13/14 week update

So I figured I'm between 13 weeks and 14 weeks now. Apparently 14 weeks tomorrow according to the doc, but still 13 weeks according to me. So will do both updates at the same time :)

13 weeks pregnant:

13 Weeks Pregnant

14 weeks pregnant:
Baby is about the size of your fist. WOW!


So yesterday I go to my auditing meeting, and the accountant says to me (all sweetly, he's old) - oh are you carrying a baby or are you just getting fat? Ummm... lucky I'm pregnant otherwise I might have been slightly insulted. It was nice that someone noticed though without me telling them.

We also added a curtain to the baby's room this week. We'll be buying the cloth nappies in the next month or so, and I suppose I need to decide which travel system we're going with. Though we can get the pram later, more interested in the car seat at the moment.

Thanks for reading! We have the midwife appointment in 2,5 weeks - really looking forward to it! We'll book antenatal classes at the same time, considering I've done them already as part of my doula course - do you think she'll charge half price? HAHA fat chance.

I've had a bit of a cold this week, started on Tuesday evening - I was pretty achy yesterday, but I already feel so much better today. So maybe it was a 24 hour thing. My GP said I should just take Panado (what's the point in taking ANYTHING then I ask?) and some nose spray. But I've just been taking the recommended dose of Vitamin C for pregnancy (2000mg) or a bit less if I've had fruit that day and it obviously seems to be helping. No H1N1 here, people love to terrify you - specially when you're pregnant!

Love to all xx

We're getting somewhere with the room

Other than the BEAUTIFUL cot, compactum and shelves Justin has made for us - we are slowly adding to the baby's room. We've chosen a monkey theme, with the colours being white, brown and a light green. My mom in law bought this duvet set - it had orange in it, but we changed it to brown instead.

TFR!

Belly pic

I promised to post a pic, so here it is. I just look fat. This is at 11 weeks 1 day or 11 weeks 6 days according to the doc.

Video Journal - Scan Update

I forgot to say in the video that the good news is that the pregnancy is no longer considered high risk and we can birth wherever we want (most birth centres don't allow even marginally high risk patients). So we're smiling :)

I love summer!

Gosh I love springtime, the smell of the jasmine and the sunshine just makes everything so exciting :)

So before I depart the notorious first trimester, I need to make some social commentary.

There is an unspoken "mommy club" that I am not sure if I want to be part of or not. I'm generally the minority when it comes to natural birthing, extended breastfeeding, delayed vaccinations etc. but all of a sudden I have been thrust into this mommy club and I am just like everyone else. Those who know me, know this is not my favourite thing. It's like some undercover secret society where the untold is acknowledged and only the pregnant are allowed to know.

For example, I have suffered quite badly with nausea. I tell another so called mommy club member, and they nod in understanding and say "it's crap hey?" and then they laugh a loud Ursula-the-evil-one in the little mermaid laugh *shocked* like they were waiting for someone else to go through this misery that is the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. Seriously I would have listened if someone had told me this beforehand. They should have said it's like 6 weeks of food poisoning!

I would never trade this time for anything in the world, I am definitely realising more and more every day that I was definitely born for this, but I think I'm cancelling my subscription to the evil mommy club.

Happy Spring everyone!! Love you all MWA MWA

11 weeks

I'll do a regular update now and a video update on Friday after our scan and first appointment with the gynae - moving on from the fertility specialist.


Baby's development
Up until 11 weeks pregnant you could see right through your baby's skin. Now, your baby's skin will remain paper thin but becomes a multi-layered membrane losing much of its transparency. By this point in time your little one should be able to open and close her fists, and is starting to form little buds that will one day pop out as teeth!

By pregnancy 11 weeks your baby's fingers and toes have lost their amphibious like resemblance, now separated instead of webbed. Your little one is taking advantage of the huge space she is floating in by pregnancy 11 weeks, by kicking and squirming about. In the next three weeks your baby will go through a tremendous growth spurt, almost doubling in size. At no other time in your baby's life will she undergo as many rapid changes as are occurring during this stage of your pregnancy.

Your Growth and Development
You may be starting to show a bit by 11 weeks pregnant at this point (but not very much unless you have already had a baby). You are almost at the end of your first trimester by pregnancy at 11 weeks but you still may not look pregnant to onlookers, which some women find frustrating. Take comfort knowing that your uterus however is now just about big enough to fill your pelvis and is probably poking up above the middle of your pubic bone. Before you know it your tummy will pronounce to the whole world that you are pregnant!

By 11 weeks pregnant you should be feeling pretty pregnant, even if you don't look very pregnant. You might start to notice that your hair and fingernails start growing very rapidly. For some women this doesn't happen until closer to the third trimester, but others notice it right away. However, some women also find that their hair is more unruly than normal, so don't count on thick locks during pregnancy necessarily. If you have been suffering from terrible morning sickness, take heart knowing that in just another week or two you should start to feel remarkably better. Many women start gaining weight, about a pound per week during the second trimester, as they find their nausea subsiding.

11 Weeks Pregnant

Pregnancy is contagious

I just have to laugh - 4 out of 7 of us at book club are now pregnant. As I mentioned before, there must have been something in the wine. Something that cancels the birth control pill or to that effect :)

Anyway, so here's to celebrating another 2010 baby!

Oh and Nudger is now known as a Foetus, it graduated from embryo just this morning :D