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Speaker 1: Oh baby, my baby, I need you, Oh how I

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Speaker 1: need you? What do you expect? As a production of

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Speaker 1: I Heart Radio, I'm your host, Heidi Murkoff, and I'm

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Speaker 1: a mom on a mission, a mission to help you

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Speaker 1: you expecting? Then you're probably expecting morning sickness, a craving

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Speaker 1: than your fair share of peeing, assorted aches and pains,

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Speaker 1: and though you'll hopefully learn to wear them proudly, stretch

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Speaker 1: cover what you already expect to expect, those standard symptoms

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Speaker 1: exhaustively covered in movies and books and TV commercials. We're

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Speaker 1: that are actually more common in a normal pregnancy than

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Speaker 1: you might think. Because Mama, trust me on this. You

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Speaker 1: are not alone, and I'm not alone either. I'm here

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Speaker 1: with Emma, and we're going to talk first about our

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Speaker 1: strangest pregnancy symptoms. Now, for me, that's easy because I

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Speaker 1: was surprised by absolutely everything that happened to my body

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Speaker 1: because I hadn't written what to expect when You're expecting yet,

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Speaker 1: So if anything, I stressed more about those classic symptoms

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Speaker 1: that I expected but didn't have, like mourning sickness. They

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Speaker 1: didn't have mourning sickness, So I assume something was terribly

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Speaker 1: wrong with my pregnancy. I didn't, you know, have constipation

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Speaker 1: or heartburn. You're basically a unicorn. That's what they call me. Unicorn.

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Speaker 1: Here I am with the constipation. I didn't prove my

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Speaker 1: entire pregnancy. Insomnia, metal mouth, food aversions, exhaustion, anxiety. Where

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Speaker 1: but you still had symptoms that took you by surprise. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: the gift that keeps on giving, at least for nine months.

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Speaker 1: And then we got postpartum symptoms. That's another day. Hemorrhoids

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Speaker 1: coming back. Because between us we only have four pregnancies,

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Speaker 1: we went straight to the source to find out what

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Speaker 1: on earful from the mom's on what to expect, including

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Speaker 1: some symptoms that I actually don't currently have, and what

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Speaker 1: have to ask. How you are you guys are writing

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Speaker 1: this book for her? Yeah, work in progress. So we

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Speaker 1: got a variety of cravings that went way beyond the

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Speaker 1: sounds curiously weirdly good. Um, ground black pepper, and coffee,

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Speaker 1: um you know. Of course the usual suspects like I

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Speaker 1: that she was repulsed by banana peals. She could handle

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Speaker 1: most surprising pregnancy symptoms. You don't expect, why they happen,

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Speaker 1: and in not so expected ways like that backney. So

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Speaker 1: many random symptoms, but they all have one thing in common. Emma,

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Speaker 1: what do you think that thing is? Hormones? Good guess,

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Speaker 1: shot in the dark. Hormones. So many random symptoms, one explanation, hormones.

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Speaker 1: but not the period part, not the period, just the PMS.

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Speaker 1: So Mom, tell me more about metal mouth because I

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Speaker 1: So um one thing that helps. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: because another unexpected symptom of pregnancy might be bleeding gums.

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Speaker 1: If you have ginger vitis due to pregnancy hormones. Like

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Speaker 1: I said, the gift that keeps on giving. Ye what

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Speaker 1: the normal shedding, and you do that about four months postpartum.

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Speaker 1: on your breasts, like around your areola um some notice

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