Week 13: Peach

Hey everyone ... here's your weekly update!!! ***keep in mind ... NEXT week will be a lemon ... meaning this PEACH is not referencing the HUGE peaches we're used to seeing nowadays ... think more like nectarine size peach.*** Again the below info is from http://www.babycenter.com/. How your baby's growing:Fingerprints have formed on your baby's tiny fingertips, her veins and organs are clearly visible through her still-thin skin, and her body is starting to catch up with her head — which makes up just a third of her body size now. If you're having a girl, she now has more than 2 million eggs in her ovaries. Your baby is almost 3 inches long (the size of a medium shrimp/or peach) and weighs nearly an ounce.

For me, nausea managed to kick into high gear the last few days along with some tiredness. Mike has been really helpful through all of this and especially the last few days when I really haven’t felt great. Even the exhausted skier he was on Saturday night when he got home from Bear Valley, he still took care of me. The irony of this is that with starting the second trimester you’re “supposed” to be feeling less nausea and less fatigued but apparently my first trimester wants to go out with a bang? My belly is starting to grow and its freaking me out!! Lol!! It’s still small and really only looks “fat” but for the first time I’m noticing that while sitting I need to unbotton my pants. I tried wearing my new maternity slacks one day last week and it felt like they were going to fall off of me all day. The bump isn’t big enough to hold anything up yet and my pants are all getting tighter and tighter. So I’ll have to figure out a solution in the meantime. I will be telling my bosses/HR this week at work. I’ll be keeping it a secret a bit longer from the department. I’ll give them a few more weeks until it becomes more obvious that “Danielle is getting fat, right?”. Lol!! We have our NT scan tomorrow in Oakland. Mike took the day off work to be there with me. This scan will tell us if there are any genetic abnormalities with “peach”. We’re both a little anxious but “what will be, will be”. It’s crazy to realize that starting off the new year … Mike and I might get to feel our baby move!!! “They” say you can usually start feeling “flutters” around week 14 and actually movement by week 16. We both can’t wait!!! Have a great week everyone …