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My first week of maternity leave is a mix of busy, cozy, and deeply nesting moments as she slows down, works a little less, and prepares for baby. From washing stuffed puppets and sorting laundry to cleaning the fridge, reorganizing the kitchen, and tidying the nursery tray, every day brings a different maternity leave task and a very real pregnancy-life update.
There’s also a sweet family moment in the middle of it all: babysitting her baby niece while practicing what life will feel like in a few weeks. The week includes a UGC content creator day, a new laundry basket with separate sections, and a visit to make a statue of her pregnant body, capturing a special memory of motherhood and body changes before birth. It’s an honest, emotional maternity leave vlog with soft era energy, expat life between Uganda and the Netherlands, and plenty of baby preparation.
Perfect for viewers searching for maternity leave vlog, pregnancy journey, motherhood content, body positivity pregnancy, baby preparation, nesting vlog, and expat pregnancy life. If you enjoy real-life lifestyle vlogs, pregnancy updates, and creative memory-making like a pregnancy body cast or pregnant body statue, this one fits that search.
There’s also a sweet family moment in the middle of it all: babysitting her baby niece while practicing what life will feel like in a few weeks. The week includes a UGC content creator day, a new laundry basket with separate sections, and a visit to make a statue of her pregnant body, capturing a special memory of motherhood and body changes before birth. It’s an honest, emotional maternity leave vlog with soft era energy, expat life between Uganda and the Netherlands, and plenty of baby preparation.
Perfect for viewers searching for maternity leave vlog, pregnancy journey, motherhood content, body positivity pregnancy, baby preparation, nesting vlog, and expat pregnancy life. If you enjoy real-life lifestyle vlogs, pregnancy updates, and creative memory-making like a pregnancy body cast or pregnant body statue, this one fits that search.
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00:00Hi everyone and thanks for watching this new vlog. Today it's Monday and this week is going to be
00:06somehow busy, somehow relaxing, somehow fun. It's a combination but it's my first week of
00:12kind of maternity leave. I'm still going to have like two jobs in the daycare but that will be
00:19fine. One is today and I have to leave in 15 minutes, something like that. But today I did
00:25another laundry. I hope you can see it. Yes, it's the stuffed puppets. So I washed all the stuffed
00:34puppets. I'm not going to put all the ones in the bed of the baby of course because that will
00:40be
00:40too crowded. But yeah, that was one of the maternity tasks I wanted to do. I did some editing,
00:48filming. Now I'm going to have some lunch and then I'm going to work. Tomorrow it's going to be a
00:54fun
00:55day. I'm going to babysit my baby niece. So yeah, you will see that actually now because I don't
01:02think I will film anything today because I'm so going to be busy with making other content and
01:08going to work in the daycare. But tomorrow it's going to be a fun and cozy home working day
01:14while babysitting a baby. And yeah, it's actually more practicing of how life will be in
01:21a few weeks. No, I'm excited and I'm proud and I'm thankful. So everything is going fine with me
01:28and I hope you enjoy this video. If you already enjoyed, please put a thumbs up and subscribe if
01:34you didn't do that. So thanks for watching and let's continue to Tuesday. Hello, hello. It is Tuesday
01:42and the practice baby is downstairs. I just came upstairs to bring her stuff up and also the camera
01:50because I wanted to decorate the commode, the nursery tray with you. And I thought she's now sleeping
01:57down. I'm also going to be down and do some editing work and whatever work I can do. And once
02:03she's awake,
02:05I can bring her up and then we can play upstairs while I'm making the nursery tray and she can
02:13play
02:13then or whatever she wants at that moment. So yeah, I thought I'd rather bring already her stuff up
02:20and the camera that I only have to bring her up and that we can all stay up. Okay, I
02:27hope you get
02:28what I mean. But walking upstairs with so many stuff is a workout on itself. But I'm excited guys
02:38to make a nice pot out of this. The drawers are so full now. Yeah, for your imagination,
02:48this is what it is now. Okay guys, the baby is, it sounds really strange, but the baby is laying
02:53on the
02:54floor, but on a blanket plane. So if you hear any sounds, that's because of the baby. And of course,
03:01it could be that this whole decoration will be spread around the day because of course when she
03:10needs something, I'm there. First things first, what I'm going to do is to empty all the drawers
03:17and this whole thing and then step by step decorating it.
03:39Oh, there were so many books behind this thing.
03:50Yeah, there were so many books on the ground. Hahaha. Hello. Yeah, I'm going to be laughing. Oh, what do
04:04they all
04:04well? Yeah, I'm going to be laughing. Yeah, I'm going to make it good for you. Yeah. Let me the
04:24next
04:24poopies all here. Lekker schoon hebben. Lekker schoon hebben. Yeah. Yeah.
05:10Okay, it's now already Wednesday. Yesterday things didn't went the way I wanted. But that's part of living
05:18together with a baby. So yeah, that's also part of life and it's okay. But I decorated or tidy up
05:27the
05:27whole nursery tray and I'm going to show you the results. Okay, we start on top here. This is a
05:36really nice book about the baby's first year. This is where the watery wipes are. This is of course the
05:42cleaning pillow or changing clothes pillow thing. Then here are some diapers. I've heard that the baby's
05:51first shit, that is a really nice name. I don't even know the name. But that's black and you shouldn't
05:57do
05:57it in a washable diaper. So that's why I have these. This is a whole basket with a brush, a
06:05thermometer,
06:06oil, washing gel, everything. All cool also for me too. I don't want to think about that. Okay, yeah.
06:14So this is how it looks like. I thought I wanted to have the diapers also on top. That's what
06:20I've
06:20learned also in the daycare. That you can just easily grab it and then throw it away. Then in the
06:26first
06:27drawer I have actually everything that is necessary now as well. Those are the yeah I call it the underwear
06:36of the kit. Socks. This is some hats and some accessories. These are some towels. I don't know why
06:46the lightning is so much. But these are some towels. Well you can use it for everything. Pants, shirts and
06:54more
06:56diapers. They say the baby use 10 diapers a day. So actually first I'm going to finish all those
07:03diapers and then this is all the reusable or the washable diapers. So once those other ones are done
07:11this is going to be in the first drawer. All those clothes are for bigger size. This is more diapers.
07:20This is some shoes. Some pacifiers. This is for sucking out the ear. The nose I mean.
07:27And this is some nail set. Maybe I'm going to put that here as well. Not so sure. But this
07:36is how the
07:36second drawer looks like. And then the third drawer is this are some leftover bags that I had from this
07:45decoration. These are some towels for washing. Some leftover wipes. Jugs here. This is the blanket where I
07:56can carry the baby in. I thought I'd put it now here as well. This is something for me to
08:02clean my
08:02here. I thought I'm going to do down everything that I don't need to use every day. Yeah maybe the
08:09towel. But the towel I take out one and then I leave it in the bathroom. I'm very happy about
08:15this
08:15result. And I have here the baby bed. And at first I had like a blanket here and then I
08:23thought no.
08:24I want this. Her first sleeping bag. And they're nice stuffed puppets. I washed also all these stuffed
08:34puppets. A lot of these puppets were from me or from my sister like in the past. But I was
08:40thinking
08:41what should I do with these stuffed puppets. I mean I can't leave them like this. What is going to
08:47be the
08:47plan? I have a plan. This basket which you see over here is now for the laundry. But to be
08:54honest
08:55it's too small. I bought it once for my fabrics which I can sue myself. And then I bought a
09:04laundry
09:04basket but it was open and it was not nice. So I changed the baskets. But actually this one is
09:11too
09:11small. It's not nice. The laundry is always built up on top of it. It's too much. So I've ordered
09:19a new
09:20laundry basket that has two components. One for light wash, one for dark wash. Or dark clothes I have
09:29to say. So we can use that one. And then I want to use the basket which is over there
09:35for the stuffed
09:36puppets. And I think I'm going to put them down just to make a nice corner for the baby that
09:45they
09:45can play etc. I think for now I have to put the stuffed puppets on my bed because I need
09:51to use that
09:53bucket. The yellow bucket for the laundry which is now in the washing machine. So yeah the maternity
09:59task of today will be cleaning and sorting out the fridge. I did this already once. I wanted to
10:08remove the ice from the freezer. But then I didn't remove the plug from the fridge. So yeah it doesn't
10:16make any sense when the temperature is still the same. There will be still ice. So now I removed it
10:23and the freezer will be or the ice will be melting. But the thing I have to do now is
10:30I have a fridge
10:32downstairs as well. So I'm going to put all the things which are in the fridge and the freezer
10:38downstairs. So this one can be totally cleaned. And then we have a new clean freezer and fridge.
10:47And I'm very excited. And really my whole nesting thing is going all over. And my boyfriend is like
10:55what are you doing? And I'm like oh. I'm even getting mental when he's making something dirty. I'm
11:02like why are you making something dirty? But this is really my hormones. I think every woman that got
11:08pregnant knows about those hormones. You just want to have I don't know what it is. But I just want
11:16to
11:17have a nice and clean space for the baby. And I try my best to create that. And when someone
11:25else
11:26ruin that I'm getting mental. I'm like ah just clean it. But I also know it's my hormones. So
11:33it is what it is. I'm trying to be nice. So the maternity leave task of today is done. I
11:43made a
11:43picture of how this looked before. But look how clean this is. No ice in it. The door has to
11:51be closed
11:52very well. And of course I have to fill the fridge again. Okay guys. I just came back from a
11:59location where
11:59I had a collaboration as a UGC content creator. And it's really funny because now I'm also going
12:05to shoot another video as a UGC content creator. But I also want to be your content creator.
12:13And I received something. And I talked already about this. I received this basket. And it's for laundry.
12:24So what we are going to do is to install this upstairs. Bring the other basket down
12:30with the puppets in it. And then we have a new life. Oh I'm very happy with this thing to
12:39be honest.
12:39The good thing about creating content is that I can snip my fingers and then this problem is solved.
12:48Oh I'm so happy with this basket. And the good thing about this thing is it has two
12:55apartments. How do you say this? Two parts. So you can have, yeah. Separate your laundry. What life.
13:05Thank you. And in this are now all the stuffed puppets. So they are going to be down.
13:11A good afternoon to you. It is Friday. And the task of today is not only cleaning my house.
13:18But I'm just going to do that quick. But what I'm going to do with focus is
13:25all those closets in the kitchen. Because, yeah, I don't know when was the last time that I cleaned
13:34in the closet. So I want to reorganize everything. Tidy up. Clean the whole shabam. I already empty some
13:44spots. But I'm going to start here. From up till down. Cleaning like a pro. What I also want to
13:53do
13:53is in this closet there are some empty drawers. So I just want to, yeah. I want to reorganize everything.
14:04And I want to make space for the next thing. For these two. I want to put them in the
14:10kitchen as well.
14:10But, yeah. First things first. Clean the freaking kitchen.
14:16I want to be in the kitchen. I want to make space for the next thing.
15:07hello hello good afternoon it is saturday and there is a new maternity task of today
15:19and that's why i bring you upstairs because well if my parents and my boyfriend are seeing this
15:29they're going to kill me because i am going upstairs here to tidy up the yeah how do you call
15:38that now the english word will now be in the screen it's not that messy but i have to think
15:45the last
15:47months i just dropped there and i just want to tidy up so i will show you a before
15:54and an after okay this is the before i hope i can make a turn
16:04yes
16:10and now you see the after okay i knew already that this wasn't going to be a really hard task
16:17because i sort out already a lot of things and at first i thought i want to put all the
16:23clothes
16:23in a vacuum bag and now i'm like i don't care even and 90 of the clothes which are now
16:31in a suitcase are
16:32clothes that i can fit after my pregnancy so that's why there are a lot of clothes in the
16:39suitcases and we still want to have a closet so then that will change as well so yeah i can
16:48buy vacuum bags
16:49but then i buy because i buy so this is the after
17:12it's clean there but now i'm going to do something very fun
17:17not very funny but very fun i'm going to amesford to make the belly statue
17:24and i'm going to take you with me of course i'm not going to film the whole process since i
17:30have to
17:30stand naked yes um but i'm so curious about it and i see what i can film so
17:39so yeah you will see now some shots from amesford
18:08hello hello guys um it is sunday
18:11and i am messy because i can i'm messy because i can
18:18no i'm just in a lazy day i do some walk
18:21i was editing a video it's almost online and the maternity task of today was actually
18:28yeah something i had to do on the laptop and that is the it is actually a fun thing it's
18:34the bird card
18:37and we have a test print of that in the netherlands it's really common to send a card to
18:43not only family and friends but most of the time yeah
18:46people around you so for example i'm also going to send a card to the
18:51hospital uh or to my uh family where i work for but also for the work for my boyfriend so
18:58yeah it's really common to send a card when you receive a baby or when you have you said i've
19:04got
19:04a baby to not receive it like it's if it's a package like oh i received a baby today in
19:10the post mail no
19:12um when you gave birth it's really normal to send a postcard and then people can either
19:18come and visit the baby or they sent a card or they send some gifts yeah it's really common
19:28you want to see how it looks like and of course we don't know the birth the date of birth
19:34or
19:36the weight or whatever but it's just a test print so yeah i just made two test prints i called
19:41my
19:42sister like what kind of paper did you use and then she said yeah we do just did two test
19:46prints
19:47so you can just check out which kind you prefer so that's what we did oh i don't know why
19:53i felt
19:54cold but i also need to go to the washroom but okay i also wanted to finish this vlog so
20:00that was
20:01the maternity task of today for now i'm going to finish this vlog and i think i will be able
20:07to film
20:08next week as well it was today really rainy week or day and week as well next week on thursday
20:16oh it's
20:16going to be so sunny but the rest of the week i want to say i'm free i have lots
20:22of things to do
20:23but of course also a maternity task of today and i'm going to bring you with me as much as
20:29i can
20:30and as i want and as i'm in the mood for like i said before i take the camera whenever
20:37i want and
20:39yeah if you don't see me for a while it doesn't mean that there is directly a baby
20:44but it can also be that i'm not in the mood so if i'm in the mood i'm going to
20:48take the camera with
20:49me next week as well i think i will because i love vlogging my life so thanks for watching
20:55hope you like it don't forget to put a thumbs up and don't forget to subscribe
20:59and i see you maybe next week or maybe not bye