What is going on y'all? Robert Sykes, Keto savage.com
Today I've got my lovely wife Crystal on the podcast and we're
going to be doing a little deep dive on the 1st trimester for
our baby to be. We're going to be doing similar
to what we did with Rigel, but we'll do a podcast with every
trimester. This one's all about the
trimester #1 so we talked about some of the details, some of the
things have been different from this one versus the first one
and what our plan is going forward.
So hopefully y'all enjoy and let's roll the intro and dive
in. And we are live, babe.
How are you? I'm.
Good. How are you?
Chip titled this file. Would you title it Chip Crystal
B2T1B2T1? Can you figure that out?
Nope. Crystal Baby 2, Trimester 1.
That makes sense. So we're doing a little deep
dive on trimester numero Uno with this podcast.
We did the same thing with Rigel's pregnancy.
We figured we'd do the same thing with the second kiddo
because you got a nice little baby bump rock in there.
So we're going to talk about first trimester, we're going to
do a second and third trimester and probably like a final recap
of it all. So we got a few more episodes in
this series, but people have shown interest around your
pregnancy, what we're doing nutritionally speaking, all that
good stuff. So I'm going to let you just
take it away, babe. How you doing?
I'm good. I asked Robert if he had
questions and he said no or had anything you wanted to go over
and he said no. So he's flying by the seat of
his pants. I have a little list, but I feel
like we should just talk and then we'll we'll see what we
hit. Well how, how, how is this
pregnancy felt different thus far?
I mean it's you're how many weeks now 18/19/18?
Yeah, in there. So first trimesters technically
from wind to wind. It's everyone thinks it's till
you're 12 weeks, but it's actually until you're 14 weeks.
14 weeks, so don't talk about anything after 14 weeks yet.
We'll save that for round two. We're a little late in filming
this one, but as far as the 1st 14 weeks is concerned, let's
just we did a, we did one podcast talking about the fact
that you were pregnant, right? So.
It's like a year in review plus. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So let's talk a little bit about what's been different thus far.
Not even to say different. Just what have you noticed thus
far in being pregnant? Well, everything's been
different. Everything's been different from
the first one. Yep, Yep.
Such as nutrition's the same kind of similar.
Yes, yeah, everything's, everything's different even
though like my my nutrition as far as like what I let myself
have and don't have is the same. But like things that I crave is
different. It's not even crave like I don't
have really cravings. I have things that I can eat
that my body will allow me to eat.
There's things that my body will not allow me to eat.
And I was a way more sick with this one and I already even have
like a little bit more aches and pains with this one, which is so
it's just so interesting. So you found out?
We found out that you were pregnant one day.
I don't remember the day I was 4 weeks.
Four weeks, OK. And we were trying so it wasn't
like an accidental pregnancy or anything.
So we you've been taking prenatals pretty much from the
get go? Since before Rigel.
Yeah, there was a couple months where I was kind of lazy with
it, but for the most part I've been taking it since way before
I even got pregnant with Rigel. And what has been different?
I mean, let's just talk about your macro goals, like what were
you going into the pregnancy with the intention of consuming?
I didn't really have an intention.
I figured it would be somewhere around where I was with Rigel.
I don't remember the first trimester.
I think the whole pregnancy I was somewhere between 27103
thousand. I think it was like 2700 and
3200 calories. Yeah, with with Rigel.
And I knew that this first trimester can be a little
tricky. 'Cause you only had like an
aversion to food for like 2 weeks I think with Rigel.
I think it was six to six weeks to 10 weeks and then by 11 weeks
I was fine again, so it was like 4 weeks altogether.
And that's not been the cases go around.
No, I was sick until I was 16 weeks with this one and it was
sick. Until 16.
Way worse. So people was way here.
Morning sickness. What does that mean for you?
For me, it was just like constant nausea.
I was, there was a couple weeks there.
I think it was like 3 weeks where I was like, I'm not going
to make it. Like I felt like I was so sick.
I was throwing up. I had headaches.
I I just had no energy and I still had to mom.
I had to like be a mom to Rigel still.
And so I was just like completely drained.
I would take a nap when Rigel was napping.
Like our house got to a point where it was pretty messy.
Robert really had to help me out there for a while because I just
like could not keep up on the daily things.
Like it would just took everything in me to just do like
a load of dishes, which is crazy 'cause I was not like that with
Rigel. Like I was hardly sick with
Rigel. And this one, I was, I didn't
think I was going to make it out of that, but I did.
You weren't eating near as much food either 'cause you couldn't
keep it down. Yeah, I and like certain things,
like just making it would make me sick, would make me like
throw up or I only threw up a handful of times, but I gagged
at so many things. And yeah, it was really
interesting. And I like I said, I was like,
I'm not glad I had to go through that.
But I also feel like it made it more relatable to people because
people when when I was pregnant with Rigel, I was like, I really
wasn't that sick. So I can't really like get along
with this, like I need all the carbs or I need I just got to
eat something or whatever 'cause I really wasn't that sick.
This one very different. But you haven't eaten all the
carbs. I have not, no.
What do you think your average intake has been throughout the
first trimester 'cause if you were averaging 28 to 3200 with
Rigel? I don't think I did that with
when with in, excuse me, in my first trimester with Rigel
because I still was sick, but I was eating a lot more than I did
with this one. I don't even know.
I'd say probably 1300 to. 50 yeah, which is not good.
No, but it's like you're kind of in survival mode.
And in my, in my thoughts, the baby's going to get what it
needs because it's going to take it from my body.
And that might mean I'm a little bit more deficient in things,
but I've been taking prenatals forever.
I have done mineral testing and everything looked great.
I've had a really great nutrient dense diet before.
And so I knew going in like I was already setting myself up
for success and that a few weeks or a couple months was not going
to screw me over or the baby over because I already had my
body fueled with all of this stuff.
And we waited, you know, two, 2 1/2 years before getting
pregnant again. And a lot of people like when
they get pregnant back-to-back your, your body hasn't
replenished all the the nutrients it needs in order to
be a good candidate for having another baby anyways.
So that's having, you know, 2 1/2 years between pregnancies.
I mean you've. Yeah, from birth to conception,
it was like almost 2 1/2 years. Yeah, yeah.
And I think, you know, Kate Shanahan wrote a really good
book on that deep nutrition and she was saying like the optimal
time is roughly 3 years from birth to birth.
Or what was it? I think it was probably birth to
conception, but I don't want to wait that long.
But I think we covered all of our bases in that regard for
sure. So what have you been able to
consume with you having the nausea and aversions to food and
only consuming 1300 calories? Yeah, it was really weird there
for a while. It was like different foods,
like the things that I could eat with Rigel, I kind of like
stocked up on a little bit and then I couldn't eat them and
then I. Like case in point being what?
Like I got some of like the freeze dried like steak bites
and meatballs and stuff. Couldn't eat that this time.
I've been eating them for you. Yeah, I, I What else did I have?
I can't remember. I thought you ate a lot more
pickled food too, like. No, I that was at the more
towards the end of my pregnancy. With Roger, yeah.
Yeah. Oh wait.
This time you mean. Yeah, you're not really eating
much of that now, it seems. Oh yeah, I had, I had like a lot
of like lemon things like lemon flavored like drinks and stuff
and. I think it knows me shakes
either. Heart No, I'm not.
That's the that's the weird thing is like I am obsessed with
shakes, like pregnant or not, like I'm obsessed with shakes
and I haven't even been able to really eat those.
It's just so weird. Everything's so different.
But some of the things that I did make was pancakes.
I made keto pancakes with eggs, protein powder, coconut flour
and cheese. Our waffle maker bit the dust,
though. Yeah, our waffle maker, that's
what I, that's one thing that was the same with Rigel in this
one is that I really wanted waffles because our we had a
waffle maker. So I would make truffles and but
this time I just ended up making pancakes because our waffle
maker broke and I didn't want to buy a new one.
So probably the same macro distribution, just much fewer
calories than the last time. Yeah, obviously still keto, no
issues there. Keto pizza was another thing
that I could eat a lot of. Like I ate that almost every
day. Yeah.
Keto. Keto.
Yeah, No, you've. Been eating a lot of chicken now
though. Yes, and that was another thing.
It was like, as soon as I could fathom eating chicken, I went
out. I got up myself a whole bunch of
chicken and like I would eat a whole package of chicken, which
is, I don't know, the pound. Out with that porking good.
Yes. Powderwhichisthemom.com.
Yeah, so like I would take the whole package and I'd cut it up
in just strips and I'd dip it in egg batter and then the porking
goods pork panko and I'd dip it in there and fry it.
Oh, it was so good. And then I would just dip it in
like that Primal kitchen ketchup and I eat the whole thing.
It was like as soon like that was a first realization that
like I might have a little bit of an appetite back and it was
so good. And I was like, man, all the
protein right now. But it was also like fried and
had the pork panko. So it had like plenty of fat in
there too, so. What's your training been like
between the two trimesters with Rigel?
First semester this first. OK.
So I worked out throughout both. I never didn't work out.
I think when I was working out with Rigel, I was already
working out more days. I think at that point I was
working out five or six days. And this time before I even got
pregnant, I was working out more like 4.
So that stayed consistent. I was pretty sick.
I had my friend Blake and I would work out together and
there was a couple times where I was like, if I pass out, like
you need to call Robert. I literally had to say that to
her, 'cause I'm like, I might pass out today.
And so I would just kind of like lay on the floor and just like
chill a little bit and then I'd get back to it.
She's like, you're like busting through this right now.
Like I don't, I would have been done.
Like I would have just called, but Greg had like a little fan
in his office and I would just take it in the gym with me and
just like keep the fan on me while I was doing my workout or
like between my my sets and stuff.
So last time you and I adjusted our workouts from the morning to
the afternoon or like later morning.
And I couldn't do this that this time because I needed Robert to
be able to watch Rigel so that I could work out.
So I was still going at the butt crack of dawn and doing my
workouts because I didn't really have another time.
Otherwise I probably would have been like, man, later in the day
would have been so much better for me.
I feel like workouts have been crazy in general right now
because for a while there I was staying at the house because I
preferred working out early. So I stopped doing that.
Chip and I were working out like 6:00 in the morning and then
stopped doing that so that I could work out later so that I
could stay at home and watch Roger while he slept.
And you would go at 5:00 in the morning with Blake.
And then we decided that that wasn't going to work out.
So I started going in the morning again.
But we moved half of our gym equipment to the house, cleaned
out the garage, built a home gym for you, the garage, and you
would work out in the morning before Roger woke up while I
worked out in the morning. So both training at the same
time, but now he's been waking up a lot.
So now you're going to start working out while he naps in the
afternoon. Because like in the morning,
he's kind of like it's like a lighter sleep.
And so he'll wake up and I need him to sleep longer.
Like he needs to go back to sleep.
And he will if I go like put him back to sleep, but it takes me a
little bit of time. So to break up my workout and go
do that. It just it's awful.
And so, but his naps he usually, like he's usually just out.
So I think it's just going to be better if I do it while he naps.
And it's kind of unfortunate for me because I like to get my
workout done earlier in the day, be able to take a shower while
he naps and like clean the house and get everything else done
during his nap time. But I'm going to have to flip
those and just do all my other stuff in the morning and then
while he naps. Do you feel like your recovery
was hindered at all from the training because you were
consuming half the calories you were previously?
There was a point where I was like, what do I do here?
I kind of felt like one, I'm not eating enough for just my body
and I'm building another body and then I'm just not eating
enough. And I'm also working out and I
was keeping up with my same weights for a a long time.
I think there was like one or two weeks where I was like, you
know what? I'm not like that At that point.
I was just like, I think I'm doing too much like I'm, I am
feeling like I just need to stick to the same weight right
now. And I felt really good about
that 'cause it's still heavy, but it was just like, I just
need to chill. I don't need to be like trying
to get PRS and like going up in weight every week and things
like that. So I kind of found like my happy
medium and been kind of just sticking to that and.
You feel like you've lost any strength now that you're eating
more. Do you feel like you're pretty
much able to maintain your baseline?
Yeah, I feel like I've been able to pretty much maintain my
baseline. I feel like it's a little bit
skewed because I started feeling good as soon as I went to
California to visit my family and I just got back and that's
really when I started feeling better, when I started being
able to eat a little bit more. So I think it'll be I'll be able
to tell better, like going into this week and next week how my
strength is actually doing. But I feel really good.
So I feel like I'm just going to.
It's going to keep getting better.
'Cause you're now eating more than 2500 calories consistently.
Yes, I am. I'm trying to track now.
So like for during my first trimester, I wasn't really like
tracking. I was, there was a couple days
where I was like, let me just see how much I'm getting in.
But now I can track what I'm eating.
And so I'm trying to track the next few days just to like see
where I'm at, see how my like fullness level is, where can I
increase things? Yeah, just that.
So if we push the pause on this podcast and then walk to the gym
and ripped right now, what are you going to be able to pull on
deadlift, push on bench press, squat?
I don't know like single one Rep.
Well, first of all, I wouldn't do one Rep Max because I don't
think that's a good thing to do when you're pregnant.
But if I had to guess, I'd say bench is probably one 55165
squats. I can't remember what I did most
recently. Maybe squats have been like not
so great lately. So I'd say like maybe 220-5235
and deadlift, I could probably get one No 2 75, maybe 285 I.
Don't know it's. Pretty good, though I'm taking
wild guesses. Right now she may have me on
squats so I can bench, I can bench and Debra so you sketchy
on squats? Oh, that's good.
Does it make you feel bad that a pregnant woman's squatting more
than you? Well, you know what?
I haven't done it. Yeah, we need to.
We need to because like I want you to be able to work out.
And the biggest hurdle with this whole pregnancy is that we have
Rigel and like that just throws a wrench in every plan that
we've ever made. Yeah, which is a very good
wrench, but it's a wrench on the left.
So like timing is never consistent and I do not do well
with inconsistent timing. I know, yeah.
So we got to get that done. I think having the gym at the
house is going to be good because you got all the
necessities there. You got an adjustable bench,
dumbbells, squat rack. I will say too like there are a
few things that I am changing about my workouts.
After I had Rigel, I had AC section with Rigel and just
because you have AC section does not mean you don't need to see a
pelvic floor therapist. I'm very pro pelvic floor
therapy for anyone who's ever carried a baby, but I wouldn't
talk to her. And honestly everything with my
pelvic floor is actually pretty great.
But there was like a couple of weak points like in my glutes
and things like that that can actually help me going forward.
I think my abs, it didn't recover as well as it could
have. Also, because of the C-section,
I didn't really get my full like 360 breathing back very well in
my ribs. I had a little bit of rib flare.
Like there was like definitely things that like just didn't
heal the way I wanted it to. But I think I didn't really know
how to fix those things along the journey.
So she gave me a lot of things to do before I got pregnant
during the 1st 20 weeks of my pregnancy.
And then I'm going to go back and see her again and we're
going to go over more exercises that I can do and see you
evaluate where I am now. So there are some things like on
leg day, I'm doing a little bit more legs right now, but it's
not like I'm going in and doing all the squats.
It's like I am doing a day of squats.
I am doing a day of deadlifts, I am doing a day of bench and all
those things. But I'm also having areas where
I'm like focusing more on because I'm pregnant again and I
want to heal better after this one.
We don't know how many kids we want.
So I just want to like treat my body well after this one.
And if it goes well with this one and we choose to have more
than like, I'll know exactly how to treat my body and how how to
train and how not to train. Because I think with Rigel, like
I just kept going with the same thing, which I don't think was
bad, but I think after postpartum is the point where I
could have done additional things that I didn't do.
And now like looking back, I'm like, wow, that could have been
like really helpful. So I'm very excited for this
one. Hopefully that will just things
will just sit a little better. So regarding this one, let's
talk a little bit about nuts and bolts as far as what we're going
to do. A lot of people earn the
assumption that after AC section you have to continue to have C
sections and we are not going that route as of now.
The plan is to do AV back and you listen to birth podcasts
like I listen to business podcasts so like.
I've been obsessed with birth for like a long time.
So even years before I had Rigel, like I loved learning
about all things birth. I would love to eventually
become a doula. Like there's just things that I
just love. I just, I love it.
I think it's so awesome. I think moms are amazing.
I think postpartum is such a like a interesting the whole
thing. The whole thing is such an
interesting to me and tender time and I would love to be able
to support women through that. But anyways, I, yes, am obsessed
with listening to podcasts and stuff.
So yeah, I, I haven't really gone like full into detail on a
lot of it because we shared a lot of what we wanted to do with
Rigel. And at that point we really
wanted a home birth and everything was looking good for
a home birth. And then I got to 42 weeks and
they made me go to the hospital, did an induction and blah, blah,
blah, blah, blah. One intervention led to the next
and I had AC section. I had a really, really hard time
mentally recovering from that. I I could still cry like it just
like it really like hits a nerve in me and I would like it to not
go that same way, but I'm really open to whatever happens happens
this time and but our goal is to work for AV vac.
So AV vac stands for vaginal birth after caesarean.
We have a very supportive provider.
We're driving a a little bit further to visit her, but I'm
very. Excited we have switched and
we're using crowd health, which is actually pretty relevant.
So like you probably know more than this than than I had the
owner of crowd health on the podcast, but like we were using
the traditional insurance provider and that covered a lot
of the C-section that we had with Rigel.
But it's just like traditional insurance providers are pain in
the butt. They're.
The only thing we ever used it for was the birth.
Yeah, it was just a pain in the butt.
Like we're spending a lot of money with the premiums.
They don't cover what we want. It's just nonsense.
Yeah. We ended up paying a lot of out
of pocket for things that we wanted, our providers we wanted
that they wouldn't cover and whatever.
Yeah. So we switched to crown health
and they've got like this like super cool crowd funded protocol
and we're kind of in like the smaller niche of that for people
that are actually following a ketogenic carnivore low carb
diet. So you get approved if you, you
know, pass the fasting insulin test or provide a DEXA scan with
good results. And the cool thing about that is
the community who is all a very healthy community relative to
the normal society community they funded, they've got much
lower premiums and then, you know, you have much more
transparency as to what is actually getting covered month
to month, what your dollars are going towards.
And one of their largest funding, you know, segments is
pregnancies and birds. So we're using them.
They've been super supportive of everything we're doing, which I
feel really great about. We got the provider and our
provider is a midwife working in the sanction of a hospital
setting. They've got backup doctors on
staff if need be. But as of right now, she plans
on doing all of that. I get to catch the baby.
We don't have to do an oral glucose tolerance test like
we're, we're able to do everything that we want to do.
Yeah, she pretty much I was kind of crazy.
I I think we interviewed like 6 providers all together or I knew
of six providers. I weeded out that we're supposed
to be like the best in our area and I didn't like any of them.
I didn't like any of them. The one that I did want that she
ended up being on vacation and so I'm hiring a doula this time.
Really regretted not having a doula last time.
And so I was like 1000% we're paying for the best doula I can
get. So we have a doula this time.
And she was like, hey, you need to go to this other place.
And it's a bit further, but I have a feeling you're going to
just like hit it off. So we went and like literally, I
could have just gotten in the truck and just bawled my eyes
out because she said everything I needed to hear about Rigel's
birth, everything that I needed to hear about going into this
next one. It's just such a, it's such a
tender subject when you've had something that you've gone
through that's just so emotional or I don't know, just sensitive.
And someone can just be like, hey, we don't have to do it this
way. We can do it this way.
And like you are in charge of your body and I'm here to help
your body make this happen. And it was just really cool.
And she and I are like both on the same page of, hey, if this
leads us to AC section, then that's what's supposed to
happen. And I'm grateful that I had the
opportunity to have modern medicine there for me this last
time. Halfway grateful, halfway bummed
that I had to use it, but a lot more open this time.
But definitely like have a plan for this to go the way I would
like it to. A lot of the pushback against
having AV back is because there's a risk or concern around
your uterus rupturing because of the prior C-section.
But with us having weighted the amount of time that we have, we
should be good there, right? So with every pregnancy, even a
first time mom, there is a risk of rupturing.
Like it's just you just have a risk of rupturing.
That's that's it. There are statistics and I'm not
going to try to make sure that I'm like on point with these.
So like go look it up. But the risk of having a repeat
C-section and AV back are just about the same as far as rupture
rate goes. So I'm not really risking a
whole lot more. It's just it's like they're
about the same. So there's just different
things. Like with there's certain things
that doctors will or will not let you have.
Like one doctor said your first child was large, so I wouldn't
be surprised if this one's large and makes you have AC section.
And I was like, that's not the answer I want to hear.
There's you have to be hooked up to an epidural.
I would really like to have a natural births.
I don't want to be hooked up to an epidural.
There's there's medical reasons why being hooked up to an
epidural is not actually fully necessary.
I can understand why some people would want to, but to me that is
like a fear, not for me, but for maybe the provider has a little
bit of fear of past things that have happened so on and so
forth. So there's like certain things
that I really wanted, but that they like some providers say
like, hey, because you want to do this feedback and you're more
of a risk. I'm risking things, you're
risking things. And so I want you to have this
to be extra careful when really like, it's not really like, it's
not really being extra careful. It's more of just like I'm, I'm
afraid. So I'm going to have you do this
thing to make sure it's not as bad.
So for me, I am going with the person I think is the most open,
the most successful, the most willing to just let my body lead
the way. And yeah, so but yes, rupture is
technically the biggest risk, but it's only it's like 1 or 2%
more than the average person. So it's really not that high.
What were some other non negotiable hit list topics that
we kind of used to weed out several of the the prior
providers? Baby's too big, wanted me to
have like be hooked up to an epidural.
Wouldn't let me go past 40 weeks.
Oh gosh. They're really weird about that
oral glucosar. Yes, one of them was very
particular, like they wanted me to take the glucose test and I
was like, it's not going to happen.
And only because I have been keto for so long, I've not had
that much sugar in my system that my body would probably
respond really terribly. So I would have either had to
increase my carbs before that or, or I probably just sort of
honestly failed. And so like this one is going to
let me do the CGM just like my last midwife let me do and it's
great. So there's there was just like
certain things that like some providers really wanted me to do
and I just said it's not a, a great fit.
There was another one that he honestly didn't say anything
bad, but it was like it was almost like I could tell he
wasn't supportive because he was, he was tolerant.
Like be back tolerant, not be back supportive because I could
just tell because he was like, we'll just see how it goes.
You know, I can't really tell you anything.
We're just going to have to see how it goes.
And my midwife now is more like, we're going to do this and we're
going to, you know, if, if we have to change directions, we
will do that. But you're going to do this.
Like your body was created to do this.
And so to me, I'm like, that's what I need to hear.
Like that is someone who's supportive, that's someone who
has my back. That's someone who wants the
same thing I want. And it's going to fight for me
to get there, too. What is my list on that hit list
you got? Do we cover everything?
Hit list, hit list. OK, morning sickness.
Oh, prenatals. So we did talk a little bit
about that first trimester could not take prenatals like could
not get them in. I even changed brands.
I with Rigel, I had always done naturally nourished Allie
Miller's line of prenatals and I am still taking hers, but I'm
also incorporated another company called Kneaded and they
have a powder, a prenatal, still could not get that stuff in.
I, I could not get anything in. It was awful.
So I just want to relate to anyone out there who's like, I
really should be taking my prenatals and I can't even get
that in. It's OK.
You're going to make it through just fine.
Your body's going to be totally fine and your baby's gonna be
totally fine. Food aversions.
We just already talked about that.
I don't think there was really anything else I wanted to say
about that. I something that was very
different with this one than with Rigel is I spotted almost
the entire first trimester and that was that was very scary for
me. I was really unsure and I was
just like when is this going to stop?
What is happening? Why is this going on?
And I didn't have a provider picked out because I wanted to
get in with that other one. They took forever to get back to
me and tell me that she was going to be on vacation.
I didn't have this one until I was like 9 or 10 weeks I think.
And it was like, man, I waiting around to just find out that
everything's OK and everything is fine.
Very common. But it is very nerve wracking,
especially when my first pregnancy I did not have that.
And then this time I had it consistently and it was, it was
not my favorite. I did not like that.
But I did want to say that because it feels very, I don't
want to say lonely. It feels very, you feel like
you're the only one when you're going through something and
you're like, I don't know what to do.
And it almost sometimes can feel like people down talk what
you're going through 'cause you're the one experiencing in
the moment. And even though they may have
experienced, it was like, Oh yeah, it was nothing.
It was no big deal. But you kind of want someone to
be like, that is really scary. I totally hear what you're
saying. I'm sure everything's fine, but
if you need to like just go in somewhere and just have them
take a look and just make sure everything's good.
Talk to someone. I did end up talking to a friend
of ours that's an OB and was like, do I need to go in or am I
OK to just keep writing this out?
And I'm just really grateful for that relationship because that
that was not, it was a scary time.
Let's see workouts, finding a provider.
That was pretty much it. Yeah, I feel like it's kind of
getting into second trimester stuff here, so I don't want to
tease it too much, but you haven't felt this one move
nearly as early on as you felt Rigel move either?
Yeah, I felt Rigel at 14 weeks and it was like after I felt him
for the first time, I felt him consistently.
So yeah, that's been another interesting they.
Had to pull the Doppler out the other day.
Make sure we can hear heartbeat. Yes, we did, yeah.
But good, strong, healthy heartbeats and no issues there.
And we find out the sex on Valentine's Day.
So that's getting pretty. I mean, we're recording this on
January 20th, so not too much longer to go before we figure
out if we got a boy or a girl come.
What do you think? I don't know.
I honestly don't know. But everyone keeps saying it's a
girl. Everyone, I think it's a girl.
Everyone has said it's a girl. Everyone.
My brother, my brother is the only one that has said it's a
boy. So like, I feel like that's
tricking my mind into thinking it's Chip's laughing at you
right now, I think. It's a girl.
Everyone keeps saying it's a girl, so I think that's tricking
my mind into thinking like, oh, maybe there's a girl.
But like I also know that like there's a very high chance that
it's a boy. So I have no idea.
Been very different pregnancy wise than right.
So they always say it's very different possibly.
However, I just talked to a friend yesterday and she's like
my pregnancies could not have been more different and they're
both both boys so well. We'll find out for sure in a
couple more weeks, so be soon. Anything else?
Parting words, thoughts, wisdom,
nada. I don't think so.
I feel like this was so quick, but I don't feel like there was
like a whole lot that I wanted to cover.
I feel like that's. Well, we'll do a follow up
Trimester 2 podcast and then third trimester and.
Let me just I asked if anyone had any additional questions.
So let me just see if there's any additional questions.
I don't think though I checked it right before we got on here.
Then we go. We go in this Friday to get
another. We're not just.
To do like a regular check. Yeah, so probably do the Doppler
again, all that good stuff. So that'll be good.
And then two weeks after that we'll know the sex.
So be good. Well, I'm excited.
It's going to be total chaos with two crazies running around,
but looking forward to it. Oh, I was showing so much faster
with this one. Yeah, like you.
Probably tell right now. Yeah, I'm sure people can.
Hello. Here I am.
But I mean, like usually people are showing by this point.
But I am like big. And I've been big since the
beginning. I swore out I have twins when we
I was first pregnant because I was so sick.
I was like, there's got to be two in there.
There's got to be two in here, and there was just one.
But yeah, I was just been showing so early.
And like, you know, like there's like that early pregnancy, like
I'm just bloated and I look bloated.
It was like, I'm bloated. But also there's a baby in here.
Like, it was just like, crazy. And Robert would just look at me
and be like, whoa, there's like a baby in there.
And I'm like, I know 'cause I with Ryzo, it took me forever to
show. And with this one, it was just
like, man, boom. I think it was like 11 weeks.
And I was just like, whoa, bam, here I am.
And I went to a baby shower yesterday and people were like,
how far along are you? And I was just talking about it.
And they're like, you're showing a lot.
I was like, I know. Well, you said something last
night. It's like we're pretty much
halfway through almost, which is crazy because I feel like I am
not ready yet. I got to, I got to scramble a
little bit, get some things organized.
I feel like, I feel like the second-half is going to go.
I think it's going to go pretty smoothly because the first, the
first half, we were just so busy.
You were gone a lot. That was another thing is I was
like all that sick and everything and you were still
like travelling and doing all the things.
And so I was just like Mom and without you there with me.
Trying to keep up on everything. You walked a lot more with
Rigel, but I thought you probably walk just as much now,
picking up after Rigel. I went on a lot of hikes and
that, like, I think that's probably gonna be one thing that
I'm a little bit bummed about because if I hike, I have to put
Rigel in the backpack and I'm like, I don't think I can do
both. Like I don't think I can like
have this big old thing plus that big heavy thing.
Like a good stroller or something for him?
And then I can't go hiking, I have to go on walks.
Get the outdoors off roading stroller to make those good
things. Yeah, Rigel's like he's between
35 and 40 lbs. So like that's a, that's a,
that's hefty, hefty weight on your back.
And he's not still like he will just move back and forth and
yeah, all the things. So I don't know, I think I will.
That is like a bummer cause like even if I do go hiking with him,
let him walk, it's just going to be so slow.
So I don't know what I'm going to do 'cause I really enjoyed
that, especially at the end of my pregnancy, I really enjoyed
hiking. So I don't know, we'll just have
to see how it goes. We'll figure it out.
Well, I'm excited.
It's going to be good. It's going to be good having
that kiddo running around and we have a lot of good things
coming. I've blocked out my whole
calendar for like 6 weeks around the tentative due date so
hopefully I won't be travelling and I could just help out
wherever possible. And.
We will have two, like we could talk about this later, but we do
have like I have a plan for a little bit better support
because I don't think I had very good support last time and like
my fault, but I didn't have the support I needed.
I didn't set myself up for success in that way.
We didn't really have a lot of like people locally and it just
was, it was really hard. I had a hard time with that.
We'll get. I mean that was also during the
middle of COVID. It was after, it was after
COVID, but like there was still some weirdness and I don't know,
it was just, there was just a lot going on during that time
and I just didn't, I did not prepare myself for needing as
much help. And I also didn't have like the
birth that I wanted. And there's just a lot of really
weird. So I'm I'm really setting myself
up for success this time I think.
Yeah, it'll be good. It'll be good.
And also I don't know if any of y'all do not know, but we've
also got another social platform called Live Savage where we do
our family stuff. So that is not necessarily
nutrition specific. It is just all the family
oriented everything's, so we'll be putting a lot of updates on
there. Crystal pretty much runs that
for the most part, so live Savage for that.
One, sometimes I'm really good at keeping up on it, and other
times I am not as good as keeping up on it.
We'll have cute baby pictures or something for sure.
Where else can people find you babe and follow alone?
I am the dot lady dot Savage on Instagram and Team Savage on
Facebook. That's pretty much it these
days. Boom, chocolate.
You've been eating a lot of bricks throughout the parades.
Yes, I've been Downing the primal fudge.
Yeah, so good. No food aversions to that.
Yeah, I couldn't really in the first trimester a whole bunch,
but I've been putting in more lately because I can and it's
great. All right ladies and gents, well
that's a wrap. We're going to call it there on
the 1st trimester video, but we will be doing another one for
trimester numero dose and we will let you all know what our
sex is. I don't know.
But the baby sex is yeah. With the baby sex is on that
podcast. It'll be good.
Appreciate you babe. Love you.
You're an awesome mom to both Rigel and the baby to be, so
just keep doing what you're doing.
Love you. Love you too, back at you.
Back at you y'all. Take care love y'all too.
Bye bye.