Week 8 Pregnancy VLOG, baby 4 by Teresa Palmer

WHAT WEEK?
8

HOW BIG IS BABY?
Between 1/2 & 3/4 inch long or the size of a raspberry!

WHAT’S SOMETHING NEW THIS WEEK?
Not much feels new really, just having general run down and tired vibes this week. I’m working non stop just to finish the last 2 weeks of the show so probably feeling the exhaustion a bit more! This photo is me with a fake baby bump on for the show, I guess life really does imitate art? Ha.

MOST CHALLENGING MOMENT?
Aside from the exhaustion I’ve been feeling really puffy and on the verge of getting a cold. I’ll have the sniffles for 24 hours and then it just goes away again! It wants to arrive and explode in to a full-blown cold but for some reason my body is in the trenches fighting it off and it seems to be winning. Maybe it’s all those prenatals!

MOST EXCITING MOMENT?
We got the Sneak Peek pregnancy test done this week. It’s a bloody test that you can either do yourself (no thanks) or go in to a clinic to get done. I opted to go into a lab. It gives you an idea of whether you’re having a boy or girl. I’ve read mixed reviews online but since Mark really wants to know we decided to go for it and see if it’s accurate (disclaimer.. I’m writing this in the future and it was accurate!)

MEALS?
All the avocado toast one could eat. Vegan focaccia with olives, sun dried tomatoes, vegan meat, avo, garlic, onion and vegan mayo. I basically have this meal every single day at work! At night time Mark has been cooking me really nice pastas which has been all I’ve been craving! We’ve also been eating lots of sweets to celebrate my mum’s birthday this week yummmm!

FOOD AVERSIONS?
Weirdly off a lot of foods, none of it seems very exciting. I used to drink Boba tea and eat popcorn every week but no thanks! Not interested now. I’m also off vegan beyond burgers which I used to LOVE.

REFLECTIONS?
I really wanted to have a surprise with this baby’s birth gender, but I also felt funny about not knowing who was in the tummy too! I guess really you never know who is in there, what they look like, their personality, so much is unknown but I thought oh how sweet would it be to have that huge surprise at the birth. I’m also a major control freak though and I want to have clothes folded months in ahead, the boys clothes out of storage if need be, our baby name picked out ha so in the end with Mark’s added persuasion we decided to go ahead and find out baby’s birth gender!