WEBVTT - Week 17: Why Am I Suddenly Snoring? 0:00:11.149 --> 0:00:13.909 You're listening to a MoMA Mia podcast. 0:00:14.829 --> 0:00:17.869 Mom and Maya acknowledges the traditional owners of land and 0:00:17.949 --> 0:00:20.229 waters that this podcast is recorded on. 0:00:21.389 --> 0:00:23.749 I am pregnant. 0:00:27.309 --> 0:00:28.229 Welcome to Hello Bump. 0:00:28.269 --> 0:00:32.429 We're making pregnancy less overwhelming and more manageable, hopefully. I'm Grace, 0:00:32.509 --> 0:00:34.029 uy Ray, I'm pregnant for the first time and I 0:00:34.109 --> 0:00:35.949 just learned that a cavity could bring on labor. 0:00:36.229 --> 0:00:37.669 That's a very interesting move. We'll go into it. 0:00:37.709 --> 0:00:39.549 I am your heart of it when I'm a former Olympian, 0:00:39.869 --> 0:00:41.869 a mother of six of my own little ones, and 0:00:41.949 --> 0:00:43.589 I am now training to be an obstetrician. 0:00:44.189 --> 0:00:46.349 Each week, Leanna and I will be holding your hand 0:00:46.429 --> 0:00:49.549 week by week through the mysterious, perplexing, and sometimes quite hilarious. 0:00:49.589 --> 0:00:53.589 Mary called that is pregnancy week seventeen. 0:00:54.389 --> 0:00:55.589 How big are we today? 0:00:56.069 --> 0:00:58.949 Were still on the fruit, Grace, I'm sorry, naval orange. 0:00:59.389 --> 0:01:01.309 I see it is that different to another orange? 0:01:01.309 --> 0:01:03.309 Like, I don't know, we can tell me. I'm not 0:01:03.349 --> 0:01:06.109 an expert in oranges, but it's a big orange. 0:01:06.109 --> 0:01:08.589 I think. Yeah, I've got a serving of guacamoli. 0:01:08.749 --> 0:01:10.109 I like it a bath bomb. 0:01:10.669 --> 0:01:12.789 It was soft form. Yeah, we could go. 0:01:12.789 --> 0:01:14.869 So twelve to fourteen centimetres is the little bubb it's 0:01:14.869 --> 0:01:16.749 about one hundred and thirteen grams to one hundred and 0:01:16.789 --> 0:01:17.269 forty two grams. 0:01:17.309 --> 0:01:19.029 We're starting to get a bit of variation between. 0:01:18.749 --> 0:01:21.349 Babies and what's happening to them. 0:01:22.229 --> 0:01:24.509 Well, the baby's now finally starting to develop a little 0:01:24.589 --> 0:01:26.909 layer of fat so good. It's called add a post tissue. 0:01:27.269 --> 0:01:29.749 It's very important for babies temperature regulation when they're born. 0:01:29.869 --> 0:01:32.269 So obviously different babies will put on different levels of 0:01:32.309 --> 0:01:35.349 fat depending on what you're eating and your genetics. Their 0:01:35.389 --> 0:01:38.069 external little sex orleans are now fully developed to their 0:01:38.149 --> 0:01:39.949 LaBier and the glitteris and things like that are starting 0:01:40.189 --> 0:01:42.309 and out where they're going to be. And there's tiny 0:01:42.349 --> 0:01:44.989 lines even developing on their fingers that will eventually form 0:01:44.989 --> 0:01:48.189 their unique fingerprints fingerprints. 0:01:48.789 --> 0:01:51.149 That is not I just did not even hard to 0:01:51.229 --> 0:01:51.789 think of that. 0:01:52.069 --> 0:01:56.349 Yes, at seventeen weeks. Wow, yep, it's quite cool. That 0:01:56.509 --> 0:01:57.869 is cool. 0:01:58.029 --> 0:02:02.149 What what's happening to me and what's happening to my body? 0:02:02.789 --> 0:02:05.749 Hopefully, increase energy and let's go at nighttime, though you 0:02:05.829 --> 0:02:08.069 might start to snore. We've talked about nasal congestion in 0:02:08.109 --> 0:02:10.469 the past, but it's really common that partners start kicking 0:02:10.509 --> 0:02:12.789 you on the back at this point because you're making 0:02:12.789 --> 0:02:16.429 a lot more noise, so you know it's largely again 0:02:16.509 --> 0:02:18.629 just because we've talked about before, the increased blood volume, 0:02:18.709 --> 0:02:21.069 So you've just got that congestion in your nose. But 0:02:21.149 --> 0:02:23.229 let's actually put it numbers in it. You have about 0:02:23.229 --> 0:02:25.869 three to three or four liters of blood circulating. Now 0:02:26.309 --> 0:02:27.909 by the end of pregnancy, you'll have up to six 0:02:27.989 --> 0:02:30.269 liters of blood, so we're talking a lot of extra 0:02:30.309 --> 0:02:31.189 blood circulating. 0:02:31.829 --> 0:02:34.349 I think I'm scared to ask this question, but when 0:02:34.349 --> 0:02:36.749 you go back to normal blood volume, are you losing 0:02:36.749 --> 0:02:39.109 that blood in labor or do you lose some? 0:02:39.509 --> 0:02:40.509 Absolutely, we do lose some. 0:02:40.629 --> 0:02:42.949 Up to five hundred meals is normal in a vaginal birth, 0:02:42.949 --> 0:02:44.749 and up to a leader in a cesarian section, which 0:02:44.749 --> 0:02:46.269 town's a larming. But when you've got an extra two 0:02:46.269 --> 0:02:49.149 you're probably okay. You're winging most of the rest of 0:02:49.189 --> 0:02:51.069 it out. So over the next couple of days, yeah, 0:02:51.109 --> 0:02:53.829 you actually your blood kind of recirculates it and then 0:02:53.869 --> 0:02:55.229 it goes and you end up you find what we 0:02:55.269 --> 0:02:56.709 call a diarhsis. So you get up and you do 0:02:56.709 --> 0:02:58.789 a lot of wing. You also lose blood for a 0:02:58.829 --> 0:03:00.669 few weeks after birth, so I think we should normalize 0:03:00.669 --> 0:03:03.029 that that people do continue to lose so it's a 0:03:03.069 --> 0:03:03.909 reserve there as well. 0:03:03.989 --> 0:03:05.949 You're wearing an appy, you just like your child direct 0:03:06.069 --> 0:03:07.109 for quite a year of course. 0:03:07.149 --> 0:03:09.589 Yeah, okay, yeah, now to this week. You also may 0:03:09.589 --> 0:03:11.309 not need to peers much though. On that note, on 0:03:11.349 --> 0:03:14.309 the pnote, because that baby's now moving above that bladder, 0:03:14.429 --> 0:03:16.269 so hopefully getting a bit of a reprieve from having to 0:03:16.269 --> 0:03:18.589 get up all through the night despite the snoring. 0:03:19.469 --> 0:03:20.869 Is this normal? Is normal? 0:03:21.429 --> 0:03:21.509 So? 0:03:21.629 --> 0:03:24.869 I want to ask about the dental link to pre 0:03:25.029 --> 0:03:28.749 term labor. This was a suggestion from my midwife that 0:03:28.869 --> 0:03:31.789 said sometime before you're twenty weeks to go and have 0:03:31.869 --> 0:03:35.149 a check up because a cavity or bad dental health 0:03:35.189 --> 0:03:39.389 could bring on preterm labor. What do you know about career? 0:03:39.429 --> 0:03:39.869 Doesn't it? 0:03:39.869 --> 0:03:42.749 It does look a couple of things. I think, particularly 0:03:42.829 --> 0:03:44.989 for someone like you who has had morning sickness and 0:03:45.029 --> 0:03:47.309 been vomiting and vomiting and vomiting, you can imagine how 0:03:47.349 --> 0:03:49.429 much acid it has been in your mouth, so you 0:03:49.549 --> 0:03:53.029 might be more prone to unfortunately getting a dental infection. 0:03:53.069 --> 0:03:55.349 You've also got a Dropp community. You've got an increased 0:03:55.349 --> 0:03:58.389 blood flow that we've talked about pretty much every twenty seconds, 0:03:58.789 --> 0:04:01.149 and so you're more prone to inflammation, is the bottom line. 0:04:01.189 --> 0:04:04.269 So we know that whilst there's not an actual association 0:04:04.389 --> 0:04:07.669 between preterm labor and dental health, there has been some research. 0:04:07.709 --> 0:04:09.109 There's a bit, but it's kind of that research that 0:04:09.149 --> 0:04:11.269 someone that say yes definitely and others say no. It 0:04:11.309 --> 0:04:15.149 comes about that systemic inflammation from periodontal disease can trigger 0:04:15.549 --> 0:04:16.389 the pre term labor. 0:04:16.389 --> 0:04:16.909 So it's whether the. 0:04:16.949 --> 0:04:19.749 Inflammatory response, which we know if same thing, urine retract infections, 0:04:19.749 --> 0:04:21.549 for gial infections, all of those kind of things can 0:04:21.549 --> 0:04:23.429 put you in a pre a pro inflammatory state which 0:04:23.429 --> 0:04:27.589 can sometimes unfortunately trigger labor early. It's a protection, sadly, 0:04:27.629 --> 0:04:29.829 a mechanism for you and not as often for your 0:04:29.829 --> 0:04:32.229 baby because ultimately your body's like I need to survive. 0:04:32.349 --> 0:04:34.109 So if it gets really really sick, it can't sustain 0:04:34.149 --> 0:04:38.189 a pregnancy. The pregnancy makes you worse, and so up 0:04:38.269 --> 0:04:39.989 until about twenty weeks this it's very more good and 0:04:40.069 --> 0:04:41.549 I'm sorry guys, but for example, if you had a 0:04:41.549 --> 0:04:44.389 car accident, we save mummy because baby is not viable 0:04:44.469 --> 0:04:46.309 yet so if you got really, really, really sick, your 0:04:46.309 --> 0:04:47.789 body's going to do the same thing. It's going to 0:04:47.789 --> 0:04:50.589 protect the mother over the baby. So you know, I 0:04:50.629 --> 0:04:52.629 guess that could be one of the anecdotal reasons as 0:04:52.669 --> 0:04:54.509 to why it happens, but the bottom line has got 0:04:54.549 --> 0:04:57.469 identist and to get it checked. It's totally safe in 0:04:57.549 --> 0:05:01.549 pregnancy to have dental work. It's important if you have 0:05:01.669 --> 0:05:04.589 had it to let your midwife know after because interestingly, 0:05:04.669 --> 0:05:07.189 dental work itself can cause problems with infection because you 0:05:07.189 --> 0:05:08.829 can obviously you're making a whole or something. When they're 0:05:08.829 --> 0:05:12.029 digging through it, sometimes it can release bacteria into the system. 0:05:12.029 --> 0:05:13.709 So it's also important if you do get sick in 0:05:13.749 --> 0:05:15.549 a couple of weeks afterwards, or problems with your heart, 0:05:15.549 --> 0:05:18.429 particularly that you let them know that you've had dental 0:05:18.469 --> 0:05:19.109 work recently. 0:05:19.269 --> 0:05:21.869 Can they still take X rays of your mouth when 0:05:21.909 --> 0:05:22.869 you're pregnant. 0:05:22.669 --> 0:05:24.709 I actually don't know that. Two ounce that's fine. 0:05:25.029 --> 0:05:27.469 Yeah, I assume they would because they can obviously put 0:05:27.509 --> 0:05:30.229 a coat over and protect the baby. But I mean, ideally, again, 0:05:30.269 --> 0:05:32.309 have you your teeth checked beforehand, because we don't really 0:05:32.309 --> 0:05:34.309 want X rays. Don't get me wrong, we use it 0:05:34.309 --> 0:05:37.269 for example, we touched on the last episode dvt SO, 0:05:37.389 --> 0:05:38.789 which is a blood clot in the legs that can 0:05:38.789 --> 0:05:40.949 travel to the lungs, and we sometimes have to do 0:05:41.029 --> 0:05:44.109 imaging that has radiation in that because again the maternal risk, 0:05:44.149 --> 0:05:45.749 the mother risk of having a blood clot in the 0:05:45.829 --> 0:05:47.629 lungs is more important than the baby. Not saying your 0:05:47.629 --> 0:05:50.509 baby's not important, It's very important, but it is more 0:05:50.549 --> 0:05:52.269 important to know if she's really sick or not. So 0:05:52.629 --> 0:05:54.069 I guess it depends. If you come in with a 0:05:54.109 --> 0:05:56.589 rip roaring tooth infection, they're very likely to do an 0:05:56.709 --> 0:05:58.109 X ray and the risk of that is pretty low. 0:05:58.149 --> 0:05:59.989 It's pretty much the same as going on a long 0:05:59.989 --> 0:06:00.429 pol flight. 0:06:01.589 --> 0:06:04.509 And what are some things that we can do xtal check? 0:06:04.669 --> 0:06:09.909 Yeah, sorry, start think about a holiday sooner, baby moon, 0:06:10.269 --> 0:06:10.789 so on the travel. 0:06:10.829 --> 0:06:12.189 I think it's nice to sort of book it in. 0:06:12.629 --> 0:06:14.869 I wouldn't be looking it in at thirty six weeks, guys, 0:06:14.909 --> 0:06:17.509 because not all pregnancy is weake it that far. So 0:06:17.589 --> 0:06:19.589 you know, around the twenty eight week mark is actually. 0:06:19.389 --> 0:06:20.829 You might not want to move, or you might don't 0:06:20.829 --> 0:06:22.789 want to move. This is a good point or too much? Yeah, 0:06:22.789 --> 0:06:26.189 A dry a drive two hours is just say no. 0:06:26.069 --> 0:06:27.749 Exactly so, and it's time by then to be close 0:06:27.749 --> 0:06:28.189 to the hospital. 0:06:28.229 --> 0:06:29.749 Would be nice to do something really nice with you know, 0:06:29.789 --> 0:06:31.989 with your partner or your or your friend, whoever it's 0:06:32.029 --> 0:06:33.709 going to do, and maybe start looking at some yoga 0:06:33.749 --> 0:06:37.549 classes or some pregnancy specific classes. You're looking good, nice, pregnant. 0:06:37.549 --> 0:06:40.189 Now the bump is not, you know how sometimes you're like, oh, 0:06:40.229 --> 0:06:40.789 is she pregnant? 0:06:40.869 --> 0:06:41.709 Is she not pregnant? 0:06:42.149 --> 0:06:43.109 By about now it. 0:06:43.109 --> 0:06:45.109 Starts to look a little more like, yes, it's confidently 0:06:45.109 --> 0:06:45.949 you're pregnancy in there. 0:06:45.989 --> 0:06:47.869 You know, you might wear some mountfits that are bumping 0:06:47.909 --> 0:06:50.189 it like that pregnant do you know? 0:06:50.309 --> 0:06:51.869 You might not not know the answer to this. 0:06:52.069 --> 0:06:56.109 But some good baby moon places, like is there anything 0:06:56.149 --> 0:06:57.629 that people you've seen go? 0:06:57.949 --> 0:07:01.029 Yeah, that Powerful Island's a big one, really is in Australia. 0:07:01.029 --> 0:07:02.909 But you get to go long haul New Zealand's and 0:07:02.949 --> 0:07:05.149 other good ones, and he's three hours flight. It's nice 0:07:05.189 --> 0:07:06.949 to sort of get away somewhere that's a bit quieter 0:07:06.989 --> 0:07:09.669 and go some nice walks, particularly if it's earlier in pregnancy. 0:07:10.109 --> 0:07:12.149 It depends what you like. I'm a hiker, but then 0:07:12.149 --> 0:07:13.549 I want to come home and have a massage. So 0:07:13.709 --> 0:07:15.389 it depends what you're sort of ntchies. I wouldn't go 0:07:15.389 --> 0:07:17.509 somewhere where street food's your only option. I think you'd 0:07:17.549 --> 0:07:20.749 be Let's be really honest. I love beautiful places like 0:07:20.749 --> 0:07:23.549 Fiji and Barley, the wonderful places to travel. Most of 0:07:23.589 --> 0:07:26.229 their healthcare is pretty good. Even places like the Philippines 0:07:26.229 --> 0:07:28.389 have amazing health care. But just make sure you know 0:07:28.389 --> 0:07:29.989 where it is so that if you do travel on 0:07:30.029 --> 0:07:34.469 something untoward happens, you have access to adequate healthcare. 0:07:42.509 --> 0:07:47.469 The toolkit this week is dentist related. I went in 0:07:47.509 --> 0:07:49.549 and I said to them and then a very lovely 0:07:49.629 --> 0:07:52.789 dentist and said, look, I'm very sensitive to tastes and 0:07:52.829 --> 0:07:55.029 smells and everything. And I said, am I allowed to 0:07:55.069 --> 0:07:58.069 request no fluid treatment because I think I'll vomit? 0:07:58.469 --> 0:07:59.589 And they said absolutely. 0:07:59.909 --> 0:08:03.029 And then when they were doing the cavity tests, everything 0:08:03.109 --> 0:08:04.989 was fine. They've done the check and they'd done the clean. 0:08:05.309 --> 0:08:07.229 They were doing like the extra polish, and I dry 0:08:07.309 --> 0:08:10.149 reached like five times and they just went, you know what, 0:08:10.389 --> 0:08:12.389 we can stop. We don't have to finish it. We've 0:08:12.389 --> 0:08:15.029 done most about work. It was just a bonus, just 0:08:15.069 --> 0:08:17.109 come back in six months or whatever. So I think 0:08:17.269 --> 0:08:20.429 my talk kit is if you're going into any other appointments, 0:08:20.469 --> 0:08:23.269 you're allowed to request things you don't want or do want, 0:08:23.469 --> 0:08:24.789 and they were very responsive to that. 0:08:25.029 --> 0:08:26.949 Yeah, and look, actually think that's a nice time based 0:08:26.949 --> 0:08:28.869 off what you just said to bring that exact thing up. 0:08:29.189 --> 0:08:32.269 In pregnancy, you can say no to anything. Ultimately, it's 0:08:32.309 --> 0:08:34.109 your body. But I think now around the sort of 0:08:34.149 --> 0:08:36.229 seventeen eight eight week mark is about the time to 0:08:36.229 --> 0:08:38.469 start sitting down and thinking what actually do you not 0:08:38.589 --> 0:08:41.109 want and want? Because there are going to be a 0:08:41.109 --> 0:08:42.669 lot of things that your medical team and we are 0:08:42.669 --> 0:08:44.629 going to talk about them, are going to ask you 0:08:44.749 --> 0:08:46.869 or recommend, let's say you do over the next twenty 0:08:46.909 --> 0:08:49.629 weeks of pregnancy. Most of them you'll be like, yeah, sure, 0:08:49.709 --> 0:08:52.869 sounds good. Others may might not sit with you morally. 0:08:52.909 --> 0:08:53.989 So I think it'd be a good thing to know 0:08:53.989 --> 0:08:55.949 where you sit with it, do your own research, and 0:08:55.949 --> 0:09:00.749 come really well prepared with those questions to your legal team. 0:09:01.029 --> 0:09:02.909 We hope you enjoyed this episode of Hello bum. 0:09:03.109 --> 0:09:05.949 We have so many episodes of this series filled with 0:09:05.989 --> 0:09:09.069 tips and stories from women and experts who've been through 0:09:09.109 --> 0:09:09.829 it all before. 0:09:10.309 --> 0:09:12.109 You can go back and listen to everything else Hello 0:09:12.149 --> 0:09:13.909 bumb related in this podcast feed. 0:09:13.909 --> 0:09:15.709 And while you're there, we'd love if you could give 0:09:15.749 --> 0:09:17.749 us a fine star rating and maybe mave us a review, 0:09:17.869 --> 0:09:19.829 or even share this episode with a friend. 0:09:20.229 --> 0:09:23.429 This episode was produced by Courtney Ammenhauser with audio production 0:09:23.469 --> 0:09:24.189 by Tom Lyon. 0:09:24.229 --> 0:09:26.029 We'll catch you next time. 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