2nd Trimester

Well today I am officially in my 2nd Trimester!

Yea!!! This is of course a relief. I am also hoping that my attitude and emotional state will improve.

For the most part I am feeling pretty good. I am still have a few mouth issues as well as a little acne that I am not really accustomed to.

I had my 12 week check-up last week and the baby's heartrate was 160. I also had an ultrascan which was an ultrasound accompanied by some blood work to check for Down Syndrome. Those came back normal. If they had of come back positive for Down Syndrome I would have still had and loved my baby but I would have had a little time to prepare for it.

At the ultrascan I changed my mind on the sex of the baby. I initially thought that it was a girl but while watching my little rugrat during that ultrasound I decided that it was boy. We will find out the first of April - so you will find out as well!!!!

Still a little catch up...

I really hope that at some point I will catch up enough so that these post coincide with what is going on in my pregnancy now but until then, I will just keep on posting how things progressed...

After the third and final blood was taken and my numbers were doing what they should be doing, they scheduled an appointment for an ultrasound. 

When I was first pregnant with Hunter at this point, our first ultrasound showed a slightly weak hearbeat.  There was a good chance that the pregnancy was not going to last.  However, at the follow-up ultrasounds the heartrate had increased and obviously everything was fine, seeing as I have a wild 2 year old running around.

So, with that history, I must say that I was a little nervous about this first ultrasound.  We could see the embryo (I will scan the pics and post them - I promise) and see the heartbeating STRONG. 

So, we met with the fertility doctor, she said things looked great and released me to my regular OB!