Welcome to the RU. Menstrual podcast where we dive deep into all things women's health to support you on your healing journey.

I'm Amanda Montalvo, functional and integrative dietitian, also known as the hormone healing RD.

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All right. We have our pregnancy episode. I was going to do a case study and then I was like, I mean, I'm

pretty pregnant so I could do it on myself. And last time I was pregnant with my first daughter, I did

three episodes on the pregnancy. Like I did one, I think I did one in the beginning partway through.

I did one, I did like three full episodes on it, or at least two that I'll link in the show notes. But I did at least a couple episodes. I went into great detail with labs. There's a lot of similarities for sure, but there's definitely a lot of differences with my approach to pregnancy this time. I mean,

I'm not a first time mom this time. I actually know a little bit, so that helps a lot. But I'm going to

link those episodes. I'll refer to them a few times. And so if you want, if you have not listened and you

want to listen, you can definitely go for it. So I'll kind of like compare to my previous pregnancy.

I'll give some updates because I got so many.

I did an Instagram post.

I got so many questions from all of you.

I'll talk about what I'm doing differently.

And then I have like some common pregnancy questions.

A lot of people posted questions on that real.

I did like the most casual pregnancy announcement ever. So I was like, I don't, I didn't

feel like thinking of anything cute or clever to do, taking care of a toddler by myself right

now, all my husband is deployed.

I'm like, yeah, I'm just going to do a video that says, hey, I'm pregnant.

And I am doing a bonus episode where I'm answering

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