All's Well

[rwrylsin]

A bit of an update for those interested, but the subject is an accurate summary.


According to my iPhone app I am now half way through the first week of trimester 2.

As you may have guessed from the icon, I had my first ultrasound at 12 weeks and apparently there is really something in there - and it's quite stubborn about not moving around to the right angles on demand. No surprise there.
Apparently everything looks good and normal.

I'm mostly starting to feel pregnant now. It started with the ultrasound, the visual evidence helped make things a little more real. Further evidence came at the coaching workshop I was at last week, where they made us run around like primary-schoolers and I became quite aware my joints did not have the level of ligament support I would normally expect. Bending over is now... different. Not difficult as such, I'm not even sure it is isn't just psychological, but different.

I opted for the combined screening with a blood test to do a statistical check for Downs Syndrome. At 33 I'm not considered particularly high risk, which kicks in at 35, but I don't trust my chromosomes to have kept track of the birthdays. Came back as low-risk, so further testing not recommended.

It's funny, I remember reading about CVS at high school in Biology. At the time I thought a 1% chance of miscarriage was pretty good odds in return for a definite answer, couldn't see why anyone wouldn't. Now I'm looking at it and thinking 1 in 100? I don't like those odds. I'll go with the statistical probability.
My highschool self would also be annoyed with me for waiting until my 30's in the first place. But I was busy.

The only exciting thing from the blood test was low vitamin D levels. I've been on additional supplements since then, and the extreme dairy food consumption has eased back to normal levels. Also trying to remember to go outside occasionally.


So trimester 1 was mostly a textbook non-event. Tiredness has been the main feature, I really don't think I would have coped well with trying to work at the same time. Don't know how people do it, although I guess starting from such a low ebb probably didn't help. Also I'm not very good at pacing myself - yesterday I felt fine and so did lots of stuff. The price was that I couldn't stay awake long enough to get out of bed until midday today. Happily, this was an option, and the cats approved of my lifestyle choice.
Nausea is mostly absent now provided I remember to eat regularly. I'm more prone to motion sickness and sensitive to strong scents that usual. Otherwise, not much to report.
I hope those of my friends who didn't have such an easy time don't hate me too much for saying that ;)


I'm booked in to Knox hospital, an easy 15 min drive from our house. I have an obstetrician, who is possibly the worlds laziest Ob, but that suits me fine.
My book lists all the poking and prodding I should expect at each visit, in practice he just pokes my belly, checks the heartbeat and my blood pressure, and that's it. My GP sounded slightly panicky about my vitamin D levels, the Ob didn't think it was a big deal. On interventions, he says that he'd much rather I just push it out, because once there's a decision to go caesar he'll be stuck there for at least 3 hours and have to organise everybody.
I'm not a people person, and I'm not a chatty person. I like my medical staff to be there if there's a problem, fix the problem, then leave me alone. So this is working well for me.

As per the textbook schedule, I've just started to show. Although you'll probably need me to wear tight clothes before you notice. Today it's jeans and tight T-shirt, and even I can't tell. Although I will admit these are the only pair of my jeans that still fit. I'm hoping for a nice warm summer where I can be happy in skirts.

Have picked up our first hand-me-downs from mireille21. These include some maternity clothes. I know I'm going to be that big eventually, but at the moment I'm looking at them and just can't imagine it. We also made our first baby-related purchase, buying the pram that she was about to eBay. I still get a surprise every time I see it sitting in the guest room, I don't yet see myself as a pram-owning person either.

There's a baby expo coming up at the end of the month which everyone says is worth going to. Anyone free on a Friday feel like keeping me company? (My weekend will be full of fencing activities, so it has to be Friday).

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I do recall whe I was working the first time around, there were one or two days where I just sort of hit a wall at about 4pm. i turned to my boss and told him I needed to go home right now and sleep, otherwise I would probably fall asleep on the drive home. he was good about accomodating such things.