The Bump Club: Pregnancy Expectations vs. Reality

Summary

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The Squeeze – The Bump Club: Pregnancy Expectations vs. Reality

Host: Taylor Lautner (joined by co-host/husband Taylor Lautner, Natasha, and Amy)
Date: July 22, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this lively and honest episode of The Squeeze’s “Bump Club” series, host Taylor Lautner and her friends Natasha and Amy invite listeners into a raw, supportive, and often hilarious conversation about the realities of pregnancy. The trio share personal experiences, unexpected symptoms, body changes, food cravings (and aversions!), how pregnancy has affected their relationships, and the importance of building a supportive community. They candidly contrast their actual journeys with the often glorified expectations of pregnancy seen on social media and talk coping strategies for both the physical and emotional shifts of this unique time.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Unexpected Pregnancy Symptoms & Physical Changes

• Body Hair Growth
  • All three discuss surprising new hair growth in unexpected places (“Why are my shoulders growing hair?” – Amy, [01:49]), with some humor and commiseration over the randomness, even after laser hair removal ([03:40]).
• Breast and Nipple Changes
  • Dramatic changes to nipples and breasts—becoming darker, larger (“Like pepperonis… it’s alarming.” – Amy, [09:21]) and breast size increases (“Literally, like, a double D, it’s crazy.” – Taylor, [10:02]).
• Heart Symptoms
  • Both Taylor and Amy describe experiencing a racing heart, shortness of breath, and general cardiovascular shifts.
    • “That scared me at first…that is a symptom I wasn’t expecting—my heart beating out of my chest at all times.” – Amy, [06:27]
    • Taylor recounts wearing a heart monitor for irregular sinus tachycardia ([07:30]).
• Stretch Marks, Cellulite, and General Body Changes
  • They share about assimilating to rapid and often emotional body changes (“You never see your body change so rapidly and so fast until you go through pregnancy.” – Amy, [42:50]), including hips, thighs, face, and swelling.

2. Pregnancy Food Rules, Cravings, and “Cheats”

• The group reflect on the stress and emotional impact of food restrictions, like no sushi, soft cheeses, or deli meats, and allow themselves space to discuss cheating:
  • “Are you doing Brie? As if it was, like, a drug.” – Amy to Taylor ([11:44])
• The emotional moment when Amy finally had sushi again:
  “I started crying because I was so happy.” – Amy, [11:28]
• Variation in doctors’ advice about sushi and the importance of evaluating one's own comfort level ([13:27]).
• Strong cravings for 'forbidden' foods and excitement to eat them post-birth—particularly sushi and a glass of wine ([16:16]).

3. Reality vs. Expectation of Pregnancy

• Lack of “Glow”
  • “I thought I was going to feel beautiful and glowy…and that feeling hasn’t been there.” – Taylor, [23:55]
• First Trimester Blues
  • Natasha honestly shares feeling “zero joy” in the first trimester, with social media often skipping the hard parts:
    “Online, people start posting that they're pregnant in their second trimester when things get better...I wasn’t expecting to be so sad.” – Natasha, [24:25]
• Pregnancy After Loss
  • Amy expresses how past loss changed her approach: “You don’t get your first pregnancy back, ever again…I just take everything day by day, week by week.” – Amy, [25:47]

4. Emotional & Relationship Impact

• Increased Need for Support
  • All three reflect on becoming more emotionally dependent on their partners.
    • “I am like, he is my pregnancy craving. Like, I need him around all the time.” – Natasha, [26:07]
    • Even self-identified “hyper-independent” Taylor has embraced needing her husband more ([26:51]).
• Communication Growth
  • Sharing vulnerable emotions and learning to voice needs/boundaries has deepened their relationships ([31:36], [33:48]).
  • “Pregnancy and even the loss helped our communication get so much better.” – Amy, [33:06]
• Navigating Change & Anticipating the 'End of an Era'
  • Honest discussions about the anxiety of life changes post-baby and the bittersweet realization that “it’s never going to be just us two again” ([38:03]).

5. The Power of Community

• Pregnant Friends as Lifeline
  • The trio emphasize how invaluable it is to go through pregnancy with supportive friends.
    • “We’re going to be going through this together for the next 20 years!” – Taylor, [39:37]
    • Their group chat is a judgment-free zone for all things pregnancy, from sexual intimacy to stretch marks, food aversions, and more ([40:29]).
• Advice for Listeners
  • Encouragement for those without a built-in support network to seek out mom groups, birthing classes, or online forums ([41:13]).

6. Practical Tips & Must-Have Products

• Pelvic Floor Therapy
  • Natasha’s positive experience with a pelvic floor PT is highlighted as both practical and a confidence booster for labor ([48:53]).
• Pregnancy Pillows and Comfort
  • All agree on the life-changing effects of a good pregnancy pillow—despite partners hating the space it takes up ([53:01]).
• Other Essentials
  • Belly oils for moisturizing, sour (‘True Lime’) packets for nausea, migraine caps, and comfortable, expandable clothing ([55:05], [56:29], [59:11]).
• Clothing Tips
  • Contrary to common advice to avoid maternity wear, they recommend sizing up early for comfort and confidence:
    • “Get new sizes early. Do not try to fit in your old clothes…second I did, my confidence went way up.” – Natasha, [59:31]

7. Navigating Sharing Your Baby & Family Traditions Online

• Open, non-judgmental discussion about whether (or how much) to share their future babies online—concluding that everyone’s comfort zone is different and pressure should be resisted ([63:08]).
• Excitement to create and continue both family and new traditions with their babies ([65:21]).

8. Self-Care Practices

• Taylor: Lymphatic massage, consistent reading as screen-free time, and catching up on “hockey romance” book recommendations ([67:15]).
• Natasha: Keeping a gym and walking routine to maintain her sense of normalcy and boost serotonin ([68:32]).
• Amy: Reading as her top self-care practice, putting the phone away to immerse in books ([68:07]).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the unexpected reality of pregnancy appearance:
  “I thought I was going to feel beautiful and glowy…that feeling hasn’t been there.” – Taylor, [23:55]

• On pregnancy cravings and restrictions:
  “Are you doing brie? As if it was, like, a drug.” – Amy, [11:44]

• On first trimester being hard:
  “I had like, very little to almost zero joy. My spirit was depleted because of all of the physical aspects…” – Natasha, [24:35]

• On partner support:
  “I am like, he is my pregnancy craving. Like, I need him around all the time.” – Natasha, [26:07]

• On confidence with body changes:
  “Get new sizes early. Do not try to fit in your old clothes…second I did, my confidence went way up.” – Natasha, [59:31]

• On support groups:
  “Nothing is TMI with us…You need that, really bad.” – Taylor, [40:58]

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Highlight Timestamps

• [01:49] – Body hair growth and unexpected physical changes
• [06:27] – Racing heartbeat and anxiety
• [09:21] – Nipple and boob changes
• [11:28] – Sushi cravings and breaking food rules
• [23:55] – Pregnancy glow: expectation vs. reality
• [24:35] – First trimester blues and social media misperceptions
• [26:07] – Becoming emotionally needy with partners
• [33:48] – Improved communication with partners
• [38:03] – Emotional realization: “never gonna be just us two again”
• [40:29] – The value of pregnant friends and the “Bump Club” chat
• [48:53] – Experiences with pelvic floor physical therapy
• [53:01] – Pregnancy pillow praise and practical tips
• [59:31] – Key advice: buy bigger clothes early for confidence
• [63:08] – How much to share of baby online: flexible, personal choices
• [65:21] – Preserving and creating new family traditions
• [67:15] – Individual self-care routines

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Episode Tone and Style

The conversation is refreshingly raw, humorous, and honest, balancing self-deprecating humor with sincere camaraderie and vulnerability. The hosts openly share about the challenging, “less Instagrammable” aspects of pregnancy, using wit and warmth to normalize common fears and discomforts.

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Summary Takeaway

This episode of The Squeeze’s “Bump Club” is an inviting, unfiltered look at what pregnancy really feels like—physically, emotionally, and socially. With practical advice, must-have products, and an outpouring of honest, supportive conversation, Taylor, Natasha, and Amy make it clear: no, you’re not alone, and it’s OK if your pregnancy doesn’t match the highlight reels online. From body changes and cravings to self-care and relationship dynamics, they cover it all—peppered with laughter, a few tears, and plenty of solidarity.

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Transcript

[Amy]

The following podcast is a Dear Media production.

[Taylor]

What's your favorite thing about pregnancy?

[Natasha]

Cricket.

[Taylor]

Cricket. Amy just was telling us that she's got a hair on her shoulder.

[Amy]

I swear it's like an inch long. Wait, can you look?

[Natasha]

Yeah. Oh, yeah, I see it.

[Amy]

It's like, long. Why are my shoulders growing here?

[Taylor]

Taylor and I were sitting on the couch last night, and he starts going like this to me, but I'm like, is there a hair? He's like, I think it's cute. Connected to you. And I was like, connected to. He thought it was a dog hair. I need to just dermaplay in my face.

[Amy]

Apparently, I need to do it to my whole body.

[Natasha]

Yeah, me too, brother.

[Taylor]

Between the body hair, the dark nipple. The nipples grow.

[Amy]

Oh, my God. The nipples are wild.

[Natasha]

I didn't know that they could get that way.

[Amy]

Why now? Like pepperonis.

[Natasha]

It's alarming.

[Amy]

And I know they're going to get worse.

[Natasha]

I know.

[Amy]

My mom friends have shown me their nipples. That's what we have to look forward to. They're.

[Taylor]

They're really, like, the best things. I'm trying to think.

[Amy]

Popping. What is that? Is that sugar?

[Natasha]

No, it's lime.

[Taylor]

Oh, sour.

[Amy]

Oh, my God. Do you feel sick?

[Taylor]

I can pause.

[Natasha]

No, no, I'm fine. I'm sick 24 7.

[Taylor]

Fine.

[Natasha]

I just needed a little something.

[Taylor]

Before we get into this. Lemon drop. Welcome back to another Bump Club episode. We were in the same clothes as last time, but these episodes are separated because we just have so much to talk about. So we're just getting into it. Amy, just before, while we were giggling, was telling us that she found a hair on her shoulder.

[Amy]

No. Okay, so as I was saying, I am not a naturally hairy girl, but I don't know how I found this, but when I was showering last night, I literally found the longest hair on my shoulder. I swear it's like an inch long. And it's literally just one hair.

[Taylor]

You didn't pull it out. It's still there.

[Amy]

No, it's still there because I have

[Natasha]

my pull on over here, but I just can't look at it.

[Amy]

Really.

[Taylor]

Do you want me to, like, tweeze it?

[Natasha]

Oh, yeah, I see it.

[Amy]

It's like, long.

[Natasha]

Yeah, yeah, I see it, but it's like. It's like. It's not even the same color as your hair. It's like.

[Amy]

No, it's like blonde or gray.

[Natasha]

Like peach fuzz, kind of.

[Amy]

Yeah, but it's the weird, like, why. Why are my shoulders growing hair? No, but it's only One hair.

[Taylor]

It's not even like, I have hair.

[Natasha]

No. I had this on the back of my arm. A one long peach fuzz for no reason. It's literally just like that strange.

[Taylor]

Taylor and I were sitting on the couch last night, and he starts going like this to me right here. Literally right here. And he keeps going like this. And I'm like, is there a hair? He's like, I think it's connected to you. And I was, like, connected to. He thought it was a dog hair because the dog's hair is always, like, on our faces because they're. They, like, live on the couch with us. But he was literally, like, going like this, and I was like, what is it a dog hair?

[Amy]

Did you pluck it?

[Taylor]

I haven't even. I have so much piece. I need to just dermaplane my face. But, yeah, I need it to. I was literally like, apparently I need

[Amy]

to do it to my whole body.

[Natasha]

Yeah, me too, brother.

[Taylor]

That is. Yeah, that's definitely one thing. That's been the hair growth. Yeah, we can just get into it. The hair growth is really.

[Amy]

I definitely think that that's the symptom that I wasn't expecting, but, like, I

[Natasha]

haven't experienced, like, that. I mean, my hair. My hair grows. I feel, like, pretty standard. I haven't had some, like, in crazy fluctuate in fluctuation, like, in my head hair, but everywhere else. I'm, like, shocked every time I get in the shower, and I'm like, what is this? Everywhere?

[Amy]

Yeah, like, everywhere. I did laser hair removal.

[Taylor]

Has hair has come back?

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Taylor]

The weirdest thing for me has been, like, my, like, upper outer thigh, like, up here is superior. Yes.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Taylor]

But, like, I didn't. I kind of had. I mean, I definitely. Like, my. My ethnic background is not very kind to me in the hair department, but it, like, had gone away. And I just finished, like, a few rounds of laser, and the laser does take me a little bit longer because I do have hair, but also because I was.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Taylor]

Because of, like, the PCOS and going off birth control, I couldn't do it at, like. I'm a perfect candidate for it because I'm white and my hair is dark.

[Amy]

Right.

[Tasha]

And.

[Taylor]

But she couldn't do it at, like, the normal setting because my. I was, like, getting all the little hive things, and she was like, we just need to turn this down. But it's, like, gone.

[Tasha]

So now I'm like, when the baby

[Taylor]

comes out, is it gonna, like, go away or gonna. Am I gonna have to start over?

[Amy]

I think you have to start.

[Taylor]

Yeah. I was gonna say I think you have to start over. Like. Well, is it because I feel like being as like I've never had hair up here on my leg. Is it still going to just be there or. Because my hormones leveled out after the baby.

[Natasha]

Maybe you had removal from there previously.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Natasha]

Oh yeah. I think you have to start over then.

[Taylor]

Okay.

[Amy]

Yeah. Because I remember being warned by people that I would have to like that's

[Taylor]

why I haven't laser my. Because people said that.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Natasha]

Yeah. It was like amazing for a couple of months and then once I stopped it all just came back. Like it's not a permanent thing. You still have to like have some of upkeep with it.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Amy]

My sister in law actually gave me like an at home laser thing that I'm not using now. Obviously like ipl. Yeah. And honestly it worked. Like obviously you have to like do your laser hair removal sessions like at like a place but just for like touch ups. It does work.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Yeah. So I'll probably go back to that after pregnancy.

[Taylor]

I can't wait. That's something that we have been talking about. The three of us is just how excited we are to get looking like the best version of ourselves after these babies come out. Because I just really think I took for granted all of the things I could, could have been doing.

[Amy]

I will be skipping on over to the med spa.

[Taylor]

Yep. We will be booking appointments. We will keep that booked and busy. No, I'm like so excited to get micro needling done after this.

[Amy]

I'm just, oh my gosh, I need that.

[Taylor]

I'm itching.

[Amy]

I've never done it before.

[Taylor]

I want to do it. I was about to do it for the first time. That's literally the appointment I had. Yeah.

[Amy]

I guess should have just done it.

[Tasha]

I guess we'll never know.

[Taylor]

I know I should have taken the test, done it. I know. Is there any other pregnancy symptoms? That's a question in here. Like pregnancy symptoms you didn't know or like the weirdest.

[Amy]

I feel like I've had every pregnancy symptom.

[Taylor]

Everything is a symptom. That's. Well, yeah, that's my everything.

[Amy]

Like even like, like my heart beating so fast out of my chest. We've talked about this before but like that is like why like that scared me at first. I was like, is there something wrong with like me? But I feel like that is a symptom that I wasn't expecting. It's just my heart beating out of my chest like at all times. Like I could just be sitting there, not doing anything, and I just feel like I have a racing heart.

[Taylor]

Yeah, same.

[Amy]

Maybe it's some anxiety. I mean, like, I could literally just be like, reading my book and I just like. And I feel like out of breath. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Taylor]

That's something that was not talked about. That's why in the last Bum Club episode, I talked about heart monitor. Maybe I've opened up about it by the time this episode comes out. Maybe have it. But that's what was going on. I was like, severely out of breath from just like standing and had to sit down. And it was like I was getting really lightheaded. And I ended up having an abnormal ekg and then I had to go get an echo cardiogram done of my heart that came back fine, and then saw a cardiologist, had to wear my

[Tasha]

little monitor for two weeks and basically

[Taylor]

came back, um, this thing called irregular sinus tachycardia. So basically there's like different heart rhythms. I'm trying to put this in, like, very layman's terms. There's different heart rhythms and like when your heart is normal and healthy, it's in sinus rhythm. And so my rhythm was fine. So there was nothing life threatening. But it would just like this morning I was standing at my computer, my heart rate jumped up to 1:40 and I was just like standing. So it, like, it just. That's just what happens. Like, my heart rate just picks up. And my cardiologist was like, I could put you on beta blocker, but, like, you don't. Like, like, if you weren't pregnant, I would say you should do that and, like, talk to your OB if she would be fine with you doing that if you're asymptomatic. And I just decided I didn't want to do that because I just don't want to have to. I just, honestly, once I found out that it wasn't threatening to the baby, I was like, okay, like, I'll just deal with it. And now it has gotten better since, like, first trimester. Hormones have leveled out and this is honestly something I could have been having. But because of, like, the increased blood volume and all of the stuff that we deal with, it could have. I could just be feeling it more now. But it has gotten better. But it's still, literally, it still happens. So.

[Amy]

No, that's scary. It's like any symptom that's like, weird like, that you, like, your immediate thought is, I don't want this to be harmful to the baby. You Know, like, that scares you so much, but as soon as you find out that it's okay, you're like, okay. No.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Amy]

It's, like, no problem.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Tasha]

No, I think between.

[Taylor]

Between the body hair, the dark nipple, the nipples grow.

[Amy]

Oh, my God, the nipples are wild. No, I.

[Natasha]

Like how I didn't know. Like, I didn't know that they could get that way.

[Amy]

But also, why now? Like, the baby's not here yet. Like, why does it need to happen so early

[Natasha]

in really soon?

[Amy]

They got dogs.

[Taylor]

I forget first who one of us texted first. And I know all of us were like, no, literally, same.

[Amy]

Yeah, like pepperonis.

[Taylor]

No, it's alarming.

[Amy]

No, And I know they're gonna get worse because, like, I know my, like, mom friends have shown me their nipples, like, sent me pictures and stuff. I'm like, oh, like, that's what we have to look forward to. But they do go back to normal after breastfeeding. Okay, so like, a year after.

[Natasha]

Literally, like.

[Amy]

Yeah. So like, a year and a half.

[Taylor]

Okay. My husband's enjoying my big boobs, so it's fine. That's honestly been something that I'm, like, the boobs getting bigger is, like, crazy to me. Like, the fact that I'm, like, literally, like, a double deep is, like, crazy.

[Amy]

No, I know. It's so wild. Yeah.

[Taylor]

I don't like it. I'm still. I'm, like, into people, like, comment on

[Amy]

my massive booth as I did the

[Taylor]

start of, like, last episode.

[Amy]

Yeah, you were like, your boobs just look really big.

[Taylor]

They look great. No, I'm, like, in denial about it. Like, I still will wear my C cup bra and.

[Amy]

No, me too.

[Taylor]

And just be, like, uncomfortable.

[Amy]

This skin maternity bra is the first, like, bigger bra that I've bought for myself.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Amy]

I was like, okay, I need to stop wearing my extra small slash. Small.

[Taylor]

Yeah, no, Yeah, I think that would be the biggest.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Taylor]

I mean, we were even talking, like, the cellulite and just, like, the stretch marks. How it happens, like, just comes out.

[Amy]

I spiraled over that cellulite this weekend. So crazy. Yeah. It comes out of nowhere.

[Tasha]

We're motivated.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Taylor]

We're ready to.

[Natasha]

Oh, yeah. I'm trying to think of, like, other ones that I feel like we've. We. There's, like, so many things we've talked about in the group chat. Like, does anyone else have this? I know I'm not blinking, but that's where I'm like, what?

[Tasha]

What else?

[Taylor]

I know. I feel like our biggest thing is, like, what we've been, like, eating Too. Or, like, what we can and can't consume. That's been the biggest thing you just had. Amy just had sushi.

[Amy]

I just had sushi. I started crying because I was so

[Taylor]

happy for Lemon Drops listening. We've all been, like, pretty, like, strict about food.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Taylor]

Like, you know, the. No deli meat, no soft cheese, no sushi. Like, that's been. We've all been really good.

[Tasha]

How.

[Taylor]

How many.

[Amy]

Remember that one time we were at a restaurant and you looked at me and you're like, are you doing Brie? As if it was, like, a drug. And I'm like, yeah, I'm doing brie.

[Taylor]

We did cheat. We got a soft cheese at some, like, really nice Italian restaurant we were at. And I literally looked at her. I was like, are you doing this? We were laughing so hard.

[Natasha]

That's hilarious.

[Taylor]

No, Tasha, I and I were at our friend's birthday dinner at Nobu at the beginning of the year, and we just sat together at the end of the table. And luckily, luckily, there was enough, like, food options that we also, like, weren't feeling. That was when I was still feeling bad, too. So we weren't, like, eating too much, but there was definitely, like, a lot of fish that was being passed around that we were, like, just staring at. But honestly, it's been so nice because we've been able to, like, have each other to, like, talk through it. But, yeah, your sushi was good. It made you cry. We actually haven't talked about it.

[Amy]

Yeah, no, it was amazing. So my friend. It was for her 30th birthday.

[Taylor]

Okay.

[Amy]

And she had, like, like, a sushi chef come to the house and, like, make sushi. So I was, like, watching him prepare and stuff, and I was like, it looks really good. Like, you know, I feel like it's safe to eat. And he offered. He was like, I'll just, like, make you, like, a California roll and, like, what, like, cooked fish or whatever? Like, he was, like, so nice. And I did eat that, but then I, like, snuck a few pieces of real sushi, and it was so good. Oh, my God.

[Tasha]

Yeah.

[Amy]

But it did, like, open me up to it, and I think that maybe I'm a little bit more open to eat it now from time to time.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Amy]

But, like, not, like, grocery store sushi,

[Taylor]

you know, for sure.

[Amy]

Like, if I go to, like, an actual good restaurant that I used to go to, then.

[Natasha]

Yeah.

[Amy]

I mean, my doctor said it's fine. He said it's fine from, like, the first trimester.

[Taylor]

Oh, yours did?

[Amy]

Yeah. My doctor has Told me that I can eat sushi. It's me with my anxiety, where I've been. Like, I don't want to eat it.

[Taylor]

Oh, I don't think I knew that.

[Amy]

Mine.

[Taylor]

Mine was like, no.

[Amy]

Yeah, yeah. Mindset is totally fine. So I think I might start. It's so just like occasionally.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Tasha]

And then we have so many people.

[Taylor]

Like I was asking like our mutual friend. She was like, no, I ate like, she. She was like, I. Sandwiches the whole time.

[Natasha]

Literally throughout her whole pregnancy.

[Taylor]

So I guess it's just really like what you're.

[Amy]

It's your comfort level. Everyone's so different. Yeah. It's whatever.

[Taylor]

But then we were also talking about like, you know, a big reason is because earlier on, if you do get sick, like, that's just putting so much strain on your body. And then the baby. And the baby's still so little, but like, we could get food poisoning from

[Tasha]

ordering like a salad.

[Taylor]

Like, there's just.

[Amy]

I hear like a lot of people from lettuce.

[Natasha]

Like, it's full if you're having salads during your pregnancy. And I'm like, that's crazy because it's. I mean, it's true. It's like that you could easily get sick from that.

[Taylor]

Yeah. So I'm like, I almost. Fruit even I would trust like, yeah. The, you know, sushi grade sushi.

[Amy]

Like if you're going to like Nobu or like sea butter or like restaurants like that. It's like it's being prepared well.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Amy]

You know, like, again, I wouldn't trust like grocery store sushi, but I think from like a reputable restaurant, it's fine.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Taylor]

But we'll see if. We'll see if we make that. I mean, does that even like sound good to you?

[Natasha]

No, I like the, like, the idea of having sushi sounds so good. But I think because I still throw up every day, I rather.

[Amy]

No.

[Natasha]

Not have it totally. And then enjoy it once I'm done being pregnant. Because the. In the first trimester, even like the rare foods that I would feel okay eating, once you. You throw them up, then you're just like, this is. I would just have like a bowl of rice and then I haven't had rice for. Since then because I was just throwing up rice all the time. Now that sounds disgusting. So I don't want to like try food that's my favorite food and have a bad experience. Even though it's not going to have anything to do with the sushi. It's just my body and then not like It. So that is my first meal when I give birth, though. Like, I already have that planned.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Amy]

100%.

[Taylor]

I'm, like, debating if I want to have the giant sushi boat delivered to me, like, in the hospital or, like, what.

[Amy]

Or keep sending those. So fear my husband.

[Taylor]

I'm like, do I want it there? Do I want it at home? Like, I want to be able to eat it.

[Natasha]

I think I'm gonna do sugarfish in the room, and then I'm gonna go have, like, a proper.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Natasha]

Sushi experience.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Amy]

I was planning on having my best friend bring me sugar fish. Yeah.

[Natasha]

I don't know why. Like, that's been a pregnancy.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Natasha]

Not even craving.

[Amy]

But also, the sushi boat is so cute.

[Natasha]

Yeah. The sushi boat is really adorable.

[Taylor]

I know.

[Amy]

I mean, we could have both. Could have one person bring the sushi boat and another person.

[Natasha]

I know.

[Taylor]

I just really want. I'm so excited.

[Amy]

Yeah. I want sushi and a glass of wine.

[Taylor]

I haven't.

[Amy]

Yeah, that's what I want.

[Taylor]

Yeah. The wine. The wine. I haven't craved wine, like, bad. Yeah. But it's mainly, like, when it's warm and, like, my friends are having white wine. I'm like, yes, exactly. No, it's Fritz.

[Natasha]

So refreshing.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Amy]

I think this summer, we're really gonna miss a spritz or, like, a margarita.

[Natasha]

I know, but I feel like we've been sending back and forth, like, good mocktail spritz. We've got some mocktails coming up with some, like.

[Amy]

Yeah, we need to.

[Taylor]

Taylor just made, like, this pineapple lychee

[Tasha]

mocktail for us the other night.

[Taylor]

It was so good.

[Amy]

We need make this one later.

[Taylor]

Yeah, I know. So, honestly, if I text him right out.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Taylor]

He would be walking in with them. No, that's actually. I think something that's.

[Amy]

I like li l is, like, my favorite.

[Taylor]

Yeah. I miss. I. I do. The mocktails are a good.

[Tasha]

A good filler.

[Amy]

I need to stop talking about alcohol.

[Taylor]

Fr okay. Yeah. We can move on to the next. To the next thing.

[Tasha]

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[Taylor]

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[Taylor]

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[Taylor]

Okay, these questions are kind of like, coincide, but expectation of pregnancy you had versus the reality. For me, I think it would be that I thought I was going to feel beautiful and glowy and like, feel like for sure this was like the best thing.

[Amy]

Yeah, totally.

[Taylor]

Yeah, that was. That's definitely mine. I've. Yeah. That feeling hasn't been there. That fun, glowy, like self. Self confident. Honestly, that I feel like so many women are like, I was so confident in my pregnancy.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Taylor]

Like, waiting for that to, like.

[Amy]

Yeah. I feel like once the bumps grow bigger, hopefully that confidence starts to like.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Grow. Because we're still like in that phase where we're not like fully rounded out, you know, like. Yeah.

[Natasha]

I mean, I think we talked about this in the last episode, but I would say I had more of an expectation to be so excited about it.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Natasha]

And not that I'm not. I'm so excited about it now. It's like the best thing of my whole life. Waking up every day and feeling kicks and like talking to the baby and all the things. But in my first trimester, I had like very little to almost zero joy. Like, my spirit was just so depleted because of all of the physical aspects that were so difficult. And I don't think I was expecting that. Also because online usually people start posting that they're pregnant in their second trimester when things get a lot Better. So I just never really saw how tough the first trimester was. I really wasn't expecting to be so sad or, like, in this little hole, but now I get it.

[Taylor]

So that's.

[Amy]

Yeah, yeah. No, for sure. Yeah. I don't even know if I had, like, really an expectation. Yeah, well, I feel like. I mean, like, the thing about also, like, pregnancy after loss is, like, you don't get your first pregnancy back, like, ever again, you know? So it's, like, hard for me to, like, really think of, like, how I expected it to go because, like, I, like, lost the first one and then the second one, you know?

[Natasha]

Yeah.

[Amy]

So I feel like every. Like, I just take everything, like, day by day and week by week, you know?

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Amy]

I just try to not, like, expect too much because you never know, like, what's going to happen.

[Tasha]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Taylor]

On a lighter note, what's your favorite thing about pregnancy?

[Natasha]

Cricket.

[Tasha]

Cricket.

[Natasha]

My favorite thing about pregnancy is, honestly, besides, like, just having a baby and how fun that is, is my relationship with my husband. Like, I am. I was already obsessed with this man, but I am like, he is my pregnancy craving. Like, I need him around all the time. I want to spend every waking minute with him. And I, like, already felt that before, but I don't know, there's something so different after getting pregnant that I'm, like, ultra attached to him. And, yeah, it's just so cool, like, talking to our baby and planning for the future, but also, just, like, my love for him has grown more than I could have ever imagined.

[Taylor]

So.

[Natasha]

Yeah, that's been my.

[Taylor]

My favorite part.

[Amy]

Yeah, I agree with that.

[Taylor]

I. Yeah, I think I would, too. I'm a very, like, I'm a very independent person, and I am not, like, I don't ever really, like, feel like I, quote, unquote, need Taylor, unless I'm, like, struggling with something. Like, I think just because I'm so, like, hyper independent, but with pregnancy, I've definitely, like, I've become so needy, and it's really funny for me. Taylor's like, yeah, what is happening to you? But it's. Honestly, it's like. It's really fun. Like, it's.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Taylor]

I've been joined. Like, being needy.

[Amy]

Yeah. No, I love being around, like, Ophir. I feel like he also works from home, so we're together, like, actually 24 7.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Amy]

And so whenever, like, one of us doesn't see each other, like, all day, it's, like, such a weird feeling. I miss him.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Like, he's going on a work trip at the end of this month, and I'm like, what am I going to do at home, like, all by myself? You're not even going to be here.

[Natasha]

I know.

[Amy]

But something else that I, like, love is, like, watching her kick, you know? Like, I could literally just sit there for hours. Like, even before we started, like, rolling this episode, like, I was just, like, had my shirt.

[Taylor]

We were sitting in the chair with our shirts.

[Amy]

Yeah. And I was just like, watermelon kick. And I'm like, that is just, like, the coolest thing, that there's just, like, an actual, like, baby in our stomachs that we can actually feel and now see kick.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Amy]

It's just so cool.

[Natasha]

I know. Mine was like, I had to unbutton my pants because whoever's in there was rolling over, and I'm like, all right.

[Amy]

Oh, my God.

[Taylor]

Natasha's waiting to find out the gender of her baby till she gives birth, which Amy and I are sad about, because we want to know.

[Amy]

I want to know.

[Taylor]

That's literally going to be the first.

[Amy]

It's going to be so cute. Like, either way, like, if it's a girl.

[Taylor]

I know.

[Amy]

It's going to be so cute to have another girl.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Amy]

In our group. But if it's a boy.

[Natasha]

I know.

[Amy]

It'll be like a reverse summary turn. Pretty situation.

[Natasha]

I know.

[Taylor]

I'm so excited to find out. I love that. I love that for them. I was telling Natasha that I just need her login to her, and I already have it. They.

[Amy]

They.

[Natasha]

They didn't.

[Taylor]

They took it off of there.

[Natasha]

No. They don't give me access to it. They call me for everything, so I can't see.

[Taylor]

I was gonna log in when she went into labor, so I can know before.

[Natasha]

No, I literally. I don't even have the option to look. Like, if I wanted to know, I would have to call them and they would have to tell me. I don't have any login.

[Taylor]

That's great, because if you had the login, you would look.

[Natasha]

Yeah. Or I think, like, I would just. I don't know, or, like, accidentally see it like that. Yeah. Well, I was very adamant. Like, even when we told them, I was like, if you get any email, and I don't know if we're going to, like, do not open anything without me just in case. But she kept, like, you know, one of the nurses kept telling us, like, you're not going to get anything. And sure enough, we. We have no access to anything.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Natasha]

Other like, just this, the test results, and then they emailed me the test results that, like, I could see, but it's all on their site, so I have no way of knowing unless I was to literally call my doctor up.

[Amy]

Yeah, well, that's good. You know that you can't, like, accidentally.

[Natasha]

Like, I can't accidentally see because I have nothing.

[Taylor]

Yeah. Yeah. I had to take Taylor and I, like, four tries to see.

[Natasha]

Yeah. Like, when you guys saw your results, like, I don't have that.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Natasha]

I don't even. Even if I wanted to see just my results. Not gender, but whatever. What are the other testing that we did? I couldn't see.

[Amy]

Do you remember what company you use for the nipt? Natera N. Yeah.

[Taylor]

Love that for you. I guess we'll wait and see.

[Amy]

We will find.

[Taylor]

Can't wait to see. On the note of our husbands, as we were talking about, someone wrote advice on how your relationship has changed and learning to prioritize your marriage during pregnancy. I feel like that you just. There's no other option. Also, because I know we were all, like, very, like, heavily, like, reliant on our husbands for a lot of stuff. Like, I know for me, Taylor was literally just, like, it was making, like, the grilled cheese all the time and, like, best grilled cheese literally ever, Literally. But just, like, the food, the filling up the water, doing, like, things around the house, taking care of the dogs. Like, it was so, like, I relied, like, so much on him. And now that I'm feeling better, it's, like, nice to, like. And also, like, my first trimester, I didn't really want to be touched.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Taylor]

Like, I was like, I didn't want to be, like, snuggly because I just felt sick. And I. When I feel, like, sick, I don't. Unless I'm, like, having a meltdown because I'm not feeling good. That's why I want to hug. But when I'm, like, feel, like, bloated or anything, I'm like, I don't really want to be touched. And so I definitely went, like, quite a few weeks not wanting to be touched.

[Tasha]

And now I'm like, okay, now I want to snuggle.

[Amy]

That's cute.

[Taylor]

But I've really been feeling. The biggest thing for me is I struggle with, like, I struggle with confrontation and, like, saying how I'm feeling.

[Tasha]

Like, if it's something not related to

[Taylor]

Taylor or, like, a hard conversation, like, it's just, like, me being anxious. Like, I'm totally fine talking about that. But anything that has to do with, like, confronting Taylor about. I feel like confronting sounds like such A big word, but anything that is sharing that an emotion that is based off of something someone else did is hard for me to do. And I was, like, talking with my therapist about it, and he was like, before I got pregnant, and he was like, this is like, a muscle you can work on. Like, because you didn't grow up in a family that dealt with, like, confrontation.

[Tasha]

Like, it's not something you're used to.

[Taylor]

But he was like, you will, like, get used to it. And, like, you know, it'll be, like, practice, and you have a husband that loves you and, like, wants to actually hear, like, what you have to say. So that's been, like, one of the coolest things I think, for me during pregnancy is, like, my patience has lowered. And also, like, I'm just like, screw it. Like, I just feel like I need to say whatever I'm feeling. And it's literally been the best thing. Like, it's been really cool to be able to, like, voice how I'm feeling. And, like, my deep thoughts are things that have bothered me, like, to Taylor. And it's been nice to, like, finally have, like, the. I don't know if courage is the right word, but, like, the. The oomph to do that.

[Amy]

No, for sure. I agree. I feel like pregnancy and, like, even the loss, like, helped our communication get so much better.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Because I had to, like, really, like, talk about why what someone said bothered me or what they did bothered me or boundaries that I needed to have, like, with going to events or holidays or, like, things like that. And I had to get, like, really good at explaining why, you know, like, why I was feeling a certain way or like, why I wanted something to go a certain way. And that is definitely something that doesn't come naturally to me because I'm also an only child. So I feel like I'm not, like, used to, like, voicing what I need. But it's definitely helped us, like, for him to, like, understand what I need and for me to understand how to voice that and talk to him so he understands, like, where I'm coming from.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Amy]

But so good, for sure. In pregnancy, he's definitely stepped up because I needed a lot of help. I mean, I still do, you know, but, like, especially in the first trimester, like, with not being able to, like, even, like, cook food, like, cooking food, like, grossed me out. So, like, he really stepped up with cooking or, like, cleaning the house.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Things like that. And then he's also, like, really mindful about, like, knowing that once the baby comes, he's you know, likely gonna have to help out a lot. And he's like very open with that.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Amy]

So I mean, it's really cool seeing him step up like that.

[Tasha]

That's great.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Natasha]

Yeah. Something I've also learned within this time is I feel like, and I don't know if people have different opinions on this. I've like seen a couple comments recently, but this is just my experience of like when I am talking, yes, I am the person who's pregnant, but. But I think a lot of times when I talk about like we're pregnant, me and Bradley, cuz it's like such a partnership. I truly would not be able to do half the things if I didn't have him. Whether it be like on an emotional level or like a physical level of just like the help that he brings. And I've been so blessed and I'm so thankful to have him that like, it really has been a cool partnership. And I think expressing that gratitude to him every single day and like also knowing that we joke about, you know, you're having like mood swings or you don't eat and then they're the ones that are really having to like take the blunt end of that.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Natasha]

And I know that that can be hard whether if it's whoever in your life that is like the closest person to you, you know, a friend, a parent, a grandparent, like whoever it is in your life that's really like riding with you through this experience. And for me, that's Bradley. And every single day I'm like, I need to just remind myself, even if I'm having a tough time or like things are rocky, just to be so grateful to this person and express that like they're doing so much for me, you know, just like the little things and. And then also like prioritizing our marriage and not just making this whole thing about like survival, you know, like even today I literally, Bradley texted me like an hour ago and was like, can we go on a date? Like, I just haven't like spent time with you, you know, and we're both working and have busy schedules and then on top of it, like half the time when you're done with your day, you're like, I just want to sit on the couch and do nothing. Which I feel like is so fun for us. We love it. But also like still having those moments to prioritize the person that you're with and making sure that they feel validated and they feel love and they feel seen. So that's been like a Cool learning experience for us.

[Taylor]

Yeah. I've had a little bit of anxiety. Anxiety recently about, like, my brain finally, like, computing that. Like, I guess not computing, but really realizing, like, how different things.

[Natasha]

Yeah.

[Taylor]

Are about to be. Like, Taylor and I yesterday were, like, sitting down and watching tv, and I was like, what do you. Like, what will we be doing right now? Like, you know, if baby was here? Like, what. Like, what will that look like?

[Amy]

So true.

[Taylor]

And it's like, fun. Like, once I voiced it, actually yesterday, after I voiced it, it was like. Yeah, it was more. Like, it sounded more fun to me. Like, it was less like of an anxious. Like, oh, no, this is coming. Yeah. Once I got it out of my head and like, said it out loud, because the anxiety in me is like, you know, things are going to change. What is this going to look like?

[Tasha]

How is this going to work?

[Taylor]

Blah, blah, blah. Like, all of this stuff. And I think that's just like.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Taylor]

I thought that my hormones are putting in my head that I need to just not see, think about until.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Taylor]

That time comes. Because it's literally we're not gonna know. We're not gonna remember any different. Literally, like how we can't remember things from first trimester. I just feel like that's what it's gonna.

[Amy]

That's true. Yeah. I found myself getting, like, emotional about it's just like, never gonna be just us two again, you know? Like, I was thinking about, like, we're starting to plan, like, our baby moon, and I'm like, that's gonna be our last trip together. Like, that makes me emotional, you know? And I'll, like, start crying if I think about it too hard. Or, like, just like our date nights, just him and I, or like, us going to the movies. It's like we're not really going to be able to go to the movies anymore together without getting like a babysitter or something, you know, I'm like. I mean, it's all, like, happy, you know, it's all, like, good things, but

[Taylor]

it's just, like, unknown.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Taylor]

I think that's what it. Like where this society.

[Amy]

End of an era.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Natasha]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Which is crazy.

[Tasha]

Start of a really great one, but

[Amy]

a start of a really great one. It's a good thing. It's just, like, emotional.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Natasha]

Yeah.

[Taylor]

That's so true.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Taylor]

Do you have anything else you're gonna.

[Natasha]

No, I was just gonna say, like, I. I struggle with that a lot too. It was never really, like, in my brain until the past, like, two months or something. Just kind of Seeing shifts happening or like, what the future is going to be like, because Bradley and I, we haven't even been married for a year, so it's like, we really haven't. We've had a lot of alone time, but like, we've been so excited to become parents. But yeah, I think you're just anxious about the future. But I think it's really fun to also have friends that are in the same season of life as you because then you could go like, hey, I need a date night, Can I drop my baby off? Or like, you know, you have your parents or you have people that are willing to help you. And like, if we're all in it together, then it just becomes this community of like making it through and making it accessible for everyone to like, still prioritize the different things in their life, whether it be just like work or, you know, literally a self care day if we all needed to go and get a massage or like, just to go on a walk together. Like, it's just nice to be in community and have people around you that are like, I get it, you guys have your day, we'll have our day. Like, you know, I just think that's really. And I'm lucky that I have you guys.

[Taylor]

Yeah. So someone asked, what's the best part of having friends that are pregnant at the same time as you? I think it's that it's honestly, like.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Taylor]

It's so crazy to think that, like, we're gonna be like, going through this together, like, literally for like the next 20 years. Like, this is like.

[Amy]

No, it's not like. Yeah, exactly. It's not like just pregnancy. We're like supporting each other.

[Taylor]

Like me, because you're.

[Amy]

I know. We're stuck with each other.

[Taylor]

We're stuck.

[Amy]

Yeah. No, we get to like, go through like the newborn phase and then like them walking and them starting to talk and like all that, like going on vacations together, like, it's just gonna be like, so fun.

[Natasha]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Going through like every stage together.

[Taylor]

Yeah. And I'm so grateful to you because I feel like the three of us just like mesh really well together too.

[Amy]

I feel like our personalities are like, similar.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Yeah,

[Natasha]

true.

[Taylor]

Are you eavesdropping? Taylor's eavesdropping from outside. Just cut that out. Unless the mic picked it up.

[Amy]

I hope it did. That's so good.

[Taylor]

No, but it's honestly like being pregnant. Like, the best thing I feel like, is us just having our group chat, being able to like, ask questions or to be like, vent about Symptoms? Have your nipples changed? What's the cellulite like? Like, there's, like, shoulder hair. Yeah. Literally. Like, there's just, like, so many things.

[Natasha]

I mean, no, like, Taboo Topic. There's nothing. It's, like, off limits.

[Taylor]

No, we literally text each other and be like, when's the last time you guys had sex? Like, it's just, like, there's literally. And it makes nothing.

[Amy]

Is TMI with us? Yeah. It's so good.

[Taylor]

You need that.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Taylor]

Really bad. I. I'm sure there's, like, we should link some, like, mom, like, support groups. I mean, our comment sections are gonna be mom support groups, but, like, if you don't have friends, I would say, like, go out and find those little. Like, I had. I have a few friends that have told me, like, there's cute little things of, like, moms meeting in the park or, like, dear little, like, the birthing classes and things like that, like, finding moms, other moms. Because I think that it's one thing to have. You know, we've talked about how supportive our husbands are, and they, I think,

[Tasha]

listen to us very well, and they

[Taylor]

support us and, like, emotionally very well. But there really is just something to voice. Something, like, when I was struggling with whatever, it was, like, voicing it to you guys and knowing that you completely understand fully what I'm going through. Because, like, Taylor is the most supportive person, but, like, he hasn't physically been pregnant. So, like, when I'm seeing myself, you know, naked in the mirror and crying because I'm like, who. Who is this person? Like, what happened to my body? Like, he can only kind of, like, support me through that. When you guys have, like, literally walked through it and you're like, no. Like, I completely. Even if there's no. Like, there doesn't even. I feel like majority of the time, we're not even giving each other advice. We're just like, yeah, same. Like, exactly. Like, that's just having someone to listen to that. Yeah, it's really nice.

[Amy]

Yeah. No fear and I have been doing these, like, weekly photos, like, every. Every Saturday, like, every week of the pregnancy. Pregnancy. And lately I've just been, like, not wanting to do them. I'm just, like. I get, like, so upset about it. I'll literally tear up. You know, fear is like, why are you getting upset about it? Like, let's just do it. Like. And I had to, like, explain to him. I'm like, it's so hard to see her body change like that, you know? And then once I explained it to him, he understood. But it's like you never see your body change so rapidly and so fast until, like, you go through pregnancy.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Amy]

It's like, so crazy. And it's not just like your belly. It's like everything in your body changes. Like, your hips get wider, your thighs get bigger, your feet, your arms, the

[Taylor]

swelling, the ankles, My lack of ankle.

[Amy]

Double chin.

[Natasha]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Like, literally every part of your body changes, and it's so hard to see, but it's also, like, such a beautiful thing. You just have to, like, change your mindset.

[Taylor]

Yeah, I know. I feel like I'm going to look back at my pregnancy and wish I would have done bump stuff because I've taken maybe one bump photo and I do. I think I'm going to look back and be like, I should have done that. But I know right now in this moment, that's not like, do it.

[Amy]

Your next pregnancy.

[Taylor]

What I need. I know I'll do it for the next one because I know I'll know.

[Natasha]

Like, I'm sure there's, like, a ton of things we're going to do in the next pregnancy that'll be different from this one after having, you know, and like, each machine.

[Amy]

Yeah. Mm.

[Taylor]

Definitely.

[Tasha]

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[Taylor]

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[Taylor]

This is something that I've actually been learning more about and Natasha can definitely speak towards this more because she has done it. But pelvic floor physical therapy, I feel like I've had a few people ask me if I've done it, but I've also had people tell me that I definitely should be doing it. And I guess I didn't really know, like, what exactly, um, it was, but Tosh had went to an appointment and was the first one of the group to test it out. If you want to share, like, what it is and how your experience was.

[Natasha]

Yeah, I honestly just wanted to be as prepared as possible. Like, I totally get that my birth plan could go sideways and I'm okay with that, but I also just want to be like, as physically prepared as I can be. And I had asked on my Instagram for some pelvic floor exercises because I feel like my feet is just flooded with them. I don't know if you have that, but I had an overwhelming amount of people tell me to go see a physical therapist, like, specifically for pelvic floor work. So I saw somebody and they have helped me with, like, breathing exercises and just different things around my body and preparing for birth. And I know that those things will change the further that I get into my pregnancy, especially, like at the end of the third trimester and stuff like that. And then Also having, like, Bradley come to those appointments with me and being able to understand, like, what that looks like and helping me when I am in labor or, like, when I'm gonna give birth. But, yeah, I. There's, like, so much to learn. It's overwhelming. And I actually found it nice to go to somebody.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Natasha]

And not, like, try to do the research, because I literally feel like all I do every single day is researching everything possible of how to prepar and what I should be doing or what I shouldn't be doing. So having someone just kind of, like, lay it out for me and give me a plan was really helpful. I loved it.

[Taylor]

Yeah. No, that's so good. Yeah. There's definitely, like, so much.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Tasha]

On the Internet, my biggest thing has

[Taylor]

been, like, the hip stretching.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Taylor]

That's something I want to start, like, doing more of. Is the, like, mobility stuff. Yes. Of it all.

[Amy]

Sure. I literally did it yesterday.

[Taylor]

Oh, you did?

[Amy]

Yeah, for, like, the first time, so it's funny.

[Taylor]

That's good.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Taylor]

You just, like, find a video and you were just copying some of the stretches. Yeah.

[Amy]

I just saw someone, like, on Tick Tock say that they started, like, doing these, like, hip stretches, and my hips were literally, like, cracking and popping.

[Natasha]

Same.

[Amy]

And I was like, okay, I need to, like, do this way more.

[Natasha]

When I was trying to stretch, literally touching my toes, I'm like, I could barely do this. I know.

[Taylor]

I know.

[Amy]

So, so crazy. Yeah. I mean, we used to be dancers. Like, I don't know. Yeah. I can't even imagine, like, doing a split right now, but.

[Taylor]

Yeah, no, that's not going to.

[Amy]

But, yeah. I definitely want to try the pelvic floor floor therapy. I need to do that.

[Tasha]

No, that's great.

[Taylor]

I feel like that was, like. It definitely is a little overwhelming with how many things.

[Amy]

There's so many things there are out there.

[Taylor]

I think that's been one of the biggest things. I'm actually surprised by my lack of, like, research that I've done for some reason, because I've been kind of crazy. Like, I. Normally I am a little crazy with, like, being prepared.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Taylor]

But.

[Amy]

Well, I think it's because we have so much. Well, it feels like we have so much time, you know?

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Amy]

It's like, until our due months, you know?

[Natasha]

Yeah.

[Amy]

I feel like in the last month, you're gonna go. You're gonna get everything done.

[Natasha]

Yeah. The other thing I will say is when I did my first appointment, and a lot of the things that we were talking through came from, like, an anxious standpoint. And you're breathing here because you know that, like, but you need to be breathing from here, and this will help you and you push and, like, all these things. And I think for me, if I was to get anything out of going to a PT or, like, doing these exercises, I hope that it just gives me confidence, like, because at the end of the day, I cannot control what happens in the delivery room or, like, throughout my whole pregnancy, I can do all the things and it's still going to turn out xyz.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Natasha]

So I think for me, in going, like, if it just gives me the confidence to, like, give birth and be okay with what's going to happen, then great. But, like, if you already have that, then I'm not. I'm not. Like, you need to go and really be researched and, like, get physically prepared because everyone's going to have a different experience. But I think for me, like, it's literally, if it is all placebo, I'm down for it. Like, if it's just giving me a little bit of confidence, then that's, like, all I need, you know, I'm so

[Taylor]

game for a placebo. I love. Love all the fufui things. I'm. That's. I think it's good. Pregnancy pillow or what products would you recommend? I'm trying to think of, like, definitely

[Amy]

loving my pregnancy pillow.

[Natasha]

Loving my pregnancy pillow.

[Amy]

It's gotten hard.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Amy]

I feel.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Amy]

I'm trying to, like, not sleep on my back, and that's so hard to do without a pregnancy pillow, you know, because I'm a. I'm naturally a back sleeper.

[Taylor]

Okay.

[Amy]

So, like, I will just, like, naturally just, like, roll over onto my back. But the pregnancy pillow, like, avoids that. And it's just so comfy. But I will say, my husband hates it. And my dog hates it.

[Natasha]

My husband hates it, too.

[Taylor]

He's like, I can't touch you in bed.

[Natasha]

There's, like, a barrier.

[Amy]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Taylor]

And you have, like, the full body, like, side.

[Amy]

Okay.

[Taylor]

Yeah, I just have one that looks

[Tasha]

like a really long sausage.

[Taylor]

Like, it's just like this, like, round little thing, because I have that on one side and then a pillow on the other side. Okay.

[Amy]

I was gonna ask, what do you put on the other side?

[Natasha]

I was doing that with my pillows where I would just put it, like, on the side that I was sleeping for my bel.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Natasha]

But then I would roll over and I'd be on my back and I'd wake up and I'm like, I shouldn't be on my back. So then When I got the pregnancy pillow, it literally.

[Taylor]

I will.

[Natasha]

I'm such a mover when I sleep. Like, I'm rolling over all the time. Belly, stomach, backside, whatever. And with the pregnancy pillow, it just keeps me in line. Like, it doesn't let me roll either way. So I'm like, I'm on board for it.

[Taylor]

Yeah. Yeah, I am probably. Maybe by the time this is out, I've made the switch. I technically have one. I just haven't. I also haven't tried it yet, so I don't know if I.

[Amy]

You're gonna sleep so much better with it. Yeah. You really will.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Natasha]

It's not the cutest thing on the bed.

[Taylor]

Like, I can't lie.

[Amy]

No. It's massive. It literally takes up the whole bed. Yeah. It's so good.

[Natasha]

The most aesthetic thing. But, like, I have gotten great sleep.

[Taylor]

You gotta do it. You gotta do what you gotta do. Yeah. Other pregnancy products. I'm trying to think my little smelly thing. My nausea.

[Amy]

Oh, yeah, that's good.

[Taylor]

That's a good one. I've literally have not shut up about on social media that in my cold cap for my migraine. Yes. Because I believe in still now that I'm not. Like. Because I was using that even when I was just hot in the first trimester. Like, I feel like I was so. I'm still warm, but I feel like first trimester. I was like every night I needed that thing just on me because I was overheated.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Taylor]

But now it's a nice. I'll like lay it on my chest or like, I still use it even if I don't have a migraine.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Taylor]

So that I think those two.

[Amy]

You got me to get one. Yeah. It's genius.

[Taylor]

Honestly, they're really like.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Taylor]

The best things.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Taylor]

I'm trying to think.

[Amy]

What is that?

[Natasha]

Is that sugar? No, it's lime.

[Taylor]

Oh, sour

[Amy]

packet.

[Natasha]

No, it's like true lime, but it's literally it. Anything sour makes you not vomit, so.

[Amy]

Oh, my God. Do you feel sick?

[Taylor]

Okay, well, we can pause.

[Natasha]

No, no, I'm fine. I'm sick. 247 fine. I just needed a little something.

[Taylor]

I was like, what are you digging?

[Amy]

Well, that's one of her. That's one of her pregnancy products.

[Natasha]

Yeah. Live True lime.

[Amy]

I've never even heard of that.

[Natasha]

It's so good. Oh, my gosh. I. I saw this somewhere and I. My mother in law ordered it for like, she'll have. I don't know what soda. Like me. I'm just making up like a Coke. And then I was like, you should put this in. It's like a Coke lime. And all of us are obsessed. It is, like, the best thing ever. I have a couple packets in my.

[Amy]

Okay, great.

[Natasha]

That's so good. It's literally just crystallized lime.

[Amy]

Oh, my gosh.

[Taylor]

Yeah. I think those would be, like, the biggest.

[Amy]

Yeah. Pregnancy must haves.

[Taylor]

Yeah. At least for, like. Because now I kind of feel like I'm leveled out. Like. Yeah. I don't need as many as the little. Like, I don't need knickknacks. Yeah. Like, I was eating, like, the portable fan. Like, I was eating, like, everything.

[Amy]

The only, like, other thing is, like, just, like, a belly. A good belly oil. Like, no matter, like, which one you want to use, there's so many out there. But definitely just, like, moisturizing your belly and your boobs and your hips and your butt.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Honestly, from, like, day one.

[Taylor]

Yeah. Like, you got me on that early.

[Amy]

Yeah. I started it really early because I was like, I've heard that it matters, like, how early you started.

[Taylor]

You got me on early, and you got me more consistent.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Natasha]

No, literally, when I was, like, four weeks pregnant. No.

[Amy]

Every single day, I started really early.

[Natasha]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Honestly, like, every time I go into the bathroom, I'm just. Just, like, oiling up my belly.

[Natasha]

If I feel it and it's just a little, like, it's not, like, dry, but if it's not, like, lathered in oil, I'm like, all right, time to get it going.

[Amy]

Sometimes, like, I'll actually feel my belly even get, like, a little itchy because it's, like, stretching.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Amy]

I'm like, oh, I need to, like, oil it up.

[Taylor]

Yeah. But, yeah, I know I haven't had that yet. My mom is actually asking me if I've been itchy, but I haven't been.

[Amy]

Yeah, it's.

[Taylor]

Yet. Knock on one.

[Amy]

Yeah, it's kind of slowed down. I feel like maybe because I'm oiling

[Taylor]

more, maybe I was itchy earlier on and I didn't realize I was.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Taylor]

What about clothing?

[Tasha]

Maternity clothes?

[Taylor]

Where? What?

[Natasha]

Who?

[Taylor]

When? Why? People are asking.

[Natasha]

Okay, wait. I kind of want to talk about this, because I am a little bit confused, and maybe this is. Every pregnancy is different, but so many people were like, don't buy maternity clothes. And just, like, you can work around your style and have clothes that you can wear for after. Which I do get. But everything that I'm buying is, like, four sizes up. So to me, I'm like, then what's. What's. The difference if I buy something that's maternity. Because all my jeans right now are literally four sizes that I normally am. And I know when I go back to not being pregnant, I'm sure I'm just gonna go back to my regular jeans and these are gonna be, yeah. Not fitting. So I do. I am a little bit confused on that whole. Like, I thought about that too, whatever. But like literally six weeks in, I was already like, I gotta buy new stuff. We would always talk about it, like we need to just go shopping for new tops, new jeans, stuff like that. But yeah, I feel like going through so many. I'm at like a good space now. Like I figured out my size and I'm, I'm walking through my clothes.

[Amy]

But agree though, like, not even just pants, but like even dresses. Like, dresses like I'm like normally a size small, but now I'm needing like a medium or a large. And I'm like, when I go, hopefully I can get back to my pre pregnancy weight. Like after I'm like, I'm not going to be wearing what I'm saying, medium large dresses. You know, hopefully I'll get back to like my regular sized clothing for me.

[Taylor]

I know.

[Amy]

So, yeah. I don't understand. But.

[Natasha]

And also something that I would recommend to anybody who is experience body. Body changes early. Because I also know that there's a lot of people and we know people that they don't have body changes until you're like eight, nine months pregnant. Yeah. But get new sizes early.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Natasha]

Do not try to fit in your old clothes. Because that actually sent me into the

[Taylor]

tortured spiral of my life.

[Natasha]

Like, because I think I heard people being like, don't buy maternity clothes. Just like wear your jeans low rise or like wear this as a crop top or whatever. And I'm like, yeah, nothing's fitting it. Like I'm like coming out of my clothes.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Natasha]

And I wish I just started wearing bigger sizes sooner because the second I did, my confidence went way up because I'm like, oh. I'm like still cute, you know?

[Taylor]

Like totally.

[Natasha]

I'm wearing a different size. That doesn't matter. But it's clothes that actually fit me.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Amy]

You know, no one knows what size clothes you're wearing. Like no one knows if you're wearing a size large shirt and no one cares, you know, like the only person that knows is you. And it's like, where are the clothes?

[Natasha]

Nothing worse than feeling like you're constricted in your clothes. Bra, underwear, like literally even my underwears. And I'm like, the second I get into my actual size, I'm like, wow, I feel so much better. I literally don't feel fat. I just feel like now they're my size and it's, like, working for me. But same thing. I was trying to fit into everything that is no longer my size, and it didn't matter that it was bigger. It's just the second I put on something that actually fit, I'm like, wow, I feel amazing now, you know?

[Taylor]

No, I feel like I've definitely learned, like. Like, I'm wearing, like, jeans with, like, the elastic, like, a stretchy waistband, like, knowing to buy those. Knowing, like, underwear that I've bought. Like, because I tried to size up, but it had, like, lace on it. So there was, like, a restriction of, like, where the lace met the cotton. So now it's like, only, like, the no show fabric because that stretches and that will.

[Natasha]

Yeah.

[Taylor]

Like, be able to stretch with me.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Taylor]

So finding those fabrics, I think has really helped with. With the pants and, like, something with drawstring, like, getting a little bigger and having the drawstring and having stretch. Yeah, yeah. Is really.

[Tasha]

Has been really helpful for me.

[Amy]

And you don't need to spend, like, a ton of money on it, you know, like, go to, like, Target Old Navy. Yeah. I even saw someone say that H and M has, like, a really good, like, maternity clothes section, but it doesn't, like, feel like maternity clothes. So I want to look into that because I feel like they have, like, really cute stuff that's, like, for an affordable.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Price point.

[Natasha]

Something I also feel like we could take into our next pregnancy is knowing what we feel comfortable in. Because I really thought, like, I was gonna love being in dresses, and maybe I just haven't hit, like, the part of summer yet where I'm, like, really excited to be in long, flowy dresses. But jeans and a top have felt way more comfortable to me than, like, wearing a flowy dress, you know? And I think if you're gonna spend money on a new wardrobe or, like, a couple new staple pieces, find the things that, like, you either want to invest in if they are more expensive or, like you said, I've literally been shopping at Target and Old Navy, and I'm obsessed. Like, I love my whole wardrobe. I think it's the cutest stuff ever, but I just know, oh, like the low rise jeans and, like, a cute little belly tee that makes me the most confident. So I will know in my next pregnancy that, like, that's probably what I'll end Up spending my money on. And if I change my mind, like, of course. But I was, like, stocking up on all these dresses and then kind of realizing, like, it's, like, not what I'm in the mood to wear, you know, so just like. Yeah. Don't put expectation on, like, what you should or shouldn't.

[Taylor]

Yeah, putting.

[Amy]

For sure.

[Taylor]

Yeah. That's very true. How much of your babies do you think you guys will share online? We were just talking about this the other day.

[Natasha]

I think.

[Taylor]

I think it's something that we're. I mean, I'll speak for myself that I think I'm just gonna kind of figure out as I go.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Taylor]

Because, yeah, I think there's pros and cons to every option, so it is really just whatever. And this is something, too, that I think, you know, we are so quick to judge people that, like, do you show their kids or judge people that don't show their kids? It's just, like, something the Internet has had an opinion about. But that's something I really think is just, like, up to the discretion of the parent.

[Natasha]

Yeah.

[Amy]

So I think you, like, don't really know how you feel about it until, like, your baby's here.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Amy]

You know, and until you're, like, in that moment of deciding whether or not to post.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Natasha]

Yeah.

[Amy]

But everyone's different. Yeah. I don't know.

[Natasha]

My best friend before she was pregnant, she was super adamant about not showing her baby and was like, I. That's not something I'm comfortable with. And then the second she gave birth, I feel like I just see her baby all the time. And, like, obviously I love it because, you know, she's my favorite thing, but she was like, I just didn't know I would feel that way. And my opinions changed. So I feel like I'm just trying to go into it, kind of like, whatever I'm feeling, if I'm not interested in it, I won't do it. If I am, I will. And also, I think doing it for me and not because I feel pressured either way to, like. Because I do feel for a while, I was almost pressured to not. And then you have people that are on the other end of the spectrum and, like, just the opinions of others and, like, realizing if I'm not gonna show my baby, it's because these are the reasons that I feel uncomfortable or if I want to. These are the reasons I feel comfortable. Not because anybody's telling me I should or shouldn't.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Natasha]

You know.

[Taylor]

Yeah. No, that's a great. That's A great way to go into it.

[Tasha]

Is there a tradition from your childhood

[Taylor]

that you're excited to do with your baby? Is there anything you've, like, thought about doing? I know for me, like, I'm excited to do, like, matching pajamas. Like, cute. Like we. That we always do that. So that I'm, like, excited, like, don't know to do. I know that's cute. I know if there's like a birthday or. Yeah. Holiday. I'm trying to think if there's like, any other, like, tooth fairy. Like, I haven't even. I've never even liked, thought about, like, what, like, that would look like.

[Amy]

Yeah. I mean, my husband is Jewish, so he never grew up with Santa. But I mean, if there's anyone. Any kids listening, don't tell them to go away. But, like, I definitely want to do the whole Santa Claus thing with our kids, even though, like, we're all technically Jewish. Like, I'm like, it's for the tradition of it.

[Taylor]

Yeah, yeah.

[Amy]

And of course, the tooth fairy, the Easter Bunny.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Amy]

All of it. Yeah.

[Tasha]

Yeah.

[Natasha]

I feel like there's so many things that, that are traditions that you don't even realize are. Because they're so normalized in your head of like, this is just what my family has done. Bradley and I talk about that all the time because both of our families have such, like, specific ways of doing family activities or like Christmas or birthdays or whatever. But they're so normal to us.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Natasha]

Individually. But you're like, I don't. That's not like a tradition. But it is a tradition that's, like, unique to my family. So I feel like I'll figure those things out once they come. But everything in my head right now is like, well, that's not like, special, but it is.

[Taylor]

Yeah, yeah.

[Amy]

No, I know. And I think it's special to, like, make your own traditions.

[Natasha]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Too. Like, once you have your kids and start to, like, experience those, like, holidays and birthdays and everything. Just like, making your own.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Taylor]

It's so crazy. What are you doing for self care during your pregnancy? Anyone listening to this podcast knows I talk about self care way too much because it's the most important thing, I think. But finding things for self care has, like, was a little difficult, I think, in the beginning, especially when you're just feeling so, like, down bad. But I think I've been. I've been trying to be really consistent about, like, lymphatic massages for me because I'm already, like, swelling a lot. So that's something I'm trying to like be consistent with. Because I. It feels like so much better do that. Yeah.

[Amy]

Yeah. You've also been good about reading more lately and that self care.

[Taylor]

I haven't really good about reading.

[Amy]

What have you been reading today?

[Taylor]

A little too good. A little too good. No, my Kindle's been, it's. She's, she's had some timeouts because I just get so after we filmed our TikToks, I literally came home and read half of. Half of the book. Like I just like started it and.

[Amy]

Good. Thank God.

[Taylor]

I'm like. So Amy's been trying to get me to read books.

[Amy]

Yes. I've been trying to get her to read really long.

[Taylor]

So long. Finally off campus.

[Amy]

But she finally got hooked onto off campus.

[Taylor]

Yeah. Yeah, finally. Finally did it for me.

[Amy]

Yeah.

[Taylor]

Which is.

[Amy]

And I have so many more recommendations for you.

[Taylor]

Ready to be locked in.

[Amy]

When I was like if you really like hockey romance. I have so many recommendations in that genre so it's such so niche. No, I think reading is definitely my like top self care.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Amy]

Thing that I do for my, for myself. Like I'll like literally put my phone in timeout and I'm like I need to stop scrolling so much and I'll just read.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Amy]

But yeah, it's like a good thing to replace scrolling on social media with.

[Taylor]

For sure.

[Amy]

Yeah. So I like to read for like an hour in the morning and an hour at night and then throughout the day whenever I like feel like I'm on my phone too much, I'll read.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Amy]

And yeah. It's amazing. So good.

[Natasha]

Yeah.

[Taylor]

What would yours be?

[Natasha]

The gym.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Amy]

That's so good.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Natasha]

Yeah.

[Taylor]

Getting out and walking. I feel like you've been, you've also like, you have been very motivating to me to get out of the house. Like you're really good at like getting out and going and doing things and I feel like that's really good mentally.

[Natasha]

Yeah. I feel like the small parts of my routine before I was pregnant were so important to me and then when I like didn't have access to them or like didn't feel like doing them, it really flipped my life upside down because I'm such a routine based person. So like this trimester, going to the gym and like still having a lifting routine and still feeling like confident and strong in my body. And the funny thing is I feel like half of it. I, I know that I'm like strong and I know that I'm like putting work in the gym obviously, but I seriously feel like half of it is just my mentality going like, you did something good for your body today. And, like, that just made me feel happy. You know what I mean? So it's like just the little things that I can do for myself that boost my serotonin in any way.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Amy]

You're inspiring me.

[Taylor]

I know.

[Amy]

It's the last to get to the gym.

[Taylor]

Yeah. It's honestly just like getting those little things in that matter, because that's. That's like you. You just need. You need to kind of have some gratitude for the little things because for sure, pregnancy is hard, but I love that.

[Tasha]

Well, fun.

[Taylor]

Thanks for another episode of the Bump Club. Next time you guys see us, we will be bumping. There will be some bumps happening and Natasha will hopefully probably still be having a true line pack.

[Natasha]

Probably.

[Taylor]

Probably.

[Natasha]

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