12 Weeks

In 10 days I'll be in the 2nd trimester. YAY! I know that bad things can happen after that point, but most women seem to breathe a big sigh of relief when they make it out of the 1st trimester. That's also the point at which my "morning" sickness went away with Nadia. I'm hoping for the same this time. It hasn't gone away yet. Last night during class I felt particularly awful unfortunately. Last night was my last progesterone suppository! I am looking forward to the end of the leakage that comes along with taking those. In terms of napping, I have been taking one nap when Nadia naps each day (about 90 minutes). It's so funny because most of my life I have NOT been a napper. I could literally go an entire year without taking one nap. Now I can hardly imagine going a day without one, LOL! Paul used to say I was "anti-naps." There was one day this week when I actually napped during both of Nadia's naps. I can't make a regular habit of that as I depend on using the time during one of her naps to get work done for school.

On Sunday I started wearing maternity clothes. I still had 3 regular skirts that fit just fine, but I was tired of wearing the same three skirts. It was okay to do so when I was teaching 2 nights a week, but now that I'm teaching 4 nights a week I need more than 3 skirts to be able to wear to work. It has been wonderful to wear "new" clothes the last few days (clothes I hadn't worn in over one year). An added bonus is that although I am sure no one could look at me and figure out I am pregnant yet (that didn't happen until I was about 28 weeks along last time!), when I look at myself in the mirror I can tell I look pregnant whereas in my "regular" clothes I just felt like I looked fat. I'd rather look pg than fat, LOL! I'll have Paul take my first belly pic of this pgcy sometime in the next couple of days. I was thinking the only maternity clothes I'd need to purchase would be some winter items since most of what I have is for spring/summer since I was due in July with Nadia. However we are going to the Poconos for a family reunion in August, and I'm sure we'll be swimming (we plan to visit an indoor water park for one thing). I was able to wear one of my 2 regular bathing suits when I was in the Caribbean while pg with Nadia because I was 11-12 weeks at that point. However I'll be 17-18 weeks along for that trip, and I really don't think either swimsuit will fit.
I am looking forward to my u/s on Monday morning and hoping maybe we'll find out if baby is a girl or boy. It did not work out well to have Nadia with me for my last u/s, and Sarah isn't available on Monday to watch Nadia (she's going to the spa - yay for her!). So Paul is going to stay home from school on Monday and go with me to the doctor. He'll be in charge of Nadia while I have my u/s.

From January until the end of June I was only going on campus 2 days a week. Last week I went 3 times, and starting this week (and this will continue for 4 more weeks after this one) I'm going 4 nights a week. I can already tell I am glad that I don't normally go in this often. One thing that has made it more unpleasant is that they are doing a lot of construction on I-80 and sometimes my trip either there or back has taken a lot longer than usual. I'm teaching 3 nights a week in the fall, but in the spring after my maternity leave (6-8 weeks) is up, I'm just going to go back 2 nights a week, and I've decided for fall 2010 all I want to do is 50% (2 nights a week). I am grateful that I only have to work part-time at the university now that I'm a Mommy.