Entering week 15

I have heard that the symptoms such as nausea and fatigue usually go away in the second trimester, but last week they hit me hard core. I may have eaten something bad. There was a little amount of time where I thought that I had actually gotten sick because the girl I work with was "sick" with a stomach ache. The next day I asked her if she was feeling better and she told me that it turned out she was actually hungry! haha... Well I feel sick if I eat too late so I guess I can understand how she felt. There was one day I didn't get to eat early enough and I honestly though I was going to vomit! You'd think that eating would make me really feel that way, but not eating is much worse. When I don't eat right when I need to my stomach gets very upset, I get light headed and my fingers start to tingle. Maybe I need to get a little purse and fill it with snacks so that this doesn't happen anymore!

I looked at the following website about the 15th week of pregnancy and thought I'd post it on here to show which developments are happening this week!
http://www.womenshealthcaretopics.com/pregnancy_week_15.htm

Your Baby's Growth and Development
Your baby is growing rapidly as always as you continue your pregnancy week by week journey. You would still be able to see your baby's blood vessels through his paper-thin skin if you were to peek inside your uterus during pregnancy week 15. In fact the vessels forming in your baby's body make him look rather like a map! This week your baby will start producing lanugo, which is fine hair that will cover your baby's body up until a few weeks before birth. Lanugo covers every part of your baby in utero, except for the palms, soles of the feet, lips, penis, nails and inner fingers and toes. Typically babies will shed this hair by the 8th month of pregnancy, but it can persist in some after birth for a short period of time. Pre-term babies are more likely to be born with lanugo than full term babies. Your baby might start sucking his thumb this week.

The bones in your baby's body are also starting to get harder during pregnancy at 15 weeks and will continue to do so throughout your pregnancy. Your baby is spending most of his time practicing breathing, by inhaling and exhaling amniotic fluid. Believe it or not, the very act of doing so will help your baby's air sacs develop during pregnancy. Your baby continues to form taste buds at this point in time.

Trimester #2!!

I made it through the week without the progesterone pills! Everything still seems like it should be fine. I'm pretty excited about it! I am in my 2nd trimester which is a huge relief. That is when most people in my situation usually start telling people. I went ahead and told everyone at 12 weeks. At that time my Dr. said that since everything was going so well I shouldn't worry about anything bad happening. He said that he thought it would be just fine to tell people. My next Dr. appointment is in 2 more weeks! This last couple of weeks has actually gone pretty fast. I will be 16 weeks at that appointment. I'm not sure If I have an ultrasound scheduled, but I really hope I do. I was at my friends baby shower yesterday and one of the girls there found out the gender of her baby at 15 weeks. I just want to see if I can get lucky and find out early. I'm just impatient! I guess we will see what he does!

week 13, no more progesterone :s

At my last Dr. appointment I was told that I can stop taking my prometrium. I am very nervous about it, but everything I have read says that the baby starts producing its own progesterone at 10 weeks. I took my last pill friday night. I sure hope everything goes okay! I thought about getting one more refill of my prescription just to be safe, but I'm sure that my dr. knows what is best.

12 week appointment!

Yesterday I had my 12 week appointment. I started out with an ultrasound, then went and asked the nurse questions about pregnancy, I got my swine flu vaccination, and then go my blood drawn. The vaccination didn't hurt at all. I can't watch when I get shots because it freaks me out, so I sat on the table waiting to feel some pain. I was very suprised when she said she was finished. I didn't even feel anything! It was great. I wish that getting my blood drawn was the same story. The phlebotomist had a hard time getting my vein this time so she dug around in my arm for a little bit. She did get the vein luckily. I hate being poked multiple times! I didn't realize that they were going to draw so much blood though. They filled like 5 tubes. At the end I was feeling pretty light headed. Getting blood drawn usually does that to me!

I was so surprised to see how much my little baby had grown in just 4 weeks. It went from looking like a little jelly bean to looking like a human! It's so cool! In this picture I origionally thought that the baby was sucking his/her thumb, but after further review(I've been watching a lot of football with Steve) I've decided that it looks more like he/she is picking his/her nose lol! It's cute! I'm not sure if that is really what is going on, but it just looks like it. I can't wait to find out what the gender of my baby is. I hate writing he/she!