If I go full-term, I am 1/3 of the way through the pgcy. YAY! Yesterday I officially entered the 2nd trimester at 13w3d. I would love to say that my "morning" sickness has gone away, but it hasn't. Not yet anyhow. I will say that at least eating something usually helps, particularly if what I eat isn't sweet. I'm not normally one to eat crackers, but I have been the past couple of months! Sometimes I think to myself surely I'm not hungry and don't need to eat, but then I do feel MUCH better after eating something (like last night it was a 100 calorie container of yogurt). I thought the heartburn was getting worse lately, but I think it was just that I had made a dish that had cajun spices in it that wasn't sitting well with me after I ate it. I guess I had better stay away from such spices until after I give birth. The most exciting pgcy development was on Thursday morning when I felt the baby move - that butterfly type feeling. Oh it was heavenly. I was 99% sure it was the baby as I had just awakened and was lying on my side in my bed, but then I thought is it too early? I looked online and nope 13 weeks isn't too early to feel those types of movements although I certainly didn't feel them that early with Nadia. I haven't felt the baby since. I look forward to the stage when I will feel the baby kick every day!Yesterday afternoon Nadia attended her first baby shower. The shower was for Paul's oldest niece who is due to have a baby boy in early September. They're naming him after his Daddy (Quentin) so the baby will be called Q.J. (for Quentin Jr.). I'm becoming a Great Aunt, and my youngest child will be 4 months younger than my grandnephew. Our nephew Shawn will become an uncle at the age of 13. :-) After the shower we headed over to Paul's parents house (where Paul had been during the shower) and spent a couple of hours with them before we headed home. When his parents were shopping for a gift for the baby shower, they saw a Steeler cheerleading outfit and knew I had been wanting one for Nadia. I can't wait to see her in it this fall/winter. I want to teach her out to raise her arms and do the sign for "Touchdown" so she can do that during the NY and Pittsburgh games when our teams score a touchdown!
The only unpleasant moment yesterday was when two women referred to me as Nadia's grandmother at the baby shower. What?!?!?! I felt awful, but then later it made me feel belated empathy for my mom. She was a year older than I am now when she had my brother. I was in middle school and got a kick out of it when people would make comments assuming I was his mother. I now understand why my mom did NOT like it when people assumed she was Maurice's grandmother. OUCH!
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Congrats on entering the second trimester! And you certainly don't look like a Grandma to me! Weird that anyone would think that. You have always looked mature for your age but not in the sense of looking "old," just in the sense of carrying yourself in a mature way... if that makes any sense. I think it might have more to do with your demeanor (mature/controlled/not at all frazzled) than with your appearance. Just a guess. In any case, I think you still look young! :)
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