The Bossticks - Lauryn's Solo Pregnancy Q&A: Her Pre Baby Wellness Routines, Staying In Shape, Diet Tips & More!

Episode Date: February 17, 2025

#809: Join Lauryn Bosstick as she sits down to discuss your burning questions about her recently announced pregnancy! As Michael & Lauryn prepare to welcome another child, Lauryn gets real about how she is best preparing for birth. In this episode, Lauryn shares her intentional approach to postpartum preparation, discusses her first trimester cravings, shares her fitness regimen & self-care practices, & emphasizes the power of positive affirmations!   To Watch the Show click HERE   For Detailed Show Notes visit TSCPODCAST.COM   To connect with Lauryn Bosstick click HERE   To connect with Michael Bosstick click HERE   Read More on The Skinny Confidential HERE   To Call the Him & Her Hotline call: 1-833-SKINNYS (754-6697)   This episode is brought to you by The Skinny Confidential   Head to the HIM & HER Show ShopMy page HERE and LTK page HERE to find all of Michael and Lauryn's favorite products mentioned on their latest episodes.   This episode is sponsored by ARMRA   Go to tryarmra.com/SKINNY or enter SKINNY to get 15% off your first order.   This episode is sponsored by Just Thrive    Visit JustThriveHealth.com and use code SKINNY90 for 20% off your first 90 day bottle.   This episode is sponsored by Chomps   Get 15% off your order of Chomps meat sticks at Chomps.com/SKINNY with code SKINNY.   This episode is sponsored by Jolie   Jolie will give you your best skin & hair guaranteed. Head to jolieskinco.com/SKINNY to try it out for yourself with FREE shipping.   This episode is sponsored by Agent Nateur   Head to AgentNateur.com and use code SKINNY for 20% off sitewide.   This episode is sponsored by Cymbiotika    Go to Cymbiotika.com/TSC for 20% off + free shipping.   Produced by Dear Media

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A very smart cookie. And now Lauren Everts and Michael Bostic are bringing you alone for the ride. Get ready for some major realness. Welcome to the skinny confidential, him and her. The subject of pregnancy is a hot topic. So in this episode, I basically took all your questions, warning that some of my opinions are controversial. Check with your doctor. Do your own research. I'm just sharing my own experience. Take what you like. Leave what you don't. With that, let's go right into it. All right, I heard you guys,

I'm listening. You guys want to talk about pregnancy. You're very interested in the subject. I'm actually surprised how interested people are. They had a lot of questions. I don't think I've ever gotten so many questions. I did like a little question box. I did like a little question box. on Instagram story. And there was an overload of questions. And I think I'm surprised because it's my third pregnancy. But here we are. I have done a lot of content around my first two pregnancies. And I thought it would be fun to just do like an update of what I'm doing during this one. Because they all are kind of different. So in this episode, I basically took all your questions and I'm going to answer them. And I'm just going to

give a little warning that some of my opinions are controversial. Check with your doctor, do your own research. I'm just sharing my own experience. Take what you like, leave what you don't. With that, let's go right into it. How are you mentally preparing for birth? I love this question. I am preparing very thoughtfully. I had no fucking idea what I was doing. doing with my first pregnancy, meaning like I went into it just not really knowing much about pregnancy at all. I'm sure a lot of women are like that. And this one I feel, obviously, this will be my third time. And I am being very purposeful with how I sort of visualize the birth. So what I'm doing is every single morning. I meditate for 30 minutes. I wake up before my kids. My kids usually

wake up at like 7.30, which is awesome. I wake up at 7.30. I wake up at 7. I go in the other room. I have a red light like panel that I put over my face. I put my legs up on the wall and I do a 30 minute meditation. It's usually Joe dispensas 24 minute and then I'll do like Melissa Wood five minutes of breath work. And that to me has been a really good strategy session with myself to think about the birth and the baby and even how I want postpartum to go. I want to have a lot of intention around the postpartum strategy. I want to feel a little bit more in alignment with again, my first baby. I didn't really think about these things because I didn't really know. It was like ignorance is bliss. And then with my second baby, I obviously had more tools. But with this one,

I feel like I really just want to grasp and have a little bit more structure around everything. so I'm meditating and I'm thinking really, I don't know, helpful affirmations about birth. So I think like I'm having a calm, peaceful zen birth. Things will go smoothly. I'll have a healthy baby. I just think a lot of positive thoughts that are rooted in gratitude when I'm meditating about the baby. And that's helped me prepare. I think a lot of people will read a bunch of books or go on Pinterest or even hire a doula, which I did for my first baby. But what I've realized is where I feel most in alignment is when I kind of do the internal work. That is what makes me feel like the best version of myself instead of getting all of these different outside opinions. I listen to my intuition. And with this one,

I don't want to consume tons of content. I don't want to do. I kind of want to just like listen and listen to my intuition, like I said. And we'll get into what that looks like later in this Q&A because I talk about intuition when it comes to even getting a doctor. Other things that I am doing to prepare for birth are I'm working out every single day. I am working out every single day because what I've realized is working out is just as hard as not working out. When I don't work out, I don't feel good. My mind doesn't feel good. My body doesn't feel good. So to me, it's a really easy choice to work out every day. When I move my body, I just feel better. It's really as simple as that. And I think lifting weights and walking and moving and playing tennis and

being active to me makes for an easier birth. So that's another way that I'm mentally preparing. I'm also walking as much as possible. So I walk during conference calls. I walk with my kids. I walk with my kids in the morning. I walk with Michael at night to wind down. I walk, walk, walk wherever I can. And I think just moving your body in any way you can when you do feel fatigued or you feel like shit, when you're pregnant, helps. That's been my experience. And then I'm doing a lot of supplements. I'm eating a lot of meat. I'm eating a lot of organs, which we'll get into. And I just I'm trying to pay attention to my health, my nutrition, but also I'm doing 80-20, okay? So I'm also eating like sour candies and a lot of sourdough toast.

So I think there's that balance. So those are kind of the five things I'm doing to mentally and physically prepare for birth. That's my list. The next question is, congrats, was this a surprise? This was planned. We wanted to try for number three. It was really important to us. I think Michael and I really have tried to put our family as our number one priority and building a family to me is really, really important in the overall picture.

I think a lot of people will look at me and they think, oh, like, she's dominant. She has masculine energy and they see me in that area in my work. And I am dominant. And I am sort of an alpha. and I am very particular when it comes to the way I work. However, this, and this may surprise people, and I talked about this on Gracie Norton's podcast. I'm really feminine in my home.

And I think the reason that no one sees that is because I'm not posting every second of my day at home. My home is really a sanctuary. It's a place where I'm not constantly creating content. I'm not on my phone a lot. I like to pick herbs in the garden. I like to make pizzas with my kids. We're baking a lot. I take care of my home in a way that is very particular. I like the fire lit and candles going and music. And for every holiday I like to decorate. I'm very traditional that way. I try to have dinner on the table, not saying I make it all the time, but I try to have. have like a family dinner every single night. We have a pretty strict routine when it comes to our kids. It's obviously like not perfect and you have to be flexible in the moment, but they kind of know what's coming. And I think that that feminine side of me doesn't get to be shown as much.

And I'm thinking of like how I can bring it on the show more. So when it comes to, you know, did we plan this? Yes, we did because we talk a lot about our family unit. And I think There's this thing on social media right now where people think that they can't simultaneously have a really incredible career and be an entrepreneur and also be a mother. And I do think it's possible. And it is a challenge. And there's lots of micro challenges that come with it. But I think that for me, it's important that I'm able to do both.

And I feel a big strong pull towards my masculine energy, which is like more, work, but I also feel the pull towards my feminine energy. And I think that that's like, fine. They can both exist. So this was planned. We wanted to have number three. And we're so excited about it. Cravings. What cravings do I have? I talked about this in the People magazine article. I have been craving patte. Okay. Don't ask me why. I love organ meat. Like I eat organ meat sticks. I like liver if it's cooked right. But all of a sudden with pregnancy, I had this, like, crazy craving for patte. And what's weird is I can't even, like, remember the last time I had paté. I just wanted it. And here, this is really going to gross a bunch of people out. I like a sourdough cracker

dipped in duck liver patte with hummus from the farmer's market. Shout out to Dad's Hummus. That's the brand I like. With a tangerine slice on top and a squeeze of lemon. Do not hate that mixture until you try it. It is so good. There's something about the citrus and the really like saltiness, the richness of the patte with the cracker, the crunch that is so good. I've been eating that like every second. And then what I'll do is I'll take a non-alcoholic spirit like an essence, like a seed lip, or there's this other one called like Gaglia, G-H-I-A. Peter Atia gave it to me. Him and his wife love it.

It's so good. And I'll put that in a wine glass with sparkling water. There's a sparkling water called like Hilden. It's on Amazon. It's so good. It has little bubbles in it. You put that over ice in a wine glass. And I am in heaven with my patte, hummus, sourdough cracker, tangerine, lemon.

It's kind of a plowman's lunch. So that's something I've been craving. I have also had a lot of sour candy. I love Bon Bon. Bon. Their sour candy pack. Oh my God, it is so good. You guys have to try it if you haven't. It's the best sour candy. It's very, like, luxurious, even the way it's packaged. And then I am really loving like blueberry lemon Greek yogurt. I love peach Greek yogurt. Again, I get these both at my local farmer's market. And then as far as like a random craving. Pops bagel. There's a Pops L.A. It's like a bagel shop in L.A. They have a chocolate chip bagel and I get the whipped cream cheese on it, lightly toasted. It's heaven. I blame my friend Hillary for this one. Those are my cravings. And I will say in the first trimester, I had so much adversion, like, things grossed me out. I was like grossed out by things that I would eat all the time. So that was interesting. I had never had that with Zaza in towns. I just got really particular

at what I was eating and that's kind of gone away. I wasn't nauseous a lot, which was nice, but I just had this weirded version, like where I didn't want a lot of foods that I was typically eating. So those are my cravings. And then a lot of you have asked what's in my mouth on podcast. And sometimes I'm sucking, wait for it, on a throat coat lemon ginger drop, which soothes my throat or a yum earth peach lollipop. that's pretty specific. Okay. Let me tell you something. I already know what I like. I'm very decisive when it comes to decisions and I know what I like when it comes to food and drinks. Very, very, very particular. Okay. Next question is, are you taking the beauty water during this pregnancy? I am using every single

product that is on the skinny confidential in this pregnancy. Obviously check with your doctor, but what I like about beauty water is it's literally one of the most simple products that there is on the market, which is why I created it. I was so sick of all these electrolytes with monk fruit and stevia, which is a hormone disruptor, and natural flavors. And I wanted to create something that was literally so simple. I also don't want all of that added artificial sweetener in the morning. And I drink electrolytes first thing in the morning because I like them before coffee. I like to have. hydrate before I dehydrate. So beauty water is electrolytes and they're the best Celtic sea salt. I handpicked them. Colostrum, best colostrum on the market. Again, handpicked and pearl powder.

And the pearls we source are absolutely incredible. Okay, everything is creme della cram. And that's it. It's simple. I do a scoop in my water. I froth it. You got to get a frother, froth it up. And then I squeeze a giant like half a grapefruit in my water or a lemon. And I drink. that down and I have that before I have coffee. We've had so many experts, doctors, authorities come on this podcast and say you have to have electrolytes like first thing in the morning before you have coffee. I would highly recommend incorporating electrolytes, especially because I think a lot of people don't even know they need electrolytes. If you're getting headaches throughout the day or you feel tired or fatigued, electrolytes is usually like my sort of cure.

So try beauty water in the morning. I'm taking it pregnant. Check with your doctor. Check with your doctor. Check with your doctor. Check with your doctor. Check with your doctor. Quick break to talk about Armora Colossum. Lauren and I have been taking Armour Colossum for years now, ever since we had the founder of Armour on this podcast to talk all about the amazing benefits of their Colossum. Colossum evolved 300 million years ago and is the first milk all mammals produce. It's the first nutrition we receive in life and contains all of the nutrients your body needs in order to thrive. Over five, research publications document the health properties. It confers across all stages of life. Like I said, Lauren and I have been taking this for years. We give it to our children. We give it to our dogs even. And it comes in this simple powder form that you can add to water or you can actually just dump and scoop in your mouth. It comes in travel packets or you can buy the big tub. We have both. We take it when we travel. We take it when we're at home. And we've noticed so many incredible benefits. Some of these benefits almost sound too good to be true. Whether it's strengthening your immunity, fortifying your gut health, igniting your metabolism, revitalizing

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I am a creature of habit. I like my routines. I like specific supplements in my routines. And I take the same probiotic that I have taken every single day for the last four years. And that is by just thrive. Their probiotic is my. favorite because 99% of probiotics on the market die in your stomach before they even reach your gut. And just thrive reaches your gut. If I'm going to spend my time and energy taking something every day, I want it to work. So that's why I like this specific probiotic. It's the only probiotic clinically proven to arrive to your gut 100% alive.

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I give it to my kids. I'll chop it up into little pieces. Choms doesn't take the easy way out too when it comes to sourcing quality ingredients. They have 100% grass-fossed. that and finished beef and venison, which when I'm consuming meat, which I do every day, I always look for. They also have an antibiotic-free turkey because you really can taste and feel the difference. If you're looking for a good source of protein, 10 or more grams, then you've got to check them out. Get 15% off your order of chomps meat sticks at chomps.com slash skinny with code

skinny. Again, that's code skinny for 15% off your order at chomps.com slash skinny. How long did it take you to conceive? This question, is the question that I have gotten asked the most. I want to be gentle with this answer because this is again just my experience. It took me my first try to conceive. And that was the experience I had also was Zaza and Towns. And this question was one that I have been asked so many times that I thought I would give my opinion on this. I obviously know that there is people, a lot of people, that have trouble conceiving. And so this is like, I don't know, a sensitive question to answer. Obviously, there's people who have health issues or maybe they have something going on with endometriosis or

there's hurdles in the way of them getting pregnant. That has not been my experience. And I'm just going to tell you what I did to conceive the first time. Take it or leave it. Because again, this is a controversial answer. When I decided I was ready to have a baby and Michael and I were like, okay, like let's do this for three times. I seriously meditated and thought about it in a way where I said, this is weird, but like my womb is healthy. I'm ready to have a baby. I'm open to having a baby. And I told myself that over and over and over and over again. And I got my mindset really, really strong. And I'll tell you a story. And I said this on Instagram story. A girl came up to me and she said, Lauren, I have been trying every day to get pregnant for eight years and I can't get pregnant.

I just, I've tried everything. I cannot get pregnant. And I said to her, that's an affirmation. And that is an affirmation. I can tell everyone who's listening if I told myself, oh my God, I can't get pregnant. I don't think I can get pregnant. What if I don't get pregnant? What if I don't get pregnant. I don't think that I would have gotten pregnant on the first try. I really don't. I think that that's a blockage in your mind and body connection. Again, this is woo-woo, okay? But this is the way that I talk to myself when it comes to anything, when it comes to business, when it comes to relationships. If you're not going to talk to yourself in the highest regard, who is? And so if I were to try to get pregnant again, I would literally tap into my mind and I would give myself the most calming,

healthy, positive affirmations. And I really told myself, I can get pregnant. My womb is healthy. I'm getting pregnant. I can't wait to be pregnant. This is happening for me. And to me, that is really, really powerful. So I guess my tip for anyone who feels like they can't get pregnant is to really listen to your inner thoughts and to listen to how you're speaking to yourself. And a really great book to read is You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay. I read it three times a year. She is absolutely incredible when it comes to this concept. Your inner narrative is a reflection of who you are and what you become. And I believe that in every single aspect of my life, including getting pregnant. I know people have health concerns. I know there's a lot of different situations.

I'm just speaking to my own experience. But I'm telling you, you guys, if you were all my best friends, I would say, go get, you can heal your life on Audible and go by the book and study it. It's literally changed my entire existence and my mindset. I had a, um, a girl who works on our team come to me with a really big problem the other day. And I convinced her after like 10 minutes, I'm like, please just go listen to this on tape. Louise Hay has just changed my entire vibe with my thoughts. I'm very serious about the way I think. I don't let negative thoughts in the door. Any foods you are staying away from, do you still drink raw milk? Yes, I drink raw milk every single day. I drink it in my coffee. I also get my kids and I a raw chocolate milk

at the farmer's market. I've been drinking raw milk for three years. I absolutely love it. Do your own research, but the enzymes, the vitamins, the benefits to me are incredible. I've had the best experience with it. I love it. I crave it. And I still drink it every day. I drink unpasteurized juice daily. That's a hot take, I guess. I have had. I have had. I've had a cup of coffee every single morning with all three of my pregnancies. I like my cup of coffee in the morning. I also eat sushi. Guess you're not supposed to do that.

I've had a lot of conversations with a lot of different people. And intuitively, it feels fine for me to eat sushi. I went out the other night. I had all different kinds of rolls. I felt fine. And I've done that all three pregnancies, too. I also have oysters. I love oysters. My body's craving zinc. And that's something that I'm not going to give up. And I've had again three pregnancies where I've eaten oysters. I also sometimes have wine. I've checked with my doctor. I, you know, will maybe have a glass a month. It's like not a huge glass. It's not a goblet. It's just like a couple sips. I've also had a couple sips of champagne. I'm not, you know, drinking five days a week, but I've definitely on Christmas had a couple

tips of champagne. My doctor okayed it. That's where I'm at with that. I am not telling anyone to do as I do. Don't do what I do. Go do what you do. Okay. Post-workout routine. It has not changed. I'm doing the same workouts that I did. Not pregnant. Pregnant. So I like, like to lift four to five days a week. I go to Bodies by Brent or Sandy Brockman Fitness in Austin. And if I'm in San Diego, I work out with Wyatt at Santee Gym. I'll do P-Volve when I'm traveling. I love this trainer, Danny Coleman. She's amazing. She's in L.A. I also will find a trainer when I'm in New York. I'll use like an app. I also use a lot of apps for fitness. So Melissa Wood Health app is amazing for meditation and working out. I love Pilates by

Briani. She's been on the show. She's incredible if you haven't listened to that episode. I think that's a great app to use on the go. Evlo Fitness is a really good one if you want to lift weights. And then I do classical Pilates like two to three times a week. I think that what classical Pilates has done for me is it's really helped me to stay aligned and keep my posture intact. And it stretches out my hips, which is really important. And it's very significant. And it's very synergistic to weightlifting. So I feel like lifting weights with the classical Pilates is like the yin and the ying. I walk every day. I play a lot of tennis. I move my body. A lot of people were like, well, what if you don't feel good? I just really, like I said in the beginning of this episode,

make a decision. I feel worse, not doing anything. So I just make the choice. It's a really easy choice. Again, everyone has different pregnancies. Everyone has different situations. My best friend was so sick and nauseous her entire pregnancy to the point where she had to go to the hospital and get on an IV. Like, she felt so horrible. So if I was in that situation, I probably wouldn't be working out this much, but I feel good. Mouth taping during pregnancy. Yes, I never would miss one night of mouth taping. Like, no way. Mouth taping has changed my life. I wake up with so much more energy. Last night, I slept for 10 hours. Like, I just have the best sleep. Even my aura ring says my sleep is so much more amazing when I'm mouth taping. It's changed my jawline. It's changed the way I breathe.

I crave it. Like, it's weird. People are like, well, what if you get claustrophobic? The thing is, when you start to get used to it, your nervous system relaxes into it. And you start to go into this state where you're almost meditating, but you're awake, but you're so relaxed because it's only nasal breathing. I am such a fan of mouth taping out of every product. The Skinny Confidential makes. This one is the one I'm most passionate about because it's really changed my life. And I gift it to everybody, I want everyone to know about it. The skinny confidential mouth tape to me is the best because we made it the strongest on the market. It has a little slit in it so you can drink water at night, but I don't use the slit. I put the slit on my upper lip. I don't wake up and drink water.

Usually if I do, I would just take it off and then put it back on. I personally love it and I've done it my whole pregnancy. So again, call all your doctor. but mouth tape there's nothing like it how are you feeling i feel good and i've said this before the show is over at 730 p.m michael tries to talk to me i tell him the show's over curtains closed i'm done i'm rigumortis i need to go to bed i want my legs propped up i want a book i want my i want my back propped up a little bit get that lymphatic flow my red light i want my five to eight frequencies i want my neck pillow with lavender in it that's warmed up by my warmer on my neck. And that's that. Like, it's done. I can go kind of like the Energizer Bunny until 7.30. It's over. Any TTC tips trying to

conceive is TTC. Go back to the mindset. What I said earlier, the mindset's so important. Also eat foods that support fertility. So I love beef and chicken liver. These are organs that are no to support fertility, okay? And go do your own research on foods that support fertility. I like lentils, eggs, Greek yogurt, meat. These are all foods that are incredible for fertility. And my thing is like, if you say you want to get pregnant in three months, start eating like that now. And I think that that was also my mindset getting pregnant. It was like we did, we got pregnant on my first try, but I knew I wanted to like get pregnant at a certain month. And so I started really lean. And so I started really lean. into those foods months and months before I decided I was ready. So focus on those foods. If you need a

supplement that is an organ, I will leave the link. I think it's heartenshoil.com. And there's like a fertility supplement with organs in it. And I think you can use Code Skinny. I have to look into it. I have to check with them. But that's an amazing supplement. You take six a day and you don't have to eat the organs because I know people like get queasy about that. There's also acupuncture for fertility. I go to the road, Brooke. I did not try this specific way of acupuncture, but she does it for fertility. I like to do her acupuncture for calming my nervous system. And I like to go for acupuncture Botox. It's like they put needles in your face. So it's called cosmetic acupuncture. And it's like a natural and safe alternative to Botox. And I've been doing that. The entire pregnancy, Brooke at the road's amazing.

But I know she also does acupuncture to support fertility. So look into that. And I think talk with your partner, talk with a doctor, have an open dialogue with your friends, and read, you can heal your life by Louise Hay. All right. Everyone needs to look at their water when it comes to their skin and hair. And Joe Lee really has you covered. It's a beauty wellness company that purifies the water that we shower in for better skin and hair. They have this filtered showerhead that removes chlorine and heavy metals.

So if you've really tried everything and you still maybe are getting pimples or you have dry skin, I would definitely look at your water system. Chlorine's added to the water system to disinfect and kill bacteria, but the chlorine is so damaging on the hair and skin. and a lot of people have issues with this and they don't even realize where it's coming from. I know in Austin this is so important to check your water systems because a lot of them contain a lot of chlorine. Jolie still gives you like a strong water pressure. It fits in all showers so it's really easy to install.

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that are lavender neck pillows and you get these pillows so warm. They're lightly weighted that by the time you're upstairs in your bed with your neck pillow on, you just know it's time to wind down. I cannot explain it. My kids call it a warmie. They love a warmie. We do this every night. It's a way to just calm down. Cannot live without that. And then lots and lots of books. I've been reading a lot of books. Everything from crazy rich Asian to Brooke Shields book. I think it's called Brooke Shields Cannot Age. I just finished an autobiography on Betty Davis. I'm starting one that I found at a thrift store. It's by Joan Crawford. It's called A Way of Life. My friend Mark recommended it. And then there's this book I just finished called Ask Not. That's really good. I'm reading a lot.

I love reading when I'm pregnant because it's kind of like downtime in a way. I'm more chill. Again, I'm in my feminine era when I'm at home and that includes a lot of reading. A lot of people have asked me how I have time to read. You can make time for what you want to make time for. And also, if you're finding yourself scrolling, I would start timing yourself. I guarantee it's 30 minutes to three hours. Take that time and read. How I read is I bookend my day. If I wake up early, I read and then always before I go to bed, I read. So I've just kind of implemented this, this habit into my day and I don't go a day without reading. It makes me happy. It's, it's truly one of my favorite hobbies. So I think making it fun is important and get a Kindle too.

It's great on dark mode. How do you deal with all the blood taking for checking in on the baby? My doctor's cool. She's really cool. I like her a lot. She is very collaborative. She doesn't dictate. She listens to me. And I am someone that does not like a broad checklist. Just because everyone got this done and this done and this done doesn't mean I want to do that. I don't want to get any vaccines when I'm pregnant. I don't want to do that. And I feel like I am intuitive. I feel like you are intuitive. I feel like anyone who's listening is intuitive. there has to be mind-body connection when you're pregnant. And I don't want to be told a list of everything I have to do just because it's hospital

protocol. In saying that, I am giving birth in a hospital. So I think to me, finding the right doctor was just really important. And I found someone who is, I don't know, kind of on the same frequency as me. She's worked with me. I've only done one blood test. And really, that's all I plan to do, hopefully. I don't want to do more than that.

But again, I think like this is different for everyone. I'm not trying to do an ultrasound every single week. I don't want to do that. I want to have that mind-body connection. It's really important to me. Anyway, everyone is unique. And I just feel like with the hospital situation, sometimes it's a little plug-in-play. So you've got to be your own advocate.

You've got to ask questions. Come with a list of questions. why do I have to get that test? And just do what feels right for you. Everyone's different. We're not all the same. So you got to be your own research or your own guru. How are you dealing with fatigue?

I go to a hole in a wall foot spa. I go two times a week, sometimes three. I love it. I get so much work done. It's quiet. And I just chill out. Get your feet rubbed. It's absolutely amazing. I also do a Vici shower scrub at Pelacure in L.A. It's incredible for your nervous system. I love it. They scrub head to toe. It feels so good. I'm big on dry brushing. I use the skinny, confidential dry brush. You can take this in the shower with you and give yourself your own like Vici shower. I love a dry brush when I'm pregnant, especially for cellulite. Like I will get in there with my legs. I use the dry brush all.

over the backs of my legs, on my knees, on my arms. It just feels so good. And then if I want a lymphatic massage, I go to Brasilicious, Brazilian-Masolicious. And it's in Austin. And I love going to Josie or anyone who works for her is incredible. And they do Brazilian lymphatic. And it's so good for your immune system. So those are my things that I like to do as far as facials. I love, like I said, an acupuncture facial. I love facial massage. I'm pampering myself, definitely, but I also want to get my work done so I can have three months of bliss with the baby. If you guys like this episode, there is a feature in People magazine where they interviewed me on All Things pregnancy. You can just search People Magazine, The Skinny Confidential. I want to say too,

thank you so much to all the beautiful messages and DMs and comments and all the the support. It feels like I have so many friends from around the world. And it's been so fun to connect with people who are already mothers and maybe they're on their third or even some of you guys have four or five. And then to talk to women who have never had a baby and have questions. It's honestly incredible the support. So I'm very, very grateful. And I hope you love this episode. I'm going to say, if you have any more pregnancy questions, I will for sure make this like a little series. Please ask me on my latest post and I will continue to do these little solo episodes. They're fun, kicking Michael off. Love it.