Week Twelve

Wow! I can’t believe I’m 12 weeks already! This is quite a milestone.Why is it a milestone? Well, "they say" (not sure who "they" is but whatever) that the chance of miscarriage drops significantly to less than 2% after week twelve.

This has been a pretty good week for me both in real-life and in pregnancy world. Let me start with the pregnancy stuff. One very big change in pregnancy world is that my morning sickness is dissipating. I still get waves of nausea throughout the day, especially if I’m hungry, but it’s a huge improvement from weeks prior. I’m definitely still feeling fatigue, especially in the afternoons around 2:00pm, but I feel so much better now that I’m not nauseous all day. My pants are getting tighter as the weeks go by and I’ve started to unbutton them the entire way and wear longer shirts this week. I wouldn’t say they are too tight, I would say that it’s just uncomfortable how they fit around my rapidly growing waist. It’s hard to believe that in another 8 weeks, I’ll have a definite baby bump and I’ll know the sex of our little sweetie.

I started browsing maternity tops this week and found one that I really love! I found it on the Motherhood Maternity website. Again, I’m not too keen on most maternity clothes because a lot of them remind me of tents so when I find something I actually like, I’ll probably pick it up as long as it’s within what I’m willing to spend. The shirt that I really love is dark purple and more fitted. It’s also something I would wear in real-life without a baby belly which really appealed to me. I went to two different Motherhood stores in the Harrisburg Area and couldn’t find it at either so I ended up ordering it online. I posted a photo for those that are curious. Ha, a day after I wrote this blog entry, all sizes were sold out with the exception of XL. I'm so glad I jumped on the small's while they were still available!

 See, isn't it cute?    

This is also the week that Glen and I got to share the big news with some of our closest friends. My good friend, Emily, arranged a girls night at a new sushi grill which was a golden opportunity to share the news with the girls. Glen then got the guys together for wings and told them our news. Everyone seemed really excited for us and we both had a great time. I really wanted to let my closest friends know a few weeks ago and I was pretty stuck on wanting to tell them in person but I never had the opportunity until now. I feel like a weight has been lifted from me in a way, because we can be a little bit more open about it and we know that we have a lot of love and support from everyone.

The one not-so glamorous side of this week is that I have a bacterial infection (BV) which I needed to be placed on antibiotics. The antibiotics leave me with an awful metallic taste in my mouth and they are hard to swallow. The metal taste usually goes away within 2 hours, but those two hours are brutal! I just try to hide the taste by eating loads of Skittles.The bad thing about BV is that if untreated, it can cause miscarriage in the 2nd trimester and pre-term labor, so I'm taking my yucky meds as directed.

So my non-pregnancy news includes a nice new raise in salary! I found out this week that my position was slightly underpaid and the company decided to make the salary for my position more competitive in the market by bumping me up a pay grade. To go along with this, my supervisor is trying to get my title changed along with changing me to an Exempt status in a few months. What this could mean is that I would get paid a flat weekly salary instead of being paid hourly. The benefit to this is that I am not required to work a set amount of hours, so when I have doctor appointments, I can leave for them and come back without taking vacation or making my hours up. Right now, I’m either using vacation or I’m flexing my time and working longer days on days that I don’t have appointments. This is manageable, but honestly, it would be so much easier if I was made exempt.

All in all, this was a pretty wonderful week. 

 Week 12: Plum

Average size: 2.1 in, .49 oz

As you move into the second trimester, baby shifts into the growth and maturation stage. After weeks in the critical development stage, almost all of baby's systems are fully formed.