325: Focus Friday – The Ultimate Baby (Our 2nd Trimester)
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Trimester 2 has come and gone and we're very grateful that it went so smoothly.
Marni's bump really popped early on this trimester and we've felt a ton of movement from TUB which made things feel even more real.
We cover a lot in this episode including red raspberry leaf tea, slowing down, diet & supplements, preparing for a natural home birth, pregnancy book recommendations, birth classes, and so much more.
Thanks for joining us on our baby journey!
In this episode, we discuss:
- Marni’s growing bump
- Embracing pregnancy
- Feeling the baby kick at week 20
- Moisturizing your belly, boobs, & bottom
- Increase your collagen intake with daily smoothies & elixirs
- Homemade gummies are the tastiest way to consume gelatin
- Common body changes happening throughout trimester 2
- Exercise video recommendations for trimester 2
- Yoga is very conducive to being pregnant
- The benefits of connecting with pregnant mamas in your community
- Learning through birth classes
- Pregnancy book recommendations
- Our babymoon & nesting
- Preparing the nursery for TUB
- A home visit from our doula
- Preparing for a natural home birth
- The magical moment... hearing TUB’s heartbeat
- Why you need to see a pelvic floor specialist
- Connecting with the baby through meditation
- Mama's diet and cravings
- Marni’s Hashimoto's antibodies are the lowest they’ve ever been
- Boosting low iron with foods & supplements
- Packing the freezer with healthy, homemade meals
- Red raspberry leaf tea
- Marni’s daily supplement regimen
- Scheduling time for dates, family & fun
- Embrace slowing down before the baby comes
- Marni’s maternity capsule wardrobe
Related links:
Our baby registry at Three Lambs (if you want to buy TUB a present)
Listen to Focus Friday - The Ultimate Baby (Our 1st Trimester)
Follow @marniwasserman and @ultimatehealthpodcast on Instagram for baby TUB updates
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Listen to Genevieve Howland aka Mama Natural previously on TUHP (episode #315)
Marni Wasserman - A Real Treat (ebook)
Tracy Anderson Pregnancy Project Workouts
Pam England - Birthin From Within (book)
Penny Simkin - The Birth Partner (book)
Lily Nichols - Real Food for Pregnancy (book)
Ina May Gaskin - Guide to Childbirth (book)
Ina May Gaskin - Guide to Breastfeeding (book)
John Pfeiffer - Dude, You're Gonna Be a Dad! (book)
Genevieve Howland - The Mama Natural Week-by-Week Guide to Pregnancy & Childbirth (book)
Listen to Focus Friday - Minimize Your Chemical Exposure
Babyletto Toco Swivel Glider and Ottoman
Nuna - stroller, carseat, & play yard
Designs For Health - Ferrochel Iron Chelate
Chalice Spice - The Ultimate Baby (TUB) Tea Collection
Genevieve Howland - The Truth About Red Raspberry Leaf Tea During Pregnancy (article)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Ernie Wasserman with Jesse Chappas from the Ultimate |
| 0:07.5 | podcast. |
| 0:08.7 | Welcome back to another Focus Friday, where we give you short bursts of |
| 0:12.4 | information and inspiration to set your weekend off on the right foot. |
| 0:17.0 | And today we're going to be talking all about Trimester 2. |
| 0:20.0 | So we are just headed into Trimester 3, I'm week 28 right now, and we've had a whole lot of experience |
| 0:28.3 | over the last number of months and we can't wait to fill you in on how the ultimate baby is doing and how mama is doing and |
| 0:35.0 | how dada is doing and if you haven't listened already we did a whole focus Friday |
| 0:40.4 | on the first trimester right when we got into the second trimester. So similar type of |
| 0:45.5 | episode as we're going to be doing now. Not essential listening to enjoy this episode, but |
| 0:50.6 | we're going to link it up in the show notes and you should definitely |
| 0:53.2 | have a listen when you get a chance but let's get right into mama and some of the |
| 0:56.9 | changes we've been seeing physically yeah and right off the bat the biggest change |
| 1:00.8 | of course is that I popped in Trimester 2 and this happened around |
| 1:04.9 | week 18 so it was very noticeable really between week 16 and 18. |
| 1:12.0 | Week 16 I had no belly, week 18, all of a sudden. |
| 1:15.2 | There was a little bump there. |
| 1:16.8 | And ever since, it's just grown bigger and bigger and bigger. |
| 1:19.8 | So it's been a really cool experience |
| 1:22.0 | to actually feel that change, because I think for so long |
| 1:24.8 | especially in the first semester I just wanted to have that bump. I wanted to feel the experience of |
| 1:30.3 | being pregnant rather than just knowing that I was pregnant. |
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