Hi, guys. Welcome back to my channel. Today
is my 17 week pregnancy update. The most exciting
news this week is that I'm definitely feeling
the baby move. It's now 11cm long, and I have
been feeling it kind of flutter around.When
I sit on the couch and I'm just relaxing,
I can feel it then. Or if I concentrate on
feeling the baby move, I do feel the baby
move. It's definitely like little flutters,
or people have described them as like little
butterflies before. For me, they actually
feel like little bubbles popping in my tummy.
So they're just like tiny movements. Like,
my husband wouldn't be able to feel them as
well yet or anything, but I am definitely
feeling our little baby wriggle around which
is just really nice. You forget what it feels
like between babies, and now when I feel it
I'm like aww, like I don't know, it sounds
really weird or sad, but I feel like, "Oh,
I'm not alone." If I'm at work, and I don't
have the boys with me, I'm like nyah, I've
got this one. So it's just been a really,
really nice feeling.
... is looking something like that which is
very human looking. It's a completely formed
baby, it's just a little bit skinny at the
moment because it doesn't really put on all
of its weight until the end bit.
Symptoms this week, I've still been feeling
really well, but the tiredness has come back,
but I don't know if it's because we've had
the Easter weekend, and also we're sort of
pushing on with our build. We're building
an extension, and we've had to clear out the
boys' rooms, and there's been lots of sorting
out to do and trying to just get ourselves
organized. So I feel like I've actually been
doing quite a bit of physical work. Like running
up and down stairs and lifting and stuff like
that. So I have been a bit tired. Still suffering
from pins and needles in my hands when I sleep,
and I'm having to move around a lot at night
to get comfortable, but I haven't been getting
up in the night to go to the loo anymore.
... know if the baby's like moved off of my
bladder now, but I'm not getting up in the
night. So that's really good.
I also had to change my skincare routine because
I think I mentioned in my last update that
my skin was almost like dry, and I don't know
if I'm not producing as much oil as normal
in pregnancy or something, but I've had to
change my skincare routine to be a really
hydrating skincare routine. So I've stopped
using all of my Dermalogica products, but
I'm sure that I will come back to them because
I love Dermalogica, and I'm now using loads
of ELEMIS products, and it is like the rehydrate
range, and I've used them for about the last
week, so my whole 17th week. And my skin has
been so much better, and yeah. I think I just
really need to rehydrate it at this stage.
So that's been brilliant, and it's kind of
kept any spots away.
So what all of you want to know is if I know
the gender of the baby yet. Well, I still
don't know. So we went to our early gender
scan. I was about 16½ weeks when we went
to that, and the whole idea was that we went
to the scan, and then they were going to write
it down in an envelope, and then we take the
envelope to our jeweler's who is going to
change some stones in my wedding ring to be
the color of the baby. So it's all quite involved.
I don't know who we think we are, but that
was the plan, and I think it'd be a really
nice way to find out. I'll link my 16 week
update that explains more about all of what
we're doing.
Anyway, we went along to the scan, and yeah
it was really, really good. First of all,
she said, "I hope you know before I look at
what it is, I'm going to look at all of its
vitals, and I'm going to measure it, and just
make sure everything's perfect." And so it
measured like its head, and that was really
cool because you could see both sides of the
brain moving. It looked like a little butterfly,
the baby's head, and so that was amazing.
It was measuring perfect for 17 weeks, and
as you measured its back, and again it was
perfect for 17 weeks. Measured the size of
legs, and again it was ...
Everything was just perfect, and by the time
she'd said that everything was looking perfect,
and she said, "Oh you know, it's got a really
happy heart rate. It's a really happy baby."
After she said all that, I was just thinking,
"I genuinely just don't even care. I don't
care at all. I'm just happy that the baby
is so happy and on its way and stuff."
So she knew that we didn't want to see the
sex of the baby. She knew that we wanted her
to write it down. So she did all of the checks,
and I thought that she would then go ahead
and check for the bits, but she just turned
off both of the screens, and she was like,
"Right, okay, all done," and I was like, "Well,
do you know what it is?" And she was like
"Yep." And I was like okay, I was like, "Don't
write it down unless you're absolutely sure."
And she said, "Nope, I'm absolutely sure."
And I was like ... She was like, "I definitely
know what it is."
So when she said that, it just made me feel
like you've seen something, like you've seen
a willy because I've heard people said if
it's a girl, you have to search around for
it a bit more, or you have to get the baby
in a certain position.
... just felt like when she was doing all
of her routine checks, she must've seen a
willy, but I don't know because as soon as
she wrote it down and she sealed the envelope,
my husband was like "I'll take that." Because
he knows me, and he knows that I would massively
cheat. So he took it, and he put it in his
inside pocket, and because we had a babysitter,
we went in the evening, we went for dinner.
So you can imagine the whole time at dinner
I was like, "Should we just have a look? It
would be special if we open it even now. Let's
just have a look. Let's just have a look.
Let's have ..." and he refused. He was like,
"No. You'll regret it. We're doing this reveal,
we're doing this properly. It's a nice way
to find out," blah, blah, blah. So anyway,
we didn't. I tried everything to cheat. He
just would not budge at all.
Then I was like, "Well, I don't need to know
because I know it's a boy," and blah, blah,
blah, blah, blah. I was getting all funny
with him. But we didn't look, and then as
soon as we got in that evening, he hid it
somewhere it the house so I didn't even know
where it was so I couldn't even have looked,
and then the next day he took it to the jeweler's
and they said that it would be one week to
complete the ring, but it's been the Easter
bank holiday weekend, so I don't know exactly
what day we're going to get it this week,
but we're going to get it this week, and soon
as we get it we're going to film opening it,
and I'm going to put it straight up on my
channel.
So that is where we are at the moment with
the gender thing. I still don't know, and
loads of you have messaged me going, "Come
on, you must have cheated. Don't be a spoil
sport. Tell me what it is," and I'm like I
really don't know. I genuinely don't know.
I feel like it's a boy, but I actually don't
know. So yeah. Because she could've seen a
willy, but then she could've seen that one
was missing. So I don't know. Like she does
scans all day in and all day out so I just
don't know. I'm more confused than ever. I
did a prediction video which I'll link down
below, and lots of that was pointing to girl,
but the way that I'm feeling, I feel the same.
So I just can't imagine not having a boy.
Anyway, that is pretty much my update for
this week. I'm just rambling on as usual.
I feel like I'm just talking to a friend.
So that is probably why I'm doing that. But
yeah, everything's good. I'm feeling pretty
good, and the baby's developing perfectly
she said. So that is just amazing, and I will
let you know very, very soon what we're having.
I will be blasting it all over social media,
Instagram, Facebook, Twitter; so go and follow
me on all of those. And yes. Thank you so
much for watching, and I will see you very
soon. Bye.
Oh, and I'll do a bumpshot for you now. The
baby is now the size of a large orange or
a dragon fruit. So it's getting pretty big.
In clothes when I'm like that. So yeah, bye.
... next one is one I haven't even heard about
before. It is called The Nub Theory.
