Weeks 25 & 26: Surrender
The Bristows Made a Baby
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🗓️ 18 December 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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In this episode, Becca recaps weeks 25 & 26 of her pregnancy. These two weeks had the overarching theme of surrender. Becca discusses two major breakthroughs that occurred during these weeks of her pregnancy where surrendering her feelings brought her to a place of gratitude and acceptance. She also dives into her thoughts on weight during pregnancy, postpartum and beyond.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends. Welcome back to the podcast. So in today's episode, we're going to be talking about |
| 0:07.9 | weeks 25 and 26. If you're new around here, my name is Becca Bristow, and I am currently |
| 0:15.7 | pregnant with my fourth baby. And I have been sharing all of my pregnancies here on this podcast, the journey |
| 0:24.1 | through each one and the birth story for each one. And I'm just really excited to be continuing |
| 0:30.9 | sharing these journeys with you all. I am someone who loves everything about pregnancy and birth, and I just find it all so |
| 0:39.9 | fascinating and intriguing and sometimes entertaining. So I love sharing this with you guys. |
| 0:47.6 | And we are now kind of getting to the end of the second trimester, week 25 and 26, it's like the tail, getting to be the tail end, |
| 0:56.9 | which is, in a way, is kind of, I don't want to say a bummer, because I'm never sad to see |
| 1:04.3 | the weeks pass by in pregnancy. But the second trimester is definitely probably the easiest as far as how uncomfortable |
| 1:16.0 | I feel, having good energy, that kind of thing. And the third trimester is when things, |
| 1:21.6 | you know, the difficulty kind of ramps up. But it's also like the final trimester. It's the home stretch and it's where you get to |
| 1:31.1 | prep for birth and just get ready for having a new baby in your house and all of that stuff, |
| 1:36.1 | which I love. So at the same time, I'm actually not too sad to see it go at all. I'm actually |
| 1:42.3 | really excited for the third trimester. |
| 1:50.6 | But before we get there, I want to share with you guys about week 25 and 26. And I also, in today's episode, want to talk about surrendering, which is a huge theme in motherhood over. |
| 2:00.3 | I mean, it's a huge theme in life in general, but definitely applies |
| 2:04.1 | to motherhood in a lot of ways. And we're going to talk all about that and how, you know, |
| 2:09.6 | in my life I've had to, especially in these last few weeks, just have done a lot of surrendering. |
| 2:16.6 | So we're going to talk about that. But before we get there, |
| 2:19.3 | I did want to share with you guys just some of the symptoms that I experienced in these weeks. |
| 2:24.8 | So first and foremost, having lots of on and off Braxton Hicks contractions. So Braxton Hicks are |
| 2:33.5 | basically practice contractions. They don't feel like trueicks contractions. So Braxton Hicks are basically practiced contractions. They don't feel |
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