Why I like the Second Trimester...

...Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb

Still, there are a lot of reasons why the second trimester is better than the first:

• Food looks, smells, and sounds appealing
• I actually get hungry
• No more gagging when I brush my teeth
• or eat
• or smell
• or anything. Pretty much no more gagging
• I'm starting to look more pregnant...no more need to slip the fact into random conversations with strangers
• Ultrasounds...need I say more?
• Fetal movement
• More energy
• No more tender and achy...boobs
• Did I mention that I like to eat again?

Pretty much, its just a heck of a lot better.

Accomplishing something

I actually got some things done today. Some days its really hard to find the motivation (or the energy) to get anything done around our apartment. But I finally accomplished some stuff today! I finally finished sorting and labeling all of the hand-me-down baby clothes we got and found a place to put them that was not on the living room floor (quite the feat considering the size of our apartment). I rearranged our closet somewhat to make room for a lot of things, including the frame to our bed that we can't use anymore since the bed broke. And I put away the laundry.

Its not a huge, impressive list of things, but I'm happy with myself!

15 weeks and starting to show

I have to say that this is pretty exciting for me. For weeks I've been in the inbetween stage where I just looked like I ate too much for lunch. But now I'm slowly starting to look like I'm getting more pregnant that just getting fatter. :) Granted, I'm sure it still looks debatable at this point from someone who doesn't know, but its a step in the right direction!

I have my 16 week appointment next week. The 12 week was very exciting because of the early ultrasound, but we're not sure if my doctor will do another one at this next appointment. He did allude to the fact that at 16 weeks we could possibly find out the gender, so does that mean that we'll get another one?? If nothing else, I guess we'll have the big 20 week ultrasound to look forward too...

Alan and I have both admitted to secretly hoping its a girl. I just recently found out that I'm thinking that, but I guess he's been hoping that for a long time without saying anything. I really don't want to say anything definitive, but I guess I kinda just did... Oh well. We'll just have to see what we get when it comes.

Sleep

I have had the worst time sleeping the past week or so. It has gotten to the point where there is only one comfortable position I can fall asleep in, and if I vary from it in any way, I'm up half the night. For obvious reasons I can't sleep on my stomach, sleeping on my back makes everything ache, and sleeping on my left side hurts my lower back for some reason. The only position that works is on my left side, slightly curled with a pillow between my knees, and one arm under my head pillow. If I don't fall asleep fast enough, sometimes even that gets uncomfortable. To quote "The Girlfriends Guide to Pregnancy" :

"Some Stepford Wives cheerfully told me that this was nature's way of preparing me for the sleepless nights that I would experience as a new mother. That's like saying dieting will prepare you for starvation! As far as I was concerned, a nature that was capable of giving chameleons the gift of disguise wouldn't be stupid enough to think that the cure for no sleep was more no sleep."

I'm just under 13 weeks, and its only going to get worse from here...