Yeah, 2nd Trimester

I have officially hit my second trimerster as of today.  To sum up the previous trimester, I probably had it better than most other pregnant women. Not too much of any one pregnancy symptom.  Not too much nausea, not too much puking, not too much wierd food problems, but I did have lots of exhaustion, as Donald will atest to. All in all though I am glad to put that period behind me. Already in the last week or so my energy has returned.  I am no longer going to bed at 7pm.  I stayed up until 9pm last night. WOW!!!  And I can now brush my teeth without inducing dry heaves.  Its the little things that matter so much now.

We had our third appointment with our OB yesterday.  Donald missed almost the entire thing while he went to have his blood pressure checked in his doctor's office...Oh well, there are still so many more to come.  A few things were discussed yesterday.  First, I brought the wrist blood pressure monitor Donald had bought to compare it to the doctor's office blood pressure machine.  The two were identical in their measurements.  I discussed the blood pressure readings I had been getting at home (116/75, 120/80. 110/65 etc....). Never once had I had an increased BP reading at home, but it seems that every time I go in to see the OB, by blood pressure skyrockets (165/90, 140/90, 135/85).  The 165 was getting pretty high, which was the reason for the BP monitor.  The OB doc said not to worry about my Blood Pressure at all.  The fact that it had come down since the first appt. was a good sign that I was just nervous.  What a relief.

The second item discussed was my due date of June 17.  I had been worried because the doc prefers to induce a woman's labor one week after the missed due date, and I really don't want to risk being induced.  I had been reading online that many first time pregnant women tend to deliver after their due date.  Ok, I'm in this category.  But I also am aware that I have a longer cycle at 35 days than most women at 28 days.  It is pretty likely that the baby was concieved up to a week after where all the due date calculators put it at.  These calculators are all based on a 28 day cycle.  So I asked my doc to move my due date a bit.  She looked at my last ultrasound, and the baby was running 4 days smaller than where it should have been.  So she felt very comfortable adding 4 days to my due date to June 21.  What this means is that instead of being induced on June 24th if I were a week late, now I won't be induced until June 28th if I were to still be a week late.  I breathed a sigh of relief yesterday.

Lastly, we did hear the baby's heart beat through the smaller doppler machine thingy.  Didn't have an ultrasound this time.  But the baby's heart rate was very strong at 140 beats per minute. AndI was shocked as to how high the baby was already at in my belly.  The doctor hear the heart just under my bellybutton.  I thought the baby would still be much lower.  I am not showing whatsoever, have not gained a single pound, and it sometimes doesn't seem like I'm pregnant at all.  But its times like this when you hear a heart beat or see the little blob on a screen that you remember in 6 months I'm gonna be a mom.  Wow.