Yes, yes, everything's fine.

I promise I'll post more belly pics and ultrasound pics soon. I've been busy!

I'm now nearly 14 weeks. I told everyone at work yesterday. Yup, on April 1st. It was pretty funny. Some people didn't believe me until today. Tee hee hee. I was told by one of the engineers that it was the best April Fool's joke she'd ever heard since it was true and the joke really was on them. Woo hoo!

So everything is fine. We had another ultrasound at about 7 1/2 weeks and had a really good heartbeat that time. We heard the heartbeat on the doppler at 10 and 11 weeks (I was paranoid; we went to the midwive's office a lot) and then we had an ultrasound last Friday, at 12 1/2 weeks. We saw a baby! It even looks like a baby! (I'll post pics tomorrow or this weekend, promise!)

Everything looks great. The Nuchal Translucency was great, the heartbeat was great, the baby was great! It was moving around and putting its hands to its face and we even saw it swallowing water. They said the way the baby is measuring, my due date is October 4. I love how they just move your due date around at random, as if it means anything. That baby is coming whenever it want!

I'm starting to show, at least to me and Jen. My engineers at work say they can't tell. One (more honest one) said that it just looks like I've been eating a lot of cake. Hehe.

I have gained a whopping (not really) 7 pounds. I'm almost at 160. I was 152 when we started, then I actually went down to 150 before going back up again. This morning I was 159.

I'm not really feeling sick anymore. That started going away about 2 weeks ago. Now I occasionally feel a little queasy after dinner. Today I felt a little queasy after an afternoon snack, but then I was fine. I hadn't felt sick in the afternoon in awhile. I seem to have a tiny bit more energy. I still crave eggs often. I even had eggs for dinner!

I don't feel nearly as paranoid and worried now that we had the ultrasound. I have another at 16 weeks, then I might not have anymore at all. At the last one they were able to see that it looked as though the abdomen had closed over completely with no herniations or omphaloceles! So it's unlikely that they'll see anything like that at 16 weeks. They'll do all the normal counting of fingers and toes then too. And we may need another one around 18 or 20 weeks if they can't see anything, but the doc knew that I might be a little antsy and so she scheduled it sooner. That week we have a regular midwife appointment on Tuesday and then the ultrasound on Friday. Lots of appointments that week. :-)

Next time, pictures.