2nd Trimester - Finally!

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Today starts my second trimester. My nausea seems to have gone away almost completely and I feel much less tired. Here is my 13 week picture. not a heck of a lot of difference between it and the 11 week picture... when is this thing going to actually grow??!!?? Aaron came with me to my doctor's appointment last week and we got to hear the baby's heartbeat. It took the doc a few minutes to find it (which made me nervous), but she eventually found it way off to the side. Aaron said it sounds like a deep sea submarine in a war movie (it kinda made a "whoosh woosh woosh" sound). I forgot to ask what the heart rate was, but I'll ask at my next one. Other than that, the doc said that everything is looking really good and on schedule. My regular ultrasound is planned for when I'm 19 weeks and will be done at the hospital. The doc said that they won't tell me the sex of the baby at the hospital, but if I really want to know, I'll have to get it done on Scott Road (isn't is funny that they will tell you the sex on Scott Road...). Then she said that she really recommends that I go to the one at the hospital because they do a much better job of the ultrasound. I said that that is fine because I am planning on getting the 3D ultrasound done anyways in Langley. She said that the UC Baby place is very neat and they do a very good job there as well - just go after I'm 20 weeks and they will tell me if it's a boy or a girl, so that's the plan.

3D Ultrasound

There is a private clinic in Langley where you can get a 3D ultrasound done (for a fee of course) whenever you like! 3D ultrasounds are really neat because the literally look like a real picture of your baby, still in the womb. You can even get a 30 minute DVD made of you baby moving around, sucking its tumb, etc. Here's the link to their site:

UC Baby

I'm thinking of going around 20 weeks so that they will tell me if it's a boy or a girl. They won't tell you before 20 weeks because of some wackos that will abort if the baby is not the gender they prefer...

If I end up going, I will definitely post pics here.

First Belly Pic

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I finally took a first belly picture. Not really a whole lot to see yet, but it's probably a good idea to have decent "before-ish" picture. This picture was taken on May 4th, which is 11 weeks, 0 days. According to the web, the baby is 1.5 inches long and weighs 0.25 ounces. Its skin is transparent still, so you can see all the blood vessels beneath it. Bones are hardening, tooth buds are appearing and all its fingers and toes have separated. My uterus has gone from the size of a small pear, to the size of a grapefruit.