 Hi guys and welcome back to my channel. I am going to be doing a second trimester pregnancy update because I have been keeping this channel primarily all about my nursing stuff but as many of you know I am pregnant and so I've been doing a couple updates here and there about my pregnancy in relation to how it's affected me as a nurse and I have more specific updates if you're wanting to see like belly shots and like my more specific symptoms and updates on my appointments you can go down below in the description box and I have a whole channel dedicated towards my pregnancy right now so if you want to see that go subscribe to that channel check out those videos but I wanted to do a second trimester update because I am 24 weeks by the time this video is up I don't even know I'll probably be 25 26 maybe 27 weeks but 28 weeks is when you're in your third trimester so I'm at the end of my second trimester I feel confident enough to make this video now confident enough that sounds silly but like I feel like I'm well into my second trimester and I have definitely noticed some big changes when it comes to work so I don't have any like restrictions at work I've talked about this before like yes there's restrictions like with certain patients but as far as like the physicalness of being a nurse there's no restrictions for me right now obviously I'm being very careful and cautious when I lift and boost patients and turn and all that squatting up standing up or squatting up squatting down standing up but my shifts have just progressively as I've gotten further along have gotten more tiring and I'm definitely noticing like a difference in my body by the end of shift like my back is more achy my feet are starting to swell so I got compression socks and I've been wearing them to my shifts I don't know if it's helping but whatever my feet aren't really swollen but it's enough to I'm like yeah you can tell that I've been on my feet all day I'm still able to do most things at work I haven't been sick anymore as far as like nauseous and throwing up things like that so I'm thankful for that really I've been feeling generally good I just can tell I'm getting bigger you know sometimes the baby's sitting on my sciatic nerve or in a position where it's bothering my sciatic nerve and so that'll bother me every once in a while by the end of my shifts the biggest thing I've noticed is my upper back is kind of bothering me which I'm just guessing it's probably from the weight in my belly is kind of pulling forward on my upper back and I'm still working out I'm stretching and yada yada but for whatever reason my upper back it feels like my spine is like compressed and that sounds weird but like almost like I just need someone to like pull me like take my arms and take my feet and like stretch me out and so I've been looking into maybe going to a chiropractor maybe going to get a massage I don't know basically just had my husband be my massage person when I get home from work but I can't complain too much honestly I really plan to work up until I can't anymore if that means until she's born awesome if that means I need to stop sooner because of whatever reason then so be it but I plan on working up until I can't I've started to look into my FMLA and my pregnancy leave and all that and I'm still trying to decide 100 what I want to do so I don't want to talk about it yet but I have been looking into kind of how long I want to take off of work I can take up to 12 weeks off and I'm not sure what I plan on doing just yet um and maybe I'll share on here when I do I don't know maybe my third trimester update I'll have that on there but like co-workers have been super supportive of me being pregnant they're very helpful they're always like do you need to get something to eat do you need something to drink I'm peeing a lot so obviously I have to have them kind of can you watch my patients really quick I gotta run the bathroom again so um other than that I've been drinking lots and lots of water during my shifts because my resting heart rate is like in the 90s and when I don't drink water my heart rate will be chilling at like 110 115 I want to say when I don't drink water when I don't drink enough water so I'm drinking over a gallon of water a day to just try and like one keep me hydrated keep baby hydrated but like just not like to prevent any complications from not drinking enough water during my shifts I've never really realized how much extra water you need while pregnant I know it's on silly but like eat like I never like if I didn't drink enough water I may feel like kind of sluggish right at the end of the day or have a headache or something like that but I never noticed such a dramatic change like in my vital signs like my heart rate is just like goes so high and I don't feel winded I don't feel like my heart's racing but it just it is high so I've been really cautious of that and making sure I can drink enough water throughout my shifts other than that I think that's all I have to update you guys on as far as work goes and how pregnancy is if you want like specific specific update details on my pregnancy then go to my pregnancy personal channel that you'll see down below other than that thanks for watching and I'll see you guys on my next video bye