21 Week Pregnancy Update! Backaches&Pain

Hey guys, it's Rachel and today I am 21 weeks and 3 days pregnant. He is the size of a bok choy. My baby is growing and I'm feeling his kick stronger than ever. I'm feeling him move like crazy. I actually caught him moving a little bit on film which is cool and I would show you guys but I'm not certain if I am yet just because I don't like the way my belly looks in the shot. I'm like, I don't really like it. So I don't know. I may show you guys. I may try to get another shot that's a little more pleasant but this week has been very uncomfortable for me and so I'm not as cheerful as I usually am because I'm just going through it but I'm going to go ahead and just let you all know what's been going on with me and the baby because it's been a lot. So last week I mentioned that I saw a nutritionist. I told you guys that I had an eye, you know, like a wake up call because I was eating out a lot and all that stuff so I was eating home more, I was doing vegetables, I was incorporating my dairy in my food and all this stuff and I was feeling really good about it. One particular day I ate, you know, I woke up and decided to eat oatmeal and I'm not a breakfast person. I don't really go for oatmeal cereal and all that stuff but I decided, you know, I'm trying to be better so I ate oatmeal. Super sick within five minutes of eating it and I ended up throwing up everything and for the rest of the day I felt sick and remember I told you guys in the last video that after every meal I was starting to feel queasy and I couldn't tell if it was because I was just generally pregnant or if it was because of my change of diet. So I don't know, I was feeling queasy a lot and I was just trying to get through it and then I came, I went to my college apartment. My mom made me a whole bunch of food to take with me that way I don't have to eat out anymore or as often so she made me like all this food and stuff to bring back and I ate her cabbage and her, what was it, her corned beef and within five minutes I threw up and I was just so worried because I'm like why am I throwing up this late? I don't know, I guess it just took me by surprise because, you know, I stopped vomiting a long time ago. I don't even remember the last time aside from last week so it was just crazy that I was like starting to throw up again which kind of freaked me out but at the same time I was really happy because it confirmed that I was pregnant because you guys know I get paranoid about that so at one point I was a little like oh my god why am I throwing up but at the same point I'm like okay I guess the baby just didn't like it which is good because it's letting me know that he's in there, he's letting me know what he likes so that was pretty much that but since then I've ate out twice, I've had two cravings and it was for KFC so I went to KFC yesterday and then I went to KFC today and boy oh boy let me tell you it was so delicious, it was so delicious and satisfying you guys, I did not get heartburn or anything, I had a two piece chicken, one leg was crispy, the other one was original and a side of corn, you guys I'm sorry, I'm sorry to give you details but it was just so freaking amazing but now that I'm at my grandparents, my grandma she's very like pushy about vegetables and all that stuff so that's really good because I've been doing well and I've been eating a lot of beans and stuff trying to get that protein in and drinking a lot of water so you know I've been doing really well, I'm eating candy, I was eating candy but that was my little treat but other than that, this week has been super uncomfortable for me, I'm in a lot of pain and so it started I want to say the day before yesterday it started, I was in bed, I started having really bad thigh pain, now this is nothing unusual for me, sometimes I don't really sleep good, it just depends on the night, sometimes I'll have leg pains, thigh pains, you know all that stuff and I'll wake up and all that so I wasn't really surprised but it did shock me that it continued throughout the rest of the day, I was just kind of like what the hell so I was walking around campus and my leg was hurting, my back was hurting, everything was just sore, I was in pain, I was just aching and I had to constantly take breaks and rest a lot so you know then yesterday it continued and then today it continued so now I would say the most uncomfortable thing is my back, my back non-stop hurts and I was looking into ways to easing it and the best one that I think for me would be the belly bend so I'm going to look into getting it, I'm going to actually talk to my doctor about it first before I go out and you know try to purchase it because I heard insurance can cover it or something so I'm going to see about that but yeah it's been bad and then my sleep last night I did not get any so yeah I haven't had a restless night in a long time, there are nights where I wake up a lot which is you know I'm just used to it at this point but last night it was bad like I didn't sleep at all pretty much so I am really really tired but it is hard for me to take naps right now because I'm so uncomfortable, my back pain and then my leg pain, everything just hurts and I'm always aching so I did put a pillow in between my legs because I heard that can compensate for a pregnancy pillow which I didn't end up buying because I didn't want to spend the money to be quite honest with you, I wanted to save and I was kind of like oh I don't really need it, it's not a necessity but now it's a necessity so tomorrow my grandma and I are actually going to go look into getting one because I need sleep, oh my gosh you guys I'm feeling it so yeah I usually have the pillow in between my legs and it does help a little bit but my back still really hurts and stuff, I heard it's normal though from what my pregnancy app said, this is the week where the baby is really growing and your hands and your ankles may swell and stuff like that which I haven't noticed any swelling but I've just noticed a lot of back pain, hip pain, leg pain, everything just hurts and aches and so yeah and right now I'm actually really exhausted and that's another thing I think I mentioned it last video but if I didn't I'm going to bring it up again, I've been taking naps, I haven't taken it today because I've been having a lot of pain, I did take one last night or yesterday for 5-10 minutes I think my nap was like within 5-10 minutes I had a quick nap, I couldn't sleep any longer because I do get uncomfortable like last night I was so uncomfortable so if you guys have any suggestions on what to do to ease the leg, hip and you know side and back pain please let me know because yeah my hair has gotten a lot thicker at the roots, I actually wanted to get a perm because I was reading up that in the second trimester you could get one but I've just been too lazy to actually have someone do it which my mom usually does or go to the salon but I just haven't been like, I don't care about how I look anymore, I just don't I think now that I'm in so much pain like the aches and stuff like I don't really care it's just like whatever so I did like flat iron it and stuff like that and it did get a lot longer and it's really thick now, well it was always thick but now it's like way thicker so I think it's the prenatal vitamins so hopefully once the baby comes my hair doesn't shed cause I heard that does happen like my mom had some shedding I think so I don't know it may just all come out so I'm enjoying it now and my line, my belly line has gotten a lot darker and I think my belly popped I'm not sure you guys have to let me know cause I can't tell the difference but I'm pretty sure my belly popped and that's probably why I'm feeling that back pain so much now because you know all that weight is going up on me. Tomorrow I'm going to actually check my weight so in the description I'll insert how much I weigh now when I went to Publix and checked my weight last time I was 138 so I should be a lot more now cause I've been eating good and oh well then again I did throw up so I don't know and this video probably will go up, yeah I'm going to try to make it happen for tonight but it may go up tomorrow when I'm 21 weeks and 4 days because I left my charger back at school and so I am trying to do the best that I can with getting my computer charged and then last thing this week is I have cold sores I don't know I shouldn't even show you but I don't know I have it there and I went out and I purchased what is it Aveeno something it's supposed to be the most popular one Abreva yeah I bought that it was like 15 bucks but whatever it's worth it it's burning and killing me now so I don't know if that's part of pregnancy I talked to the pharmacist he was like yeah you know if you just got over that cold and fever but that was a while back so I don't know what's going on why I'm getting it now but yeah after this video I'm going to apply it and hopefully it leaves soon because yeah so I'm going to go ahead and show you my 21 week belly like I said I think I got a lot bigger but let me know so this is with my shirt on here's what I'm looking like and then with the shirt off so yep that's what I'm looking like and then if I go up close you can see the lingua line that I was telling you guys about I'm not really too crazy about it because it's kind of crooked like if you can see the top is a little off from the bottom so I don't know why mine looks like that and then my belly button is pretty darn popped out now so that is my belly right now alright guys so that was my belly let me know if you can tell that I got a lot bigger or if you noticed that I popped or anything like that because I feel like I'm super huge but everyone else is like no it just looks like you ate one too many burritos so I just really don't know maybe it's me and the way that I'm looking down and stuff I could really notice myself getting bigger but I love it I love my belly I love the weight that I'm putting on I just absolutely love being pregnant I can't even lie some of the symptoms sucks like vomiting but it is reassuring I'm not gonna lie that you're pregnant so I really like that part but you know being sick is never fun but I do really love being pregnant anyways before I head off I did want to mention to you guys one symptom that I forgot to talk about and that is nipple leakage when I was 19 weeks I started to experience a little bit of nipple discharge and I noticed that my nipples were crusty and stuff and it continued after that but this week they really leaked I was studying one night and I had my night shirt on I didn't have anything on like I had no bra and then next thing you know I'm like why is my shirt wet look down and my nipples were really really leaking so I am gonna look into getting some nipple pads but I just find it so exciting that my nipples are like legit leaking because nobody in my family or none of my friends that I've expected ever you know experienced nipple leakage until like the baby was you know born so I just feel like you know I'm leaking colostrum extra early I don't know I just find that really cool and then also my boobs went up which of course I already noticed because they're bigger and my bras don't fit so I went to Victoria's Secret with my mom to get them measured and pre-pregnancy I was like a 30 I'm gonna say like a 36B or something I don't remember but I know I was getting B and low C's bras and then now I'm a 32D so that's really really exciting but anyways that is everything that occurred with me in the 21 week of pregnancy thanks so much for watching and until next time I'll talk to you all later bye guys!