Story Time: How I Found Out I Was Pregnant
Birth With Power
Dr. Nicole C. Rankins
4.8 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
In this quick story time episode you'll hear how I found out I was pregnant with both of our girls.
Spoiler alert - somehow all my OB/GYN knowledge and training went out the window both times :)!
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| 0:00.0 | This is a quick little fun storytime episode of how I found out I was pregnant. |
| 0:11.0 | Welcome to the All About Pregnancy and Birth Podcast. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm Dr. Nicole Calloway Rankins, a board-certified OBGYN who's been in practice for nearly 15 years. |
| 0:23.6 | I've had the privilege of helping over 1,000 babies into this world, and I'm here to help you be calm, confident, and empowered to have a beautiful pregnancy in birth. |
| 0:35.3 | Quick note, this podcast is for educational purposes only and is not |
| 0:39.3 | a substitute for medical advice. Check out the full disclaimer at Dr. Nicole Rankins.com |
| 0:44.8 | forward slash disclaimer. Now let's get to it. |
| 0:53.6 | Hello there. Welcome to another episode of the podcast, whether you are a new listener or a returning listener. I'm so grateful you're spending some of your time with me today. So in this short episode, I am going to share with you how I found out I was pregnant for both of my sweet girls. |
| 1:14.9 | All right. |
| 1:15.2 | So let's go ahead and just hop right in. |
| 1:18.0 | So for our first, we tried to get pregnant for about six months. |
| 1:25.2 | And I know that doesn't sound like a long time. And for people who have taken a |
| 1:31.2 | lot longer to get pregnant, I know that that sounds crazy. But for me, that six months really felt |
| 1:38.5 | like forever, especially for someone who is like a high achiever, you know, type A, I want things to happen |
| 1:46.3 | when I want them to happen kind of thing. So six months and it was just driving me crazy. |
| 1:54.1 | And then in addition to it taking longer than I had anticipated, I was also having a lot of pain. So prior to that, I had been on birth |
| 2:05.1 | control pills for years. I don't know, maybe like 10 years at least. I mean, it had been a long |
| 2:12.1 | time that I was on birth control pills, so I was not used to having painful periods or really any sort of pain at all. |
| 2:20.9 | And I was having quite a bit of pain during the process of trying and it was hard to pinpoint |
| 2:28.3 | when it was happening and it was just a lot. So I really thought that I might have endometriosis. So endometriosis is a condition |
| 2:38.2 | where the lining of the uterus instead of going out and being shed during the period, |
| 2:45.5 | it goes backwards. We believe through the fallopian tubes and then it settles into the abdomen, and there's really |
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