The Skinny Confidential Him & Her Podcast - Lauryn Solo Q&A - Baby Weight, Breastfeeding, Night Nurse, & Favorite Baby Products

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Starting point is 00:01:51 And now Lauren Everts and Michael Bostic are bringing you along for the ride. Get ready for some major realness. Welcome to the Skinny Confidential, him and her. Aha. Guys, what's up? It's just me today. I did a Q&A on my Instagram stories and on my Instagram and asked you guys to ask me anything. And I got so many great questions that I decided to not only answer them on Instagram, but to also answer them on the podcast.

Starting point is 00:02:20 A little disclaimer, if you're not into pregnancy and birth this is probably not the episode for you because a lot of the questions were around that so like michael always says there's 250 episodes there's so many different subjects so many different topics so if this isn't your jam i get it i get it the questions were predominantly about the baby so this episode is going to be heavily having to do with the baby but it'll also be sprinkled in with some beauty and wellness, like always. Okay, Taylor, let's hope your mic's hot because you were telling me that you have some questions for me. I did. We just recorded an episode and literally right as we finished recording, I thought, damn it, I have a question I should have asked. So I'm going to ask it during this

Starting point is 00:03:00 one. You can ask a couple of questions. You can ask whatever you want. I'm sure you have some questions that are probably gross. Some clarifications, questions. Some clarifications. All right, let's just hop right into it. Okay. Is motherhood what you thought it would be? Yes and no.

Starting point is 00:03:17 I mean, there's definitely things that are shocking. Like there's a lot of poo and pee and spit up. I mean, I knew that was going to happen, but it's different when it's actually in real life. And I didn't know how obsessed and in love I would be with the baby. Everyone says that you're going to be obsessed, but I mean, after experiencing it, it's like a whole different thing. So that's something that's definitely surprised me. It's also surprised me how much I want to be with the baby. I thought, you know, I would be fine to just go out and about right away. And it took me some time.

Starting point is 00:03:52 What else surprised me was about the birth. I talked about this in the birth episode. But like they tell you that you're, I thought you were just going to get the baby and like be done. No, you have to deliver the placenta. And then they have to push on your stomach every 15 minutes for two hours to make sure you don't have blood clots. And then they have to stick you with more needles and you're like not done, right? You're, you still don't

Starting point is 00:04:16 have your body back for probably four months after pregnancy. And then if you're breastfeeding, that's like a whole nother thing. So your body's still not back to being your body. Also, your hormones are raging. So you don't feel 100% yourself. So those are the things that surprised me. The next question is, is Zaza sleeping in your room? What bassinet are you using? Zaza is not sleeping in our room.

Starting point is 00:04:39 We actually decided to get a night nurse. So she started for the first two weeks after I gave birth for 24 hours, which was amazing. And I really realized how lucky I am and how amazing that is. I know that's not something that everyone, everyone gets to do is to have a night nurse. So to have a night nurse for 24 hours was really, really incredible and probably changed that experience for me. She now switches to 12 hours. So she comes at seven o'clock and leaves at seven o'clock in the morning. And because of that, we were able to start sleep training her. Now I know this isn't for everyone. I got a hundred DMS about how you're not supposed

Starting point is 00:05:15 to sleep train this early. We're doing what works for us. The night nurse is consulting us. We're speaking with our pediatrician and this is our plan of action. So she's was immediately sleeping in her crib. We decided not to do any bassinets. I just felt like like we want her to just really love her room and to know that we have access to this night nurse who's just a plethora of information and a wealth of knowledge. It's it makes me feel comfortable that she's in her room. So she sleeps in her room from probably 7.30 to 7. She wakes up two times, sometimes three a night. And we decided not to do any bassinet in our room. So that's what we're doing right now. It's working for us. If you guys are interested in sleep training and kind of like all the specifics on that, you can let me know on my

Starting point is 00:06:01 latest Instagram. I don't know if that's something that will bore people but the night nurse has like seriously brought so much to the table i have learned so much from her i would not know any of this without her someone asked me how are you and your vagina doing my vagina i'd like to report is back to normal okay i believe that the reason it's back to normal is because i had such a quick delivery and my doctor massaged my perlineum. I don't know how to say it. And I'm probably mispronouncing it perlineum perlineum while I was giving birth. And when you are pushing and someone's doing that, I think it really helps with tearing. I had to get two stitches, which wasn't a big deal at all.

Starting point is 00:06:40 I didn't even feel it. And everything feels shrunk up and back to normal, which is awesome. I will allow Michael to report on that though after six weeks because we can have sex in six weeks. So I have two more weeks to let you know how everything is really doing. But looks wise and feel wise, it's good. So thank you for asking about my vagina. I mean, I'm curious is when people say what's the status of it. I mean, of course, I know that it goes through some stretching because... Oh people say, what's the status of it? I mean, of course,

Starting point is 00:07:05 I know that it goes through some stretching because- Oh, you're curious about the status of my vagina? No, no. I'm just adding further to that question. Specifically, I mean, is there someone that looks in the mirror and goes like, oh my God, I don't even notice it anymore? Or does it go through that dramatic of a change? I have heard that women say, don't look at your vagina after you give birth. I looked at mine because I feel like I'm a human guinea pig and a researcher and I knew I was going to be asked this question. So I wanted to really document it in all its glory and really watch what was happening

Starting point is 00:07:35 to it. And it wasn't that bad. Now, I don't know if that's because I didn't have an episiotomy. And Taylor, if you're wondering what an episiotomy is, it's when you tear from your vagina to your butthole. I remember Alexis Haynes mentioning that. Yeah, I didn't have that. I'm very lucky. Now, if I had had an episiotomy,

Starting point is 00:07:54 I'm sure it would be different. Listen, my body right now is not the same. First of all, your uterus hangs over your pants for six weeks. So it's not even, your stomach doesn six weeks. So it's, it's, it's not even your stomach doesn't even look like it's overweight. It looks like you have something hanging over your stomach. So I'm not like saying my body looks back to normal. Okay. My uterus hanging, my thighs need to lose weight. I got to lose weight in my ass. I've got cellulite on my butt. Like my arm, when I wave

Starting point is 00:08:23 like the bat wing flaps in the wind i got a lot of work to do but i can say that my vagina is looking 100 back to normal it's been four weeks um you do bleed a lot after birth but i didn't notice anything crazy one of my friends told me that her vagina turned into a smurf vagina i think we talked about this on the podcast and like blew up i didn't have anything like that why would she call it a smurf vagina. I think we talked about this on the podcast and like blew up. I didn't have anything like that. Why would she call it a smurf vagina? It's an actual thing, Taylor. It's a smurf vagina. Like it's, look it up. I'm going to Google searches right now. I'm sure you are. So yeah. Did that answer your question about my vagina? Michael's going to love that question that you asked me that. Are you breastfeeding? No judgment at all. Just wondering.

Starting point is 00:09:03 Yes, I am breastfeeding. I did a post on this. I did not know if I was going to breastfeed. I didn't know if it was for me. And to be honest, it had to do with maybe me being vain. I just got my boobs done a year ago by Dr. Barrett. And I didn't want to fuck him up. But I messaged Dr. Barrett and asked him. And he was like, a little breastfeeding is fine.

Starting point is 00:09:19 Don't worry about it. Don't stress. So that kind of settled my mind. And then the second I saw the baby, we gave her colostrum, which is like a little bit of stuff that comes out of your nipple after you give birth. And I really liked the bonding moment with Zaza. I loved it. And it just felt really comfortable and right to me.

Starting point is 00:09:37 And I ended up really liking breastfeeding, which surprised me because I didn't know I would like it. So someone asked what surprised you about motherhood? Probably the breastfeeding. I have really enjoyed it. I'm taking care of my nipples every single time I breastfeed. So I haven't had raw nipples. And this is a tip from the night nurse. She has me putting little silver covers on that promote any inflammation and just are really, it's really healing. I'll link it in the show notes. So these little silver nipple covers,

Starting point is 00:10:05 I've been using those. And then I've been using these cold freezing nipple covers that you put in the fridge and they just are really soothing. So I think the trick for me is to take care of my nipples every single time after I breastfeed. So I haven't noticed any changes in my boobs yet. I don't know how long I'll do it.

Starting point is 00:10:24 I think probably at this point, I'll do it two to three months, but you never know, you know, ask me tomorrow. I may change my mind, but what I'm doing is I'm breastfeeding. I'm breastfeeding probably 70% of the time and the other 30% we're doing a bottle. And I just am the type of person that wants to have a lot of options because my life is just so chaotic and up and down and I don't know where I'm going to be tomorrow and maybe I'll be traveling Monday so I just wanted to make sure the baby was comfortable with having lots of options so the formula that we're using when we do use formula is called hip hip hip I think h-i-p-p-a it's I think it's formulated in Germany and it came highly recommended by so many people that are in the pregnancy and birth space.

Starting point is 00:11:06 I talked to obviously like so many people. We had so many experts on and I really picked everyone's brain and picked a formula that I thought was the best for Zaza and she loves it. We do it in a glass bottle. We try not to heat it up every time so she's not used to hot milk every time. I've found that some of my friends said they would heat the bottle up all the time for the baby and the baby got like used to that and bougie. So I'm not letting Zaza get bougie about her heated bottle. She has it sometimes room temperature and then she has breast milk too.

Starting point is 00:11:35 So she's doing a medley of things. And as far as pumping, I fucking hate pumping. It's really not my thing. It feels medical. It doesn't feel like breastfeeding feels right. For me, breastfeeding feels. More like an organic attraction instead of like the other thing is like way more mechanical. Yes.

Starting point is 00:11:50 It's like a machine versus something like a human's doing. Absolutely. It's like if you had a sex robot sucking your dick as opposed to a real girl. Oh my God. That's honestly the best analogy I've ever heard. We're going to take a quick break to talk jewelry, specifically Uncommon James. So most of you guys are very familiar with Uncommon James. It was founded and creatively directed by television personality and fashion entrepreneur

Starting point is 00:12:17 Kristen Cavallari. She's been on the show before. She's amazing. She's so cool. And her jewelry is major you guys so uncommon james is a collection of timeless effortless and sophisticated jewelry for the woman on the go i specifically and i've seen kristin wear this a lot too like the seashell earrings they're these little earrings with tiny little seashells hanging off them they're gold they're dainty they frame your face and they're

Starting point is 00:12:43 perfect for a selfie because this is so weird, but they whiten your eyes because of the seashell. I know that sounds crazy, but I'm telling you, I wear them all the time, and they really make the best selfie. If you watch her show, you know she's always wearing her jewelry. There's so many different things to choose from. They're kind of feminine pieces, like with an edge,

Starting point is 00:13:02 and everything is so affordable, which I'm very much about. It's all under a hundred dollars. You can find like 14 karat gold plated jewels that just make all the difference to any outfit. Anyway if you're looking for something to spice up your outfit definitely check Uncommon James out and look at those seashell earrings. I'm telling you guys they are good. It's effortless, it's versatile and fashion forward. I also picked up one of their campfire candles. There's so many things on their site that you guys are going to be obsessed with. So all you have to do is visit www.uncommonjames.com and use discount code skinny 20 for 20% off. Check out the seashell earrings, grab a candle and maybe throw in some coin jewelry i'm telling you

Starting point is 00:13:45 you can't go wrong you're gonna love it that's www.uncommonjames.com use code skinny20 for 20% off all right let's get back to my solo you know i i really like the bonding time with the baby and that's breastfeeding and pumping like taylor says just feels mechanical and I feel it makes me feel like a cow and like I said earlier my body was not mine for nine months and then to not continue to have it not be mine is okay but then when you're like sitting there pumping it just feels it feels too medical to be honest so um I probably pump like a couple times a week and i probably only do it for 30 minutes and i do it on the lowest level and it's not my favorite thing to do and again this is just my story everyone is different if i know there's breastfeeding police

Starting point is 00:14:38 out there i believe in the end and this is my motto and I did an Instagram on it if you want to go check it out fed is best as long as your baby's fed you're good so now she has three different options of ways to get food I can pump if I want I can breastfeed her or I can feed her through a bottle I do 15 minutes on each breast and I like to keep it even because I don't want one breast to look different than the other and yeah that's I definitely always wear a really supportive bra. And I wear that bra 24 hours a day, even when I'm sleeping because I don't want anything to sag. So I'm just really trying to take really good care of the boobs. Next question is what compression wear did you get? And do you wear it all day? I've been a real psycho about compression wear. I have a friend named Kim Hammond. I have my friend

Starting point is 00:15:22 Ingrid, who you guys know, and then another friend, Anna from Pellicure, the spa I go to. And all of these women I look at as role models in the mom space. And they all recommended compression wear and girdles. So here's the deal. I understand that this is not, again, for everyone. But this is what I'm doing. And I'm just sharing what I'm doing. So I have this underwear.

Starting point is 00:15:42 And I'll put it in a blog post or in the show notes. And it's like C-section underwear. And it's like really, really tight compression. I'm wearing it right now and it goes up above my belly button. So I wear that sometimes or I'll wear a belly band that I like band my stomach or I'll wear Binding. And basically it's this company in LA. They come over 10 times. They're going to come over 10 times to my house and wrap my stomach up really gnarly. And I'll do a blog post on it and like a breakdown and show it to you guys on Instagram story. But basically it just holds you in. I believe, and this is my theory, that you are training your uterus to go back to the size that it was because it takes six weeks training your uterus to go back to the size that it was because

Starting point is 00:16:26 it takes six weeks for the uterus to go back and so when you're using that compression where it just kind of reminding reminds things where they should go and i've had a really good experience with it i notice when i take it off that my uterus does look smaller and i feel like it's helping me get my shape back you know someone were asking me my opinion, I would say it works. It's legit. Sure, it's uncomfortable, but like beauty is pain. And, you know, I'm just doing what I got to do right now. What does a night nurse do? This question has been everywhere. I have talked to a lot of powerful women, CEOs, you know, women who are running their own company or, you know, work, you know, nine to five, just like hustlers. And they all told me the same thing, get a night nurse. I talked to a lot of other bloggers and influencers.

Starting point is 00:17:08 They said the same thing. So we decided to find our night nurse through word of mouth. We talked to a lot of different people and found one that just had really special, calm, newborn energy. Because the person's gonna be in your house a lot. So that's really important.

Starting point is 00:17:24 A lot of people are curious of exactly what they do. So basically what a night nurse does is what I've found is that it's like I said, it's educational. I'm learning all there is to learn about a newborn. It's also giving me my sanity and my sleep. I think without sleep, this whole thing would be a hundred times harder. And I have mad respect for anyone. And there's obviously millions of people that have done it without a night nurse because you're not sleeping. I can't imagine. That's probably like a lot of strain on your marriage. It's a lot of strain on you as the mother. I mean, truly, I can't imagine. It's probably very hard. So to have the ability to be able to sleep gives me sanity.

Starting point is 00:18:05 I get to sleep through the night. And I know that's really, really rare. And not a lot of moms are in that position. And again, I'm really lucky to be able to do that. So like I said, she goes to bed, the baby at 7.30. She wakes up at 7. She wakes up two to three times at night. And the night nurse is able to give her a bottle.

Starting point is 00:18:23 So I'm like psycho. And I'll pop in on her camera. We use the Miku. And nurse is able to give her a bottle. So I'm like psycho and I'll pop in on her camera. We use the Miku and I'm able to watch on my phone. And obviously like she's right next to my room so I can get up if I want, if she's crying. But for the most part, I've really been able to sleep. And so anyone that's messaging me saying, how do you have energy? You know, how are you back to work? You know, in three weeks, it's because I have a night nurse. And I think that's really important to be transparent about that. I know that there's a lot of celebrities and influencers that have night nurses that don't tell the general public. Now that's fine. And I get that that's their decision. But for me, I really want to make

Starting point is 00:19:01 sure that I'm really, really honest with mothers about why I have energy right now. I have energy because I'm lucky enough to have someone who helps me during the night. So that's what a night nurse does. She's also an actual nurse. She's helped me a lot. You know, I had a really bad rash. She's helped me with my nipples. She's taught me how to take care of my nipples.

Starting point is 00:19:21 And again, she's taught me all about a baby. Everything there is to know even like the other day Zaza was like needed to go to the bathroom she was grumpy because she was like backed up and the night nurse showed me how to do infant massage on her stomach to help everything move through and it was amazing it worked like right away she went to the bathroom and felt so much better she's taught me about things like grip water, which is this amazing water that has all these herbs in it that really helps hiccups. She's taught me about things like little remedies and what kind of even like what kind of diaper paste to use and just all these little tips and tricks that I never would have had access to. So what I can tell you is that if you're a mom I promise to continue to be a resource and

Starting point is 00:20:05 get all the tips and tricks from the night nurse so you can you can use them too it's actually been kind of like a like a research experience for the skinny confidential to have the night nurse there so that's coming soon I am having her for three to four months again I just want to be really transparent and not feel like I'm hiding anything from the audience I'll if I have her longer i'll let you guys know and i'll continue to update you So that's the night nurse schedule. So now since you've actually had the baby and the tummy's essentially I mean, I don't want to say you haven't lost the elasticity of it

Starting point is 00:20:39 But since you no longer have the child inside of you How do you feel physically like the main difference between before I'm sure that because you're carrying around all that weight physically, can you what is it? What's the difference between prior to now since now you've not only lost the weight of the child, but since your body's probably no longer developing, or maybe it is still is developing a lot of like the fluids or vitamins that you need? Do you can you tell the difference? Can you tell the difference physically and like mentally or I mean, emotionally too, I guess. Hot little break to talk about Beat Elite. So I am a very active person. And since I was cleared by my doctor recently to work out, I have been even more active. So I've been really, really stepping it up with Pilates, working out and eating healthy. And recently,

Starting point is 00:21:25 I was sent this product to try and I'm absolutely loving it. It's called Beat Elite. So why I like it is you just add it to your smoothie. It's quick. I'm very much about making a smoothie and adding all the nutrients and minerals I can get and just like drinking it down. So Beat Elite is something that you want to take before your workout because this is going to extend your endurance and improve your energy I recently hiked runyon. I had a huge smoothie with beat elite in it and i'm telling you I was like zipping up and down Runyon, it was wild So if you're working out and you just feel like you want more stamina to complete your workout this this is the product for you

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Starting point is 00:22:57 again, that's something that's not talked about enough. I gained 55 pounds. Now I was like probably 40 and a half weeks when I weighed myself. So maybe I even gained 60. Who the fuck knows? I was, I was like feeling big. That's that, that is a lot of weight on me. It was hurting my feet. It was very, very stressful on my body. But again, I wanted to use my platform to talk about the weight gain because they tell you to gain between 25 and 35 pounds, which didn't happen for me. I will say immediately when i left the hospital and this is fucking wild i lost 30 pounds so a lot of that was the baby the placenta water swelling water weight and so that was amazing but i still do have 25 pounds to lose

Starting point is 00:23:37 and this is three and a half weeks later and my uterus is still not back to normal. And like I said, things are not how I want them by any means. There's been DMs in my inbox asking me if I'm back to my pre-pregnancy weight after three and a half weeks. Fuck no. If you're a mom, you know that that's not the way that it happens. And so maybe I can help like pull the shield

Starting point is 00:23:59 or pull the, I wanna say like the Wizard of Oz curtain off of this aspect of pregnancy. These stories of people just bouncing back, like fitting into their jeans when they leave the hospital, that's an amazing story, but that's not been my experience. And I think sometimes with Instagram and Instagram models, it can make people feel bad. I think that the way we combat that is by being really, really authentic in what's really happening. So that is why I decided to do a post on weight gain. And after having a daughter and seeing and just like experiencing having a little girl,

Starting point is 00:24:37 I want to be like a role model in that space for women to be comfortable and confident with whatever weight they gain because the truth is is like there's nothing you can do about it you're pregnant it is what it is so it's just like be calm and embrace the process because if you're stressed out about your weight while you're pregnant the whole entire time the baby's gonna pick up that stress on that stress and in my opinion when it's in your stomach i just i i'm a big believer in that so anyway I did a blog post on the weight gain so that's that's been something that has been interesting postpartum is like is the body change so so I'm feeling okay about that I'm really gonna start to do

Starting point is 00:25:17 intermittent fasting after I stop breastfeeding and just really focus on my diet and movement and meditation and Pilates and the skinny confidential body guide and reading and just doing things that really calm and lower my cortisol to get back into my pre-pregnancy shape. I have not experienced any postpartum depression or anxiety. Luckily, I will say that I think that one of the contributors to that is lack of sleep and I have not had lack of sleep. So I can see how people can get postpartum depression and anxiety when there is a lack

Starting point is 00:25:54 of sleep. I think that if I wasn't sleeping, I would possibly be prone to it. That's maybe the reason I haven't experienced it yet. I am a little bit more anxious about things that I normally wouldn't be anxious about. For instance, I do not want to drive a car. I'm not ready to drive a car yet. I know that's maybe weird after three and a half weeks. I'm not ready to drive a car. And furthermore, I'm not ready to drive a car with a baby. Like no way. I do not want to even put the baby in the car with me alone. So that's maybe something that's that's that's been surprising and then my hormones are raging like when Michael does something that that pisses me off like last night

Starting point is 00:26:31 he pissed me off and normally I would have just let it go but I sent like an eight page text message to him and it felt so good to just get it out and I'm like sweating more. And I notice if I have like I had a margarita, I noticed the tequila maybe like gives me more of a hangover than it used to. Those are just little things that I've noticed. I also have noticed that my appetite is completely decreased. And I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced this. I was so hungry, like a carb cookie monster my entire pregnancy, eating so much, so many carbs, like just wild amounts of food. I was sick of food by the end of my pregnancy. And now I'm just not hungry. It's weird. I mean, listen, let's be honest. I need to tighten up. So I'm fine with it, but I'm not that hungry.

Starting point is 00:27:19 And everyone told me I'd be so hungry when I was breastfeeding and I'm not. And then lastly, the other thing I noticed is that breastfeeding and I'm not. And then lastly, the other thing I noticed is that breastfeeding makes you really tired. The baby is essentially sucking out all your minerals and your vitamins and your nutrients. So when I do breastfeed, I get so tired and I'm thinking to myself, how am I so tired? Like I literally have just been breastfeeding and taking care of the baby all day. I truly think it is because, like I said, the baby's sucking everything out of you. A little nipple vampire. A little nipple vampire. And those are the changes that I've seen. And then I got to let you know in

Starting point is 00:27:56 two weeks how the sex is because I cannot wait to become a practitioner of six weeks postpartum sex. I can't wait to see how that goes. I'll be having to use a lot of woo more play. You know what I mean? Why did I choose to name the baby Zaza? I answered this in the birth podcast, but really quickly, I was obsessed with Zsa Zsa Gabor and I am obsessed with Zsa Zsa Gabor. I read all her autobiographies and one of my favorites was how to catch a man, how to keep a man and how to rid a man. And I just thought she was so bossy and fabulous and just herself. She really was a leader. I feel like she was not a follower. She embraced herself. She embraced her differences. And I really looked up to that. So I ran around telling Michael for

Starting point is 00:28:40 years and years that I love Zaza Gabor. I told him all the time, I'm obsessed with Zaza Gabor. Come to find out, I was pronouncing her name wrong the whole time. It was Zaza. And immediately I wanted to name my daughter Zaza when I found that out. And it's because I just fell in love with the name Zaza because I thought Zaza's name was Zaza. Michael and I just decided like, this is the name of our daughter. This is so perfect. We've never heard anything more sparkly and Zazily before and it was it was different and unique but also at the same time easy to pronounce and easy to spell and the second i saw her i knew she was a zaza and now that i've gotten to know her personality and her quirks i think it's truly the perfect name so that's how our name came about we thought jaja gabor's name was Zaza and it wasn't. Next question.

Starting point is 00:29:25 How did you lose your tummy so quickly? I have not lost my tummy. We discussed that earlier, but it is going down. And I think it has to do with compression where lots of water, eating real ingredients, real foods, lots of vegetables. I'm having spirulina every single day. I'm taking my vitamins. I'm walking i'm not working out you can't work out for six weeks i'm um you know trying to lower my cortisol i'm using a lot of red light therapy i think i'm just taking it easy on myself so those are some things that i think are helping but like i said i'm not in i'm not back to my pre-pregnancy shape so don't want to deceive anyone on that okay these are some quick questions that

Starting point is 00:30:05 I got asked that I'm just going to answer really quick. We're going to do like five minutes of quick questions. Do you shake jalapeno in your margarita or add it as a garnish? I shake it in the margarita and add it as a garnish, but you could do either or. Did I get Botox while I was pregnant? No, I didn't. And I still have not gotten it yet because I'm breastfeeding. I'm probably going to wait a little bit to get it. And I'm so excited. I used very good skincare though. I was very specific about the kind of skincare and oils that I used. Did I dye my hair when I was pregnant? No, I did not. I gave my hair a break. I think I'm going to give my hair a break until May. I just felt like I was dying it so much that it needed to just go natural for a little bit. Where did you go to school? I went to San

Starting point is 00:30:43 Diego State. And looking back for me, I don't think I would have gone to college. I've done a podcast on it. I just think that for me, it was something that, you know, I wasn't going to school to be a doctor or a lawyer. I think that I would have zoned in more on building my own brand and being an entrepreneur. Breastfeeding tips. Do you do one boob at a time or do you switch halfway i do 15 minutes right 15 minutes left and then a little bit like one one or two ounces of a bottle and like i said i use the hippo formula and i do that every single time best nursing bras i have found ones off amazon that i love they're just generic nothing special they hold the tits up i'll link

Starting point is 00:31:20 them in the show notes and then also there there's this brand called BAE and they make awesome nursing bras. I don't even know if they actually are nursing bras, but they make awesome bras for postpartum. And I've been wearing those a lot too. How much weight did you gain during pregnancy? I gained 55 pounds. I did a blog post on it. Google the skinny confidential pregnancy weight gain. I told the whole story there. Why are you called the skinny confidential? I started the skinny confidential when I was at San Diego State and I decided to call it the skinny confidential because I wanted to be a place where you could come and get the juice, get the skinny, get all the specifics. So that's why it's called that. It has nothing to do with

Starting point is 00:31:57 being skinny. I just thought it was a cheeky name. Did you tear at all? I had two stitches down there. We did a birth podcast on it and the stitches are already gone. It wasn't that bad at all. So it was quick, easy and painless. Do you want more kids? Yes, I think we do. But give me a minute. I got to wrap my head around it. I had such a good birth and such a nice labor that I would be bummed if I couldn't do it again. It was a really cool, intense experience. And I'm actually like, it's weird. I'm excited to give birth again. It was really magical. And last and final question, did your pregnancy cause any stretch marks? It's my biggest fear. I did not get stretch marks, but that is because I truly believe I used oil on my stomach every single night. I was diligent about it. I used it on my stomach, on my sides, on my inner thighs, on my outer thighs, on my ass. I used it everywhere. stomach, on my sides, on my inner thighs, on my outer thighs, on my ass. I used it everywhere. And so right now I don't have stretch marks. I have heard though that sometimes it takes a while for them to come in. So I'll keep you guys updated if I get them.

Starting point is 00:32:56 But as of now, I don't see them. Who knows? I don't know. Can you get them on your boobs later? I don't know. We'll have to see. Knock on wood right now. I don't have any, and I'm still continuing to put that oil on my stretch marks and I think the compression wear helps. So even if you're not down with the girdle I get it but try the compression wear like I think you guys are going to be surprised. I'm going to start talking about it a lot because it's worked for me. So that was my Q&A. We did a lot of pregnancy, a lot of birth, a lot of Zaza, and then we peppered it in with beauty and wellness. I hope you guys like these Q&As. If you do, let me know on my latest Instagram

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The Skinny Confidential Him & Her Podcast - Lauryn Solo Q&A - Baby Weight, Breastfeeding, Night Nurse, & Favorite Baby Products

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