11 weeks

This update is a few days late, so I'll probably move my weekly updates to Thursday now to reflect what my current office says is my due date.

According to this whole baby/fruit size comparison thing, baby should be the size of a lime this week. I think someone has different size limes than what I'm used to because baby should be about 4cm now and that's a darn small lime. (And next week's fruit is a plum and in my neck of the woods plums are smaller than limes.) Whatever.

It has been a shit week. It's our first week without our nanny and my son's first week in daycare. It's a transition for all of us and it's going okay - but not great. The problems are mostly manifesting themselves in his sleep (or lack thereof) and coupled with my insomnia, it's pretty brutal. Oh, and I'm still sick no matter what time of the day it is. Blah blah blah, whine whine whine. I am thankful for every day of healthy pregnancy that I have. I am also thankful that the days keep passing and the end of first trimester is in sight.

Next week is a big week. Our NT scan is Thursday afternoon and my first standard midwife appointment is Friday morning. The other big thing that happens next week is the developmental end of the first trimester. Personally, I'm more of a math person and think of the trimesters as 40 weeks divided by 3 (13 weeks and a couple days), but developmentally speaking, all of the major first trimester development is done by the 12th week. You won't hear me letting out any sighs of relief next week, but I will gladly celebrate the passing of each milestone we cross.

Next week might be a picture week too. Probably one of our ultrasound. At 6 weeks the baby looked like an inchworm. At 7 weeks it looked like a pinto bean. At 9 weeks I thought about sharing the ultrasound picture, but it still didn't look anything even remotely human (even though the "blob" had sprouted arm and leg buds by 9 weeks). I remember from our NT scan with my son that he actually looked remarkably baby like - so if we are so fortunate to see the same thing next week, I might put up my first ultrasound picture.

And, as this is my personal journal, and we haven't shared our pregnancy publicly, I may start bump pictures next week as well. I don't have a bump yet (although I am sporting the thick and bloated look), but I've heard that you "pop" much earlier with second pregnancies and I want to document this experience, as I doubt seriously I will ever be pregnant again.

So that's all for now. Deep breaths.