Week 12 Update!

Week 12!

Goodbye 1st trimester! As of tomorrow (Saturday) I will be starting my 13th week, aka the 2nd trimester!! In this trimester it is supposedly the time the mommy to be feels relatively the best. The morning sickness is supposed to be gone and the cute baby bump is supposed to be adorable aka the mommy isn't so big she feels like she's the size of a house (lol) So I am FOR SURE looking forward to feeling better because if you read my previous posts you know I've been having a hard time with the nausea and heartburn. 

Anywho....

This week I was 12 weeks pregnant (12 weeks 6 days in the pic). The baby is now roughly 2 1/2 inches and weighs a half ounce. By this week, my uterus has gotten too big to continue fitting in my pelvis and should start moving north toward the abdomen. The baby bump should be more and more noticeable as the baby continues its travels north and gets bigger each week. Also because of this growth, there is more pressure on my bladder. Since all the major structures have formed, this week's concentration was on the skeletal system. The baby now has individual fingers and toes all complete with nails. It also has some hair growth on the body (that explains the horrible heartburn!). The bump also has a digestive system and hormones are being secreted from the newly formed pituitary gland. The most interesting thing I think this week is that the baby's genitalia is staring to show! But sadly it is still too soon to be detected. 

Life Update!

First and foremost: it has been AWESOME having my hubby back! He is feeling MUCH better (still not 100%, but the eardrum swelling can take a while to go back to normal) and has gone back to work. (oh and for those of you who have messaged me asking why I don't put my hubby's name on the blog, it's out of respect to his privacy, until he says he wants his name out on the internet he will be referred to as the hubby.) My pets have been super happy to have him back home and have gotten back into their routine with him. 

This last week for me in all honesty has revolved around my bathroom breaks... I feel that all I do anymore is pee (more on that in the symptom section lol). I've ordered a couple things from Zulily and I'm waiting for those items to come in; apparently their shipping kinda sucks... as in maybe a month from now I'll get it... but when the items do come in I'll do a post :) Last weekend we headed up to Phoenix again to see my neighbor's new great dane puppies, and while we were up there I picked out some fabric for some decor in the baby room. (Not going to go too much into this until the room is done and I'll do a HUGE baby room post)

Speaking of ordering, I also ordered a crib! Now before you get too excited it's not THE baby crib. We already have a crib (to be revealed in the baby room post) that my parents provided (in reality I went to their house last year and demanded that it should be mine since they don't use it) and that will be the main crib we use. This crib I ordered is actually a mini collapsable crib. Why you ask? Well mainly because I HATE HATE HATE pack and plays and wanted something that "packs away" better then the big monstrous cages that take up half a room or car or closet. (I told you I hate them) I'll do a post on this crib once I get some bedding for it since its not part of my secret baby room project. :) 

I also got a call from the Dr's office this week to schedule my baby's anatomy scan.. get this.. for AFTER 19 weeks! I thought baby's gender could be determined at 15 or 16 weeks! But they wouldn't budge :( I'll have to wait... so the gender reveal party I want will have to be later then I expected. Another plus to having the hubby around is after I got this call, we started taking baby names. And I'm happy to report that we have agreed on a girl's name and a boys name that we really like! AND before you go and get too excited we WILL NOT be telling these choices... for a very long time... possibly until the birth... This is a piece of advice that I once got from a person who said she told her baby name choices early on to her friends and family and then suddenly people were saying things like (just an example) "oh I knew a Jack in high school... horrible kid," or "Oh I taught a little girl name Jill and her middle name was..." So you can see, we don't want other's influences or options to sway our name decisions. 

Symptom Check!

Heartburn/Nausea: The Nausea hasn't really shown up this week, and the heartburn has gone down to once a day, but I have had to double my doses on the Zantac because when I get it, it is still pretty bad. Also, I've been getting the heartburn mostly at night, so I feel pretty good during the day. 

Cravings: I haven't really had cravings this week, but I have been enjoying lots of snacking on small things like cheese and crackers and yogurt. 

Food aversions: The only major things I've still been having problems with is Mexican food, (we tried to have some the other day and it was a struggle, although it was more the enchilada and not the chips and salsa.. soooo PROGRESS!) and large amounts of meet. I still have not been enjoying beef (much to the hubby's dismay) and recently I can only stand a small amount of chicken.

Emotions: I don't think I've been too crazy with my emotions, but the hubby has pointed out that I am getting super frustrated at people more quickly then I usually would. In short, my patience has been running thin and as my hubby says "certain people may face the wrath of Bre" if my patience continues to run thin. (honestly don't see what he means lol I'm still as pleasant as ever right!?)

Hormones: this in the sense of how the hormones are effecting my skin. The last few weeks, I've been breaking out all over my face. This week I'm happy to report that my face has pretty much cleared up! however, the breakouts have moved to my back and shoulders! I've never had breakouts there before! AND they hurt! This may also be because it has warmed up here in southern Arizona... we've had many days in a row now above 90 degrees so I've been super overheated and sweaty... maybe its the heat and not the hormones? 

Urination: Well I was bound to talk about this at some point. I have noticed peeing more because of the increase of water I've had to drink, but lately... oh man... I feel like I have to plan my days around where the bathrooms are. I have to go once an hour on average now during the day and at least 3 times at night. And oh coarse I can't drink less water because that would be bad for both me and the baby. 

Stretch marks: This too was bound to happen and I'm very aware that no matter what you do, stretch marks are hereditary and can not be completely avoided. But these stretch marks are not on my stomach, (still nothing there) these are on my hips! (left one specifically) I still haven't gained any weight but have noticed that pants aren't fitting as well as they used to! So as I predicted a long time ago, my Italian roots have kicked in and my child bearing hips (as the saying goes) have started to show... and with that comes stretch marks. I just hope my hips don't get so big I'll have permanent saddle bags! I've also noticed some on my chest... I really don't want them to get any bigger (I think they are already big enough!... I guess this is the Native American in me....) So I've been willing them to shrink lol.. yeah we'll see how that works haha..

Question time!

So I thought since so many of you who read this are already moms or some who are dads, I thought I'd start making some questions to all you out there for some expert insight. 

1st question: For you mommies out there: At what point did you cave in and buy new bras? I'm pretty much out of my normal ones and squishing myself into sports bras that I feel are like corsets that are restricting air flow by the end of the day. 

2nd question: At what week did you find out the gender? Am I crazy for thinking after week 19 is too long to wait?

3rd question: When did you start "nesting" or fixing up the baby room? Do you think I'm a little ahead of myself? 

4th question: Did you and your spouse take a baby moon? As I've been doing my reading on the 2nd trimester, the book says that women like to take a last hurrah before they get to big or the baby comes.. what do you think? 

Well that's it for this week! Next time I post I'll be in my second trimester! WOOT!!

-Bre and the bump