What I Wish I Knew About the First Trimester | OB-GYN Pregnancy VLOG

The fear of miscarriage was enormous!!! I’m not an anxious person. But now I want the baby so bad, any thoughts of miscarriage was terrifying to me.

From someone experiencing extreme nausea 24 hours a day started at week 5, to any of you lucky mamas with no symptoms.. count your blessings & be happy. I wouldn’t wish this on anyone 😭

I waited 5 months to tell anyone I was pregnant. I didn’t want to be asked about it if I lost my first baby. I’m now 6 1/2 months pregnant and she is healthy❤️

Something that shocked me was the cramping! I have literally NEVER heard of cramping as being a symptom, and none of my friends have experienced that during their pregnancies. I have found comfort in reading about other women's experiences with cramping.

Waking up in the middle of the night to pee and not falling asleep afterwards. I did not expect that!

I just got a positive test (well, 4 positives) 2 days ago! I’m 37 and this is my first!! I’m 4 weeks, and I’m already nauseous, tired, a little anxious, bloated, and my boobs HURT! I think I’m in for it this first trimester! But I’m so grateful!!

I'm 41 and about 8 weeks in my first pregnancy. Thank you for talking about the anxiety of no symptoms. My best friend texts me everyday to ask how I'm feeling. I know she's just checking on me but it makes me feel like something is wrong because I'm not having symptoms. I'm already nervous enough being in my 40s. So glad I found this channel.

First time mom, 6 weeks pregnant! This video gave me so much comfort, I google everything even “hey google can I have hot sauce” and the anxiety of keeping this baby alive and hoping I’m doing everything right. It’s a lot, I’m so excited and so nervous, my first appointment can’t come soon enough! Thank you for alleviating so much of my nerves ♥️

Two things I was surprised about in my first trimester was the tugging sensation in your uterus or cramps. I thought something was wrong but apparently that's normal. Also, the level of hunger you have so early. I though you would getting hungrier in the second trimester.

Thank god others are in the same “am I even pregnant?” boat! I’ve never met someone with so few symptoms like I’ve had. I took multiple pregnancy tests just to make sure nothing had happened. Still waiting for my ultrasound to seeing it with my own eyes!

Been vomiting 24hrs a day since week 5. I lost a lot of weight and on my 7th week, I got covid. Been the worst battle of my life but I am glad me and my baby made it. We are now on our 10th week

The nausea, fatigue and bloating / cramping were my biggest symptoms. Then came the food aversion, heightened smell and headaches. These are not normal for me, so I tested and four positives later, here we are ☺ Good luck to all the mommas out there!

Thank you for addressing the anxiety that comes with minimal symptoms!

I found I was pregnant at 3 weeks! I have never been a napper and thought I was dying with the extreme fatigue. I'm 6 weeks now and just starting to feel morning sickness. Also, I have already gained 5 pounds and am someone who meal preps healthy meals and works out a lot. Thank you for stressing the "don't worry about your weight" because that can play with my head a lot.

I miscarried 12 weeks 5 days. It was truly difficult but I’m glad I’m helping “normalize” miscarriages especially soo late into the trimester.

I am 11 weeks. The most things I've noticed is that i am EXHAUSTED!!! like from even before i found out i was pregnant, the fatigue just kicked in right away. My appetite has also been crazy small. I haven't had morning sickness but I've lost 7 pounds since getting pregnant because i just haven't been eating as much. Ive had food aversions but its it's mostly just for all food in general. Like im hungry but food just isn't going to happen. I ended up getting some protein/nutrition shakes. I haven't been constipated at all so thats a plus. But the biggest thing I've found is that growing a human takes all of your energy.

I’m finding this video late, but I wish I knew that it was okay to be absolutely miserable and unhappy in the first trimester. I feel like everyone expects you to have so much joy over the baby coming (and we did and still do), that they forget you might feel the worst you’ve ever felt in your life (which I did) and be miserable all the time.

Thank you so much for your videos! I'm in week 6, first time pregnant at 44 years old and soo anxious! You can't imagine how much this and other of your videos are helping me! I feel the fatigue and sometimes constipation, some food aversions and I have exactly this almost nausea in the evenings or when I'm feeling hot that you described. I never would have connected heat and ickiness in the stomach, if it wasn't for you! So I lied down with a fan on me to cool down and it really helped - thank you! Also, I've lost two pounds and was really glad to hear from you that this is normal. I love your channel, thank you for being there! ❤

I really enjoyed hearing how out of breath she was. I understand fatigue but I was really concerned about my heart and heart rate and thought something was wrong with me because no one talked about it. I was fit before falling pregnant and so it was alarming to me I couldn't really exercise all of a sudden, or even hold a long conversation. That is definitely something I would like to have understood more, because I was really worried about the strain on my heart.

One of the things that surprised me most was how quickly I would get out of breath and how fast my heart would beat whenever I went for a jog or worked out just in the first few weeks! Definitely had to scale back (I was also totally zapped, so my exercises turned into stretching and walking).