S2 E6: My Pregnancy Update at 32 Weeks (#41)

Summary

Taylor Rae Roman shares her personal pregnancy journey at 32 weeks, reflecting on how she got pregnant easily but faced significant anxiety in the first trimester, especially after experiencing spotting without immediate medical support. She recounts severe morning sickness and fatigue around weeks 8–9, finding relief through rest and her mother-in-law’s congee. In the second trimester, Taylor found her doula, continued modified workouts, and notes how pregnancy helped heal her relationship with her body while preparing for life with a baby in a one-bedroom apartment. Now in her third trimester, she discusses sleep challenges, acid reflux, frequent baby movements, the importance of kick counts, and her ongoing preparations for birth and postpartum care.

KEY MOMENTS

Early Pregnancy and First Trimester Challenges - 00:01:15: Taylor Rae discusses getting pregnant easily but experiencing anxiety in early pregnancy. She details spotting at 5-6 weeks and the importance of having an established OB relationship.

Morning Sickness and Fatigue Experience - 00:05:06: Taylor describes her experience with all-day morning sickness and extreme fatigue, sharing how congee from her mother-in-law helped manage symptoms.

Second Trimester Changes and Preparations - 00:08:45: Taylor discusses showing early in pregnancy, finding her doula, and managing her changing body. She details organizing her living space and clothing for pregnancy.

Body Image and Personal Growth - 00:09:58: Taylor shares how pregnancy has positively impacted her body image and self-acceptance, particularly given her background in fitness and entertainment industries.

Third Trimester Experiences - 00:22:48: Taylor describes her current experiences at 32 weeks, including sleep challenges, acid reflux, and monitoring baby movements through kick counts.

TRANSCRIPTION

Hello and welcome back. My name is Taylor Rae and this is another episode of On the Outside. Hello, hello, friend. I am so excited. I can't believe we're already halfway through this season. On today's episode, I'm going to talk about my personal pregnancy journey and just give you a little catch up on all things, how it's going for me.

Friend, I'm already so out of breath and this episode is like 10 seconds in. And that's something that I'm going to talk more about today. I'm 32 weeks pregnant at the time of recording this and it is absolutely wild.

Now, this is just an unscripted episode. It's just a little catch up. It's a little hangout. It's just a little me and you time filling you in, talking about some questions that I get on social, some things my friends have asked me, my family, and some things that kind of shocked me along the way.

Okay, so let's take it chronologically. I got pregnant very easily and I'm so grateful for that. But of course that still brought all of the same kind of fear, worry, anxiety that any first time expecting mom might feel.

I was so, so anxious in that first trimester because there's so many unknowns. I never obviously had done it before and you don't necessarily feel pregnant, meaning you don't have a bump to point to.

You can't feel the baby's kicks. You haven't really had many of those changes in the first few weeks. And so that was really weird. I didn't really anticipate that. feeling. I will say I was so focused on just trying to get pregnant that I honestly didn't really think about what it would be like once I was pregnant.

And if I could give any advice to my friends as they start their own trying to conceive and fertility journeys, it would be to think about, you know, those first days of pregnancy. I talked to my husband about supporting me when I was going through something like morning sickness or fatigue.

I talked to him about, you know, we discussed what kind of parents we would want to be, what kind of birth we would want to have, getting a doula. We talked about a lot of these things before we got pregnant, but we didn't talk about just like the day today, especially right in the beginning.

So in the first trimester, I actually had spotting around week five or six. I didn't even meet my OB until I was in week eight, almost nine. So that was so, so scary. My OB was like, oh yeah, that's totally normal, not a big deal at all.

But no one ever told me that. No one ever told me that spotting was like super, super common, not a big deal, unless you have some other symptoms that accompany it. And I did not know that at all. So it put me into a full panic spiral.

We went to an urgent care. They then sent us to an imaging center. We got an ultrasound. I got an exam. I got an internal ultrasound. And they were like, yeah, baby is here. Like it was just a little tiny.

They said it looked like, it looks like an engagement ring at that stage. And they were like, yeah, that's him. Like he's just like a little ring in there. Like that's all you see. That's the baby. Everything's fine.

You're not having any issues. So that was super scary early on. So no, if you have spotting, definitely reach out to your doctor. This is also another reason why I recommend finding the OB that you want or midwife or whatever kind of experience you're looking for.

Find them before you get pregnant so that you have a point person that you can contact for guidance and help. I did not have an OB because I was going to a gynecologist that doesn't deliver babies at all and just like doesn't do that kind of thing.

She's like my general physician and also does like pap smears and just like routine care but doesn't deliver babies, doesn't do anything related to that. So I was going to a brand new doctor and in that interim between taking my pregnancy test and actually meeting her, the office was not allowed to give me any advice or any guidance because I technically wasn't a patient.

So that was very jarring. That was a very scary. intro to pregnancy, but overall I, you know, learned a lot from it that I could pass on to you because I don't want that for anyone else. Now around weeks, I would say going into weeks eight-ish, nine, that is when my morning sickness and fatigue started rocking my world.

You may know by now, but maybe you don't because I, a lot of this was so new to me that morning sickness definitely doesn't just come in the morning. It comes at any and all times of the day. I definitely had it specifically in the morning.

I would wake up, feel super nauseous. What saved me was my mother-in-law would make me nervous. these giant pots of congee, which is like a Chinese rice porridge. And I would eat that every single morning.

It was like, it's kind of comparable to like a savory oatmeal if you've never had anything like it. It's made with rice, right? Not oats, but it's like a kind of similar texture. And that saved me. I would eat a giant bowl of that as soon as I woke up every single morning and that really helped.

Having something that's like high protein is supposed to help with morning sickness. That's what I've heard. There's so many like home remedies and old wives tales about like how to cure morning sickness.

Realistically, there's some recommendations your doctor will give you. And of course, if you have like very extreme morning sickness, HG, which is just on a whole different level, babe, that's something completely different that I am very grateful.

I did not experience, but I have heard that that is very tough. For me, I just had kind of like your run of the mill morning sickness, mostly was nauseous, not so much actually getting sick, but the nausea was nauseating, okay?

Then the fatigue was also something that hit me like a truck in that first trimester. I have never spent so many days in bed. I have never, I was like working from my computer, writing my thesis, laying in my bed, trying to finish grad school.

I would get up for 10 minutes and film content that I needed to post on social for brand deals and collaborations I had and then go immediately back into bed. I have never felt an exhaustion like that in my life.

And I hope that it doesn't scare anyone because it definitely shouldn't. I don't want to scare you at all, but I wish I had known so I could have better prepared for just exactly how exhausted I was going.

because babe, I never felt anything like that in my life. I've never felt that exhausted in my life. Only slightly rivaled by the exhaustion that I occasionally feel in the third trimester. But first trimester was really all about that.

The anxiety, the nausea and the fatigue. I'm really trying to ground myself in the fact that you can only do the best that you can do. You can only control the things that you can control. I knew I could only control so much.

And I had so much fear around is everything gonna be okay with this baby? They're doing so much genetic testing. They're doing blood tests. You're getting your first ultrasounds. There's just so much going on, but eventually I'm not gonna lie.

I think I just became exhausted of being anxious. Like at a certain point, I just could not maintain that level of anxiety anymore. And just was like, you know what? it's gonna be what it's gonna be.

And I just had to kind of let it go. And as a very anxious girly, I am so grateful that somehow came over me and really carried me through the second trimester. In the second trimester, I was definitely already showing.

I started showing pretty early. So for all my friends that are showing early, I am with you, babe. I see these girly pops that are so small and I also love that for you because I know that that's also comes with its own set of challenges.

People being like, you don't even look pregnant, which is super annoying. And what I was getting all the time is like, oh my gosh, how many weeks are you? You're so big for X amount of weeks, which was also super annoying.

Basically anyone commenting on your body is annoying. It's horrible and don't do that. But I was showing very early and honestly it brought me a lot of comfort and reassurance. I was very happy to be showing because I was like, okay, everything's happening.

Like the baby's really in there. I really am pregnant. So I really loved my bump. And honestly, through this experience, I have found so much more acceptance in my body. I think it is of course so common, especially with my past as a trainer, as an actor, as a content creator, I have been in industries that are very judgmental based on your appearance.

And for the first time in my life, I really have felt so at peace with my body. I'm like, look at what my body is doing. Look at how magical, special, strong, resilient this body is. Look at all this body is giving me.

This body is bringing me my child. Like I have felt so amazed at my body and really been able to embrace this weight gain, this body change, all of these different things. And That is a very unexpected and very happy thing because I didn't know how I was gonna feel.

I don't think you can really know. I don't think you can really know, but this has healed so much of my body image issues. And I pray that it follows through into postpartum. My therapist says that I have been very, very kind to myself through this process.

And I feel like that. I feel like I've been very kind to myself. So second trimester started getting the bumps. I did buy a few maternity items. I brought like super long maternity t-shirts, which I used to really get through the winter to put underneath any of my sweaters or cardigans or things that were just not covering the entire belly.

But it was like, my belly was cold, really. It really wasn't even because I was like terrified of showing a little belly. My belly was cold. So I got some extra long t-shirts. I got a pair of maternity jeans.

And I have been able to wear a lot of my same old like stretchy pants, sweat pants. I did get maternity leggings because the regular workout leggings I had like under the belly was just squeezing my life away and kind of hurt.

What also really helped me was I truly cleaned out my entire drawers and closets. I would say this is in month like four-ish, five-ish. Cleaned out everything and packed it up and brought it to my mom's house and labeled the boxes and said, these are my clothes for summer or winter or fall or whatever.

They don't fit me right now. I do not need these in my house because every time I went to reach for something I would think, oh, does this fit me? Then I would have to try it on and that was stressful.

Yes, it did make me have to think about my body changing a little bit, but more than that, it was just annoying. It was annoying, it was uncomfortable or I'd start wearing something and then realize a half hour later, oh, this actually is kind of hurting.

And it was just not great. So I definitely also recommend that just like doing a full audit of your closet, your drawers. I donated a ton of stuff too. And then packed up everything I wanted to keep, sent it to my mom's house for future Taylor to potentially wear if she fits in those things, but not having them in the house so great makes my life so much easier.

I can get dressed every day being like, I know all this stuff fits me and that is great. I also have been a huge rent the runway renter. I have no affiliate link, I have nothing for you. I might have, I might just have like a very generic affiliate code that they give to everyone.

If I do, it'll be in the show notes. I'll put that in there for you. But I have been an avid Rent the Runway user for almost two years now. I like really, I love renting things and it has made me be like such a minimal shopper.

I like barely buy clothes now in general, even before I got pregnant. And so having that has also been an incredible resource because I just rent bigger clothes when I have something special. So that was also so great and helped me carry through my second trimester.

In the second trimester, the testing kind of got a little bit less. I found my doula who I love so much. And I have an episode talking all about my doula. I have an episode talking about all about my Brett.

birth prep and all the specific things I did. So I'm not gonna get too much into that, but I found my doula and I've pretty much continued working out. I will say almost the first entire trimester, I couldn't work out because I was so exhausted, but the second trimester, I got a bit back into it.

I actually got a gym membership again, because I was like, I want a little bit more motivation. I've realized when I went on my baby moon, which was around month four, maybe month five, that I had so much more energy because the hotel gym was like beautiful and it was packed.

And I was like, yeah, this is the energy I need to motivate me to like continue to strength train through this pregnancy. And so I worked out. Now I'm kind of toning it down with the workouts because it's just given a lot of pelvic floor pressure that I'm not wanting so much.

And I continued my pelvic floor exercises, my deep core exercises, don't worry. Those are also gonna be in the episode around labor and birth prep, more in depth. But I was doing those as often as possible.

Got my birthing ball in the second trimester and sit on that as much as I can like all the time. Really was communicating with my husband on like, this is the kind of support I need. This is what's going on with my body.

This is how I'm feeling and so grateful for him. So second trimester, I will say around week 13, I started getting my energy back. Nausea started going away. Any nausea I feel now is more a result of acid reflux, which is trying to take me out, okay?

The acid reflux is insane, but it's more a result of the acid reflux than morning sickness, which is more hormone related. So nausea and energy, like feeling so much better in the second trimester, which is what allowed me to get a little bit more active in the gym.

gym. And really second trimester to me was all about having the energy and space to think about actually planning for the baby. So we're staying in our one bedroom in Brooklyn because we love it here.

We've been in this apartment. We bought it nine years ago, maybe eight or nine years ago. So we've been here for a very long time. We love this apartment. We love this condo. We never want to leave Williamsburg if possible.

And so we are going to stay here with our babe for, you know, the next few months, see how it goes, and then decide where we go from there. But that being said, thinking about how are we going to fit a baby in this apartment?

What are we going to do? What kind of products are best made for this space? How can we maximize our space in our storage? That has been a huge undertaking. And second trimester was all about getting the home together for the baby.

In the second trimester, I also started my journal to my son. So my mom actually started a journal for me on January 29th of 1993. And my mom has been writing journals for me my entire life. So she literally still writes one for me today and I'm turning 32 years old.

There have been a few little gaps here and there, but for the most part, almost my entire life is documented in these journals. So every page starts with dear Taylor and then it's just an update on what's going on in my life.

And she gave me my first two. So I have about before I was born until about three years old in one journal. The next one is around three years old to about six or seven. And it is so incredible, like reading about my grandparents who have passed, reading about family members, reading about my cousins.

One of my cousins was over and was like, oh my gosh, I'm in here. Like I found myself reading about just like my hobbies and the things my mom saw in me that are still so true to me today. It's like shocking.

And me and Richard have started just like reading them out loud and being, he's like, oh my God, you're exactly the same as you were when you were four years old. Like it's so amazing. And I think it's just such a show of like love and how loved my parents have made me feel and how it's just amazing.

Like knowing that I'm going to be a parent, thinking about how much I already love my son and knowing, oh my God, that's how much my parents love me. That's insane. And then reading these journals, like for a pregnant girl, you know, I'm crying every single time I'm reading them, I could cry right now.

And so I started my journal for my son exactly 31 years after my mom started mine on January 29th of 2025. It was a very emotional first entry. and I've been writing my journal to him just every few weeks letting him know how the pregnancy is going.

I can't wait until I could say, dear baby, it says his name, but I'm not telling you his name yet. Dear, dear baby, today you were born. Oh my gosh, I can't wait to get to write that page. And so I started his journal and that has been honestly so much fun.

And then I read it to and then he cries and then I cry and it's a great time. I will say the last kind of a big event of the second trimester was planning my baby shower. I feel like so many people have friends and family members that might plan their baby shower for them and that's incredible.

I love that for you. For me, I was like, I don't really think there's anyone that I would, you know, expect to plan this baby shower for me. And I also felt like it was a big ask of my friends and especially, you know, the financial responsibility of it all.

So living in New York, it's not really as easy as living in the suburbs where someone can host it in their home. And I think that would have made for a way more chill experience. But living in the city, you kind of got to rent somewhere out.

And at that point I was like, I got it. I'm going to figure it out. So we actually have our baby shower coming up in only three days. It's this weekend, but I started planning it in the second trimester, had to ask around at tons of places and get quotes.

And it was kind of hard. I'm not going to lie. It was tough finding somewhere nearby that was in the budget we wanted to spend, but we did, we found somewhere. And I'm sure you can see all those pictures.

Definitely by the time this episode comes out, they'll be all over my social. So you can take a look if you're curious about our baby shower, but that's something that's been so, so, so, so fun to plan.

Now, as I am in the third trimester, 32 weeks, I cannot believe it. My mom actually went into labor and had me at 32 weeks. So that is just completely wild to think, huh, wow, my mom had me at the time that I am currently in.

Babe, don't come out yet, stay in there. Keep cooking, keep rocking. I'm not ready for you to come out yet. Please let me have my baby shower and get the rest of my registry items. Oh, that's also something I didn't really mention.

My registry was a huge undertaking in the second trimester. And I don't have anywhere that I've like officially shared all those products. I will definitely put it in my shop. and my Amazon storefront at some point.

But I also think it's kind of like, should I wait and share the ones I actually, the stuff I actually use and like highly recommend versus just here's a list of every single thing that I asked for, you know?

But I will definitely share that. So you can always find my links in my show notes to my Shop My, my Amazon storefront and check that out because I'll definitely be putting in there. Things as the baby comes, which is so soon.

He's due in May. So yeah, if you're listening to this and it's anywhere around May or even past May, then you're gonna find it in there. You're gonna find that info, which is insane. Now, like I was saying in the third trimester, what I'm really dealing with is sleeping is tough, kind of like just getting.

Rolling from side to side my belly is so big and it just I feel very present that there's a baby in here You know, I never really thought like That it would feel like this. Like I there's a human in my body There's a human being in my body like that's insane and I can tell like I could feel it He kicks so much.

I do kick counts every night between 930 and 1030 Because kick counts have a lot more evidence To be like a really great indicator of the baby's fetal movement Versus just like monitoring randomly throughout the day So I've really started to try and be diligent about that.

So between 930 and 1030 every night I do my little kick counts the the goal is to have at least 10 kicks within an hour When I tell you this baby does 10 kicks in under five minutes Usually it's like four minutes in a couple seconds.

He just goes crazy and just moves so so so so much Goes to sleep. So so so so much goes to sleep. That's kind of his habit. So in the middle of the night He's kicking he's rock and he's having a party, but I don't even think that's keeping me up It's just the fact that I feel so big my belly is heavy Like it's hard to get into a comfortable position The acid reflux is it coming for my life and honey,

I am taking everything that you can take I'm taking every single acid reflux medication that is recommended. I'm sitting literally straight up basically while I'm sleeping And the acid reflux is there because I mean my uterus at this point is about five inches above my belly button Imagine all of my other organs are just squished on top of that Like yeah, of course you have acid reflux.

All of your organs are squished like that makes sense So that's kind of what I'm dealing with right now And it is tough, but I do have the luxury of being able to leave like stay in bed and get another couple hours of sleep later in the morning.

I'm not a big nap person and pregnancy has not turned me into a nap person. So I'm still yet to take naps, not because I am morally against them, just because I've never really taken naps in my life.

And I just never think to take a nap. If I take one, it's because I randomly and rarely just like pass out because the exhaustion is overwhelming. But I think in this entire pregnancy, I've taken like maybe three naps, not a good napper, not a good napper.

Essentially in this phase, I'm really just planning so hard every second, like my postpartum care, thinking about when my mom's going to come, making my birth plan, talking with the doula, doing infant CPR, making sure my hospital bags get packed.

in the very near future, doing the baby diaper caddy, getting the house in its final, final form. My husband was like fixing like these holes in the walls and painting and like reculking the bathtub.

And I was like, oh, good thing. The baby's gonna really notice that. Which is funny because he's not gonna notice any of the things I'm doing either. But it just like cracks me up that these are the things that were like very crucial to him.

He like completely tore apart and cleaned out the entire inside of the washer and dryer and dishwasher, which is like to me, so funny. Cause I'm like organizing the pantry or like, you know, changing the built-ins to reorganize our clothes, things like that.

And I'm like, what I'm doing is practical what you're doing. I feel like no one's gonna notice, but those are the things that you need to do also. So shout out to all the dads that are doing the most absolutely unhinged things that I would never think to do because those things are important too.

And the baby will notice. I wrote that in his journal. I was like, your dad called the bathtub today. I know you're gonna love it when you see it for our son. And that's really where I'm at in terms of this pregnancy journey.

I think my big takeaways are like, you know, what I would say to a friend, which is you, your friend, who's thinking about getting pregnant is just, this is such a transformative experience, but I feel very much like I did before I was pregnant in terms of feeling like I know who I am in a lot of ways and feeling good about myself still loving to like do my little solo dates, go on my little solo coffee walks,

have like my own alone time and enjoy being with me. with myself, I think the hardest things emotionally are sometimes these hormones just come over you that you truly have no control over. I wrote a letter to myself that I read back that kind of helps me when I'm in like the thick of those just like that hormonal chaos swirl that kind of like helps pull me out of it because sometimes it'll be completely out of nowhere.

And I'm a huge overthinker. I will try and find the source of where is this sadness coming from? Where's this anxiety coming from? Where's this stress coming from? But ultimately, sometimes it doesn't have a perfect answer.

Sometimes it's just the fact that you're a girl in the world who's having a baby and it's a lot, or you're just a person and it doesn't even have to do with the fact that you're pregnant because before I was pregnant, I would also just have anxiety swirls and it was just because I was a person and people have feelings and sometimes those feelings make you cry sometimes those feelings make you angry and we're just all people trying to get through it and sometimes there's no perfect answer so I would say that that's not necessarily super different from before I got pregnant because I was still having feelings and dealing with those feelings you know even before there was a baby in this belly having support from my partner having support from my mom and my close friends that has been crucial but above all having support of my partner because he's here living with me he's in the doctor's appointments with me he's in the birthing class with me he's watching our online birthing tapes with me he's gonna be my coach and my support person in the in the hospital when I'm labor he's gonna be the father that's there with our child you know and I am so so grateful that I have such a great husband who is truly truly truly my friend I have such a strong friendship with Richard and he knows me better than anyone which is crazy because he's just a boy I met on Tinder and now you know me better than anyone that's insane but having that strong support system is also truly what is holding me down and carrying me through what I thought I would care about a lot that I don't is like eating perfectly perfect because sometimes you just cannot get the food down especially first trimester like when you're nauseous you will eat what you must and what's so great is that the body is smart the placenta is gonna give everything that the baby needs to the baby the person that's gonna be a hot mess is you so the baby is gonna to be good.

The baby is going to get all the nutrients first. You're going to be a wreck. So that's why you want to take your prenatals and at least try to get in like some fruits and vegetables every day. I would cut up an entire cantaloupe and just stand there and eat almost an entire cantaloupe.

For some reason, I was like, cantaloupe is the most delicious fruit and that is all I want. And I would do that like once a week. And I was like, that's my fiber for the week. That that's my fruit intake for the week.

So that was weird. And that was great. That carried me through a lot of this pregnancy. And yeah, just like getting fruits that I really like and just fixating on a fruit for a week. Okay, this week I'm eating these two boxes of strawberries and love that.

Or just like putting spinach in anything I cooked because it kind of like withers away and you just not really see it. Just trying to sneak in those fruits and vegetables. Yeah, I 100% was eating McChicken's chicken nuggets.

Haven't had chicken nuggets since I was a child. Needed them. Cheeseburgers, absolutely. Pizza, absolutely. Every food covered in cheese, I've never eaten more quesadillas in my life. Never eaten more Taco Bell in my life than I have in this pregnancy.

And that's fine. That is okay. Because you know what? I fed myself. I fed my baby. I made it through the first trimester. Trenches, and I'm here to tell you about it. I think that is all I can share about my personal pregnancy journey.

I hope that if you're a pregnant girlie, you relate to some of it. Or if you are on the path, you got a little bit of reassurance that this is hard, but we can do it. I do think that for me, pregnancy is the hardest thing I've ever done in my life.

I would get my master's degree 10 times. I would get my PhD. I would fight. I would spar so many times. And I cry every single time I spar. If you don't know I'm a boxer, but you probably haven't seen me box very much because I'm pregnant, but I was training for a fight right before I got pregnant and I miss boxing so much.

I would rather spar, and I had a bruised rib right before I got pregnant. I'd rather get a bruised rib every week. That would be easier than being pregnant. And it's not just because your body is changing in so many different ways.

Your ribs are getting wider. Your pelvis is getting wider. You have more blood coursing through your veins. You have more blood circulating. You feel lightheaded. You're super thirsty all the time. You have weird cravings.

You have crazy acid reflux. You're nauseous. Your feet hurt. Your hips hurt. Your back hurts. Sleeping's weird. You have crazy lucid dreams, especially in the first trimester. Such insane dreams. You have night sweats.

My belly button wasn't any. It's now an outie. It's not, it's not only because of those things, honestly, that make pregnancy hard. It's hard because you do it alone. You can have all the love and support around you, but no one else can do it for you.

You do it alone. And sometimes it does feel very lonely because it's just you and this baby. And the only thing keeping this baby alive is you. And the only way that he makes it into this world is through your sacrifice and your love and your sacrifice of your of your literal body and your time.

And you put your dreams on hold and you put your life on hold, your goals on hold to bring this child into the world. And you can have people that love you so much and that are right there with you that hold your hand and that are there every step of the way, but they can't do it for you.

You know, I think about when he's here, I can pass them to my mom. I can pass them to Richard and they can take over, even if it's for a few minutes or hours, but no one can take this over. No one can do it but me.

And that is the hardest thing I've ever done in my life, to be so selfless, to be so, to love something so much that you've never seen. It is so overwhelming in such a beautiful way, you know? But I think understanding just the gravity and the permanence of parenthood and the gravity of pregnancy is crucial, crucial, crucial, crucial before deciding to become a parent because it is life-changing.

It is everything. And I am so happy to almost be at the end of this. of this finish line. I'm ready to no longer be pregnant as soon as he is ready to healthily and happily make his debut into the world.

And I think I'm gonna leave you at that today friends. On next week's episode, I'll be discussing birth prep and delivery tips. One of my favorite topics, I have so much to share. You can follow me, of course, at Taylor Rae Almonte.

As always, a full transcription of this episode can be found on my websites and all of my links are available in the show notes. See you out there.

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