2nd Trimester has officially begun!!!!!! WOOHOO.
I know 'woohoo' doesn't sound very convincing, but fyi: I am truly ESTATIC!!!
I think the nasty evil morning sickness has subsided & I am now feeling the way I did when I was pregnant with Luke. As long as I eat something, anything every couple hours I feel pretty good. The baby is the size of my fist now. Well, I don't know if he/she is the size of my fist or the average fist or what. But he/she is getting bigger :) Travis caught me counting pringles today... I read on the package that 16 chips weighs one ounce. I didn't know how much an ounce was so I started counting the pringles and holding them to see how much the baby weighs now. He told me I was crazy, but I thought it was rather 'scientific' of me. My baby weighs the same as 24 pringles!! Which was heavier than I thought it would be. The belly just keeps a growin. Oh! I almost forgot. I'm 80% sure that I'm already starting to have Braxton Hicks Contractions!!! Yes, 14 weeks & already having false labor! I will get super crampy & then my belly gets really hard. Then a little while later the cramps will dwindle away & my belly will gets softer again. I thought I was just imagining things. But Trav felt it the other night & and noticed them too. Well the difference in my belly, not the cramps :P I looked it up on the internet &apparently you can have the BH contractions this early. It said if you have had a child before your BH contractions can appear earlier in pregnancy & be more intensified. Grrreat. With Luke I had BH contractions, but not til I was jeeze, 7/8 months? I have my next appointment the 19th, so I will ask my doctor what he thinks. I don't think there is really anything I can do to prevent them though. At least he can verify that's what they are and that I'm not just imagining things. I have 100% convinced Trav that we are finding out the sex. Hopefully 6 weeks from now!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!! I promised myself I'm not going to buy anything until then. Let me reinforce this for myself: I'm not going to buy anything until then.... Still have a girl name, still no boy name. Ahhhh, 14 weeks!!! 26 weeks to go. Well probably not, I'm a child bearing labor machine. I went into labor on my own a week early with Luke. My doctor assured me that I'll have this baby before my 23rd birthday (2 days AFTER baby's due date) and he wouldn't be suprised at all if I go into labor earlier than the 10th on my own again. We shall see, I could have me a July 4th baby :)
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Oh yes, everything comes much sooner the second time around! I found that it was also true for healing time afterwards, so that was a great bonus!
And nearly everyone I've talked to has said their second babies were less maintenance than their firsts. I know that has definitely been true for me! Being a mom twice is GREAT! Even labor and delivery was ten times better for me. I'm so excited for you!
(My doctor's have always guessed my babys' gender correctly at 13 weeks. But I'm guessing you don't have another ultrasound for several weeks...either way, your little bean's sex should already be distinguishable! Isn't that nuts??)
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