want to say very early
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maybe four or five weeks but I was done
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decorating around the time that I got to
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about six or seven weeks and during that
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6 and 1 half through maybe 10 and 1 half
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week stretch I just didn't have any
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energy to do anything um my thing this
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channel is normally like homing so
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cleaning decorating cooking and I didn't
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do much of any of that like I didn't
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clean up a lot I did about the most
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minimal amount of cleaning necessary my
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husband did majority of the cleaning I
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probably helped out maybe once per week
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and maybe one or two rooms at most um
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but just finding the energy to do
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homeschool to cook and to clean to take
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care of my house and do laundry was all
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very difficult preparing Christmas
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dinner and New Year's dinner was also
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very difficult for me preparing
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Thanksgiving dinner was very difficult
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for me so all of those were challenges
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and
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um that was hard enough for me and so a
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lot of things got put on the back burner
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that were important to me but less
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important than like just the health and
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well-being of my home my marriage my
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family and my child so that is just what
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it's been and I am very much like a
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stickler for taking care of yourself
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listening to your body I am not the type
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of person to push myself beyond what I
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can bear I used to but that has changed
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since I became a mom and a wife because
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they're they need me as much as I need
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to show up for myself so I have to take
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care of myself so that I will be able to
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take care of them as well as well it's
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really important that we as individuals
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mom or not wife or not that we just take
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care of ourselves and our bodies and we
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listen to our bodies when we need to
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take a break I think it's important that
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we take a break it's important for our
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mental well-being for our physical
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well-being emotionally that we listen to
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our body and we take that break that we
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need when we need to take it so that is
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what I did you guys I wanted with
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everything in me to make videos and make
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content cuz that's actually something
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that I love doing but I can't say what
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the quality of that content would have
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been just the thought of doing anything
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outside of laying on the bed was just
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not appealing to me um so now I am just
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starting to feel a little bit better
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amazingly it doesn't really get too bad
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for me at this point until like after
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dinner which is normally because that's
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when I eat my biggest meal of the day
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and then it takes a lot longer for that
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to digest because if I eat a smaller
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meal at dinner then I'll be up a few
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hours later until the night when I want
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to sleep I won't be able to sleep
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because I will be hungry and wanting a
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snack so maybe I'll try smaller servings
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of dinner and just keep like a small
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little snack by my bed like a granola
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bar and see if that works or some tra
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mix or something but the thing has just
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been I normally eat just small little
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portion throughout the day and then eat
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my biggest meal at dinner time and just
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make sure that there is enough time
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between dinner and bed for my food to
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digest before I go to bed which
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typically
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takes about 5 hours so during those 5
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hours is normally at this point when I
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feel my worst this week um I'm really
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hoping that I get much more relief in
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the coming weeks so my next appointment
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is is I want to say 3 weeks away um
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January 26 will be my 14 we appointment
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at which point my OB will do the genetic
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screening to check out all of the
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chromosomes and make sure that
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everything is normal with baby check for
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Down syndrome this is normally when you
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can also find out the gender of your
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little one if you don't know and if you
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want to know through the blood work um
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again we already know what we are having
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but I'm still very anxious to have that
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done that's that second hurdle that you
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want to get past to just know that
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everything is all right with your baby
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and to know that um as far as like
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mentally everything is correct like to
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know that your baby won't have any
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disabilities or any like down syndrome
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and things like that it's another thing
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that does weigh heavy on our mama Hearts
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when we are carrying a little one and
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then after that is that an skin where
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they check and make sure that everything
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on the baby has formed and has grown
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properly so that's 20 weeks so yeah my
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next appointment will be getting the
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genetic screenings out the way and then
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after that I'll probably have a 18we
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appointment at which she will then give
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me a recommendation to have an anatomy
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scan scheduled for two weeks after that
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so all of those big things are coming up
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this
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pregnancy
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it it's going slow I'm must say it's it
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did it went really slow but I have a
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feeling that in the next month or so
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it's going to go fast typically for me
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this is a slow season winter season is
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normally a slow season for me and I try
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to take advantage of that and use it as
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my season of rest and reflection really
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um get closer to God during that time
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closer to my family just by you know
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being inside the home a lot more so
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typically this is a slow season for me
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but I am not going to take that for
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granted because I already know come
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spring maybe around March things are
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going to speed up for me because I have
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to plan my four-year-old's 5year
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birthday party make sure I get him
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scheduled for his fiveyear checkup um
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make sure that everything is good for
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our Nursery setup and then probably plan
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a baby shower for baby number two and
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get all of that stuff in place take our
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birthing class that is mandatory at the
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birthing center just give you like a
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idea of what to expect through birth it
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tells you all of the steps that you will
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progress through when you're going into
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labor what to expect like before active
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labor as far as when to call the doctor
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which is typically I think when
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contractions are about 5 minutes or less
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apart and Lasting for maybe 30 seconds I
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think if if I see I can't remember
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remember so that's the purpose of the
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mandatory class so that you know what to
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expect you don't be afraid when it
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happens you know you know where to go
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where to check in and you can tell as
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you're furthering throughout your labor
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um which active stage of Labor you are
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in I think once you are
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dilated 4 cm then they officially call
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it active labor um and then from 4 to 10
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cm as far as like how contractions get
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um how contractions get closer and how
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they become more and more painful like
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where you can kind of guess at what
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stage you are in labor as far as getting
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closer and closer to meeting your new
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baby so that's always fun it helped us a
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lot last time it kept me a lot more calm
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it helped me to visualize my baby moving
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down into the birth canal and kind of
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just work with my body and work with my
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baby to um get baby to come and to
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breathe through those contractions it
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taught my spouse my partner a lot of
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different techniques he knew what to
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expect so that he wouldn't be afraid he
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wouldn't be nervous so that he would be
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prepared he was not on break um it
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taught him different massage techniques
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and how to comfort me as far as like
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spraying warm water around my back and
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my waist and my belly wherever the
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contractions were at just a lot of
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different things that helped him a lot
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to know exactly what to do and that was
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helpful so I I will recommend anyone to
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take birthing classes as well as
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breastfeeding classes we didn't take a
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breastfeeding class and I wish I did
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luckily I knew a midwife who was also a
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lactation consultant who had been
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visiting me every month prior to going
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into labor as well as every month after
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giving birth and it just so happened
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that I was able to call and text her and
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let her know what issues I was having
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with breastfeeding early on and she was
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a lifesaver she came around at just the
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right time just when I was feeling like
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I was going to throw on the towel and
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stop breastfeeding she taught me
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something during one of her visits that
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helped us to continue breastfeeding all
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the way up until baby was 2 years old so
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I did breastfeed Noah until he was 2
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years old it was in no way shape or form
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easy and in the beginning I almost gave
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up but having a lactation consultant is
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what got me through so I recommend that
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as well to any of my new masam but yeah
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we are excited and we're happy and I'm
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hoping that very soon I will be able to
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get back to some normaly in the next
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coming weeks I've began cleaning my home
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again this week so I have a lot of work
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to do and a lot to show you guys as far
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as the homemaking goes I have rooms to
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declutter and clear out I am donating
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some furniture and some clothes doing
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some closet clean out and I am going to
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be transforming unfortunately
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but fortunately I guess um Transforming
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Our Home School room into a nursery so
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that's sad for me I'm very much attached
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to our Homeschool Room so far I have
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designated a new area for homeschooling
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currently and then I'm considering
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turning our front room which is our
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living room that we literally never ever
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City in I'm considering converting that
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into like a learning or place based will
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I will where I would probably still keep
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like our sofa and sitting area in there
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but I would also add a desk for Noah and
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add some shelves in there for our
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homeschooling and make it more of a
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learning space a play area as far as
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like the monory toys go not like a lot
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of jumbo and clutter just you know
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things for learning So eventually that
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is what I want to do with that space But
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but for now we created another space in
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the home which I'm going to show you
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guys soon I'm still working on it for
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homeschooling and then I'm going to get
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another kitchen table and switch to um
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like one of those Nook kitchen tables
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that has like the sectional back bench
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style kind of like a bench if you were
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going to a restaurant it has like that
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back space and then a table and then a
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bench or you can put chairs there it's
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probably what we'll do so that if we
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ever want to do school in the kitchen
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area
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we could do that we have a whiteboard in
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there so I don't know we're going to
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figure some things out I I'm attached to
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our home school room and so is my little
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one Noah is very attached he has not
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been quite understanding why we have not
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been doing school in the home school
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room lately he's like you have to put
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all of my stuff back in the home school
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room it breaks my heart but you guys we
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haven't told Noah yet we have not told
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him we wanted to get past the first
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trimester so that we do not have to
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share any unfortunate news with him um
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so that once we get past that and maybe
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even the anatomy scan then we will share
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that information with him I think he's
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going to be excited but I do think we
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need to tell him early enough to be able
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to adjust to it because with everything
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changing so fast him not being our only
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baby which he has been for so long not
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having The Homeschool Room anymore it's
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a big adjustment so lots of new
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changes lots of new content coming a
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year away so I would love for you to
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stick around and subscribe and of course
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I would love for you to give this video
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a thumbs up it will greatly support my
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channel and help it to grow but again I
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just wanted to say hello to you guys I
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definitely miss creating content and I'm
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super excited to be getting back into it
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I hope that you guys had a wonderful
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Thanksgiving and a wonderful Christmas
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and a happy New Year as well and I am
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wishing you guys the very very best for
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the upcoming season but that is going to
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be all for this video thank you so much
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for watching and I will see you guys
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next time
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bye