13 weeks and falling asleep on my feet
According to the books and the websites, 13 weeks (the start of the second trimester of pregnancy) is when the icky symptoms of the first trimester start to dissipate and you enter Tri 2 with a new lease of life.
Lying fucking hippies.
I'm so tired I can barely focus. I find myself sitting down to read and staring at a one inch square on the top left hand corner of the page, or standing at the side of the road waiting to cross when there's no traffic. My hair, which is supposed to become glossy and luxuriant, looks like something you'd fish out of a hairdresser's plughole. I'm being told that I'm 'glowing' by work colleagues, because my skin looks so terrible that I'm glammed up to the nines every day in my most expensive makeup (Laura Mercier is a goddess by the way).
I am getting some comedy relief from the cat though. I'm not showing, and I can't feel movement yet, but on Monday afternoon I left work early to spend the afternoon and evening lying on the bed with a cold flannel draped over my head (as you do) and he arrived next to me squeaking away, then started batting and nuzzling at my stomach. I was in mid 'awww' when he farted so horribly that I was forced to retreat under my pillow muttering about taxidermy.
Then yesterday evening he had settled himself between Matt and me on the bed and Matt wondered out loud how he would cope with the new arrival, and more's to the point 'How's he going to react when you start lactating'. At which point the freakish little goblin sat bolt upright and started sniffing my right nipple.
I'm now 13 weeks pregnant - 189 days to go. According to http://www.babycentre.co.uk/ :
Your baby is now about 6.7cm long from crown to rump and weighs nearly 23g, about the same as half a banana. Tiny fingerprints are now at the tips of her fingers. Your baby has sucking muscles in her cheeks, so when you poke your tummy gently she will feel it and start rooting. It's a rehearsal for the important instinct of searching for your nipple once she's born.
If you're having a girl, she now has approximately 2 million eggs in her ovaries. She will have only a million by the time she's born. She'll have fewer eggs as she gets older, and by age 17, the number will have dropped to 200,000.
As for you, the fog may be lifting, so to speak. The side-effects of early pregnancy, frequent trips to the loo, tiredness and nausea, diminish some time in the second trimester. Your second trimester starts when you've completed 13 weeks of pregnancy. You may not even feel like you're pregnant any more. But your increasingly rounded tummy will reassure you that you are!
Lying fucking hippies.
I'm so tired I can barely focus. I find myself sitting down to read and staring at a one inch square on the top left hand corner of the page, or standing at the side of the road waiting to cross when there's no traffic. My hair, which is supposed to become glossy and luxuriant, looks like something you'd fish out of a hairdresser's plughole. I'm being told that I'm 'glowing' by work colleagues, because my skin looks so terrible that I'm glammed up to the nines every day in my most expensive makeup (Laura Mercier is a goddess by the way).
I am getting some comedy relief from the cat though. I'm not showing, and I can't feel movement yet, but on Monday afternoon I left work early to spend the afternoon and evening lying on the bed with a cold flannel draped over my head (as you do) and he arrived next to me squeaking away, then started batting and nuzzling at my stomach. I was in mid 'awww' when he farted so horribly that I was forced to retreat under my pillow muttering about taxidermy.
Then yesterday evening he had settled himself between Matt and me on the bed and Matt wondered out loud how he would cope with the new arrival, and more's to the point 'How's he going to react when you start lactating'. At which point the freakish little goblin sat bolt upright and started sniffing my right nipple.
I'm now 13 weeks pregnant - 189 days to go. According to http://www.babycentre.co.uk/ :
Your baby is now about 6.7cm long from crown to rump and weighs nearly 23g, about the same as half a banana. Tiny fingerprints are now at the tips of her fingers. Your baby has sucking muscles in her cheeks, so when you poke your tummy gently she will feel it and start rooting. It's a rehearsal for the important instinct of searching for your nipple once she's born.
If you're having a girl, she now has approximately 2 million eggs in her ovaries. She will have only a million by the time she's born. She'll have fewer eggs as she gets older, and by age 17, the number will have dropped to 200,000.
As for you, the fog may be lifting, so to speak. The side-effects of early pregnancy, frequent trips to the loo, tiredness and nausea, diminish some time in the second trimester. Your second trimester starts when you've completed 13 weeks of pregnancy. You may not even feel like you're pregnant any more. But your increasingly rounded tummy will reassure you that you are!
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