 Hey everyone, it's Missy. Thank you for watching. Today's video is not a hair tutorial which I'm sure you saw from the title. I'm currently 31 weeks pregnant and I've been getting so many questions on my Instagram asking how my pregnancy is going so I thought I would go ahead and sit down and film a little Q&A. Hopefully this video is helpful to you whether it be about pregnancy in general or my pregnancy specifically. If you want to see more videos like this one or baby updates after the baby comes be sure to click the thumbs up or leave me a comment down below. Make sure to subscribe as always so you don't miss out on future videos and let's get started. So the first question is will you be doing a labor and delivery video or a getting ready for baby video? I honestly haven't quite decided yet. I do kind of want to film a labor and delivery vlog but I'm nervous about posting one because of the skepticism that those types of videos usually get. So I might film it and then decide after to post it. The next question is what's been different about this pregnancy to your first one? So I would say just about everything. With my first pregnancy I would forget that I was pregnant. I didn't really ever get sick unless I got super hungry. With this pregnancy I was sick my entire first trimester. I've been so tired that it's been really hard for me to get out of bed sometimes. We've just kind of taken it easy some days and like not even left the house. The second trimester was a lot easier than the first trimester. I basically went completely back to normal. Now that I'm in my third trimester I'm getting a little bit more tired like I did before not as bad but my body's a lot bigger than it was and so it's kind of hard to like climb stairs and I get winded really easily but other than that it hasn't been a very bad pregnancy. The first trimester was probably the worst. I had a really hard time eating certain foods. I only wanted really bland foods like Cheerios or Cream Awee. I ate that so many meals and I would cook dinner in the crackpot and plug it in out in the garage because I didn't like the smell of food cooking in the house. Oh I was also really cold my first trimester. So cold that I would just get in the bath and soak because I felt like that was the only way I could warm up. What are your must haves and is it totally different from your first baby's must have list? I had so many gadgets and baby things the first time around and I didn't use a lot of them so I haven't really splurged on anything too crazy yet. I do have a lot of the basics already like onesies, diapers, wipes. If you want me to film a more intensive newborn must haves like hit or miss list let me know in the comment section and I will film what my babies have liked because that could be a whole video all in itself. Another question is what's the weirdest pregnancy craving you've had? So I haven't really had super bad cravings. The only thing that I really crave is juice. So I like to eat fruit that's like really juicy like watermelon is so good and I have drank so much orange juice to sprain and see but popsicles are so good I've craved smoothies just anything that's like super fruity. How did you get through your first trimester? I'm currently going through my first pregnancy and curious so the first trimester can be rough one of the best things for me was I had a friend give me unisom and that really helped me sleep through the night because if you're nauseous and you wake up in the middle of the night and it's hard to fall asleep because you just feel so sick that can be so difficult especially in the morning when you wake up and usually if you take like I would do half a tablet at night and then it kind of would last through the next day and that would really help with nausea. I did take a lot of vitamin B but I kind of felt like that made it worse but for the most part just do whatever your body is telling you to do. Whatever foods sound good eat those foods. If you're tired and you're able to take a nap take a nap whenever I needed to sit down I would just sit down no matter where I was I would just say I'm so tired I need to sit down just kind of do whatever your body is telling you to do and I think that's a lot helpful. The next question is do you know the gender or is it going to be a surprise? I do know the gender I just haven't taken the time to come up with a cute announcement idea and post it on Instagram or anywhere else but I will go ahead and tell you the baby is a boy and I'll be honest I was kind of sad when I found out that it was a boy I was secretly hoping for a girl just so I'd have one boy and one girl but I am also very glad that it's a boy because I feel like my son kind of has a playmate now somebody who likes to do the same things that he does hopefully. Do you know what you're having? Do you have names picked out? So I have one name that I really really like and I'm kind of hoping to just be able to use that name. I've told it to my husband and I do have concerns about the name I don't know we'll see I go back and forth it's really the only name that I love so hopefully it works out I'll let you all know once the baby comes what the name is you seem really fit for a pregnant woman do you work out or your body is naturally fit so my first trimester I didn't really work out I was way too sick way too tired I could barely get out of bed some days my second trimester I went completely of extra normal so I started working out we were going on a trip to Mexico and I knew I was gonna be in a swimming suit so I really wanted to be in better shape so I started working out five days a week and I just did a little workout videos on YouTube I was doing cardio and lifting weights for the most part I did that for about two months and then we went on our trip and came back and it was the middle of summer and so I kind of took a break from working out just with all the holidays and all the family things I kind of stopped working out for a little while I recently started working out again and I do go on walks every night just to kind of keep my body hopefully limber for labor I really enjoy going on walks so I do that all the time what hairstyles do you recommend to hide the postpartum bald spots at the temple this is a really good question because I kind of worry about this I don't know how much of my hair I'm going to lose with my first son I lost all of this hair in my temples I was really bald right here and I think the best thing if you lose hair in that area is to just kind of use other hair that you have to hide it don't do any hairstyles that are going to attract a kitchen to that part of your head I have also used eye shadow that matches my natural hair color and kind of filled in sparse areas just so it looks a little bit more like it's not as bald as it is what is something that you thought would be difficult about pregnancy but turned out not to be a big deal so I don't know if there's really anything that I thought would be difficult I would definitely say for me being pregnant is easier than having the baby itself so I try to enjoy it take it as it comes and not rush through pregnancy question is what hairstyle do you plan on wearing for the big day labor and delivery I would love to wear my hair down curled and gorgeous but chances are it's probably just going to be up in a big messy one has your hair changed through pregnancy dry oily I haven't really noticed a difference with my hair it has grown a lot more quickly and I don't know that from my hair itself I know that from like my armpit hair because I shave all the time now it's like every other day I I it's just growing a lot more quickly and then my nails like I'll go and get my nails done a lot more often than normal so I know like my hair skin and nails or my skin doesn't grow what am I talking about my hair and nails are growing faster than normal my skin has been a lot more dry this pregnancy with my first son I had really oily skin and my makeup would slip and slide around with this one my first trimester at least products were like stinging my face my skin was so dry and it does make me curious if my son is going to have different skin my first son tans really easily so I wonder if my second son will have like really pale skin and like be freckley or something I don't know we'll see but it does kind of make me wonder another question is where do you get your maternity clothing from so I'm not one to spend a ton of money on maternity clothes clothing so I try to make the clothes I have work but I do buy a lot of basics I have bought two pairs of leggings from motherhood maternity those are the best they're like the full belly pull-up situation those are amazing I get a lot of t-shirts from gap an old navy I have gotten a few tank tops from Target and then a pair a few pairs of short pair of shorts some pants something from H&M they have a maternity line so just just a few basics mostly the next question is I remember you saying once that you were not going to have another baby now that you're pregnant have your feelings changed are you excited nervous mentally prepared so I am definitely more mentally prepared for this baby and the reason is because I waited and waited and waited until I was ready to have another baby I I did think for a long time that I wasn't going to have another baby just because I really enjoyed doing my videos in my blog and creating content but I also had a constant nagging that I was supposed to have another baby and so I just kind of put it off and put it off and put it off and after like a year of postponing it I finally said to my husband let's just have another baby I can't get this feeling to go away and then you know Cohen won't grow up an only child he'll have a sibling our family will feel more completed and hopefully this feeling will slip side instead of nagging at me to have more kids so I did take a long time to mentally prepare to have this baby and I'm glad that I did because Cohen is a lot older now he's more independent he can do a lot of things on his own and so I don't feel like I'm going to be having two babies at once I do worry about their age gap they're going to be almost five years apart but I'm hoping that as they get older they'll just become better friends with age they will have different interests for most of their younger life I'm excited I am nervous I have all the feelings the next question is how does your son feel about becoming a big brother so he's really funny because he's very concerned about the baby sucking on his toys the other thing is he really wants the baby to be a girl and I could not figure this out for the longest time but I think it's just because he's had a lot of girls in his life like he has two cousins that are his favorite people and they're both girls his friend in the neighborhood is a girl his Sunday school class is full of girls I think he's just been thrown together with girls more often than boys he does love to tell me he does love to tell me that when he was a girl he had a baby in his body too so it's been really fun it's been really fun to hear him say things like mom my baby is kicking in my body I can feel it can you feel my baby in my body just love him I just love him so much this is an interesting question kind of did you plan your pregnancy if yes then how long did it take you so we did plan the pregnancy it didn't take long at all I am capable of getting pregnant really easily so once we decided to have kids it literally was like one or two times and then boom I was pregnant so I'm just one of those people that I don't struggle to get pregnant in relation to go into hospital is there anything you do slash take differently this time I need to start packing my hospital bag but I don't want to overpack so one little thing about this and I am a little nervous to share this honestly just because of the feedback that this usually has but I actually had my first son at home it was a planned home birth I had a midwife and she had an assistant that helped me label labor and deliver my first son I had planned it that way I had always planned it that way so with this baby I do plan on having a second home birth we are only eight minutes from the hospital so we are within a drivable distance to rush to the hospital if anything goes wrong but so far my pregnancy has been completely normal nothing has come up that should cause alarm or issue but as far as packing a hospital bag goes I don't really need to since all of the stuff I need is already at home another question is how many children do you want the pregnancy suits you so well thank you so much I I don't know because I really thought I only wanted one now I kind of feel like I only want two but sometimes I get a feeling that there's a third baby out there so we'll see if I can talk myself into a third baby we'll see how difficult the second baby is if this one's a breeze maybe I'll be like yeah let's have another one I don't know a lot goes into raising kids and you have to upgrade a lot when you go into baby number three so we'll see and kind of take it as it comes so that is the last question I want to thank everybody who sent in a question I had a ton of fun answering then hopefully this video was helpful and informative if you want to see more videos like this one in the future whether they be pregnancy updates or baby updates after the baby comes make sure to click the thumbs up or leave me a comment down below as always be sure to subscribe so you don't miss out on your future videos thank you so very much for watching and I will see you next time