Week 13

Your second trimester is almost here! Are your long-lost energy and sex drive making a comeback? You may soon find out why many women call it the honeymoon trimester! Your baby is now nearly 3 inches long — about the size of a jumbo shrimp — and weighs nearly an ounce. If you could hold his hand, you'd notice the tiny, squiggly lines that make up his one-of-a-kind fingerprints. You'd also see his veins and vital organs beneath his tissue-thin skin.
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Wow...another week has passed, and I STILL feel sick and tired. I feel like I have had a 7 week hangover. Yuck. Soon this phase will pass. I don't know if it is really possible, but I swear I have felt flutters. I am VERY in tune with my body. Only three times so far, but when I do I rub my lower belly and say "Hi baby I love you". I have a HUGE amount of love for this baby already...I am so excited for May...but who knows baby could show up in late April if I go early again. I truly feel that this will be my 4th little gal. Poor Cameron...but he will survive and he will get his own room always! The gals will have to really learn to share!! My belly seems to be growing some more too which is exciting. All of my normal t shirts are fitting like half tops, and I am no longer in my regular jeans. Into transition maternity styles now. My chest is growing too, and I am finding my bras getting really tight too. Time for new ones. Claire keeps lifting my shirt and kissing my belly to "kiss the baby". She says we are having a boy. Cameron wants a boy and Carly wants another sister "like Catie". Too cute. We will see soon enough. I hope this week brings some relief from morning sickness. Well, hopefully in two weeks.