13 weeks

I have officially completed my first trimester. Yea! My pregnancy books say that most women start feeling better by now. I guess I'm not most women. But I have noticed a few more better days than worse days lately. My belly is starting to protrude more and my organs are starting to feel smashed. That's just going to keep getting worse but I'll take it over nausea any day. One pregnancy symptom that hasn't wavered at all is my fatigue. I could sleep at any time.

I really think i felt a little bump from the baby tonight, but the baby books say its too early to feel anything. So unless the baby really hurled its self across my uterus, I may have been imagining it.

Cameron has been out of town for work most of this week and he came back on Saturday. I am so glad he's back. He does so much for our family when I'm sick. I was really sick today. Maybe my body was holding out until he came home. Because there's not an option to be sick in bed when you have a two year old.

This Thursday I have a first trimester screening at 11:30. I didn't have this when I was pregnancy with Colin. I didn't really feel that I needed it. It tests for down syndrome and trisomy 13 & 18. This time I'm doing it for mostly selfish reasons. I have heard that you get a really amazing sonogram that's really clear. And I've also heard that sometimes if the baby cooperates, they can give you a pretty good guess at the sex of the baby. So that's pretty exciting. I'll be seeing a dr in Plano. She mostly does high risk pregnancies and these special sonograms. So you will all get an extra update again this week! I haven't decided if I'll share their prediction on the sex yet. Or wait till the 20 weeks when its for sure. I guess we'll all know by Thursday. :)

12 week dr appointment

Today was my 12 week dr appointment. It was pretty simple- in and out like I thought. I heard the baby's heart beat. My doctor said good and strong in the 160 bpm range. She said I should have started feeling better already, I told her I have not. If anything I've had some spells lately that have been really bad. But I reminded her that my nausea lasted nearly 16 weeks last time. She suggested I try some B vitamins. So I'll have to pick that up. I had my blood drawn for some testing. Normal things like the required HIV testing and thyroid testing. I also elected to get genetic testing done which includes a sonogram that must be done next week. So I'll make an appointment first thing tomorrow because the sono must be done within the 12-13 week range.

I made my next appointment for the Monday before thanksgiving. I think that's November 19th. And then the NEXT appointment will be the gender sono appointment!! Yea!

12 weeks

Today I turn 12 weeks prego. I'm excited that this is the last week of my first trimester, but all excitement is laced with miserable nausea. I'm hoping that it starts lightening up soon and then disappears completely. When it lasts weeks and weeks on end, it's a little depressing. And I know everyone is tired of hearing me talk about it. But I'm just as tired of saying it- and MORE tired of feeling it. Maybe I'm paranoid, but I feel like no one understands what I'm going through and are getting frustrated or annoyed that I can't do the same things I usually do. I can't get through blow drying my hair without stopping to take a break and sit down half way through. I'm super tired and turn sick on a dime so it's hard to commit to do anything. And nothing sounds fun in addition to that, when u can't eat and you have to be sitting down all the time.

Ok- enough of the griping (I'm tired of hearing it too). A positive thing about this coming week is that I have another doctors appointment. On wednesday I get to hear the baby's heart beat for the first time. Besides that, I don't think there's much going on this appointment- but I'm still excited.

I know some doctors can tell the sex of the baby at 16 weeks but my doctor does it at 20 weeks. Which is 8 weeks from now. I guess I could ask my doctor if I could bump it up but she doesn't seem to type to budge on stuff like that. So at the latest (and if baby 2 cooperates) we'll know in 8 weeks.

I don't feel any movement yet, but it's still really early. Baby2 is still developing the arms and legs to pound away with later on.

I'll update my blog again after my appointment on Wednesday. Just to let you know any info I find out.

11 weeks

Today I am 11 weeks. I have still been very sick. I am very ready for this first trimester to be over. Very ready to stop being sick.

The baby this week is the size of a large plum. And my belly seems to have grown a little bit.

I don't have much to report this week so I'll just post this weeks picture and hopefully have a better report next week.

Love you all!

10 weeks

Double digits! Woo hoo! And 1 week closer to being out of my first trimester! The nausea is definitely still there for me. A lot. But it hasn't been constantly like weeks prior. Which is such a relief even though I still am sick many times a day. I'm hoping it just keeps getting better and better. With my new found breaks from the nausea I'm trying to do more, actually get out of the house. But I find that I tire very easily. I'm not sure if it's from just normal pregnancy fatigue or if it's because I've spent the past few weeks in bed most of the time. I feel renewed this week because the nausea has lightened up on me and we had our first cold snap. We actually had to turn the heat on, and I have all sorts of yummy warm fall scents burning in my scentsys. I may even put up a couple Halloween decor items this week.

According to 'what to expect' the baby is a little more than 2 inches. It's hard to believe that this 2 inch teeny thing has already put me through so much trouble!!

We are thinking about maybe switching Colin to a toddler bed soon, but I feel like he is just going to think- hey wait a minute! I don't have to stay in here! We're going to have to get some sort of child lock on his door because I don't want him out roaming the house at night while we're sleeping. Scary!

My next dr appointment is October 24th. We should be able to hear the heart beat then, but no sonogram or anything. But I'll update you on any info from that I get.