PREGNANCY Q&A | second trimester recap, symptoms, birth plan, names & more 

Hi Gemma. I love how excited you are!!! With regards to the breast feeding: with my first child I breast fed but gave him a bottle at night. However I felt that he preferred the bottle and then didn’t really want to breast feed after that. With my daughter I breast fed exclusively for the first three months and it went much more smoothly because that was all she knew. After three months my milk started to dry up a bit so I switched to bottles and it was no problem at all because it’s less work for them to get milk from a bottle! This is just my own experience and all babies are different but I think it’s easier to start with if you just stick with one thing. Also, no one told me how sore your nipples get. Mine were bleeding the first week of breast feeding. You can avoid this with a nipple protector. I would highly recommend it just until your nipples harden up a bit. Then it becomes much easier. All the best with it. ❤️😊🤞xxxxx

Love this update video 🥰 thank you for sharing it with us Gemma! When you were saying you can’t feel baby boy as much during the day, it’s because when you’re awake, up and moving around, that sensation will allow him to fall asleep. And then when you’re more settled and resting, he’ll be awake 🥰♥️

Off topic but whenever you are ready for a home decor line... 🙄😍

Aww loved this! Just half way through now. Something I really noticed which is quite cute. The patterns in my baby girls kicks, then transferred to when she was born. She would always kick like crazy around 9-11pm at night. When she was born, that time was her most lively time too! 💕

With regards to breast and bottle feeding, please prepare yourself for the overwhelming hormones that come along with it! I did all of the research, exclusively BF semi-successfully for the first week then gave my baby girl a bottle of expressed milk one morning just so Dad could feed her which she loved, and she didn’t want to latch again. It caused two days of tears on my end and she hasn’t latched since. We’re now on day 11 and baby girl is combi-fed formula and expressed milk. Not what I “planned”. Be kind to yourself and don’t feel that you need to explain your decisions, as long as you and your husband are happy and baby is fed, that’s all that matters ♥️

Gemma I am genuinely happy for you and Jamie you are absolutely glowing and seem to be so happy I can’t wait to baby boy is here❤️❤️❤️

Weight gain is perfectly normal Gemma,I wasn’t worried at all after having my baby I got back to my body in my own time I just enjoyed my baby first!

I just wanted to leave a positive comment, as sometimes people are quick to share their negative experiences surrounding birth and feeding and I know how off putting that can be for a new mum. I breastfed my first son for 2 years and 2 months and I’m currently breastfeeding my second son, we are 1 year in. Both journeys were completely different to begin with. My first was born prematurely and didn’t understand how to latch on to my nipple, i exclusively pumped my milk for the first 5 weeks of his life and then a few days before his due date he latched successfully for the first time. I saw a comment suggesting about not pumping for the first 8 weeks if you want them to understand breastfeeding. But I just wanted to say every baby is different and my child using a bottle of my milk for the first 5 weeks didn’t hinder his ability to learn to latch on the nipple. My second child was a much easier breastfeeding journey and latched onto me immediately after birth. I also thought it was really important to point out that if you experience any pain whatsoever then speak to your midwife immediately. Lots of mothers have bad breastfeeding journeys because babies may be missed for tongue tie or mothers are just simply not given enough support or encouragement surround breastfeeding. Pain shouldn’t occur when breastfeeding. Likewise, If you have any problems you can ask your midwife or health visitor for the number for your local breastfeeding specialists, they are super helpful and will come out to see you to give you any help/support you may need. I hope you have an amazing breastfeeding journey and I wish you all the good luck for your birth. I had a water birth with my second, no pain relief and it’s the most in control, empowering, powerful experience I’ve ever had. So worth it! Hope you too get to experience that. Thank you for sharing your journey with us all. It’s so special to see you glowing and your happiness shine through🤍

You look absolutely beautiful, honestly Pregnancy suits you so much xx

Aww you are such a beautiful person inside and out Gemma, you will be the best parents to this lucky little boy xxx

Hey babe I just had to tell you this, the reason why he’s very quiet in the day is because your movements through the day rock him to sleep and then when you’re still at night and early hours that’s when he wakes up haha ❤️

I also think doing breast and bottle means dad can enjoy the lovely bond that comes with feeding your baby boy ☺️ I’m also planning on doing both. You’re looking great mama!

Wish I had you as a friend during my pregnancies. I was lonely, and scared and nobody advised me on symptoms. I would definitely have felt better and more reassured if I had been watching you then

This was a lovely chat ever so happy you can enjoy food now. Take care. Thanks for sharing your pregnancy update. 👍👶🍼

Ohh Gemma you are absolutely glowing! Your going to make the most amazing mummy. Love hearing all about your pregnancy journey Xxx

I can’t believe how he kicks your hand! Awesome!!💕💕💕💕💕

Loved this video, love your Q&A/ catch-up vidoes. You look absolutely glowing 🥰

Hi Gemma🌅 I was thinking today how you say, "I'm living my best life" and that's the most special thing I've heard in along time. I really like your personality... You seriously made me laugh about biting the sponge oh my Lord...did you really? 🤣🤣🤣 I'm so enjoying your journey... Have a good day🌺🌺🌺🌺bye😊

Gemma you honestly look soo stunning 😍 I'm 24 weeks now and had a great pregnancy only thing I've been suffering with is the nerves in my legs are so irritating. Ps I cried everytime you did 🤣 please film your hospital bag xx

So exciting…🍼 🍼🍼🍼babies are such a joy and blessing!!!!

Gemma, I feel u when u talk about cramp in ur legs with all 4 of my pregnancies I was so afraid to stretch because I'd always cramp up it was so painful I found tapping my legs where the cramp is to ease it

Hi Gemma, you look so radiant and happy! Thanks for sharing all your thoughts and feelings with us. It takes me back to when I was pregnancies with my Son & Daughter so I completely empathise with you! Have you thought about Birthing Hypnotherapy podcasts as another way of relaxation? I also used to love my husband giving me a foot massage as well as rubbing my lower back. Still do! It's such an exciting time for you and I love watching your videos and look forward to them. x

Don't get overwhelmed with the hospital bag, you don't need as much as you think. I have 4 children, I went into labour with my 4th and I hadn't packed anything 😂 did it in 5 minutes. Pack the obvious things, if you need anything, someone could just bring it to you. X

Gemma you look so stunning! Pregnancy really suits you 💖

Aww I’m so excited for you💜 Are you having a baby shower? I would love to see your planning process

Congratulations mama xx

I'm so excited to re-watch some of your first pregnancy videos again because I found out I'm pregnant 3 days ago! ❤💖 Couple months apart with my favorite youtuber 🥰

I'm so excited for you, your going to be a lovely mother xxx

so excited for this video 💗love your videos on Sundays

Have a blessed week!

You look wonderful, my daughter-in-law had two water birth and it was wonderful both times, I would recommend it. Thank you so much for letting us into your life. I can't wait for baby boy to be here. See you soon🥰🥰🥰

Yayyyy❤️❤️❤️ perfect Sunday morning vibes!!

Yay😍 I love these chill catch up vids 🖤

So they say for the cramps eating a banana helps for potassium. My be different for pregnancy but this is the suggested fox for not pregnant people. Might be worth a try. And you can eat one every once in a while as preventative.

Looking forward to watching this your glowing you and Jamie are such a amazing couple💖💙xx

My daughter looked like she was smiling on her 4d scan. She's 9 now and is constantly smiling

The reason why most breastfed babies don’t have a bottle from birth, is because they can get a bottle preference pretty quickly and it can risk your breastfeeding journey hugely. The recommendation is that you wait until baby is 6 weeks old before you introduce a bottle if you’re breastfeeding, because your milk supply is established by then and baby is into the swing of things with the breast. There are however many many families who combi-feed from birth and do it successfully without any major difficulties. It’s just something to be aware of if you want to Breastfeeding for a particular amount of time and your heart is set on it.❤️

Just beautiful takes me back so much ! I had Harrison at 29 weeks ! Premature so my body went into shock so was I !! . I would say breast feeding is soo pressurised I couldn’t get Harrison to latch on because he was born not only 9 weeks early but with a cleft palette lip soo I expressed a little bit nights I didn’t crying my body wasn’t giving enough so stressful I was soo sore awful and some nice nurses understood others were like you must do it it’s liquid gold ! Let me just say he had done little drops of liquid gold but thank goodness for formula milk, it was on prescription due to being so tiny o think it helped a lot with so many vitamins in he put on the weight needed i got some sleep and dad was able to help out , with the feeding so totally do what you can if you can but if they get bottle fed wether it’s Natural or not long as you all happy and baby that’s all that matters this old fashioned pressure got to stop go with the flow 💜💜💜💜

I also remember hearing about "the plug" and that if you got this bloody jelly type thing come out it was a sign the baby is coming soon. And I remember having this bloody jelly and freaking out but the baby didn't come right after that LOL

Thank you Gemma . I feel less alone

HI Gemma maybe ask your midwife for a pregnancy belt, I had awful pelvic pain due to the weight of the bump and it helped so much so would def help lower back/hip pain too!! Also sorry to tell you but the brain fog lasts so long, my boys are men now and I still say stupid random shit lol!! Love to know if you are going to film any of the birth/hospital? You seemed so calm and chilled but so super excited!! Can't wait for all the updates!! XoJoanxo

U look Amazing as always! Mmmwah ur Irish follower 💯

Brew and biscuits in hand... I'm ready 😊

I remember right at the start of pregnancy I drank a green smoothie that I'd normally have and it literally projected straight back out. Honestly. Vile. But it was literally still just a green smoothie coming back out because it was seconds after id drank it. It went everywhere 😳🤦

Hi lovely Gemma u look so beautiful thanks for the video u r so kind and happy and caring hope Jamie is ok take care have a good week c u soon uk 🇬🇧 🍼💕👶

Literally just sat down with my tea and toast 😂 yay😊

You look absolutely amazing, you're glowing! I have a feeling little boy may be called Theodore or Albie 😍🥰❤. All the best lovely 💕

Gemma is your mum going to come and stay with you after baby is born? xoxoxox Will you do a baby clothing primark haul? hehe xoxox Please do the hospital bag video! and the 4D scan video!

Congrats Gemma & Jaime. Lovely home. Happy holidays from our channel: Australian Parakeets Stars

Will you be accepting gifts?. I would love to make the baby something cozy .Do you have a PO Box?

Make sure you get plenty of potassium that will lesson the charlie horses aka cramps and make sure you are getting enough vitamin D.

Loved this video! Also positive hopes for your water birth! I had a epidural in my induction (ended in c section) and I still have pain in the lower back like pregnancy from my epidural 😩😩

Lots of and kisses 💋 😘 Gemma and Jamie

Morning Gemma. Love your content have a lovely day ❤️❤️

Oh my god! I actually craved sponges as well!!!! It was so embarrassing but craved it. So bad. I chewed it

I suffered the same with dizziness and feeling like I was going to pass out with my first born and I also was low on iron. My strange craving was mud 😳🙄 I know it's mad but I would have to lick a potato 🥔🥔🥔. To help with back pain have u seen one of those pregnancy belts which wrap around you and go under your belly my friend was pregnant with twins and she had one and said it helped her. Xxx

The cramping is probably caused from low potassium.

If you do bottle and breast from birth it will effect your milk supply baby will have no issue going from breast to bottle but if you want to successfully breast feed try and leave out the bottles for as long as possible as they'll interfear with your supply of milk unless you plan to express but still definitely better to exclusively breast feed for as long as possible I introduced the bottle too soon with my youngest daughter and she started refusing to latch to my breast. Bottles make them lazy lol with breast feeding it takes longer whereas with bottles they get the milk quickly so they become lazy with breastfeeding also bottles Cary a higher risk of colic ect xx

Where is your blouse from xx

Hi Gemma, Hope you feeling okay?

Have some vegetarian sushi, going to enjoy the video 🥰❤️

Hello from Houston Gemma. Your friend Carmen

Hey All, Does anybody know about claming jsa while your pregnant. Iam unemployed and pregnant can I claim jsa. Will the jsa jobcente still try and push to find a job, while your pregnant. Also I believe claiming jsa you get vouchers for milk and stuff, and the government give a one off payment grant of £500. Thanks all 👍

Hope your doing good 💖xx

Are you going to change your RU-vid channel name to your new last name?

My mum's craving with me was eating coal lol . If you have one put hot water bottle on your back

I love you and wish you a very beautiful pregnancy

And also shame on whoever asked about weight gain - stop talking to woman about weight especially when they are growing a human 🙄 xx

Scrubdaddies 😂😂😂😂🥰

Gemma I am genuinely happy for you and Jamie you are absolutely glowing and seem to be so happy I can’t wait to baby boy is here❤️

Gemma, I look forward to your video on Sundays. It’s 6am in Maryland. thank you for the pregnancy updates. Your feelings are normal. You are beautiful glowing. You will make a great loving mom. Enjoy the moments.

The best way to start the day! I’ve been waiting for this video, I cannot wait for baby boy to arrive 🥰 xxx

You might need to check your potassium I have to take medicine for my cramps

These videos are so so comforting being pregnant myself! I’m 31 weeks with a boy and can relate to almost every symptom and it makes me feel so much better and more normal! I’m just starting to experience Braxton Hicks so I’m praying for you if / when you start getting them too girl🙈 Thank you so much for sharing your journey🥰 You are ✨glowing✨

Hey Gemma 👋 Maybe trying the pregnancy belt will do you good, this supports your back pain, hip pain, pelvic pain & supports your bump through out especially when you now are getting heavier ❤

Gemma your going mad!!🤣😂🤪 I now have this vision of you standing at your kitchen sink squeezing a sponge and occasionally having a quick bite, with Jamie standing behind you……probably thinking “what the hell.”🤣😂🤣😂

always love these pregnancy updates!! Can’t wait for bubba to be here 🥰💗💗

I was poorly up until about week 20 with both my kids then it started to ease off. I was on anti sick medication aswell. Im so excited for you both. I got that awful cramp in my feet and legs at night with my 2nd child. Lightning crotch near the end of pregnancy wasnt fun either. I got strange rashes with my 1st child that dissappeared after he was born.

Is it me, or are you all thinking, and can't wait to see your baby. And the love,joy, happiness with you and Jamie.

Love this! ☺️ & the random sickness in the second trimester is real 😂 I’m 22 weeks at the moment 💕 (3rd baby) hope you feel really well until the end now 😌🖤

I loved sponges the first time around now due with my 2nd at 35 weeks :) Good luck with everything x

Absolutely love watching your Chanel 🤍 you look phenomenal…… Thank you sharing your journey with us. Can I ask where your blouse is from so pretty 😍

Read to him Gemma, he will hear you, not sure if you were interested but Aldi yesterday had the complete box set of Winnie the pooh, in a gorgeous box, it’s adorable and I immediately thought of you, I know you used to go there in your vlogs ( that by the way were so funny with Jamie ) lovely to hear all about your second trimester I loved seeing him kick, I couldn’t have children but love watching your vlogs I have for over 5 years ❤️

Awww Gemma I'm so so happy for you! I've watched your videos for the past year now. I was so happy when you got engaged and then announced bubba! I have a 2 year old and I totally understand you don't want to miss a single moment! It really does go sooo fast! I totally relate to your pregnancy and enjoy remembering mine while I watch yours 🥰 my boy is Harry, and I'm predicting your boys name as Noah! Just keeps coming to mind haha xxxx

With the cramps eating a banana every day or sometimes two really helpes

Absolutely love watching you. But just wanted to mention the music you play is really distracting when you're talking. I wear hearing aids and it makes it difficult trying to listen to you. I couldn't get to the end of this vlog and I'm gutted as I really wanted to 😢

I was sick all day everyday till I gave birth with both my boys, I think if I never had that sickness I would of had more kids, but I did have good births, one was waterbirth and it was amazing!

Actually the milk can help with the stretch marks 😍 granny hacks lol! It worked on me 👍

On my 4d baby scan my son smiled a lot 😁 a soft toy with a baby heartbeat is the best souvenir for a parent and a child.

Gemma you look great! 👌😊. Buy a "bump band" for extra support for your tummy to. The hip and back pain isn't just because you are growing a baby, it is because your joints are getting supple, especially your hip joints, so you can push the baby out. In the day you are moving around.. So the baby is "being rocked"... Evenings and nights when you are still the baby is active because you are still. Wait until the baby punches your kidneys or liver, or pushes up on your stomach sack or down on your bladder, or sits on your sciatic nerve.. Then it's not nice/painful😭. I wanted a water birth.. But during labor I got it and it felt terrible, so I got out. Stretch marks are more likely to come in the last 4weeks when your baby is just putting on weight and your tummy gets huge quick.

You are looking amazing! Currently in my second trimester with 2nd baby 💗 thank you for another great video 😊

Awww just love this your going to be such a wonderful mummy. Little tip I wanted to breastfeed my little girl when she was born which I did but I also bottle fed as well I packed the ready made newborn bottle which you can get from the supermarket I think SMA sell them but I went with aptimal you get 6 in a pack and they are just there if you need them xxx

I can only hope my life will one day be as idyllic as yours

You're looking amazing in this video! xx

My top guesses are Thomas “Tommy” or Francis “Frankie”

Gemma, you are sooo ready to be a mum! I'm certain you'll be a GREAT mum! ♥️ Lots of love from Cyprus!❤️😘

Hi gemma,all exciting news about your baby,4d scan video would be lovely to see ,it's so nice when the baby moves especially when you are in bed, look forward to seeing the nursery, take care gemma xx👍💕🐈🐈

You are glowing Gemma 🥰 Baby boy is very lucky ♥️

Hi Gemma,where is your beautiful blouse ftom pls xxx

You may benefit from a magnesium supplement for the night cramps, also adding some pink salt to food will help. And obviously being hydrated which I think you are! Xx