Thirteen Week Update

Goodbye first trimester!!  Welcome to what my (wonderful, amazing, God-sent) OB calls, "the honeymoon phase"!  I have a few things to post about from this past week so I am going to just fill this in and then do another post :)

How far along? 13 weeks (The size of a lemon!  About three and a half inches long and finally weighs more than an ounce- actually about an ounce and a half.)

Total weight gain/loss: Down five pounds down from pre-pregnancy weight.
 
Maternity clothes: Nope but I did get together with Louise and Lisa and went through Louise and Michelle's maternity clothes so I now have a bunch at my house!  My friend Amber gives birth THIS WEEK and in a month or so I will go over and visit her and borrow some of hers and then Lisa will give birth in October and we will make a trip over to Atlanta and get the ones she has bought for me and borrow hers too so I should be just about set. 
 
Have you told family and friends?  Everybody knows now :)

Have you started to show yet? Definitely when I'm not in clothes I can tell and Matt says he can too.  I wish I had been using a tape measure so I could prove it! If you look back to last week I added a twelve week (that would more accurately be described as a 12 week, 4 1/2 day picture) and you can totally see that little bump showing but most people say they can't see anything in regular clothes.

Sleep:  Who needs sleep?  I ordered a very expensive mattress topper that is supposed to be like a cooling mattress like they use in hospitals.  If that doesn't work M is definitely leaving me for another bed :(

 Best moment this week: We got to see the baby again!!!

Miss Anything? Still REALLY missing Spark! I can officially start back TODAY and I. Can't. Wait!

Movement: Nope.  Although when Dr. L did the thing where you can hear the baby was very active and during our ultrasound it actually flipped, kicked, pumped it's little fist in the air and sucked it's thumb :)

Food cravings: Still no.  But my appetite has returned in full force! 

Anything making you queasy or sick? I have felt really great the past five or six days!

Gender prediction: Boy.  Boy by the Chinese Gender Predictor, Boy because I haven't been that nauseous, Boy because I only want salty, sweet disgust me, Boy because Ellie has been overly clingy to me lately and varied other reasons people have given me that they think it is a boy.  Not one single person has guessed girl, every single person that has guessed has guessed boy.  So, it's probably a girl.

Labor Signs: No

Symptoms: Really oily skin and hair and I am broke out worse than....anything.  Still pretty tired by the days end but definitely can already tell a difference and I fully expect the addition to a Spark a day to rock my world!

(You know the way this works by now....I will never get up early enough to take my picture in the mornings so I WILL do it tonight and post tomorrow.  From here on out we WILL be better at it!)