Answering Pregnancy Questions We ve Been Avoiding ROSIE WAS PREGNANT ON OUR WEDDING DAY

Now you guys are probably thinking you've seen us before sat here, three months ago to be precise, where we were sat here saying how Rosie can't fall pregnant. We didn't really want to make this video and the fact we are having to make it just sucks. So for the last year and a half we've been undergoing so many different tests which confirmed obviously that there's the endo, the PCOS and my autoimmune condition which are like three major factors in the reason as to why we've not been able to fall pregnant. We've had to make a really really big decision and stop trying for a baby for a while and focus on my health with my skin which would mean starting to take a lifelong medication called a biologic injection. Hoping by Rosie going on the medication this is like the start of getting her healthy and I'm really praying that it's just going to work out for the best and mean that we fall pregnant naturally and so much has happened in that time. It's been six months since we sat here and filmed that video talking about our whole entire fertility journey and how I struggled to get pregnant over the last three years and now we're sat here today and there's a baby inside my stomach and we know everything and you guys don't know anything but that's why we're sitting here today to talk to you guys about everything because there's a lot to fill you in on. Let's jump into all the questions you guys have asked us because there is so many and I can't wait to dive in. Okay first things first, do we know the gender of our baby? Of course we do. Yes, yes we do and we're keeping that a secret for maybe the next few weeks. We did film a gender reveal, just a really really cute intimate one with me and Harry. It was the most special emotionally intense moment ever. And very surprising I will say that so I don't know what you guys will take from that but we were very surprised. Yeah we want you to all put your guesses in the comments because I need to know what everybody is thinking. Oh we couldn't be happier obviously either way whatever gender we were gonna have there was just no never any preference that we ever had. We always had an inclination for a certain gender but obviously we can talk more about that when you guys find out. You're gonna see that reaction very soon put in the comments what you guys think. Team boy or team girl? Team boy or team girl? I appreciate you all so much because every single second comment has basically just been asking how I've been feeling. I am extremely grateful and blessed to say that I have had the most amazing pregnancy first trimester for me was mainly just filled with extreme exhaustion. However that wasn't a very foreign feeling to me based on how much my autoimmune condition, PCOS, all those hormonal problems have felt to me in the past. Pregnancy exhaustion was pretty much on par with the things that I felt previously with my health so it didn't really feel like a new feeling but it did wipe me out for maybe like two months. I was like really really tired. But she says wiped out guys like I've seen Rosie worse when her skin was like it's worse. Which is insane to say. To say that her pregnancy is not even as bad as some of the times she's had when she was inflamed with her psoriasis pretty crazy. I feel very lucky and I feel like this is the thing that I've been given from the universal god in exchange for the things that my body has put me through over the last 10 years. I have had no nausea, I've had no sickness, I have had tiny bits of nausea here and there. I think I've been more nauseous guys. I'm not even joking. I think I've been more nauseous not the fact that we're having a baby just in general. Rosie's, she's glowing. She's absolutely glowing. She has been the best version of herself that I've, it's so crazy to even say because we've been through so many hiccups together with Rosie's health. To see her pregnant and it's the best she's ever been knowing that like from a guy's perspective I was expecting her to be throwing up all the time. Yes I was. And I was praying that that wouldn't be the case and the fact that it isn't it's still just like my luck. I'm very lucky it's either my gift from the universe or genetics because my mum with both me and my brother she had really amazing pregnancies with no nausea as well so it could be linked to that. The only time I felt nauseous was if I was so tired and it would be like right before bed. I'd sometimes get a bit weird feeling. Other than that my main symptom I had in my first trimester was just really really sore boobs. Sometimes it would hurt to just like wear a t-shirt it was that sensitive. And that's kind of how we knew that Rosie was pregnant. Yeah and then I also had a few weeks where my mental health wasn't the best and now I'm in the second trimester I just feel like the best version of me I've ever felt in my life which is amazing. And I currently have the best version of Rosie that I've ever had so it's all worked out for the best. So if you've followed our journey you might already know the answer to this question. Was it natural or was an IVF baby? Obviously we tried for three years. Yes. We were about this close to taking the next step for IVF. We tried lectrozole ovulation induction medication which failed. You guys have seen the whole story. We were almost about to try IUIs. Then we decided to stop focus on my health and my skin condition. I started injecting myself with biologics. Yeah. I didn't inject myself you inject me. Yeah and that was basically where we officially said let's stop trying for a baby and just if it happens it happens. We were pretty much 95% sure this wouldn't happen because we've had so many negative tests that Rosie going on a biologic injection to clear out psoriasis was like I don't know putting something like that in your body surely that's just gonna make you not fall pregnant even more. But it went the opposite way. As soon as my skin cleared I think I did two injections and I had been clear for like maybe six weeks and I fell pregnant the second cycle. Yes. After I was clear naturally which I can't even believe we're saying that because I really really didn't think that that was gonna be our future. We prayed for a natural birth and we prayed for a natural pregnancy and we were like this close yeah to doing IVF just just because it has the highest chance of having a baby when you're struggling though. We did it. Crazy. We did it. Still crazy. How have I been feeling about my body changing? Actually just amazing. I feel the most confident I've ever felt. I think obviously that is because it's the time of my life I've been clear with my psoriasis as well so it's like I've got both of my dreams come true at a similar time clear skin and being pregnant and got married and got married so I just feel like this healthy amazing version of myself. I feel so confident to start with I think in like very early pregnancy from about weeks I don't know like week six to ten there's like this awkward stage that not many people talk about where you just feel like flumpy and you feel really puffy and just so bloated and gross. I felt really horrible during that stage but then from weeks 12 onwards bumpers started to take more of like a shape and I'm just feeling a lot more confident now which is great. Rosie's letting it just bulge out. Oh yeah and it's also got lots of lines on it from where I've been sitting. We still have a long time left during this pregnancy but the first trimester feels like it went past so fast because she wasn't showing. Now you're showing I'm hoping the next part just goes really slow. I don't want these things to rush guys I remember when we first got our dogs and I mean dogs are puppies for not very long and then they grow up and they're a dog from the age of one they just don't look like a puppy. I just hate how fast like the most special things in life go. So you really have to make the most of it and I think going through this whole journey together and the things we struggled with it's made us have a whole new appreciation for this baby that we would never have had so we're like more than ready to be parents more than we ever were before it's a dream come true. Do we have names ready for the baby? Yeah we do. But this is the thing guys in relationships you kind of one of you has a name the other one has a name. Rosie has a name I have a name so we compromise and we go with Rosie that's how you understand a relationship. No let's not make it out like you have to pick the name that I picked because. No I do love it guys I do love it. It's better. Rosie I had a name and Rosie said it reminded her of a certain movie which if any of you guys don't know my real name is Harry Potter so I'm not making that mistake again. No way. I love this name but Rosie then put in my head that it was a movie and I was like oh no I can't unsee it. My name's not Harry Potter anymore we got married I changed it. Long story that doesn't need to be talked about right now I'm done with questions about Harry Potter. We have a top name for a girl and we have a top name for a boy which is Grace. Was I pregnant when we got married? This is just such a crazy story. Yes yes yes yes. I have told so many people this story it's just I can't wait to share it with you it's just incredible. Our little baby was there with us on our wedding day. We didn't know. But I tell you who did know was a psychic that Rosie went and saw a year and a half ago. Oh my gosh. She predicted that Rosie was going to be pregnant on our wedding day bearing in mind we never had any plans of getting married we were going to have like two kids first then get married it just wasn't it wasn't the top of our lips. It wasn't our priority. No. And then we were like oh we're struggling with infertility we've been trying for three years why don't we just heighten the mood get married. Focus on love. Focus on love and Rosie was pregnant on our wedding day. So not only did the psychic predict this we also just have this like crazy crazy feeling knowing that our little baby was there with us on the most special day of our life. There's there's pictures of me holding Rosie's belly on our wedding day and I'm like I didn't even know. They were in there. What they? Women twins? We didn't know about it we took a test 11 days after we got married yeah it was just the most like intense couple of weeks of our life like being on a complete high from becoming husband and wife and then finding out we're pregnant 11 days later. I know I know. It was so intense like. Which normally would kind of upset some people because it's like you want to enjoy your marriage and then you want to soak that in but because we've been struggling for so long it was like. It was insane. If it's close together it doesn't matter like we're fine because that's what we dreamed of. It was just the best few days in our bubble just like what is life right now it was crazy. So anything from this video you can go and see a psychic they might tell you some crazy ---- that you're gonna be like nah that's not gonna happen in two years go by and it does happen you're like how do they know that then? Crazy. You little psycho. Before Rosie answers this next question I just want to say our dogs knew we were pregnant before we did. The way that they were around Rosie was next level like Daisy's not really a cuddler puppy always is. Daisy was up on Rosie's belly like every day and that's how we kind of were like positive that she was pregnant. She was way more needy than usual. Yeah. Yeah I am. I've had many conversations with doctors, dermatologists and obstetrics nurses in the hospital that have all deemed my medication safe to take during pregnancy and to be honest I thought that I was going to be very anxious about injecting medication knowing that there's a baby growing inside of me but this medication is the reason why I'm pregnant. Yeah. It's been completely cleared for me to continue taking throughout the entire length of pregnancy as well as breastfeeding afterwards which is great. Rosie's actually taking a biological trim fire by the way if anyone wants to know that's her biologic that she's taking to clear her psoriasis. Yes. Next question how far along is Rosie currently? I'm in my second trimester. I actually never know whether to share how many weeks exactly because I feel like a lot of people keep it quite personal because it's like privacy reasons. I feel like they do but I feel like no many people have an audience that's this loyal to us and feels like a family and friends. Yeah that's true. We don't look at you guys just like oh they watch our videos like we meet you guys in the streets and you're like yeah whatever it's just the number. I'm almost 16 weeks pregnant but almost four months. I hope I didn't pressure you to say that. No no no I was like this close anyway to say. Okay good. I can't wait to see this belly blow up. Apparently they lie to you in pregnancy it's actually 10 months and not nine. That doesn't make sense. It doesn't. It also doesn't make sense how the baby comes out and it's like zero. Yeah. It's not 10 months old like what? Technically we're all 10 months older than we are. Yeah. So I'm 30. Next question. Okay next question is bump update. Everyone obviously wants to see baby bump. Should I go and stand over there? I think you should. Okay so this is bump update currently. So you can see it's popping a little bit and you're not even pushing out right now no? No. Completely sucking. There you go that's what I mean. So like this is sucking in and this baby right now is actually sitting here which I didn't actually know guys babies don't sit this way. No like in an ultrasound. Yeah the ultrasounds they they look like they're going this way. Yeah. That's because the image takes it that way they're actually going this way. Yeah so head is actually right here and if you oh it's so like it's just so weird to press there and it's like a rock solid. I know. I can't believe there's a baby in there. Rosie keeps getting scared that her belly button's gonna be like. My belly button's changing it's already opened up so much. Why are you doing a close-up of my belly button? Sorry that was a Is current bump update. I'm feeling very very happy and I just I love it. I love just seeing bump grow every day. It's the best. So how is Harry feeling about becoming a dad? Guys I'm ready. I thought I was born ready to be a dad. The second that we got our dogs I had this thing in my head that was just like this is all I want to do. I just want to be a dad to dogs, a baby. It's just the best feeling. One thing I always say when I when I need to ground myself and like I always feel a bit like confused or I'm working too much or I'm not focusing on my like life relationship it's just everything comes down to love. Like love is the answer to everything like if you don't love your job, you don't love your partner, you don't love where you live, everything's not gonna fall in place which is why we moved from somewhere we didn't love living to somewhere we do love living and the thought of being a dad is just something that I can't even express the amount of love that I can't wait to feel. You always just say that like we both just say it's just our purpose. It's our purpose in life to have babies and just love. Babies, how many are we gonna have? That was actually another question. I know. How many babies do we want? It's so weird because we both always said one and now I'm pregnant and I want like four. One of our good friends in Australia they just had a baby and like five months ago we went and saw her the day after she gave birth and like seeing that and I've never seen a newborn that newborn. No. Like a day old so now like we've almost seen that and now I know Rosie's pregnant. Oh I can just see us having. I don't know. I think I want four. Four. I can't have three. Three's an uneven number. The same psychic that predicted that I was pregnant gonna be pregnant on our wedding day said that we're gonna have four babies but three pregnancies. Yeah. So apparently one of them's gonna be twins so. And we were pretty convinced that this one was twins. Oh I was scared. I was scared. But it's not. What was Rosie's first symptoms before we actually took a pregnancy test and found out she was pregnant? So weird to actually be saying this because obviously for three years straight I was symptom spotting like before I was due on my period. Every single month I was like oh this is happening is this I'm pregnant so it's so weird to say that this is actually what I felt the month of being pregnant. Top one. Top one is I had a lot of diarrhea. I could not stop going to the toilet. It's TMI but I know that every single girl out there watching this has hormonal toilet trips before their period to do that. It's very very normal. Most of my trips are hormonal. The main most like obvious symptom I had was sensitive painful hard swollen boobs. They were so painful like even if I knocked one of them which I did. She was crying. It made me cry like it was so bad. In my luteal phase before I'm due on my period all I want to do is be angry. Eat food. Cause arguments. I had to even question she was even in the luteal phase. Yeah I just felt this overwhelming sense of calmness. I felt so peaceful. I felt so relaxed. My appetite was small. I was so happy like everything was really opposite to how I usually would feel before my period. I noticed a tiny tiny like bit of like of a hardness right where my uterus sits. I had it one day where I got a really really bad metallic taste in my mouth. It was the day before our wedding. I remember just being do you remember when I sat in the car on the way down to the Gold Coast and I said to you my mouth just tastes gross like I can't get the taste out of my mouth. The last two things I was so thirsty. Rosie carrying this thing around just drives me mad. In the car. You're not pregnant okay. In the car I'm like trying to use the hand rest and this is just up here because it's so flipping big. Well I'm thirsty. It's like carrying around a wheelie bin. And then the last thing I noticed was that I was just craving a really cold crispy fruit like anything juicy was just like all I wanted like apple watermelon cold grapes anything like that. What helped us conceive? What things did we do differently on the month that we felt pregnant? We felt pregnant. You felt pregnant. Such a weird way of saying it. From my perspective if any guys listening or any girls that want to say to their guy this might help you. I'm going to put on the screen all the medication I was taking. Like vitamins? Yeah like vitamins. The reason I did that was because I went and got a sperm analysis and one of those months it was very low and I was like that's kind of maybe that's why maybe it's me. Yeah. Um so I did all that went back it went up high and it was fine. I didn't want to just leave it to Rosie. I wanted to like do all the vitamins. I started getting healthier. I went on medication for my OCD. You becoming less stressed being on medication for your OCD and then my becoming less stressed. Yeah. My body becoming less stressed by going on medication for my skin. So I think at the end of the day there's so many vitamins and stuff people tell you to take but I think the biggest thing that we noticed that. Lower your stress levels. Yeah it's just look after your health. Anything that you have whether it's mental health conditions, physical health conditions. Get medicated for it and actually do something that's going to help it. We don't drink alcohol. That's the thing as well. Maybe I'll have a drink like every six months. Oh my god I was gonna I was gonna have the first time I drank alcohol in seven years to be on our wedding day. I was like oh I'm gonna. Let's get drunk together. I'm gonna let loose. We've never been drunk together and Rosie was like should we do it and I was like you know what let's just not. I was just on the day I was like oh I'm not really feeling it. I'm not really in the mood. I'm sure it would have been fine one time but like because your body's not used to that. No but I was pregnant. I know I know. And the last question is again another question I appreciate you all asking me. It's so so sweet that you just care so much about how I'm feeling and this one is how have I felt mentally throughout pregnancy and first trimester was like a roller coaster. I had I think it was from weeks like eight to twelve so maybe like for a month I felt very lost in myself. My mood was quite low. One day I'd have me have such a good mood the next day I just want to stare at a wall like I just didn't feel myself and that's obviously to be expected. It's like the most intense hormonal change ever. I also think Rosie going through the first trimester that's where girls have the most worry because it's where things could go wrong. It was almost this thing of like we want to be so excited but like at the same time there's always like you can't help but have that feeling of what if something goes wrong. As soon as she got that first trimester we're like oh yeah like sigh of relief but we I think because I've had a really good first trimester there was also a lot of anxiety of like lack of symptoms which explains why we've gone for quite a few scans because I'm just like is there any fun a baby there like yeah you know it's been a bit up and down but for the most I would say I felt really really good which is amazing but I know a lot of women experience it differently and I'm sure if I was feeling very very unwell and nauseous that would create a whole different mental state in pregnancy. From my view as an outside point of view like from Rosie I sometimes in our first trimester forgot she was even pregnant because she was doing that well. I think we answered everything I'm not sure how long this video is gonna be. I hope it's around about 20 minutes for you guys so you can actually sit down and enjoy it but if there's any more questions we will do another video make sure you follow us on all other social platforms TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook we post everything on there that's probably going to answer more questions. Yeah like daily updates especially Snapchat we post like 50 stories a day on Snapchat so make sure you follow us over there we're going to be showing a lot of this pregnancy on there that doesn't make it to YouTube because we can only put a certain amount on YouTube but we can absolutely waffle on Snapchat. Exactly. So we cannot wait to take you on this journey this has been a dream come true for us and a long time that we've prayed for this moment. This chapter of our life is about to be the best chapter ever and I'm just so grateful to have so many of you beautiful beautiful best friends of ours on the internet following along supporting us again we just can't thank you all enough for every single comment like message. And if you've been with us for years like we even get comments that are like we've been with you since the pink hair days. It's so sweet. Since we in lockdown which is just crazy so if you guys have seen our journey I'm sure you're feeling emotions too because it's been a difficult one and we appreciate you. And for anybody else that's also on a very similar journey when it comes to fertility our hearts go out to you and we pray over every single one of you and we just promise you that your time will come because we are living proof that it does. It comes at the most random time. And it can happen. We love you guys see you next week.