Goodbye second trimester, hello and welcome third trimester!
Second trimester
summary:
Since week 14, Flipper has doubled in length and grown from
5 ounces to about 2 pounds! She has started growing gorgeous red hair, and
started getting nice and chubby! All of her senses are functional! I can’t
believe how much she’s grown and developed already!
Through all of this, I have been feeling reasonably okay. My
nausea went away at the beginning of the trimester, but my exhaustion has
remained since about week six (no fun). As she’s been growing, so has my
stomach! I get rounder every day; I’m surprised almost every time I catch a
glimpse of myself in the mirror!
My emotions have been a bit more… sensitive… this past week,
but in my defense, it was a very stressful week!
This Week:
In my last post, I mentioned how nervous I was about my
gestational diabetes-screening test. I took it last week and got the call on
Thursday that I had, indeed, failed. As I’m sure you can imagine, I was pretty
upset. Even though I logically know that I have no control over how my body
processes sugar during pregnancy (everything goes crazy), I still felt like a
big fat failure. I had to schedule a more in depth and accurate test for
Monday.
Drew and I spent that whole morning in the doctor’s office.
I had to fast the night before, come in first thing and have blood drawn, drink
a sweeter drink, then have more blood drawn every hour until lunch time. It was
not fun, but I got the call yesterday that I “passed” that one—no diabetes for
me! I’m super grateful about that, but honestly, still irritated about the
whole situation. It definitely doesn’t help me like doctors at all. Ugh.
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| The bruises look more epic in person. Promise. |
Third Trimester:
For the most part, I am SO happy to officially be in the
third trimester. I feel so lucky and blessed to experience pregnancy, but at
the same time, I am not enjoying it 90% of the time. I miss my energy! But
there’s definitely nothing that compares to feeling the little one kick and
flip around and seeing my stomach jump randomly. There are also times that I
can look down and see big lumps poking out where she is just hanging out! It’s
so weird! I remember just a month or so ago that my stomach felt like she was
so tiny and barely in there, now I feel like it’s all her!
I’m happy and excited for the third trimester, though I hope
that the nausea will stay away (I’ve heard a lot about it coming back towards
the end) and that my fatigue doesn’t get worse (ick). I’ve also made a huge
list of the millions of things that we need to get done in the next couple
months. My hope is to have virtually everything done by Christmas, just in case
she’s an early bird (but as she’s my daughter, I certainly don’t anticipate
that).
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| With my two baby girls |