WHERE'S YOUR BUMP AT: YOUR MOTHERHOOD WORRIES (PLUS THINGS YOU SHOULD NEVER SAY TO A PREGNANT WOMAN)
June 23, 2025 • 32 mins
Hi,
You're joined by just myself this week, giving you a SUPER late pregnancy update and covering lots of things today! I opened up my question box to cover a bunch of topics today: from audience vaginal, C-Section & homebirth experiences, your motherhood worries & anxieties, weird food cravings and things you should never say to a pregnant woman.
I love talking all things pregnancy with you all and hope this episode is meaningful, yet entertaining and uplifting for you. I'll chat to you next week!
All my love
Anna xxx
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Wanting to have kids is a huge life decision. But
once you're ready to embark on that journey, what do
you actually need to know? This podcast is the community
you never knew you needed from mums and mums to be.
We're about to embark on this learning journey together and
it's going.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
To be real.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
It's going to be raw and a completely non judgmental space.
You're listening to Where's your Bump Hat? And this is
Ana Macavoye Staples. I'm going to be interviewing experts in
the field so that all of our burning questions can
be answered, from understanding our cycle to knowing what is
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the best time to conceive, and so much more. We'll
get into the difference between natural verse c section births,
strange pregnancy symptoms and everything in between. Hello and welcome
to another episode of Where's your Bump Hat. My name
is Anna macavoice Staple, and today on this episode, we
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are talking about motherhood worries and anxieties, very strange pregnancy
cravings and things that you should never stay to a
pregnant woman.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Let's jump in.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Hello and welcome back to another episode of Where's Your
Bump At. My name is Anna Macavoy, Staples, and I
did not expect to be recording a little intro for
today's episode. I came into the studio today with the
intention of doing some pickups. I'm thirty eight weeks pregnant.
I can't stay away from the studio, and I just
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thought while I'm here, let's do a little update. So
I'm very much at the pointy end of this pregnancy.
As you guys know, I'm still breach. Unfortunately, I'm complete breach,
so that basically means the baby's head is at the
top of my tummy and then his little legs are
crossed over. I hope he's very comfortable in there, but
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the OBI has told me that there is a very
low risk of him turning around, even although I am
doing all of the different things possible, acupuncture, seeing different specialists.
Steph from one of our earlier episodes has even sent
me some moxisticks, which are apparently really good for turning
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breech babies. So I've honestly got so much help from everyone,
which I'm really grateful for. But we are booked in
for a sea section in nine days, which is blowing
my mind. And I know on this podcast, we haven't
talked about different types of birth, so whether that be.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
A CEA section, home birth.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
I was calling it a natural birth, but actually one
about Where's your Bump At? Mums messaged me and was like,
people get quite offended by calling a what I thought
was a natural birth a natural birth, and actually people
prefer it when you say vaginal birth because obviously all
births are equal and no matter how you birth your baby,
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as long as they're happy and healthy, that is the
main thing. So when we were planning Where's Your Bump
Out episodes, there was a point where we thought that
we would have a C section verse vaginal birth, verse
home birth vers water birth and kind of talk about
all of the different types of births that you can have.
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But to be honest, I think that that episode is
better placed in a season two And thanks to you
guys and the incredible response that we've had to Where's
your Bump At, that's looking very promising. So I just
want to take a moment to say thank you for
sharing Where's your Bump Out with your friends, family, friends
who are trying to get pregnant, pregnant friends and mums,
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So huge thank you to you. Guys, but before this
season wraps up, I really wanted to ask our audience
on their birth experiences and hear from the women who
actually listen to this podcast. So we are going to
jump into that now.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Okay, So this first voice note comes from Shana.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Friday, May twenty twenty five was a day I'll never forget.
I bumped into you, Anna at Baby bun King, and
I was telling you that I listened to your podcast,
and we chatted about both of our pregnancies. I was
thirty eight weeks along and getting ready to arrival at
our little one, and I picked up a few last
minute things, feeling excited and.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Prepared, and I think we were doing the same. But
fast forward to Tuesday, May thirteenth, to twenty five. I
went about my morning routine, healing the gym and grabbing
this movie.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
This was actually eight days before my due date. But
as I was driving home, I started feeling pains and
I called my husband, who was at.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Work, and my mom to let them know what was happening.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
The pain kept going worse through the day, and by
two PM, my mom took me to Cabrini Hospital for
a check up.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
As per my ultitu instructions.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
When we arrived, the medical team told me I was
already in active labor.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
My husband rushed to the hospital and I was given
laughing gusties the pain.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
However, the pain only in tensified. But my husband arrived
at five PM and our obsergestion checked me at seven
pm and I was already nine sent him to diolated.
I couldn't believe it. She said our baby would be
born within the hour. Between seven thirty pm and nine pm,
I pushed through constructions with my husband by my side.
He kept asking if I wanted an epidural, but I
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was determined to stick to my birth plan, a natural birth.
Kudos to our obi for supporting my decision.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
At no nine oh five, my husband said.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Our baby's head was visible. I couldn't even open my
eyes the whole time. The pain was just excruciating. But I,
with two more pushes, she would be out. So I
pushed through the pain and at nine ten, our beautiful
Seaina was born.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
I had a Grade two tear, but.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
It was a small price to pay for the joy
of meeting our little one. My husband was with me
every step of the way, holding me and supporting me.
When the nurses needed to check on the baby. My
mother was also present, having gotten stuck with me at
the hospital. It was a full circle moment for her,
and I'm grateful she was there to share the experience.
I was very peck with how to support people in
the room with me, So the birthas Sana was a
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moment I'll cherish forever.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
It was a journey of pain, love and joy.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Now I'm sitting in the middle of the nights listening
to Where's your Bump hat, Well, I'm breastfeeding, So thank
you for that, Anna, and I appreciated meeting you on
that Friday, and I'm good luck with your birth as well.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Oh that literally makes me want to cry.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
That's so nice.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
So I actually met Shanna at baby bunting. Michael and
I were getting our car seat installed. They do that
out the front there somewhere, and Shanna came up and
told me that she was loving Where's your Bump at,
which was super special for me being a new podcast.
And yeah, she was lovely and it's crazy that she
had her baby so soon after me meeting her and
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just hearing her birth story is really beautiful and I
think she did amazing and I think it's really refreshing
to hear Shanna's story a lot of the time. And
I speak for myself, but I think for a lot
of women, having a natural birth can sound really terrifying
and scary, and I think hearing these positive birth stories
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is so important and it is so beautiful bringing a
baby into the world. Whether it's vaginally, whether it's sea section,
whether it's water birth, home birth, whatever type of birth, it's.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
About the end result.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Okay, let's listen to Mia talking about her cesarean experience.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Good morning, Anna.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
I just wanted to let you know personally that I
had an elective C section and it was the most
wonderful experience. I'm actually pregnant with my second baby at
the moment, and we'll be opting for another elective C
section again. I really had a positive birthing experience this way,
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and I just wanted to let you know that there
is so much negativity that can go out around cesareans,
and you know, the recovery.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
And all of that, and I just wanted to let
you know that they don't all go that way.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
And I was really worried and scared about birth and
having a cesarean and it was actually the most wonderful experience.
I recovered really well, and yeah, we'll go back and
do it all over again.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
This is so nice to hear.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
So I'm at the point where I'm either going to
have my planned cesarean in nine days time, or if
the baby comes early and my waters break, I will
go in to have an emergency cesarean. So it's cesarean
either way at this point while the baby is breach
and hearing positive c section stories has been really helpful
to me.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Recently.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
I've had an influx of people telling me about how
it's not that bad, how it's a really peaceful experience,
and it's really brought me a lot of So if
you're in the same boat as me, or if you're
electing to have a C section, I think it's such
a beautiful experience regardless, And like I keep saying, you
get the baby and the prize at the end of it,
and how beautiful.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Okay, let's listen to Freyer. This one is short but sweet.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
Hey, Nna, I'm a first time mum and I recently
had a very unplanned and unexpected homebirth, but it was
totally perfect and I wouldn't have done it any other way.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
So it's so lovely to hear that you had such
a beautiful home birth experience, especially with it being so unexpected.
Fun fact, my dad was actually born at home in
the bathtub. My grandma used to always talk about how
we just came flying out in the bath. But yeah, no,
that's beautiful to hear. And I think it's really good
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to get different women's perspectives on their birth. Knowing that
we can't really choose. We can have a birth plan,
we can try to envision how it's going to look,
and I think just giving in to what's meant to
be and realizing that really anything is possible when it
comes to birth, and babies can really catch us off guard,
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Like at this point, I'm sitting in the studio expecting
from my waters to break at any moment, to be honest,
So I think it's really nice to hear different birth perspectives.
Those were all positive ones, and I really wanted to
finish on a positive note, but granted, there are some
traumatic and negative birth experiences, and to all of those
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bums who have gone through them, my hearts go out
to you, and you guys are serious warriors. There's so
many different types of birth experiences, and we are going
to delve so much deeper into that in season two
of Where's Your Bump?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Hat.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Okay, So a few weeks back, I had a really
interesting I'm going to call it an incident happen. I
was walking to the podcast and I walked around a
corner and I was very loudly and proudly showing off
my bump. I had it cropped up on and the
bump was out and about, and this guy, as I
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walked around the corner went and honestly, he looked like
he saw a ghost and he did that expression while
staring at my bump.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
And in the moment, I was like, oh my god,
I need to cover up. I need to put another
top on.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
And then I thought about it and I was like,
you know what, like it is, what it is. I'm
proud of my bump, but you know, it was probably
the most offensive thing that someone's done to be pregnant. Honestly,
I'm not easily offended, and I know that he probably.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Didn't mean it. He maybe just got a shock.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
From the bump, but whatever it was, it got me thinking,
what are some things that you should never say to
a pregnant woman. So I wanted to ask you guys,
and honestly, some of the things that you guys wrote
into me about were shocking, and a lot of I
actually couldn't include because I actually felt like it was
crossing a line. And it's definitely not productive to be
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sharing disgusting comments like that with you guys. But I
have come up with a list of things that seem
to have come up a lot, so let's get into
that now. So Number one, are you sure it's not twins? Yes, Karen,
I'm sure I'm not having twins. We've had this tummy
scanned multiple times and there's just one baby in there
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and they're maybe a little bigger and that's okay, Or
maybe Michael Center's bigger, or my amniotic fluids bigger.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Whatever it might.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Be, it's not the thing that you want to hear
as a pregnant mama. And if you know someone in
your life who's pregnant, definitely don't say that to them, okay.
Next one on the list is plans for baby number two.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
So just because someone has.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
One baby does not mean that you should ask them
if they have plans for baby number two. I've actually
been guilty of doing this, and when I saw that
this came up multiple times, it actually made me think, oh,
that's probably not something that you should ask people. You
never know what people are going through, and even if
they want baby number two, there's a lot of people
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who are happy with just having one child, And just
because you have one doesn't mean that you need to
have the pressure of having to next up be prepared
to never sleep again. This is one that I can
relate to. I have heard this so many times and
it's honestly terrifying. As someone who loves their eight hours
of sleep with no wake ups, which I'm now not
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getting because I'm very heavily pregnant, that is a terrifying
statement to make. And yes it might be true, but
better not to say that to a pregnant woman. Okay,
this one has come up a lot, and it doesn't
matter what context it's in or for what, but it's
just you wait, there's so much negativity around ages and stages.
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You know, we've all heard of the terrible two, use
the fing threes, whatever, So yes, there may be some
validity to these names that we give these stages, but
let's just approach each other with a little bit more
positivity and kindness. Okay, this one came up a lot,
and it's you can't even tell your pregnant I feel
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like speaking about how a pregnant woman is looking, whether
you're saying they're tiny or they're huge. I think each
of these comments aren't exactly necessary. And someone who might
feel like they're really showing and then you say to them, oh,
you can't even tell, you know, I think it's just
one of those things that's better left unsaid. Okay, this
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one came up a lot, but I have to say
I don't really mind this one, but a lot of
you felt this way, so I did want to include it.
It isn't a quote, but people spoke a lot about
how they dislike when people touch their pregnant belly without asking.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Totally fair enough.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
I don't think I've had like a random stranger touch
my belly, so I feel like in that scenario it
would be a bit strange. But if family or friends
go to touch it, I'm like, go for it.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Why not? I don't care.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
But yeah, that one did come up a lot, so
we wanted to include it. The next one is when
someone tells you their horrific birth experiences without you asking
this one is you know, I think a lot of
pregnant women pretty much, I think everyone. I don't know
if anyone's like excited to go into birth. I think
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there's a lot of nerves and anxiety and apprehension of
the unknown going into birth.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
So hearing horrific birth.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Stories is just not it when you already have probably
so many different thoughts going through your brains. So if
you're someone who has had a horrific birth story, I
am so sorry for that experience, but please don't pass
that story on to anyone who's trying to get pregnant
or pregnant. Maybe just save that story for after. And
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if you do want to share that story with people.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
You absolutely have the right to.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
But I think it's just about being mindful not to
evoke fear in someone who is heading towards birth and
there's no turning back. And whilst we're on the topic
of evoking fear, your belly is small, is everything?
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Comment is something that we absolutely don't want to say
to someone. I think pregnancy comes with so many highs
and lows, and we don't want to stress our friends
and family out by saying something like that, you know,
we all have worries already and we just don't want
to add it to someone's mental plate.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Okay, Last, who was it planned? Something that some.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
People take offensively, So I think it's best to leave
that one unsaid. And look, I'm very open, but not
everyone likes to talk about their sex lives and to
talk about the planning of their family and for some
people who didn't plan a pregnancy, that's not something that
they want to disclose either, So just something to keep
in mind. And last, but not least, you can or
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can't eat that I've had this one a lot throughout
my pregnancy. In fact, I've gone to a few restaurants
where they've actually pointed out things that I'm not allowed
to have. So probably one to leave to the prerogative
of the pregnant mother. People take the pregnancy food guidelines
one of two ways. Some people are very serious on it,
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some people are a little bit more relaxed, and some
people sit somewhere in the middle. And all of those
things are okay because it's our own personal choice. So
on that there can be a lot of negative chatter
on things that people say to pregnant women, to mothers.
So I really wanted to get deep into motherhood worries
and anxieties. Obviously, I have felt anxious and worried, and
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I think a lot of the commentary can evoke fear, anxiety,
and other emotions. So I asked you, guys, things that
you were worried about whilst being pregnant, Things that gave
you anxiety about motherhood. So let's go through that list now.
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So the first one is will I be a good mum?
I think that has been my biggest worry. I actually
went onto another mum podcast and they're asking that question
and my response was, I'm just worried I'm not going
to be a good mum.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
And I think it's completely valid.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Because you haven't been a mom before, so you don't
know how you're going to be. You don't know how
you're going to react to no sleep. There's just so
much about the transition into motherhood that really and completely
changes your life, and I think it's a really natural fear.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Okay, the next one is the.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Inequality of parenthood. This one is definitely a big one,
and finding your roles and responsibilities and kind of working
your way through that can be really challenged, especially if
you're going into motherhood with a partner, and then obviously
if you're a single parent, you really are doing it
all on your own and hopefully you have a really
great support system around you. But yeah, this worry is
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very real, and I think it doesn't matter how much
your partner or a support person can try and help,
the responsibility does end up falling on the woman.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Okay, this one I can definitely relate to.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
They have said I'm scared to lose my freedom and independence.
I also feel so bad for being scared of that.
Totally valid. I also feel this way. I think again,
motherhood is such a transition, and I personally, I'm going
to try my best to absolutely go with the flow.
I'm going to use support people around me to try
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to still have some level of freedom, even if that
just means going out for a drink with Michael for
thirty minutes and just doing those things that are going
to fill my cup again. I don't know how I'm
going to be when the baby and maybe I'll listen
back to this and think I was a little bit
de Lulu, but I think it's definitely important for mums
to put themselves first as much as they can, and
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to do things that are gonna make them feel whole again. Okay,
I'm petrified of the labor birth. What if something happens,
It's out of my control and will I ever escape
the intrusive thoughts so valid. I think that labor is
positioned in our culture as super scary. Even in movies,
when you see women giving birth, it looks traumatic.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
They're screaming, it.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Looks chaotic, and I think there is this level of
fear installed in everyone when it comes to birth. And honestly,
I don't have all the answers. I also feel a
bit scared. I guess what's getting me through is meeting
my son, waiting for that moment to meet him, and
focusing on that and trying to kind of not think
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about the actual process but think about the end results.
I don't know if that's helpful, but it's kind of
helping me through at the moment. Okay, again, another one
that I can really resonate with and relate to. This
person has said, I'm scared how I will function off
such little sleep and energy. This one is one of
my biggest fears about the whole process of moving into motherhood.
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I don't feel like I'm the best version of myself
when I haven't slept. In fact, when I wake up
a couple.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Of times in the middle of the night, I.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Don't feel like I wake up the best version of myself.
And I think it is going to be a real
learning process and something that I'm trying to remain super
positive about. But deep down, I'm terrified and petrified of
the person that I'm going to be. But look, it's
something that we can't change. Babies wake up in the
middle of the night. We have to feed them, and
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I'm just trying to embrace that and realize it's something
that just has to be done. It's not going to
last forever, and hopefully we'll all get through that one.
So last twho this one is how will you get
your own identity back when you are always default parent?
Such a big one for me, Not that I know
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the answers again, but what I think is going to
help me is still having time for me, seeing friends
not as often but maybe here and there, having family
around me, people who do make me feel like myself,
having breaks, but also really embracing and cherishing the moments
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that I'm going to have with my son and realizing
that there is a new part of my life that
I want to embrace, and I honestly think I'm going
to thoroughly enjoy that aspect of it as well, and having.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Him is going to be the new version of me.
I think.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Also something that I'm trying to focus on is not
losing myself through having the baby, but more so introducing
him into our life and trying to do things that
we love with him and incorporate him into our world. Okay, last,
but definitely not the least. This one is loneliness and
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isolation and the fact that you may not love the
baby as much.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
As you expect to. Look.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
I've heard many people talk about the birth experience. Some
people fall immediately in love with their baby, and some
people take some time to warm up. It could be
a month, a week, six months, but there's no timeline
and no set way you have to feel, but just
knowing that each person has a different experience and each
of those experiences are valid. When it comes to the
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loneliness and isolation point, I've mentioned it on this podcast before,
but I don't have any friends who are pregnant. My
sister in law is pregnant, but she lives very far away,
so that has been a real concern of mine, and
I think I'm going to rely heavily on my mother's
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group meeting new friends in my area.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Who also have babies. But it is a bit nerve.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Wracking meeting new friends, and you know, I think just
letting new people into your life but also leaning on
them them leaning on you, and it's something that I'm
nervous about that I'm also really looking forward to. So
you know, let's all hope for some new mum friends. Okay,
so we've spoken about how we don't want to stress
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mums out. We have enough worries and anxieties. So I think,
on a more fun note, I think it's time to
hear mine and also your weird and wonderful pregnancy cravings. Honestly, guys,
some of these are so inventive and some I'm just
an absolutely strong know for.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
But let's jump in now.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Okay, it's that time of the episode where we talk
about the weird and wonderful pregnancy cravings. Isn't our bodies
just incredible that we crave something? We crave fruits? Because
of minerals or vitamins that we're needing. It honestly just
blows me away when I think about it. So at
the start of my pregnancy, I definitely had more aversions
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than craving, So when people would ask me, I was like,
I don't really know. I'm just kind of off all food.
For the first twelve weeks of my pregnancy, I was
pretty much spewing every single day.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
It wasn't fun.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
And since then I have been taking on Danzatron to
stop my morning sickness, and so since then I've been
able to drink and eat a lot more regularly, which
is lovely, and I have developed some pregnancy cravings. So
the first one that I noticed, very obviously was fruit,
and to this day, even very late in the third trimester,
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I crave very different types of fruit at different times.
So right now I'm obsessed with Kiwi fruit, but there's
been times where I've been loving crunchy grapes, watermelon, mangoes.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
I don't know. There must be something.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
In those fruits that my body needs, but fruit for
me has been a huge one. The next one is
frozen cokes. I probably only had a frozen coke maybe
once a year before getting pregnant, and I've had a
lot more than one since getting pregnant, and they just
satisfy something within me. I don't know if it's the
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coldness aspect. I think sometimes when you're pregnant it kind
of feels like a bit of a hangover. And coca
cola actually used to be my hangover cure. And now
one of my weird pregnancy cravings is a frozen coke specifically,
so I don't know, make that make sense, but it
just hits the spot. The next one is ice cubes,
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crunching on ice cubes, and this specifically happened in the
second to third trimester, and I did a blood test
with my ob and realized I was very low in iron,
so the point that I actually ended up getting an
iron transfusion. And the funny thing about that is two
weeks after this infusion, I have not crunched another ice
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cube since. And obviously before the pregnancy, I wasn't crunching
ice cubes. It was just in this period when I
was very low in iron. And apparently it's a thing
that when you are low in this, it's something that
your body craves. How strange is that. I just honestly,
it blows my mind. The last thing that I've craved
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is hash Browns. So if I'm driving past the McDonald's,
it's really hard for me to not want to pull
in and get a hash brown. I don't know if
it's the saltiness or the crispiness or just the beautiful,
delicious potato inside. Can you tell how much I'm loving
hash Browns at the moment, But yeah, hash Browns have
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definitely been a favorite throughout this pregnancy. Okay, so I
asked you guys what your weird and wonderful pregnancy cravings are,
and you guys did not disappoint. You had some very
interesting pregnancy craving. So let's jump into them now. Okay,
our first listener says, not me, but my husband's cousin
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had a weird pregnancy craving French onion dressing. She would
literally drink two whole bottles in a day. That is
so gross, honestly, but again, maybe her body needed something
within that French onion dressing sauce. I don't know the cravings, honestly,
they just make me laugh because they're just so random.
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But you know, whatever works Okay. The next one is
pickled juice into mac and cheese. Now, I love pickles,
I love pickled juice. I love mac and cheese. But
mac and cheese with pickled juice on.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
It, I'm not sure about. It's not something that I've
ever tried. And look, I'm pregnant right now. Would I
like that? Could I try it? Maybe? Is it a
bit out there? I don't know. I think I could
give that one a try. Okay.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
The next one is it green onion chips? Green onion
chips into a veggie mighte sandwich. I think I could
potentially get around that one, like a white bread sandwich.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
With chips, But I don't know if I've ever.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Heard of green onion chips. Not at the top of
my list, but I will keep my eye.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Out for those.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Okay, This one I can absolutely not get around. And
that is pickles and ice cream, two things that I love,
but two things I would absolutely not put together. Next
is dipping a veggie mighte toast into my cup of tea.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Again, I'm sorry, absolutely not. It's just a strong note
from me.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Next we have honey soy chicken chips with green grapes
in the same mouthful, and the grapes have.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
To be crissy.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
I love how specific this one is. Look I get
I think I could get around that. Honey soyt chicken chips. Yep,
it's a tick. Crungey green grapes are a tick. Putting
it in the mouth together, Yeah, I think that would
be pretty good.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Very random, very specific, but we'll get around that one.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
So for this one, this is less on the food variety,
but once again, it's a craving, so we've included it,
especially because it's so wild. And that is chewing dish
soap sponges. I don't know what your body is craving
to want to chew on the dish soap sponges, but
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please be careful with that one. I don't know what
chemicals are in those soap sponges, so yeah, definitely don't
recommend that one to anyone.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
So we have a couple.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
More these ones, again interesting combinations. We have plain rice
and vinegar, a bit random meat pie with vanilla ice cream.
I definitely would not want to try cocktail franks whipped
in custard. I don't even know what cocktail franks are.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
They sausages.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Okay, I've got some clarification, they are small hot dogs.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Small hot dogs in custard. Really yeah, that's just a
no from me.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Unfortunately, we have chicken and ice cream together, watermelon and nutella.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
That sounds lovely.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
That actually sounds like a really nice Sunday delight on
a warm summer's day.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Gone but not cooked.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
I had eat all of the dough and then mac
and cheese and avocado.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Again.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
I love my mac and cheese and the fact that
we've even spoken about mac and cheese so much in
this episode is making me cray mac and cheese.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
But would I have it with avo? Maybe not?
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Okay, guys, thank you so much for listening to another
episode of Where's Your Bump?
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Hat.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
I absolutely love having you on this journey for me.
I really feel like we're building such a strong community
of mums, new mums, or women who are wanting to
get pregnant. I absolutely loved hearing about your motherhood worries, anxieties,
strange pregnancy cravings, and things that you should never say
to a pregnant woman. As always, please get involved in
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these episodes. I love it when you guys send me
voice notes. I really want to include as many of
them as possible, so keep them coming in and until
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the best time to conceive, and so much more. We'll
get into the difference between natural verse c section births,
strange pregnancy symptoms and everything in between. Hello and welcome
to another episode of Where's your Bump Hat. My name
is Anna macavoice Staple, and today on this episode, we
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are talking about motherhood worries and anxieties, very strange pregnancy
cravings and things that you should never stay to a
pregnant woman.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Let's jump in.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Hello and welcome back to another episode of Where's Your
Bump At. My name is Anna Macavoy, Staples, and I
did not expect to be recording a little intro for
today's episode. I came into the studio today with the
intention of doing some pickups. I'm thirty eight weeks pregnant.
I can't stay away from the studio, and I just
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thought while I'm here, let's do a little update. So
I'm very much at the pointy end of this pregnancy.
As you guys know, I'm still breach. Unfortunately, I'm complete breach,
so that basically means the baby's head is at the
top of my tummy and then his little legs are
crossed over. I hope he's very comfortable in there, but
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the OBI has told me that there is a very
low risk of him turning around, even although I am
doing all of the different things possible, acupuncture, seeing different specialists.
Steph from one of our earlier episodes has even sent
me some moxisticks, which are apparently really good for turning
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breech babies. So I've honestly got so much help from everyone,
which I'm really grateful for. But we are booked in
for a sea section in nine days, which is blowing
my mind. And I know on this podcast, we haven't
talked about different types of birth, so whether that be.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
A CEA section, home birth.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
I was calling it a natural birth, but actually one
about Where's your Bump At? Mums messaged me and was like,
people get quite offended by calling a what I thought
was a natural birth a natural birth, and actually people
prefer it when you say vaginal birth because obviously all
births are equal and no matter how you birth your baby,
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as long as they're happy and healthy, that is the
main thing. So when we were planning Where's Your Bump
Out episodes, there was a point where we thought that
we would have a C section verse vaginal birth, verse
home birth vers water birth and kind of talk about
all of the different types of births that you can have.
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But to be honest, I think that that episode is
better placed in a season two And thanks to you
guys and the incredible response that we've had to Where's
your Bump At, that's looking very promising. So I just
want to take a moment to say thank you for
sharing Where's your Bump Out with your friends, family, friends
who are trying to get pregnant, pregnant friends and mums,
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So huge thank you to you. Guys, but before this
season wraps up, I really wanted to ask our audience
on their birth experiences and hear from the women who
actually listen to this podcast. So we are going to
jump into that now.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Okay, So this first voice note comes from Shana.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Friday, May twenty twenty five was a day I'll never forget.
I bumped into you, Anna at Baby bun King, and
I was telling you that I listened to your podcast,
and we chatted about both of our pregnancies. I was
thirty eight weeks along and getting ready to arrival at
our little one, and I picked up a few last
minute things, feeling excited and.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Prepared, and I think we were doing the same. But
fast forward to Tuesday, May thirteenth, to twenty five. I
went about my morning routine, healing the gym and grabbing
this movie.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
This was actually eight days before my due date. But
as I was driving home, I started feeling pains and
I called my husband, who was at.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Work, and my mom to let them know what was happening.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
The pain kept going worse through the day, and by
two PM, my mom took me to Cabrini Hospital for
a check up.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
As per my ultitu instructions.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
When we arrived, the medical team told me I was
already in active labor.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
My husband rushed to the hospital and I was given
laughing gusties the pain.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
However, the pain only in tensified. But my husband arrived
at five PM and our obsergestion checked me at seven
pm and I was already nine sent him to diolated.
I couldn't believe it. She said our baby would be
born within the hour. Between seven thirty pm and nine pm,
I pushed through constructions with my husband by my side.
He kept asking if I wanted an epidural, but I
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was determined to stick to my birth plan, a natural birth.
Kudos to our obi for supporting my decision.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
At no nine oh five, my husband said.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Our baby's head was visible. I couldn't even open my
eyes the whole time. The pain was just excruciating. But I,
with two more pushes, she would be out. So I
pushed through the pain and at nine ten, our beautiful
Seaina was born.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
I had a Grade two tear, but.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
It was a small price to pay for the joy
of meeting our little one. My husband was with me
every step of the way, holding me and supporting me.
When the nurses needed to check on the baby. My
mother was also present, having gotten stuck with me at
the hospital. It was a full circle moment for her,
and I'm grateful she was there to share the experience.
I was very peck with how to support people in
the room with me, So the birthas Sana was a
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moment I'll cherish forever.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
It was a journey of pain, love and joy.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Now I'm sitting in the middle of the nights listening
to Where's your Bump hat, Well, I'm breastfeeding, So thank
you for that, Anna, and I appreciated meeting you on
that Friday, and I'm good luck with your birth as well.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Oh that literally makes me want to cry.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
That's so nice.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
So I actually met Shanna at baby bunting. Michael and
I were getting our car seat installed. They do that
out the front there somewhere, and Shanna came up and
told me that she was loving Where's your Bump at,
which was super special for me being a new podcast.
And yeah, she was lovely and it's crazy that she
had her baby so soon after me meeting her and
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just hearing her birth story is really beautiful and I
think she did amazing and I think it's really refreshing
to hear Shanna's story a lot of the time. And
I speak for myself, but I think for a lot
of women, having a natural birth can sound really terrifying
and scary, and I think hearing these positive birth stories
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is so important and it is so beautiful bringing a
baby into the world. Whether it's vaginally, whether it's sea section,
whether it's water birth, home birth, whatever type of birth, it's.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
About the end result.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Okay, let's listen to Mia talking about her cesarean experience.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Good morning, Anna.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
I just wanted to let you know personally that I
had an elective C section and it was the most
wonderful experience. I'm actually pregnant with my second baby at
the moment, and we'll be opting for another elective C
section again. I really had a positive birthing experience this way,
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and I just wanted to let you know that there
is so much negativity that can go out around cesareans,
and you know, the recovery.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
And all of that, and I just wanted to let
you know that they don't all go that way.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
And I was really worried and scared about birth and
having a cesarean and it was actually the most wonderful experience.
I recovered really well, and yeah, we'll go back and
do it all over again.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
This is so nice to hear.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
So I'm at the point where I'm either going to
have my planned cesarean in nine days time, or if
the baby comes early and my waters break, I will
go in to have an emergency cesarean. So it's cesarean
either way at this point while the baby is breach
and hearing positive c section stories has been really helpful
to me.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Recently.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
I've had an influx of people telling me about how
it's not that bad, how it's a really peaceful experience,
and it's really brought me a lot of So if
you're in the same boat as me, or if you're
electing to have a C section, I think it's such
a beautiful experience regardless, And like I keep saying, you
get the baby and the prize at the end of it,
and how beautiful.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Okay, let's listen to Freyer. This one is short but sweet.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
Hey, Nna, I'm a first time mum and I recently
had a very unplanned and unexpected homebirth, but it was
totally perfect and I wouldn't have done it any other way.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
So it's so lovely to hear that you had such
a beautiful home birth experience, especially with it being so unexpected.
Fun fact, my dad was actually born at home in
the bathtub. My grandma used to always talk about how
we just came flying out in the bath. But yeah, no,
that's beautiful to hear. And I think it's really good
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to get different women's perspectives on their birth. Knowing that
we can't really choose. We can have a birth plan,
we can try to envision how it's going to look,
and I think just giving in to what's meant to
be and realizing that really anything is possible when it
comes to birth, and babies can really catch us off guard,
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Like at this point, I'm sitting in the studio expecting
from my waters to break at any moment, to be honest,
So I think it's really nice to hear different birth perspectives.
Those were all positive ones, and I really wanted to
finish on a positive note, but granted, there are some
traumatic and negative birth experiences, and to all of those
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bums who have gone through them, my hearts go out
to you, and you guys are serious warriors. There's so
many different types of birth experiences, and we are going
to delve so much deeper into that in season two
of Where's Your Bump?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Hat.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Okay, So a few weeks back, I had a really
interesting I'm going to call it an incident happen. I
was walking to the podcast and I walked around a
corner and I was very loudly and proudly showing off
my bump. I had it cropped up on and the
bump was out and about, and this guy, as I
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walked around the corner went and honestly, he looked like
he saw a ghost and he did that expression while
staring at my bump.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
And in the moment, I was like, oh my god,
I need to cover up. I need to put another
top on.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
And then I thought about it and I was like,
you know what, like it is, what it is. I'm
proud of my bump, but you know, it was probably
the most offensive thing that someone's done to be pregnant. Honestly,
I'm not easily offended, and I know that he probably.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Didn't mean it. He maybe just got a shock.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
From the bump, but whatever it was, it got me thinking,
what are some things that you should never say to
a pregnant woman. So I wanted to ask you guys,
and honestly, some of the things that you guys wrote
into me about were shocking, and a lot of I
actually couldn't include because I actually felt like it was
crossing a line. And it's definitely not productive to be
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sharing disgusting comments like that with you guys. But I
have come up with a list of things that seem
to have come up a lot, so let's get into
that now. So Number one, are you sure it's not twins? Yes, Karen,
I'm sure I'm not having twins. We've had this tummy
scanned multiple times and there's just one baby in there
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and they're maybe a little bigger and that's okay, Or
maybe Michael Center's bigger, or my amniotic fluids bigger.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Whatever it might.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Be, it's not the thing that you want to hear
as a pregnant mama. And if you know someone in
your life who's pregnant, definitely don't say that to them, okay.
Next one on the list is plans for baby number two.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
So just because someone has.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
One baby does not mean that you should ask them
if they have plans for baby number two. I've actually
been guilty of doing this, and when I saw that
this came up multiple times, it actually made me think, oh,
that's probably not something that you should ask people. You
never know what people are going through, and even if
they want baby number two, there's a lot of people
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who are happy with just having one child, And just
because you have one doesn't mean that you need to
have the pressure of having to next up be prepared
to never sleep again. This is one that I can
relate to. I have heard this so many times and
it's honestly terrifying. As someone who loves their eight hours
of sleep with no wake ups, which I'm now not
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getting because I'm very heavily pregnant, that is a terrifying
statement to make. And yes it might be true, but
better not to say that to a pregnant woman. Okay,
this one has come up a lot, and it doesn't
matter what context it's in or for what, but it's
just you wait, there's so much negativity around ages and stages.
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You know, we've all heard of the terrible two, use
the fing threes, whatever, So yes, there may be some
validity to these names that we give these stages, but
let's just approach each other with a little bit more
positivity and kindness. Okay, this one came up a lot,
and it's you can't even tell your pregnant I feel
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like speaking about how a pregnant woman is looking, whether
you're saying they're tiny or they're huge. I think each
of these comments aren't exactly necessary. And someone who might
feel like they're really showing and then you say to them, oh,
you can't even tell, you know, I think it's just
one of those things that's better left unsaid. Okay, this
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one came up a lot, but I have to say
I don't really mind this one, but a lot of
you felt this way, so I did want to include it.
It isn't a quote, but people spoke a lot about
how they dislike when people touch their pregnant belly without asking.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Totally fair enough.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
I don't think I've had like a random stranger touch
my belly, so I feel like in that scenario it
would be a bit strange. But if family or friends
go to touch it, I'm like, go for it.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Why not? I don't care.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
But yeah, that one did come up a lot, so
we wanted to include it. The next one is when
someone tells you their horrific birth experiences without you asking
this one is you know, I think a lot of
pregnant women pretty much, I think everyone. I don't know
if anyone's like excited to go into birth. I think
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there's a lot of nerves and anxiety and apprehension of
the unknown going into birth.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
So hearing horrific birth.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Stories is just not it when you already have probably
so many different thoughts going through your brains. So if
you're someone who has had a horrific birth story, I
am so sorry for that experience, but please don't pass
that story on to anyone who's trying to get pregnant
or pregnant. Maybe just save that story for after. And
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if you do want to share that story with people.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
You absolutely have the right to.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
But I think it's just about being mindful not to
evoke fear in someone who is heading towards birth and
there's no turning back. And whilst we're on the topic
of evoking fear, your belly is small, is everything?
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Comment is something that we absolutely don't want to say
to someone. I think pregnancy comes with so many highs
and lows, and we don't want to stress our friends
and family out by saying something like that, you know,
we all have worries already and we just don't want
to add it to someone's mental plate.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Okay, Last, who was it planned? Something that some.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
People take offensively, So I think it's best to leave
that one unsaid. And look, I'm very open, but not
everyone likes to talk about their sex lives and to
talk about the planning of their family and for some
people who didn't plan a pregnancy, that's not something that
they want to disclose either, So just something to keep
in mind. And last, but not least, you can or
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can't eat that I've had this one a lot throughout
my pregnancy. In fact, I've gone to a few restaurants
where they've actually pointed out things that I'm not allowed
to have. So probably one to leave to the prerogative
of the pregnant mother. People take the pregnancy food guidelines
one of two ways. Some people are very serious on it,
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some people are a little bit more relaxed, and some
people sit somewhere in the middle. And all of those
things are okay because it's our own personal choice. So
on that there can be a lot of negative chatter
on things that people say to pregnant women, to mothers.
So I really wanted to get deep into motherhood worries
and anxieties. Obviously, I have felt anxious and worried, and
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I think a lot of the commentary can evoke fear, anxiety,
and other emotions. So I asked you, guys, things that
you were worried about whilst being pregnant, Things that gave
you anxiety about motherhood. So let's go through that list now.
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So the first one is will I be a good mum?
I think that has been my biggest worry. I actually
went onto another mum podcast and they're asking that question
and my response was, I'm just worried I'm not going
to be a good mum.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
And I think it's completely valid.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Because you haven't been a mom before, so you don't
know how you're going to be. You don't know how
you're going to react to no sleep. There's just so
much about the transition into motherhood that really and completely
changes your life, and I think it's a really natural fear.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Okay, the next one is the.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Inequality of parenthood. This one is definitely a big one,
and finding your roles and responsibilities and kind of working
your way through that can be really challenged, especially if
you're going into motherhood with a partner, and then obviously
if you're a single parent, you really are doing it
all on your own and hopefully you have a really
great support system around you. But yeah, this worry is
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very real, and I think it doesn't matter how much
your partner or a support person can try and help,
the responsibility does end up falling on the woman.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Okay, this one I can definitely relate to.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
They have said I'm scared to lose my freedom and independence.
I also feel so bad for being scared of that.
Totally valid. I also feel this way. I think again,
motherhood is such a transition, and I personally, I'm going
to try my best to absolutely go with the flow.
I'm going to use support people around me to try
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to still have some level of freedom, even if that
just means going out for a drink with Michael for
thirty minutes and just doing those things that are going
to fill my cup again. I don't know how I'm
going to be when the baby and maybe I'll listen
back to this and think I was a little bit
de Lulu, but I think it's definitely important for mums
to put themselves first as much as they can, and
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to do things that are gonna make them feel whole again. Okay,
I'm petrified of the labor birth. What if something happens,
It's out of my control and will I ever escape
the intrusive thoughts so valid. I think that labor is
positioned in our culture as super scary. Even in movies,
when you see women giving birth, it looks traumatic.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
They're screaming, it.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Looks chaotic, and I think there is this level of
fear installed in everyone when it comes to birth. And honestly,
I don't have all the answers. I also feel a
bit scared. I guess what's getting me through is meeting
my son, waiting for that moment to meet him, and
focusing on that and trying to kind of not think
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about the actual process but think about the end results.
I don't know if that's helpful, but it's kind of
helping me through at the moment. Okay, again, another one
that I can really resonate with and relate to. This
person has said, I'm scared how I will function off
such little sleep and energy. This one is one of
my biggest fears about the whole process of moving into motherhood.
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I don't feel like I'm the best version of myself
when I haven't slept. In fact, when I wake up
a couple.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Of times in the middle of the night, I.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Don't feel like I wake up the best version of myself.
And I think it is going to be a real
learning process and something that I'm trying to remain super
positive about. But deep down, I'm terrified and petrified of
the person that I'm going to be. But look, it's
something that we can't change. Babies wake up in the
middle of the night. We have to feed them, and
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I'm just trying to embrace that and realize it's something
that just has to be done. It's not going to
last forever, and hopefully we'll all get through that one.
So last twho this one is how will you get
your own identity back when you are always default parent?
Such a big one for me, Not that I know
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the answers again, but what I think is going to
help me is still having time for me, seeing friends
not as often but maybe here and there, having family
around me, people who do make me feel like myself,
having breaks, but also really embracing and cherishing the moments
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that I'm going to have with my son and realizing
that there is a new part of my life that
I want to embrace, and I honestly think I'm going
to thoroughly enjoy that aspect of it as well, and having.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Him is going to be the new version of me.
I think.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Also something that I'm trying to focus on is not
losing myself through having the baby, but more so introducing
him into our life and trying to do things that
we love with him and incorporate him into our world. Okay, last,
but definitely not the least. This one is loneliness and
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isolation and the fact that you may not love the
baby as much.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
As you expect to. Look.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
I've heard many people talk about the birth experience. Some
people fall immediately in love with their baby, and some
people take some time to warm up. It could be
a month, a week, six months, but there's no timeline
and no set way you have to feel, but just
knowing that each person has a different experience and each
of those experiences are valid. When it comes to the
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loneliness and isolation point, I've mentioned it on this podcast before,
but I don't have any friends who are pregnant. My
sister in law is pregnant, but she lives very far away,
so that has been a real concern of mine, and
I think I'm going to rely heavily on my mother's
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group meeting new friends in my area.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Who also have babies. But it is a bit nerve.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Wracking meeting new friends, and you know, I think just
letting new people into your life but also leaning on
them them leaning on you, and it's something that I'm
nervous about that I'm also really looking forward to. So
you know, let's all hope for some new mum friends. Okay,
so we've spoken about how we don't want to stress
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mums out. We have enough worries and anxieties. So I think,
on a more fun note, I think it's time to
hear mine and also your weird and wonderful pregnancy cravings. Honestly, guys,
some of these are so inventive and some I'm just
an absolutely strong know for.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
But let's jump in now.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Okay, it's that time of the episode where we talk
about the weird and wonderful pregnancy cravings. Isn't our bodies
just incredible that we crave something? We crave fruits? Because
of minerals or vitamins that we're needing. It honestly just
blows me away when I think about it. So at
the start of my pregnancy, I definitely had more aversions
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than craving, So when people would ask me, I was like,
I don't really know. I'm just kind of off all food.
For the first twelve weeks of my pregnancy, I was
pretty much spewing every single day.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
It wasn't fun.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
And since then I have been taking on Danzatron to
stop my morning sickness, and so since then I've been
able to drink and eat a lot more regularly, which
is lovely, and I have developed some pregnancy cravings. So
the first one that I noticed, very obviously was fruit,
and to this day, even very late in the third trimester,
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I crave very different types of fruit at different times.
So right now I'm obsessed with Kiwi fruit, but there's
been times where I've been loving crunchy grapes, watermelon, mangoes.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
I don't know. There must be something.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
In those fruits that my body needs, but fruit for
me has been a huge one. The next one is
frozen cokes. I probably only had a frozen coke maybe
once a year before getting pregnant, and I've had a
lot more than one since getting pregnant, and they just
satisfy something within me. I don't know if it's the
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coldness aspect. I think sometimes when you're pregnant it kind
of feels like a bit of a hangover. And coca
cola actually used to be my hangover cure. And now
one of my weird pregnancy cravings is a frozen coke specifically,
so I don't know, make that make sense, but it
just hits the spot. The next one is ice cubes,
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crunching on ice cubes, and this specifically happened in the
second to third trimester, and I did a blood test
with my ob and realized I was very low in iron,
so the point that I actually ended up getting an
iron transfusion. And the funny thing about that is two
weeks after this infusion, I have not crunched another ice
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cube since. And obviously before the pregnancy, I wasn't crunching
ice cubes. It was just in this period when I
was very low in iron. And apparently it's a thing
that when you are low in this, it's something that
your body craves. How strange is that. I just honestly,
it blows my mind. The last thing that I've craved
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is hash Browns. So if I'm driving past the McDonald's,
it's really hard for me to not want to pull
in and get a hash brown. I don't know if
it's the saltiness or the crispiness or just the beautiful,
delicious potato inside. Can you tell how much I'm loving
hash Browns at the moment, But yeah, hash Browns have
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definitely been a favorite throughout this pregnancy. Okay, so I
asked you guys what your weird and wonderful pregnancy cravings are,
and you guys did not disappoint. You had some very
interesting pregnancy craving. So let's jump into them now. Okay,
our first listener says, not me, but my husband's cousin
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had a weird pregnancy craving French onion dressing. She would
literally drink two whole bottles in a day. That is
so gross, honestly, but again, maybe her body needed something
within that French onion dressing sauce. I don't know the cravings, honestly,
they just make me laugh because they're just so random.
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But you know, whatever works Okay. The next one is
pickled juice into mac and cheese. Now, I love pickles,
I love pickled juice. I love mac and cheese. But
mac and cheese with pickled juice on.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
It, I'm not sure about. It's not something that I've
ever tried. And look, I'm pregnant right now. Would I
like that? Could I try it? Maybe? Is it a
bit out there? I don't know. I think I could
give that one a try. Okay.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
The next one is it green onion chips? Green onion
chips into a veggie mighte sandwich. I think I could
potentially get around that one, like a white bread sandwich.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
With chips, But I don't know if I've ever.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Heard of green onion chips. Not at the top of
my list, but I will keep my eye.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Out for those.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Okay, This one I can absolutely not get around. And
that is pickles and ice cream, two things that I love,
but two things I would absolutely not put together. Next
is dipping a veggie mighte toast into my cup of tea.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Again, I'm sorry, absolutely not. It's just a strong note
from me.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Next we have honey soy chicken chips with green grapes
in the same mouthful, and the grapes have.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
To be crissy.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
I love how specific this one is. Look I get
I think I could get around that. Honey soyt chicken chips. Yep,
it's a tick. Crungey green grapes are a tick. Putting
it in the mouth together, Yeah, I think that would
be pretty good.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Very random, very specific, but we'll get around that one.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
So for this one, this is less on the food variety,
but once again, it's a craving, so we've included it,
especially because it's so wild. And that is chewing dish
soap sponges. I don't know what your body is craving
to want to chew on the dish soap sponges, but
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please be careful with that one. I don't know what
chemicals are in those soap sponges, so yeah, definitely don't
recommend that one to anyone.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
So we have a couple.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
More these ones, again interesting combinations. We have plain rice
and vinegar, a bit random meat pie with vanilla ice cream.
I definitely would not want to try cocktail franks whipped
in custard. I don't even know what cocktail franks are.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
They sausages.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Okay, I've got some clarification, they are small hot dogs.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Small hot dogs in custard. Really yeah, that's just a
no from me.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Unfortunately, we have chicken and ice cream together, watermelon and nutella.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
That sounds lovely.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
That actually sounds like a really nice Sunday delight on
a warm summer's day.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Gone but not cooked.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
I had eat all of the dough and then mac
and cheese and avocado.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Again.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
I love my mac and cheese and the fact that
we've even spoken about mac and cheese so much in
this episode is making me cray mac and cheese.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
But would I have it with avo? Maybe not?
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Okay, guys, thank you so much for listening to another
episode of Where's Your Bump?
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Hat.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
I absolutely love having you on this journey for me.
I really feel like we're building such a strong community
of mums, new mums, or women who are wanting to
get pregnant. I absolutely loved hearing about your motherhood worries, anxieties,
strange pregnancy cravings, and things that you should never say
to a pregnant woman. As always, please get involved in
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these episodes. I love it when you guys send me
voice notes. I really want to include as many of
them as possible, so keep them coming in and until
next time, bye by
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