 Hi guys and welcome back to this video I am super excited to announce and you can probably tell by the title that I am pregnant I'm pregnant with baby number two. I am due end of April and I'm currently nine weeks So still early in the first trimester You probably maybe have noticed that I haven't been posting a ton of stuff on my Instagram or on my YouTube channel because Honestly, I've been feeling so so crappy I've been way sicker with this pregnancy than I was with my daughter with my daughter I had nausea and vomiting, but this pregnancy is like a step up. I'm constantly nauseous. I'm vomiting every single day Mostly several times a day and so it's been a huge struggle So I don't want to just talk a little bit about how it's been working as a nurse in my first trimester and more in Particular working in a coven unit While I'm pregnant because I know that that's Kind of a controversy and just you know, there's limited information out there And I want to kind of talk about why I am choosing to still work in a coven unit. So Let's just start with how I'm feeling. Like I said, super nauseous Vomiting I'm having a very very hard time functioning on my days off let alone at work I actually had my OB prescribe me some anti-nausea medicines because it's just really hard to like function Especially since I have an almost two-year-old at home and I'm chasing her around and so I'd spend hard at work I actually Have not thrown up at work And I think that's just because when you're at work and you're distracted and you're in like not a comfortable environment You really like do everything you can to like not puke at work I really just like don't want to puke at work. So usually right when I get home is when I'm throwing up, but it's been hard I'm really hoping that after my first trimester I start to feel better. I did with my last pregnancy. So We'll see but I'm also still working in my coven ICU I decided to not like transition to either another ICU that's non-covid or Change jobs or anything like that. And I kind of want to give you guys my rationale So being in a coven ICU, I am wearing the full coven precautions with every patient interaction So whether you're positive coven or your rule out coven I'm wearing, you know, my respirator my goggles and masks and gown and gloves and everything And I'm just extra extra extra cautious with my interactions with these coven patients And I chose that over switching to another unit because I feel like it's better for me And this is just my personal thoughts and opinions. It's better for me to Stay in the coven unit and know what I'm being exposed to or like in wearing all the protective gear Then it is for me to work in another ICU be wearing, you know, just a surgical mask or goggles or whatever And then then say oh this patient that you've been taking care of the last three days We're gonna rule them out for coven and I'm like great now I've my exposure is higher because I wasn't wearing all this protective gear and Now I've been more exposed there than I would if I was just wearing all this protective gear in the ICU the coven ICU so that's kind of my thoughts I know that there's just still not a whole lot of information as far as Mom's getting coven and you know, baby's getting coven and we're still learning You know the effects of you get coven in your first trimester versus your third or or whatnot But as far as I know, I have not had coven my antibody test was negative a couple months ago But I haven't had any symptoms of anything Coven related and so my guess is I've probably not had it So I still have the potential to to get it, but I'm just Being yeah, as careful as I can. I'm not really taking any extra precautions other than just Being super diligent with taking my scrubs off, right? We know when I get home my shoes stay in the garage washing hands wiping my keys and steering wheel and all those things that I've talked about I've been doing and I still plan to do even now that I'm pregnant my work does know that I'm pregnant I told them right away once I found out and that way they just know like That I'm pregnant and they can try to aside me, you know patients that are Appropriate or whatnot, especially when you get further along You're like don't want these like really heavy heavy assignments necessarily And so they've been super awesome understanding if you guys want to see like more pregnancy nursing videos I've done a couple on this channel when I went through my first and second third trimester with my daughter So you can go check those out. I'll link them all like in the description box But other than that besides feeling just really crappy. I'm doing okay. The baby's healthy I'm healthy other than just exhausted and nauseous all the time And I hope if maybe you're pregnant and you're worried about, you know Working as a nurse that this kind of eases your mind a little bit in a sense that like there's there's a lot of us That are that are still working in COVID units might be actually said that most of his pregnant nurses have Decided to do the same thing and have chosen to continue working in COVID units because it's the evil You know versus the evil you don't know and I would rather just be protected And exposed to COVID patients than to be not as protected and exposed to COVID patients And that's just how I look at it So I will link all those pregnancy videos that I've done for my last pregnancy down below if you want to like watch more of like my pregnancy announcement Symptom updates all that I will link my other channels down below I have a vlog channel and then I have like a personal channel and You'll be able to see all my personal stuff on there You can also follow me on my personal Instagram, which I have linked down below as well So links and I will see you guys in my next video