Speaker 1: You're listening to a Muma Mia podcast. Mama Maya acknowledges
Speaker 1: the traditional owners of land and waters that this podcast
Speaker 1: is recorded on.
Speaker 2: I am pregnanty.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Hello Bump. We're making pregnancy less overwhelming and
Speaker 1: more manageable, hopefully. I'm gracery very I'm pregnant for the
Speaker 1: first time and my diet is now just bread and veggimind,
Speaker 1: oh that's my good.
Speaker 2: I'm Jana Pittman. I'm an ex Olympian, I'm a mother
Speaker 2: of six, and I'm training to be an Obstitrican.
Speaker 1: Each episode, Yanna and I will be holding your hand
Speaker 1: week by week through the mysterious, perplexing and sometimes still
Speaker 1: nauseating miry coole that is pregnancy Week ten. Week ten.
Speaker 1: How big is our baby? Well?
Speaker 2: I love this week because I think it's supposed to
Speaker 2: be the same size as a date, or some peanut
Speaker 2: butter on a spoon, or a lipstick.
Speaker 1: A strawbery.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, that straw is much nicer than the ones
Speaker 2: I came up with. About three centimeters, so pretty big.
Speaker 1: If you look at it's like.
Speaker 2: The length of the from your finger with a little
Speaker 2: you know where your knuckle is in the middle, it's quite.
Speaker 1: Long's and again it's a big jump, seem yeah, we're
Speaker 1: starting all those smaller ones from the speck of dust.
Speaker 1: Do it to a poppy seed doesn't really feel that much,
Speaker 1: but once you can attach it to an object, it
Speaker 1: does feel more real. Poor sure, and what is happening
Speaker 1: inside that little Are they still in a sack? Well?
Speaker 2: Actually this is exciting because now at ten weeks they're
Speaker 2: officially a fetus. So they go from an embryo, you know,
Speaker 2: that's what we call it medically, to being a fetus.
Speaker 2: So it's really it marks the end of that embryonic period.
Speaker 2: So lots of things still happen growth wise, but it's
Speaker 2: a lot more human like.
Speaker 1: Now what happens to the sack? Does it all become
Speaker 1: part of the fetus?
Speaker 2: Well, the gestational sack around is where all your amniotic
Speaker 2: fluid and things are okay, so it's a large portion
Speaker 2: of it. The yolk second, things gets absorbed, but the
Speaker 2: actual sack around it is the whole part of the
Speaker 2: pregnancy where the placentre is on the outside of it,
Speaker 2: attached to the maternal wall, to the mother, whether the
Speaker 2: vessels coming through, then you got your ambilical cord then
Speaker 2: comes into the baby.
Speaker 1: This moving and forming and changing of the fetus feels
Speaker 1: like a human version of a kaleidoscope.
Speaker 2: You basically in and out and in and out.
Speaker 1: What's happening to me and what's happening to us, to
Speaker 1: the vessel creatingman, to the woman creating this baby.
Speaker 2: Well, hopefully your nausea and vomiting is reducing.
Speaker 1: That is not in my case natually.
Speaker 2: I think this may or may not be an ongoing
Speaker 2: weekly thing. Yes, you're utriest is now about the size
Speaker 2: of an orange, so we've gone from a tennis ball
Speaker 2: to an orange, and you might be feeling a little
Speaker 2: more laxicity in your pelvis and from a muscle perspective,
Speaker 2: but interestingly, your baby's burons are starting to harden from
Speaker 2: the cartilage, so you're getting softer and they're becoming stronger.
Speaker 1: Is this way? I did a pilates class and they said,
Speaker 1: just be careful of something a movement with your hips
Speaker 1: because you're too flexible at the moment. What does that mean?
Speaker 2: It's that progesterone again, so obviously partly to do with
Speaker 2: estugen as well, but largely progesterone is the main, it's
Speaker 2: a relaxing So basically it drops all the laxicity in
Speaker 2: your vessels and your muscles and your pelvis, in your bones,
Speaker 2: so everything sort of gets ready to accommodate the pregnancy
Speaker 2: but also to birth because you know they do come
Speaker 2: out down below from the vagina and then you need
Speaker 2: to have that ability to pass a full term fetus.
Speaker 1: Is this normal?
Speaker 2: Is it normal? So?
Speaker 1: My is this normal? Question I have for you today, Yana,
Speaker 1: is my skin has gotten worse, and everyone talks about
Speaker 1: this pregnancy, So I want to know if I'm not
Speaker 1: hot yet, when am I going to get hot?
Speaker 2: And you mean hot warm, or you mean I'm already?
Speaker 1: I mean, well, I've got a question about that in
Speaker 1: another few episodes about the myth of the heightened libido
Speaker 1: that I would like to say is a myth. I'll
Speaker 1: get to that. But my main question is why am
Speaker 1: I not hot yet? Why don't I look like I'm glowing?
Speaker 1: And look?
Speaker 2: That is if it hard, isn't it? Because some women's
Speaker 2: had to have beautiful glowing hair and face and things
Speaker 2: like that, and your weight and your weight, and it
Speaker 2: regularly it doesn't happen. In facted often you get active
Speaker 2: and you look.
Speaker 1: Like a teenager.
Speaker 2: Yes, all moans again, unfortunately.
Speaker 1: Just diagnosed with pregnancy, with pregnancy again.
Speaker 2: And look, you know, I think it depends also what
Speaker 2: you're carrying. I know, I know this is mostly an
Speaker 2: old wive's tale, but like a lot of women report
Speaker 2: when they're carrying boys, they have more hair around their
Speaker 2: nipples and breakouts of pimples. But it's going to be
Speaker 2: how your body regulates hormones. And again, everybody's different.
Speaker 1: Is there any science to the old wives tale of
Speaker 1: a sex determining the foods you like, whether you're salty
Speaker 1: or sweet, or carrying high or low? Or is that
Speaker 1: literally just a normal life tale.
Speaker 2: So I actually ask this of one of my obstetric
Speaker 2: consultants because I'm like, there's got to be something, And
Speaker 2: her answer is there's always some truth behind a myth,
Speaker 2: otherwise it wouldn't exist in the first place. But whether
Speaker 2: it has any factual academic evidence largely not, or we'd
Speaker 2: be recommending it for women all the time, if you
Speaker 2: know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So, okay, so I'm not gonna get hot or just
Speaker 1: move on, which it might get hot, just give it
Speaker 1: a few more weeks. Temperature hot that put that affirmation
Speaker 1: at it as well. What are some important things we
Speaker 1: need to do this week.
Speaker 2: This is the start of the week where you can
Speaker 2: hopefully start being a bit better from knowledge in vomiting
Speaker 2: and concentrate a little bit more on getting some good
Speaker 2: nutrition in so Unfortunately, if you're like yourself, it is
Speaker 2: just still survival mode. Whatever you yet in is better
Speaker 2: than nothing, but that it might have also contributed to
Speaker 2: the pimples a little bit grace as being.
Speaker 1: Honest, if you're not getting anythigit it is, isn't chocky,
Speaker 1: I'm doing it.
Speaker 2: But hopefully at this point we can start maybe either
Speaker 2: engaging with a dietitian or someone who's keen to sort
Speaker 2: of support you with your dietary requirements, because now you
Speaker 2: can start trying to make up for some of the
Speaker 2: weeks where you weren't really able to eat much.
Speaker 1: At some points they do say to up your calories.
Speaker 1: Is this one of the weeks to start upping your
Speaker 1: calories or we're going to wait till the second triininster
Speaker 1: it's a bit of both.
Speaker 2: Your baby's pretty small at the moment from us sustaining
Speaker 2: their viability not as much it is more second and
Speaker 2: third temester, and we sort of say an increase of
Speaker 2: two to four hundred calories a day. It's a bit
Speaker 2: dependent on whether you've put two babies in there, and
Speaker 2: also really important as where your starting weight is. So
Speaker 2: if you're underweight at the beginning of pregnancy, it is
Speaker 2: time to increase your calories. If you're you know, normal
Speaker 2: weight in the middle, then we're aiming sort of between
Speaker 2: eleven and sort of eighteen kilos of weight gaining pregnancy,
Speaker 2: So it's just a steady increase of nutritional value rather
Speaker 2: than I'm eating for two, which and you also want
Speaker 2: to account for those days when you do feel emotional
Speaker 2: and you need to eat for two just to get
Speaker 2: through the day. So the rest of the time you
Speaker 2: sort of just play it a bit safer.
Speaker 1: Okay, my for this week. I'm embarrassed to admit to
Speaker 1: you because you have Olympic medals in your home, But
Speaker 1: I found swimming helpful in nausea because there's something about
Speaker 1: the coldness and the buoyancy of it or something or
Speaker 1: a different full body feeling that I have been swimming,
Speaker 1: or maybe more like dog paddling.
Speaker 2: But I'm in a pool, no, I'm not in a pool.
Speaker 2: It's whatever makes you comfortable. Again, remember exercise now is
Speaker 2: about mood as well as it is sort of helping
Speaker 2: maintain your insulin and your glucose levels at a good,
Speaker 2: safe level. But for me this week, your talk is
Speaker 2: just to get started and write yourself a little program
Speaker 2: and goal of how much you can fit it around
Speaker 2: work and family life as well.
Speaker 1: When you do speak about glucose and I'm sure we're
Speaker 1: going to speak about gestational diabetes a little bit later,
Speaker 1: but other things that you can do now to prevent
Speaker 1: gestational diabetes or are you going to get it either way.
Speaker 2: It's a great question because there is a huge genetic
Speaker 2: component when it comes to to diabetes, particularly in pregnancy. Now,
Speaker 2: the scenario is, if you've got your low weight and
Speaker 2: you're in the chances don't look like someone who's potentially
Speaker 2: put on a lot of weight beforehand, then of course
Speaker 2: there's going to be less risk. So but I've seen
Speaker 2: plenty of very slim, very well women becoming very sick
Speaker 2: with diabetes in pregnancy. There's also other volatuous women who
Speaker 2: don't get diabetes at all, So that does show that
Speaker 2: genetic component is very real. So walking at night is
Speaker 2: the key. If you can get out for a little
Speaker 2: walk at night. We have some ladies who are diagnosed
Speaker 2: with diabetes in pregnancy who don't need anything other than
Speaker 2: diet and lifestyle changes, and that's what we say. If
Speaker 2: you go for a walk at night, it controls your
Speaker 2: fasting sugars, which is are the ones that are overnight.
Speaker 2: So I think, when you're around this time in gestation, why.
Speaker 1: Not, so sorry, what makes it better to exercise at night?
Speaker 2: It's around fasting sugars, So the one that is more genetic,
Speaker 2: so the daytime sugar, So your post prandial or your
Speaker 2: pre meal sugars can be a little bit more diet lifestyle,
Speaker 2: but they can often be not changeable, whereas the evening
Speaker 2: ones you might get put on a medication met forman
Speaker 2: for example, but sometimes you can avoid that by trying
Speaker 2: to do evening walks before you go to bed.
Speaker 1: And this is good for people whether I've got gestational
Speaker 1: diabetes or not.
Speaker 2: Correct So if you've got a high risk of it,
Speaker 2: so you had diabetes in your first pregnancy, or you've
Speaker 2: got a lot of family like mother or sister or
Speaker 2: someone who had diabetes in pregnancy, it does raise your
Speaker 2: chance of having it, and we'll talk in a couple
Speaker 2: of weeks about whether you would have an early gestation
Speaker 2: or diabetes test or not. But to me, it's also
Speaker 2: just healthy. You know, had a big day, you're on
Speaker 2: your feet, you're feeling tired, go for a nice little walk,
Speaker 2: get some adrenaline and nice Sleephian doorphins in, and then
Speaker 2: head to bed.
Speaker 1: I love that night exercise. We hope you enjoyed this
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