WTF Is Happening To My Body: Weeks 20-23
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Cameron Oaks Rogers
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
We’re halfway through this pregnancy!! In this episode, I detail my pregnancy symptoms from weeks 20-23 and explain why this third pregnancy has humbled me in ways I was genuinely not prepared for. I open up about the complicated feelings that come with gaining weight faster this time around, the depressive funk that hit me hard, and how I'm feeling super disconnected from my own body. I also share the downfalls of choosing to go to Disney World pregnant in the heat, my experience with intense sciatica pain, and some unsolicited advice for my first-time pregnant girls.
Key Takeaway / Points:
The anatomy scan and thoughts around hitting the halfway point
Honesty around weight gain and body image
My non-negotiables this pregnancy for feeling my best
Everything hurts: sciatica, swelling, and second-trimester discomfort
Why I'm actually excited for the newborn phase this time, knowing it's my last pregnancy
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome back to what the fuck is happening to my body. I am like really trying, I don't know if I can even, |
| 0:07.2 | if you're watching. I'm trying to figure out I don't think I can do the pillows behind me anymore. |
| 0:12.5 | I think my bump is too big. I need this like whole chair to get comfortable. I'm going full in |
| 0:18.1 | with the bump today wearing a mother shirt. |
| 0:21.9 | Bump is out. |
| 0:24.0 | And my stomach is so hairy as I'm looking down at it. |
| 0:28.8 | Wow. |
| 0:30.2 | Maybe I should do something about that. |
| 0:31.8 | I don't know. |
| 0:33.8 | Yet another really fun pregnancy symptom is that I do find hair comes out of nowhere in places |
| 0:41.4 | way more intensely, like on my belly. |
| 0:44.6 | I've had my armpits lazered and I feel like they grow more hair when I'm pregnant. |
| 0:51.4 | Like just, I feel hairy. |
| 0:58.2 | All right. Today we're going to discuss what the actual F is happening to my body, weeks 20, 21, 22, 23. And I know, I think last episode I said, |
| 1:07.0 | like, I'm entering the honeymoon phase. And there are parts of this phase that are |
| 1:11.7 | honeymoon-like where I'm not nauseous anymore, which is like the greatest gift on the earth. |
| 1:18.3 | Like, letting go of that nausea and not experiencing it so intensely is so wonderful. But then there |
| 1:24.1 | are parts of this period that have absolutely kicked my butt. |
| 1:28.2 | So let's get into it. |
| 1:29.2 | First and foremost, thank you so much to our sponsor, Natural Cycles, |
| 1:32.9 | who is sponsoring the whole what the fuck is happening to my body series. |
| 1:36.3 | I've been using natural cycles for years to track my cycle both for birth control methods |
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