OB-GYNs Debunk 25 Pregnancy Myths 

As someone who isn't pregnant these were very useful facts for my imaginary child.

Who else is not pregnant, or any where near getting pregnant but watched this anyways?

One lady judged me for ordering coffee once. She was like “I hope you don’t miscarry”. I wasn’t even pregnant, just bloated

As someone who's currently pregnant with a food baby, I found this very enlightening.

Ah yes thanks. As a 16 yr old guy, I will note to not drink alcohol when I am breastfeeding my newborn child.

“Pregnant women shouldn’t drink coffee” “That’s a myth” *Pregnant women liked that*

Being pregnant is absolutely the hardest and worst thing I've ever done to myself. And everyone just keeps saying "you'll be fine" "its all for the baby" "you'll forget all about it when the babys here" That's so unhelpful and rude. I'm in hell i don't care that ill feel better in a few months. So awful.

Thank you for making these videos. As someone who has been through fertility with no luck and adoptions and is now pregnant for the first time at 40, this is very helpful!

When they said pregnant women shouldn’t fly my brain instantly just imagined pregnant women wizzing around the sky

“I don’t think anyone should be eating hotdogs, frankly.” ... Unintentional pun? 🧐

"I'm not sure why anyone eats hotdogs, frankly." OB/GYN comedy at its finest.

I love the way the one OB/GYN looks at the other with such admiration. They seem to agree on all these topics and I just really love how much they support each other.

I was breech and they turned me around. I turned myself back around. I was determined to come into this world ass-first.

As a man with no plans to get pregnant soon, i found this oddly very entertaining

I just found out I'm pregnant with my first kid and this was both informative and amusing to watch. Thanks for making me laugh during these,,,,, trying times lol.

I am pregnant with my first child and found this to be extremely helpful and eased a lot of my worries. Thank you!!

I could listen to intelligent women speak for hours it's so impressive and admirable considering how I'm about as smart as a piece of toast

I'm a 15 year old boy it's 2 in the morning and this video is strangely interesting to me

Watched this before I was pregnant and watching it while pregnant with my first baby! So helpful and nerve calming ❤️

I like the 2 doctors dynamic! I think both of these women, at least their style of stating facts is very important to hear. Sometimes you have to hear the raw truth without the sweet talk, and sometimes you need more gentle energy! I love it , these women make the world a better place

I'm Caribbean. Spicy is our middle name. No pregnant woman from home would get to term if spicy food induced labor.

“I frankly don’t know why anyone is eating hot dogs.” She dropped a hot dog pun and I don’t think she she even realized it 😂

This is a good point about breech. I was a full breech baby. My Mother could not have C-section. I was delivered by a person WITHOUT any experience with breech babies. There were a lot of complications. All of my limbs were severely damaged during the delivery. Up to this day, a few decades later, I am still in and out of physical therapy. Make sure to find a competent specialist, or your baby will end up like me. I am sitting here with a heating pad over my twisted shoulders, as I am typing this :)

Had my first child at 16 ! 22 years ago! Back then we only had myths by the other generation currently pregnant with my IVF miracle baby and Thank god for RU-vid and google So informative and much better insight on pregnancy overall!! Thank You!!!

I didn't realize how long this video is

Me: *Paranoid about being pregnant* RU-vid algorithm: Let's freak her out more

I watched this video about 2 weeks ago, and yesterday I found out I was pregnant so I’m back! Thank you ladies 🥰

Science Insider is so good at choosing the right experts to debunk all the myths. They all give off positive vibes. It makes me want to listen to them without being distracted. ♥️

Not only am I not pregnant, but I am also not a woman. Why am I here?

I remember asking my mom about the “pregnancy glow” and her laughing saying “it’s not a glow it’s sweat from throwing up & feeling like crap all day” 😂 😭 so not excited for morning sickness when I get pregnant lmao

As someone who is currently pregnant, this is very useful. I did for sure know that no alcohol is safe while pregnant so as an alcoholic I had to "cold turkey" it but stayed with a friend in case I had to go to the emergency room as a result.

I’m currently 15 weeks pregnant - my facial skin has become so dry whereas my hair has become quite nice 😂 some foods I used to love have now made me sick eg eggs and prawns. Pregnancy is a lot harder than I thought (no one told you!!) 🙂

That "frankly" pun was completely ignored on the hot dog question and it hurt my pun-loving heart

To all the pregnant women. Just take care of yourself during and after your pregnancy. Take time to yourselves. It’s ok to ask for help. I didn’t take very good care of myself after and as a result I developed a thyroid disorder. You bring a life into this world but don’t forget about yourself. It’s easy for a mother to do that.

I had an unmedicated, natural breech birth! Not a C-section. I was almost 2 weeks overdue, walking every day and between my 38 week scan and my labor starting, my baby boy flipped up when he was head down. It is absolutely true that providers rarely know how to deliver a breech baby. When we transferred from our assisted home birth to the hospital while I was pushing and my sons butt was presenting, the whole ER OBGYN staff freaked out and after realizing he was coming out and I was begging them to let me squat and just help me guide him out, they forced me on my back and 4 people literally put their hands into my vagina, tore me and pulled my baby out! That is NOT how you deliver a breech baby. We had detailed notes of when my water broke, when I started pushing, the length of contractions, my baby’s heart rate during labor, no meconium being present in my waters, etc. They didn’t believe me and was sure my baby was dying! They said that to me! I was so angry! We were having a beautiful home birth and then because of their fear, literally ripped my son out of me. We were giving birth in Montana instead of our home state of Texas and I would definitely get an extra scan around 40 weeks to ensure my baby was still head down. That’s the only thing I’d do differently. We’re now 9 weeks pregnant and we are still planning to have another home birth with a mid wife. This time I’m getting extra scans to ensure baby is head down. Any woman can have a natural birth! I did and it was not as painful as many state. I anticipated the pain during contractions and prepared myself. The most painful part was when my son was coming out and it was made worse because my son was pulled out!

I was always under the impression that not flying during pregnancy was more of a concern at the 3rd trimester. Even then, it was more concern about what if you go into labor rather than a general health concern.

When she said water makes you sick I literally screamed out YES! I felt so validated. I’m trying to stay hydrated but when I try to drink water it just makes me feel so gross.

It's gonna be exhausting watching my fictional wife go through all of this

Thank you for sharing that there is no safe time or amount of alcohol to drink during pregnancy. As an adoptive mom of 2 kids with FASD I am acutely aware of the realities of what a permanent traumatic brain injury caused by prenatal alcohol consumption looks like… it’s easy to scoff it away until/unless it happens to you or someone you love. Then it’s a lifelong disability.

I’ve actually struggled still with adult acne until got pregnant and it has cleared right up from it🤷🏻‍♀️

I can confirm from personal experience that alcohol gets in breast milk. When I was a lil baby and still drinking breast milk my mom went out and got drunk when she came back she felt guilty for leaving so she took a shower and slept in a giant shirt without a bra and just held me but my baby self was like “it’s time to feast” so I ended up breast feeding myself and getting drunk and scared the crap outta my mom because she thought I was gonna die because I fell asleep for 14 hours.....and that’s the story of my first drink

Ive been having TERRIBLE morning sickness but the lemon thing she talked about is so trueee. I thought I was about to throw up again, but I took a lemon and started sucking on it and it was relieved immeditaly. For mamas out there struggling with the same thing: *LEMONS*

I wish these ladies were by OBGYN. Where I come from, we really lack such empathetic, kind doctors who properly and patiently explain to their patients no matter how silly the questions sound. The emotional bond we as patients built with our doctors is so important for our mental health as well.

Wow! I'm a healthcare provider and I still learned a good amount from this video. Thank you for this!

Who else is pregnant and watching this video

Why do they call it “morning sickness”? When your really sick at anytime during the day.

These women are amazing! I would definitely want any of them to be my doctor. So nice to watch and so interesting to listen! Amazed by this video!

Im 7w and 5 days, and it’s my first pregnancy. I really appreciate all this info info and I love this duo❤️second video I’ve seen of you two OBGYN’s

I have spent my whole pregnancy avoiding smoked salmon only to watch this video on day 1 of my 9th month. Wow.

No one: Them: THERE IS NO EVIDENCE

I'm currently 6 weeks pregnant (first time) and this video helps calm me down. Please do a video on foods you should be eating during pregnancy.

I was in the 3% baby girl was breech full term and they did an ECV to flip her but then she was facing the wrong way sunny side up and was a painful birth 🫣 God willingly we were able to get her out no c section ❤️🙏🏼

Can you make this on Spanish for my Hispanic mom who thinks all this myths are true lol

As a flight att of 16 years, I will tell you that flying well into your 3rd trimester is heavily discouraged. Not because of radiation exposure or a “risk factor” but more because of the possibility of being extremely uncomfortable. Seats are small and should it be a turbulent flight and or the possibility of delays, you may not have an option to get up to walk and stretch as recommended by your doctors.

she said "I'm not sure why ANYone is eating hot dogs... frankly" haha I laughted when she said FRANKLY

As a first time mom (newest mommy in town)❤this is really so refreshing. Let’s see how the journey goes. Thank you

I found out that I’m pregnant yesterday (I’m soo excited). Scrambling to figure out what I should and shouldn’t be eating/doing - this video is really helpful.

Is it me or does the camera look weird? like a camera from the 2000’s.

As a biologist, the question if your diet in pregnancy influences the palate of the baby is a very interesting topic. From the microbiome point of view, there have been numerous studies that show that the babies gut microbiota will develop to the state that their primal caregiver is. Since your diet majorly influences the microbiota of your gut, and there is something called the gut brain axis, I definetly would point my educated guess towards that the diet of the mother does have an influence on the diet of the baby, although it might be very small. What I observed with my baby niece however is, that the kid automatically will take interest in the foods that mama eats first. So this would be another top-down influence, but more socially based and restricted to the same time period (not pregnancy food vs. baby later in its life). I think the latter has way more influence than the first.

For people with "morning" sickness or anyone else feeling nauseous, try Sea Bands. Those are acupressure bands you wear on both your wrists which can really help with nausea and dizzyness during pregnancy, chemo therapy, motion sickness, vertigo, stomach bugs, etc. It might not make it go away completely but will definitely make it less.

Sucking on a lemon seriously helped with my morning sickness. Def recommend

At 34 weeks pregnant hearing i can sleep however i want is such a relief

My morning sickness was more like an all day sickness, but not coming from weird food smells or the usual stuff. It was the screen time at my PC or phone which made me sick. That was a huge problem for me cause I had to work 6 hours a day glued to my PC (homeoffice) and had no other job related activity to take a break. Our chef even forbid screen breaks, because he argued that we could simply look away from the screen while on a customer call... so it was a really hard time for me and I didn't quite knew why the screen bothered me so much until it clicked in my head and I took a pregnancy test. ;)

Can't have cold smoked salmon that is common in sushi. Ob said it was a no go. She practiced over in Japan and said if the fish we had was fresh like in Japan she'd have less of an issue, but she was leery of raw sushi here in the states during pregnancy. Honestly, I enjoyed her candid stories of women and sushi in Japan. Lol

“You can do whatever you want, but your baby is in charge. Remember that.” -Baby Boss has enter the chat

RU-vid thinks I’m pregnant

Everyone looks at me like I'm nuts when I mention that even a sip of water, especially room temperature water, makes me sick and have to go throw up, so it's really nice hearing a professional OB validate that it's a thing, and that I'm not actually tripping.

these Doctors are amazing! so much schooling and so much life saving support!

I like their chemistry, fun to watch

My baby is a cat but I will remember not to drink wine when breastfeeding her

currently 10 weeks and loving these women. Just watched all their videos. Also when I finally found popsicles it was a game changer for my morning sickness.

I dye my hair all the time and the first thing one of my friends said to me when I told them I was pregnant was that I would have to stop. I had to calmly explain that unless I was eating the hair dye baby won't be bothered.

"I'm not sure why anybody's eating hot dogs, frankly." I see what you did there.

ThE pregnancy "glow" ..... its sweat. IT. IS. SWEAT.

These ladies r so awesome !! I love hearing their well honed knowledge

Just a guy wanting to learn more. Oh and I am so happy there is a community on this subject! Rock on!

*contemplates liking video* “Pregnant women shouldn’t drink coffee” “That’s a myth” *likes video*

I knew the hair/skin thing is a myth... bc I’m pregnant, and had beautiful skin before becoming pregnant. Now I’m pimples mchghee in comparison 😂😂😂

This helped with some myths I was following! I'm stil sceptical about the salmon because I'me worried about bacteria, but it's good to know that me sleeping on my right side won't kill me.

Really enjoyed the two female OB's. Factual and no nonsense answers!

6 weeks pregnant 🥰 I hope my little resident keeps strong. Ps: the nausea is real.

So .... you're telling me I was forced to get rid of my cat when my sister was pregnant BECAUSE OF A MYTH!!!????? Edit: yeah this happened when I was 14 (yyyears ago) lol you guys are giving me suggestions on what I should've done. I could have made a PowerPoint presentation listing all the reasons why I could keep the cat but once a black parent makes a decision that is the decision that they've made so hahaha thanks though

Absolutely love the feed back on flying. Very informative

I used to drink coffee a few times a week before becoming pregnant but then did cut back on it because I wasn’t completely sure about it and then my migraines came back so my OB actually recommended that I drink a cup off coffee every day, because the caffeine is a type of drug in migraine medicine and can help speed up the process of Tylenol. So I was very happy to hear that ! ☕️ ( before that my sister would put a mark on my L dunken cup and demand I only drink half to the mark lol )

“Some women say they have the pregnancy glow, I think their delusional “ lmao the best

I’m so happy I watched this.. first pregnancy and I’ve been googling non stop and have seen most of these myths over the internet now I can stop worrying & just enjoy my pregnancy...

Great points, it’s crazy how many pregnancy myths are out there! My OB is convinced my baby is coming at 37 weeks due to being in prodomal labour since 34 weeks and that bubs head is so engaged haha

Finally some honesty! Thank you ladies, this is a great video for women. Blessings

Why does this look like an educational video for a college class filmed in 1994

My skin broke tf out when I got pregnant! And I had postpartum shedding which I didn't know about until after it happened as well. Pregnancy is not all its cracked up to be, the best part was not having my period the whole time. No one told me the truth about how hard it is being pregnant.

So helpful!! Thank you so much!! Learned a lot today!!

Thank you for this information I’m happy and comfortable getting this from the two of you. 🙏🏽watching all the way from South Africa 🇿🇦

My 90 year old grandmother has accurately guessed the sex of all 7 of her great-grandchildren based on weird old wives tales, including the belly shape/location. Maybe Nana knows something we don't? Or she's just a damn good guesser!

As a high risk mama in the first trimester, I really appreciate solid facts coming from such credible sources. Thank you!

I can say from experience having give birth to three babies, being given Pitocin makes the contractions come on quicker and stronger, aka they hurt a bit more. I have a high pain tolerance but I opted for the drugs, don't feel bad if you do.

Very grateful to be a survivor of a vaginal breach delivery... my mother was in to have me turned the day I was born. I had other ideas and spent 6 months in a hip brace with hip dysplasia afterwards. But thankfully not much else for complications

"Exercise during pregnancy can strangle the baby" 😳 She and I had the same reaction lol. I've never heard that before.

"Your hair and your skin look better when you're pregnant." I giggled at that one. 😂 I'm 30 weeks pregnant and my skin is so broke out and dehydrated. My hair is doing better now but during the first half of my pregnancy, it was falling out A LOT.

I loved this! currently pregnant and so many relatable concerns! I'll be over here eating a hot dog, sleeping on my back and petting my cat :) also pregnancy acne is REAL, really unfortunate!

Having no evidence doesn’t mean it isn’t true lol