Leaving the first trimester...

I am celebrating the last week of my first trimester. This is another bizarre artefact of the way pregnancy weeks are counted, since they count from before conception. So you would think that the first trimester would be 12 weeks or approximately 3 months (hence, "trimester"). Well, you would be wrong. The first trimester is actually 14 weeks. The last two I think are only 12 weeks. So at 13 weeks and one day, I am on my way to Trimester #2 and looking forward to it.

It's amazing, it's like someone plugged my electricity back in. I have noticed that in the past week or so, I am much less tired. I had a work trip to North Carolina last week, one to Atlanta this week, and one to Cincinnati next week, but I am no where near as tired as I would have expected to be 3 or 4 weeks ago when I was sleeping all weekend, every weekend. My mood is better although I do get emotional all of a sudden and for absolutely no reason. This has only happened a few times and seems to be linked to being overtired. The good part is that it has not unintentionally misdirected at VH, yet. :) I'm sure that time will come sooner than either of us wants it to.

My stomach has been a little bit perkier and more receptive to different kinds of food (I even had chicken for lunch today!), and I am usually able to concentrate a bit better than I have been in the past few weeks. So, overall, this second trimester thing could be good. Wooly Bear, I know you are suffering but it gives you something to look forward to very soon.

And now, a Baby Status Update: We used the home fetal doppler last night to listen to the heartbeat. She's still in there but was hiding. I guess maybe she was resting when we were bothering her. According to BabyCenter.com, she's a whole 3inches at this point! No wonder my belly started to pop a little. She has fingerprints and can pee. I've been trying to figure out the logistics of the last part because they didn't cover that one in my reproductive health classes in grad school. I need to get myself a book...