SECOND TRIMESTER!

Feeling so elated today!! I finally made it, after two pregnancies, into second trimester. It feels good to be here! Waking up this morning to a fresh new trimester was a great feeling. One of the first things I saw today was my Welcome to Second Trimester email from Baby Gaga.

Wowee! You've made it through the first trimester! Your baby is nearly three inches long from crown to rump (CR) and has already developed their own unique set of finger prints. As for you, you should be proud you've made it through the first trimester. You've probably started to notice that it's really getting time to do some maternity clothes shopping eh? For tips and advice on the best way to shop and save, check out the full article for week 13. 

Baby is THREE inches long, now approximately the size of a little peach and has FINGER PRINTS! I now have a little fully developed but just needs to grow and grow baby in there. All organs are in place, bones are hardening, pee is happening, teeth buds are in place, and finger prints are on their little fingers! 

I'm now in the dangerous "I want to go buy EVERYTHING for baby" stage, especially since I just got paid. After a while of saving, I can now afford my Boba 3G. Or I could afford a 3D gender scan for 17-18 weeks. Or my Mickey and Minnie nursery decorations. I want to hold off until I know what baby is but wow did it suddenly get hard to do that! I finally feel like I"m getting somewhere now, and it's so exciting. 

Speaking of which, my dreams are all over the place! I dream about baby a lot. I'm finally, finally, finally getting out of the stage where I have dreams of bleeding 2-3 times a week. Yeah, that's always rough to wake up to. Now it's about once every week or two. Replacing those dreams are dreams about baby. In the beginning of pregnancy, dreams about baby were exclusively girl. I always saw her wrapped up in a pink fleece blanket and being so wowed over how much her and Katie looked alike. For the last two weeks though, baby has been exclusively boy in my dreams, always a chubby little thing and I'm shocked every time I find out he's a boy. 

My belly is staying about the same size now, but I'm still gaining weight pretty steadily! I'm not sure where it's currently going, but I've now gained a total of 7.5 lbs, from 114-121.5. I'm finally in a good weight, so I'm happy about that. Seeing that I eat constantly (nothing quite points that out like filling out every detail in the midwives' food diary!) it's about time my body allowed me to gain something! 

A belly picture will follow later today, can not find my black top to do it in! Of course, one of the big important weeks and that goes missing!
Edit: Belly pic: