Hello,

it's Brooke Devard and you're listening to the Naked Beauty podcast. And yes, as the title

suggests, I am having a baby.

It's so weird recording this because I haven't made any real announcement yet.

I've just told my close family and friends.

That being said, I am pretty far along. I'm at 25 weeks, as I look down, I see a

sizable bump. It looks like I have a basketball smuggled underneath my dress and I've wanted to tell you guys for so long

But I didn't really have to tell anyone because when the world was opened and we weren't

all sheltering in place I wasn't showing at all so I didn't have to tell anyone at

work. I've only really developed my bump in quarantine and all of my content is really from the waste up. So if I'm doing a

podcast interview and I'm doing video is from the waste up. If I'm recording stuff

for Naked Beauty Planet, it's you know, hair, skin, nails, not a lot of

full body action. And at work, all of my work meetings are video, but again, waste up. so no one has really known and I really wanted to get my 20

week scan done that's where they check all of the anatomy it's a very long scan I was

probably there for an hour and it's where they basically make sure that everything's okay that everything's developing normally and it was a little bit scary because we had some abnormalities on the skin when it came to the

brain and they said it could be nothing but it could be something and they

suggested that I do amniosenthesis, which is becoming, I think, pretty common. I think a lot of pregnant women just elect to do it, even if there's nothing wrong, but it basically involves a really, really, really long needle that pierces through your stomach goes into the amniotic fluid and you basically take

that amniotic fluid and do a bunch of genetic tests. But the great news is we got all of the tests back and everything came back normal. So this week was really the first

week that we could kind of take a deep breath and know that everything was okay with our baby.

And what better time to share the news with all of you?

pregnancy changes so much about you physically, the first trimester, I was so tired

all of the time. I was taking naps and massage chairs at the

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