welcome to the Kings podcast season 2
I’m your host manasse and this is my
co-host Danielle today we are here with
Brianna so influencer brand manager at
fade fit theing star married to Chris
fade newly pregnant how are you I’m good
I’m good thank you for having me thank
you so much for coming on the podcast
CHR so first time pregnancy how has it
been so far it’s been amazing it’s um
it’s such a blessing to be honest you
know I mean I Wish I Was Pregnant you
know a lot earlier um but you know we’re
here now and it’s been amazing I think
I’ve been lucky I haven’t had any
morning sickness anything any weird
Cravings so it’s been it’s been kind of
a breeze actually oh my god well lucky
cuz that’s one of the things I was going
to ask you no Cravings at all nothing
the only thing I’m craving but maybe
it’s just the Mexican in me is like
spicy food so I’m I’m not supposed to
eat it because of you know the heartburn
and inest reflux but I’ve been lucky so
I’ve been you’re delivering at Kings
with the lovely Dr ARA we love her it
must be really difficult to find
obstetrician that you want to choose for
the length of your pregnancy um how do
you choose how would you recommend
people choose so actually my original
OBGYN Dr Ibraham who’s also here at
Kings recommended me to her so I didn’t
have to shop around much I think when we
and my husband Chris met her it was just
kind of like instant we you know fell in
love with her felt really comfortable so
she comes from the UK so I knew that she
had you know a great uh teaching and
understanding plus she’s a highrisk
opgyn which I’m you know I fall under
that category so I felt super
comfortable with her yeah we wanted to
ask about that because in debing you U
mentioned that you have hyperthyroidism
um could you tell us a bit more about
that like what is it yeah so it was a
few years ago now I don’t suffer from it
anymore but a few years ago I just
randomly had heart
palpitations and I felt my heart beating
so fast that it kept me up at night it’s
just like a sudden awareness of your of
your heartbeat and it’s you you don’t
normally feel feel it right it’s like
breathing you just kind of you know it’s
just there and you don’t feel it besides
the heart palpitations I remember going
to the gym one day and just feeling
completely weak week and you know I was
very active at that time and I just
couldn’t even do one deadlift and I was
it was just like 10 minutes into my
workout so I was like okay there’s
something wrong so that’s when I went to
the doctors and they told me that my I
had a thyroid issue and it was Graves
disease after that I went to a few
different doctors cuz I just wanted to
see what the best treatment was for me
so I spoke to actually three different
doctors got three different opinions I
was told to to go on medication another
doctor told me to you know change my
diet be gluten-free and then another one
kind of gave me some herbal remedies to
take so I kind of took all three advice
yeah just it changed my life just for a
year and after that I was you know free
of graves disease oh well that’s amazing
so it is something that can go away with
time like if you just follow like
doctor’s advice and medications and
whatnot yeah I mean it’s I think it’s
different for other people and other
women or other men who suffer from it
but for me I think I got lucky that I
was you know only have to deal with it
for about a year that’s really good so
what actually happens during it you were
your hormones all over the place is that
what happens yeah so I actually started
losing a lot of weight my hair was
falling off and um yeah just a bit crazy
at the time as well so I knew there was
something wrong so with the graves
disease was it the medication that was
stopping you from um getting pregnant
yes it was so my doctor told me that
during that time to you know restrict
from trying to get pregnant so for that
whole year plus the 6 months after cuz I
needed to get it out of my system I
wasn’t able to get pregnant I wanted to
get pregnant at that time so it just
delayed the process and then I actually
went back to the doctors after I was in
the clear from the medication but then
was told that I had a fibroid which then
delayed my journey even more so is the
fibroid what classes your pregnancy as
highrisk yes so I had to have a keyhole
surgery with Dr Ibrahim here at Kings I
had an amazing experience with him that
held off me trying to get pregnant for a
few more months as well because the
fibroid was in the uterus so they had to
you know cut my uterus take out the
fibroid and this is also the reason why
I have to have a C-section when I
deliver oh interesting interesting so
how are you feeling about the the
delivery so when I was actually told
that I had a fibroid I was a bit
hesitant to get it out because I wanted
to have a natural delivery like I wanted
this is my first child I want to like
fill it all right like I want to go
through the whole experience I would
have probably even considered like a
natural like completely like a water
birth like if I could like just to fill
everything but again I went to different
doctors got different opinions and they
said that I have to have this fibroid
out so I want to have a a child because
of the position that it was in it was
like right center of the uterus and if I
were to have a natural birth with that
fibroid in or even a C-section it would
have been very very risk risky for me
and the baby well now we’re all
celebrating that you are pregant thank
you thank you finally and is it seven
months now I’m seven months today
actually so into my into my third
trimester thank you you’ve had your baby
show show so we did we I had a baby
shower back in Los Angeles so during the
summer I went home and um it was I mean
I don’t even say baby shower it’s just a
party because we had met you know had my
all all my family there it was like plus
to 100 people there so just a big big
celebration yeah yeah I love so have you
got name
ideas we do we are toying around with a
couple names I feel like it’s such a big
decision like such a hard thing to think
on is it is but I’ve been thinking of
names for you know for such a long time
so okay you knew you
knew so we wanted to say you’re a busy
woman you are a businesswoman a brand
manager a wife pregnant at the same time
um how do you juggle everything and also
building a house right now which is
consuming so much of my time you just do
it you know I think you just I mean for
me I’m lucky enough that I am brand
manager and part owner or a fade fit so
wherever my laptop is is my work so I
can you know I’m working from home right
now with my feet up which is great and
we have a great team for fade fit so
things run you know even without me
having to be always like checked in the
building the house though that’s it’s
taking a lot of my time um there’s so
there’s so many moving Parts with that
in terms of the construction interior
lighting AC like it’s everybody told me
just you know that it was going to you
know envelop my whole life and it
definitely has it’s you know it’s our
first house it’s our dream home as a
family so very excited so I’m like I’m
all for it and um yeah just and I work
with my husband too so it’s um you know
I get to spend a lot of time with him
that so it’s it’s been great yeah I feel
like you have a lot of fun together as
well we do we do yeah do you have a
expected time for the house to be ready
so um well you know I’m I’m due November
end of November and we wanted to be in
there before the baby came but I don’t
you know things happen you know with
permits and delays and and this and that
so I think we might be in there like
closer to the end of the year so maybe a
Scorpio or Sagittarius baby yes yeah I
think a Sagittarius yeah
Sagar
okay okay so you have a dog I saw on
your Instagram yes did could your dog
tell that you were pregnant you know
what I’m not too sure I have two dogs
actually two little Pomeranians they’re
my babies my fur babies for now I don’t
know I’m not too sure there’s nothing I
mean they love me already you know they
always want attention they always want
to like be on me um and I feel like
maybe a little bit more so now but um
I’m excited to see I don’t know you know
to be honest I don’t know if they’re
going to either be like super jealous or
very protective I’m not not sure how
it’s going to turn out when my sister
was pregnant my dog would know so
whenever we used to Bath she would never
ever get in the bath and then as soon as
my sister was pregnant she would let her
pick her up she would do everything like
she just instinctively knew that I don’t
know she was carrying a child and she
needed to be like careful with her so I
feel like dogs are great yeah it’ll be
exciting to see how they are with the
baby so we like to and the podcast by
asking Our Guest um a secret so we would
like to know what is your secret for
managing pregnancy do you have any like
top tips anything you’d want to share
with other like newly pregnant moms it’s
it’s my first pregnancy you know like
managing a business and building a house
and being a wife you know it’s it’s all
new to me like you know having
everything at once and juggling it all
so I don’t know I think the secret is
just just do it you know and just kind
of go with the flow live in the moment
and you know I mean it day by day take
it day by day exactly exactly thank you
so much for coming on the podcast thanks
for talking to us thank you so much for
having me thank you for tuning in and
watching this episode and we hope to
catch you in the next one
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