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Just the Good Stuff

Fertility Journey to Baby #3, Miscarrying a Twin + All Things Pregnancy

Just the Good Stuff

Rachel Mansfield

Entrepreneurship, Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Business

4.8841 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

#62: In today's episode, we are sharing our story to getting pregnant with baby #3. Everything from our fertility journey with menopur and IUI, to finding out we are pregnant with twins and all things first trimester (and into second trimester!). We are also answering a handful of listener questions related to pregnancy, motherhood and more!   Fertility journey: Did you get pregnant naturally this time? Why did you decide to keep it a secret about starting fertility treatment? What fertility supplements did you take when ttc? Do you do fertility acupuncture? What day past ovulation did you take a test? What did you do to promote implantation? Food supplements etc How did you handle losing a  twin? What happened to twin 2 after they didn't make it? At what point in trying to start a family did you seek out a fertility doctor? This pregnancy: How did you tell Jordan you were pregnant? What have been your top 3 food cravings? When you have an unhealthy pregnancy craving like diet coke, how often do you go for it? Do you have gestational diabetes this pregnancy? How do you cope with having gestational diabetes? Can you drink olipop pregnant? How did you cope with nausea during the first trimester? How different does your body feel from the other 2 pregnancies? How do you continue making recipes and working during nausea and fatigue? How has your energy and mood been? Are you finding out the sex? What are you most looking forward to with the third baby? Do you restrict any foods while pregnant? How do you balance caring for yourself during pregnant and your kids? Do you have names picked out? Does anything about pregnancy in general give you anxiety?   General questions about having kids: How has your approach to pregnancy and motherhood changed since having ezra? Was it insane going from 1 to 2? Did you struggle to have a third?  How to persuade hubby to have baby #2?  How do you feel about a 3rd and managing your business? How do you do bedtime with multiple kids? Will the baby have a nursery and big boys share? In your opinion: I know you're never “ready” but how ready should one be to start trying Any favorite maternity clothes? How do you tell your kids/explain to them you are pregnant? When did you start buying stuff during your first pregnancy? Favorite prenatal? Ritual (code RACHL20 for 20% off) Stretch mark cream for pregnancy? TULA body butter (code RACHL for 15% off)   We also share our story over on my blog!   For more from me, I'm over on IG @rachLmansfield, tiktok @rachLmansfield and rachLmansfield.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey guys, welcome back to Just the Good Stuff. This is your host, Rachel Mansfields, and we are back

0:09.2

with another episode with myself and Jordan. I promise I have other friends. But we have been

0:17.1

tackling and opening up about some topics and conversations, such as why I cut out

0:22.0

alcohol and this week's episode all about getting pregnant with our third baby and how this

0:28.9

pregnancy has been going so far. So, you know, these types of more personal episodes,

0:34.3

I really love talking about them with Jordan because he's been by my side for all

0:38.6

of this. But in today's episode, you're going to hear the details of our fertility journey,

0:44.5

conceiving baby number three, and what that was like for us. I'm answering a ton of questions

0:49.6

from Instagram and listeners answering about things with the first trimester and we're really into

0:56.5

the second trimester because I'm already almost 21 weeks as I'm recording this intro.

1:01.2

I believe when we were recording the episode a couple weeks ago, we were waiting for the

1:06.8

NIPT results. So I'll just kind of give you an update in here because what I said isn't

1:13.8

accurate. So turns out it was nine days after we did NIPT, my doctor's office starts calling me.

1:20.7

And it was like 7.30 in the morning. I'm so excited. So I answered the phone. And I'm anticipating

1:25.4

to like, you know, hopefully hear that the baby looks

1:28.1

great, like this is the sex and everything else that they share. And my doctor was actually on

1:34.4

vacation. So who was covering for her called me and she's like, hi, Rachel, I have your NIPT results

1:40.5

and I was about to put them in the online portal. But before you see them, I just wanted to

1:46.0

personally let you know that the results are inconclusive. So turns out, and after talking to

1:53.4

four different health care professionals, I found this out, turns out the NIPT test that I did

1:57.3

cannot be done if you have had a vanishing twin. It says it on the brochure.

2:03.6

So we weren't able to do that. I'm a little nervous still at this point. I'm hoping to do

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