Idk If this is something youd want to do, or be able to do, but doing a video on "The 4th Trimester" or the post-partum period might be very useful in the whole conversation about pregnancy that you're creating here! Many first time moms aren't prepared for the post-partum period!
Agreed!! Would be such a wonderful idea. I get my friends a whole postpartum basket for their baby shower gift, instead of things for baby. I’m pregnant with my third and had no clue what postpartum was like when I had my first. It’s still so hush hush to talk about unfortunately!
She said she would go on paternity leave after birth so I think that also means not picking up a camera. I‘m pretty positive though that she will return doing more videos once she feels ready :D
I like that they call it a "birth preferences" plan, instead of a "birth plan". The former more properly conveys the fact that things can be unpredictable!
I remember when Claudia Kellgren-Fozard was pregnant, Jessica did an outtakes video of all the work they had to do to hide her pregnant belly after they officially announced. Once of the funniest/saddest things was a clip where they were doing a Christmas video, and Claudia went off screen to change or something, and went from laughing hysterically to crying in the space of 15 seconds. Which they both said happened pretty often. Hormones gonna hormone. And so many congratulations on the baby! Damn, you are a trooper. Plus, you navigated this pregnancy while being so transparent, so well, and it's going to help so many people with chronic illnesses or disabilities who are worried about having children.
it reminds me of when Laura Bailey was pregnant and was livestreaming critical role before they had announced they're were having a child but she was clearly showing. So everytime she needed the bathroom one Sam who sat next to her got up at the same time to cover her - and looking back it looked so weird but i don't think anyone knew at the time
Welcome to the world, baby Rowan! Have the best maternity leave and can't wait for your return already. Amazing video, as always - and congratulations!!! xx
surprised to see a video post-birth but i guess it makes sense to have this one out now and not in three months :) enjoy your maternity leave & bonding time with baby rowan!
This was truly an outstanding contribution to the internet. My wife went full term with our first pregnency, only to have to give birth to a stillborn son.She was deeply depressed for months, even joining a women's group of similar situation folks- it helped her a small bit. Then a year later, our daughter came along and all went well (Now 32 years old). Didn't realize all the pain wife went through. You did a splendid job recording all your phases, watched non-stop. Great job, Hannah. Thanks!
As someone with UC, I would like to really thank you for sharing your whole journey of pregnancy with so many details and so much honesty. I feel like watching you go through it made me realise that I, too, could carry a baby if I want to and I'll probably be fine. Have a great time with Rowan during your maternity leave ❤
Weird question: iron supplements usually makes people’s poop change colour (usually to black), do the iron supplements change the colour of poop that comes out of a stoma?
I find it so interesting that you were able to develop piles even though you don’t actually pass stool. Thank you for sharing, Hannah! I think it’s really amazing that you’re raising awareness and educating people. Welcome to the world, baby Rowan! ❤️
I want to be an OB/GYN when I'm older and I know a lot of the medical sides of birth, but it's really interesting to hear the parents perspective instead of the doctor's. So thank you for that. And congratulations on your baby!!!!!!
I used an Epi-No device for stretching before the birth :). I felt that it gave me a level of confidence with regard to a babies head fitting through my vagina after using it for 1-2 weeks. I didn't tear with both pregnancies, but again that might just have been luck. It definitely helped me mentally and I found it way more comfortable than doing a manual massage as it is sooooo difficult to reach. Best of luck for the birth.
Hi Sara, I've been wondering about using an Epi-No myself. My midwife is quite opposed to it with no reason other than "my kind of preparation will be enough" whereas I feel like the epi-no would help reassure me and make me understand the feelings of giving birth better. Anyhoo, would you be okay to share - when you started using it? I've heard using it too early may cause contractions and risk premature labour - if you did it on your own or with the help of a professional? I'm a bit worried about going against my midwife's wishes on my own and doing something wrong ? Thanks in advance and a good day to you :)
It’s good you explored all your options but also accept that the birth doesn’t always go to plan (my mum had to have me early via caesarean as she was showing signs of pre eclampsia; bright side was we were home for Christmas).
Congratulations on baby Rowan! I opted for a birth centre which was half a mile from the main hospital. I called after 30 hours of labour to get some meds as I was still 7 mins apart and they couldn't see me as it was staff changeover time. I was sent to the hospital instead and I'll never stop being grateful for that happy accident. My waters broke as I walked through the doors of the hospital, then I went to every 3 minutes and the midwife discovered she was breech. Rushed in for an emergency csection and all was good. I'm sure nothing awful would have happened if I'd had to have travelled to the hospital, but it would have been a lot more stressful
Thanks so much Hannah for these videos! As someone who was TTC at the same time as you and now pregnant (3rd time lucky after miscarriages 🤞🏻) it has been sooo honest and helpful! Congratulations on baby Rowan! Can’t wait to hear the birth story and 4th trimester! Enjoy your maternity leave! 💕
Though both our children are grown, watching these has made me sort of wish I could sit down with you and share some of the stories from my wife's pregnancies. One that I can do quick, when you mentioned crying at the slightest emotional trigger it reminded me of my wife's first pregnancy. She came out to the living room sobbing uncontrollably, and I was unable to do anything to calm her down. After sobbing into my shoulder for twenty straight minutes she burst out "He died!" .... she cried on my shoulder for twenty minutes because of something that happened in a sitcom.
Watching this at 38 weeks pregnant myself, knowing that you had your baby last weekend from Instagram 🥰 Congratulations - enjoy your new family time and I'll be excited to hear your thoughts of birth/postpartum/new parenthood when you are back (if/when you want to share). And thank you for wishing the pregnant people luck - made me a bit emosh actually!! Thanks so much for the pregnancy vlogs, they've been great to watch as I have gone along fertility struggles and pregnancy on a similar timeline to you!
I told my husband that life would never be the same, he was always 'yeah, I know, it's not a big deal, I got this. As soon as Alex was born and he was holding him he said ' oh fuxk, my life will never the same'. Lol
My daughter would punch the HECK out of my cervix in the third trimester, and when the doctor did the final cervical inspection before labor she said it was coming along well and that my daughter's punches probably had a lot to do with it. Unfortunately they hurt very badly, so I got good at keeping her off of my cervix, so by the time labor rolled around my cervix was NOT ready. So my advice? Just grin and bear it with the punches. They're important.
Ever thought about getting a bidet? That way you can clean yourself up without wiping. I love it for when I have the runs or something and my bum is a bit sensitive...
When I broke my knee and couldn't shower my sister recommended a portable bidet bottle. Got it on Amazon. Brilliant solution. Still use it to freshen up after number 2's.
The whole journey has really opened my eyes to the similarities between pregnancy (which is what a lot of people go through) and chronic pain/chronic illness/disability (which always feels very isolating). I have ankylosing spondylitis, an inflammatory arthritis of the spine and pelvis, which basically has a lot of the same symptoms and management that you experienced in the third trimester - the back pain and severe fatigue and "hangovers" after social events and generally feeling sick and uncomfortable. Makes you realise that there are lots of things that people go through that are actually quite similar and could foster good empathy. Congrats on your little one (and for making it through some tough weeks and months already)! 💕
Just watched this because I miss your videos and realised once again that you're gorgeous. There were so many moments in this video where I thought "Wow she looks so pretty!" Hope you're having lovely baby-time :)
Your current day shot of you in the purple dress with the green wall behind you is BEAUTIFULLY set up! Props on that. You look gorgeous in it as well :)
Watching this knowing you already gave birth made me cry! Congratulations!! The part where you practice perineal massage reminds me so much of the pelvic floor physical therapy I had last year (not from giving birth, just tight PF muscles lol) but I would also totally have some parts of the pelvic floor muscles that would be tighter than the others. I found out that I always cross my right leg over my left and it was making the right side tighter. Pelvic floors are so interesting.
Lovely that you're doing NCT! My mum did that when pregnant with me and 25 years later, I'm still very good friends with one of the others that was born that year.
Your videos have been so great to watch. I just hit the halfway mark in my own pregnancy (first one). Excited to see you again in 3 months! Enjoy your time 🙂
SOOOO many moments on the video when I thought... oh well... that didn´t end up happening like that! It shows how you cannot really plan much! Congratulations to your little family of three! Cannot wait for the debrief (if you feel up to it). It sounds like you had an adventure in labor :)
@@erjusik she had a long labour and ended up having a C-section after I think 4 days of natural labour. But all went well and they are both healthy. I was just listening to her discussing options and wanting to labour naturally etc, during the video, and kept thinking: I hope she managed to do what she needed to do and I am happy and grateful for our NHS that ended up giving them the medical help they needed :)
Aww I have something in my eye! Enjoy the newborn phase! And congratulations to you and Dan!! Welcome to the world little one!! Enjoy your maternity leave.
You guys know that you are an ENFP/ INTJ couple right? I’m an ENFP married to an INFJ and I just get those vibes love it! Also, I’m a mother baby/ NICU nurse turned lactation consultant and girl…. I love your channel and you’re experiences and how you document. It’s fantabulous!!! You’re just truly enjoyable, raw and real and overall just lovely ❤❤❤😂😊🎉❤❤❤❤.
I love watching your journey, and how "new" it all is for you! I've had three (21, 12, and 7 now), and am done! LOL! Well, I choose to be done. Those last few weeks of watching and waiting are torture!!! LOL, I'm such a dork...I thought...maybe she's had the baby by now! Yes, yes, you have! Congratulations, I hope all went super well!!
Finally towards the end, mum life 😂 I went in 4 times with reduced movement and every time she'd move loads once I got the monitor hooked up. The midwives joked it was because she was bored of lockdown and wanted to get out the house😂
Love how real this is about the third trimester! I just a baby in the middle of April and I definitely felt a lot of the same things you felt during your third trimester too. It's so hard to describe how tired you feel and how you are never comfortable!
Both of my births came on week 37, day 0. Same exact day, same exact way: a slow trickle of amniotic fluid (I apparently make double-walled sacs, and the outer one goes first).
I am also 5'0". My husband is 6'6" and long through the torso. Our 3 babies were all 8lbs +/- 4oz, and about 19" long. No issues with birthing them except the oldest turned frank breech at 37.5wks. She resisted all efforts to turn her, so because my OB group was not experienced enough with vag breech she was a c/s. The other 2 were unmedicated VBACs, no problems except a small tear.
Love love this video! Thank you for sharing 😊 it’s so handy having the little thumbnail stamps of how many weeks you’re along. The clip toward the end of your 31 weeks with you and Dan is so sweet xx
Im a hypnotherapist, have you thought about hypnobirthing? I think it helps so much with preparing with breathing, pain management and keeping yourself relaxed and focused. Think your doing amazing ang going to make a great mumma! Hannah x
Hannah, you have the perfect voice for Audible book narration, and I could swear I have heard your voice narrating books at Audible. But I also think that among perhaps half a dozen different, distinct, types of British accent, yours belongs to the narrator genre, and if it is a woman’s voice of the genre I am hearing, at Audible, your voice, and you personally, will now always come to my mind, as a kind of automatic association.
I’ve never heard of the term lightning crotch before, but it’s also something I’ve experienced with endo! I manage by putting a hot water bottle or microwaveable plushy right between my legs 😂 Not glamorous but it helps aha Big congratulations on baby Rowan, you and Dan are going to be such great parents!
Best of luck Hannah! I’ve loved seeing your experience over the last few videos and I can’t wait to see your experience with after. Wishing you and your family all the best during this exciting time xxxx
You mentioned that your emotions could spiral all of a sudden. Mine do too when I am on Prednisone. Once I stubbed my toe and I was totally happy before that moment. It was like a switch had been flipped and I fell to the floor like a 5 year old and began bawling. Hormones are weird.
Thank you for sharing your journey! I saw on IG that little Rowen has arrived! Congratulations to you both!! I hope you are recovering well and the baby is healthy and happy! 😍
lil heads up, as in previous videos Hannah made a point that they didn't want to define the baby's gender (and I'm assuming) hence choose a gender neutral name, you might wanna edit your comment :)
Thanks for this detailed update... Wishing you all the best and well done for keeping your spirits up despite all the adversities... It will all be worth it! ☺️
I loved this video. Made me remember my third trimester when I was pregnant. I was so over being pregnant at that point but I have good memories. I loved counting baby's kicks...
So interesting to hear your thoughts.. I just welcomed my baby boy 5 days ago and throughout (y) our journey I related soo much to what you experienced and reported about this Rollercoaster. The first days with baby have been a journey as well, looking forward to hear your experiences.. Congrats on baby rowan ❤️❤️
Hi. From a significant amount of the other comments I am guessing little baby has arrived so I guess congratulations are in order. I hope the birth was a great experience overall and wish you happiness for the next few months as you and Dan settle into being responsible parents.
I love that you are so open about your experiences. Best of luck to you and your (recently incremented) family. I had an ileostomy that was reversed, thank goodness. I never got the hang of fitting the wax ring; my stoma was an irregularly shaped blob (not unlike my head, actually), so there was always irritation around the stoma.
Congratulations guys. Thank you so much for sharing everything. I am also getting an ostomy this year as my colon is extremely slow due to some unknown reason. They suspect it's because of deep beded endometriosis I have stage 4. I have not had any successful pregnancy. The goal I have is after ostomy heal up very well and try to get pregnant after. I am a single 37 year old women and I hope to use a doaner through a bank. I will also try to fill the who journey on my you tube channel but for now I will see how things are going to play out
Thanks for sharing Hannah. I'm voluntarily childless and really don't like the idea of pregnancy for myself, and hearing some of your experience confirmed that (the idea of another humans limbs inside my ribs in particular made me feel so uncomfortable). But still really interested in hearing your experience. Welcome to the world Rowan! Wishing you a wonderful three months off with your newly expanded family Hannah
Hope that you, baby Rowan and Dan are doing well. Good luck with being parents and I hope that these 3 months are not horrific with the newborn x (That sounded bad, basically I just hope that you're not too exhausted...)
Just realized I was just as heavy when I came out at 40 weeks as your baby was at 32 weeks 😂😂 I was a teeny tiny baby. Doctors were worried about how small I was, but I was extremely healthy in every other department so I didn’t have to stay in the hospital.
Many congratulations and what a lovely record of a special time. Enjoy baby Rowan 💛 I have an 8 month old Rowan who is full of mischief. It goes so fast!
Babies love to stop before the big drop they have to reserve they energy too. I have loved following your journey. I brings all of my first baby memories back and I so want another baby now 🥰 lucky number 5 😂😂😂
