The 2nd trimester is soo much better than the first!  All the baby books said it, and it is true.  I can't believe how much better I feel.  I am so thankful to my placenta... I just want to pat it on the 'back' and say, "thanks for taking over the production of hormones!"

No more nausea, no more vomiting, no more ickiness.  I feel almost normal.  What an amazing thing our bodies are.  So intricately created and balanced.  Praise God for His creation! 

My little tummy continues to 'swell', especially after a meal, or big glass of water.  First thing in the morning it still appears relatively flat, but I know things are a'changing down there. 

As I am feeling better, I have been able to get some serious swimming exercise in, and can feel my body getting stronger again.  Praise God!  So good to feel like something more than a bed ridden, basket case!!!

I just got back from a quick, little holiday to the Tropics, where I visited my 'almost 7 month pregnant' girlfriend.  The flight there was a little rough, but the one back was smooth sailing...at least on my stomach's behalf..the delay kinda sucked, but we are talking health here.

At the resort, where I stayed for one quick night, I spent hours in the pool, lazing about, and then doing laps as the sun set.  I had a good lunch at the resort restaurant, and a great dinner of pasta with my girlfriend that went down weeelll.

We both ambled back to the resort full, her waddling, me rubbing my aching belling.  There was much burping, rubbing of tums and lower backs and stretching out on our beds as our meals slowly digested.  I feel refreshed and ready!

Yay to feeling better!

Well last night we got to finally scan the babies ultrasound, and we now have it in digital version.  So I can happily place it on this site! 

I continue to feel less vomity on most days, there is the odd shocker now and then, but all in all I feel much better.  I am suffering from a servere lack of motivation though!!!!!!!  Don't know if I can blame that on the pregnancy, or just plain laziness!

I am hoping I will perk up next week, and get my butt into gear.  The weather is sooo beautiful here at the moment, I should be out making the most of it, and trying to get my now flabby butt into some kinda shape, so I can actually stand and squat during labor without needing to take a rest every 5 minutes!!

Today I think I will swim at a friends house.  I am baby sitting her 10 month old while she goes to the hairdressers.  Should be good practice  ;)

My boobs are continuing to grow.  Though the crop of pimples sprouting above them is hardly attractive.  As I mentioned last post, I am Miss Pimple Face 2006, lovely.

I have also been getting some serious gas pains in my tummy late at night.  OW! And it seems to ironically come on, whenever we have gone out for the night to a friends house.  So I sit at their dinner table wriggling and moaning silently.  Painful!

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I have pregnancy pimples!  Yuck.  They are ugly and annoying.  They are even popping up on my neck and chest!!!  Do they go away?  Does it get better? Or does it get worse?  I don't think I have ever felt as ugly and run down as I have whilst being pregnant!  It is only early days yet, and I am still holding out for the 'pregnancy glow', but at present I feel feral.

Yuck.  It is amazing what a toll creating a little bub takes on your body.  I have so much respect for ladies that continue on doing all the things they did before they got pregnant.  I had to quit my job because I was SOOO sick.  There was no way I could endure 8 1/2 hour days, I was coming home shattered, and getting really messed up.  I know it is different for each women, but I take my hat off to all the pregnant ladies who are getting stuck into life, while carting round this mobile baby home.

There is a possibility I may be offered another contract job, and I am nervous as to whether I will be able to handle it physically.  When they called me about the position yesterday, I spent much of the night vomiting (still) and cramping on the couch.  Can I possibly handle 9 to 5 again!?!?! eeek.  It will surely make the days go faster, having to front up at work every day, but it is sooo draining... not to mention the vomit days.  On the vomit days, all I want to do is lie down and wish the nausea away, not be sitting in a work environment trying to look and act ok.

Perhaps, when I hit 14 weeks, I will stop being sick completely and be filled with energy, and then working really would be possible.  But at the moment, I feel like a sloth!  I was much more active before I got pregnant.  And I know I have to get a fitness routine happening in order to physically prepare for labor.  Oh, so many things to consider.

My tummy is still very small.  I hardly look pregnant.  I am wishing it would hurry up and grow so I could feel more... well pregnant.  I know the baby is growing, but am not sure exactly where it is hiding!!

Well we had our much anticipated first scan yesterday!

I turned up with my bladder full of water and proceeded to squirm in the waiting room, as I wondered how painful was too painful, and whether I should let a little out... Thankfully,  I only had to wait 13 mintues, and once the scan started, I soon forgot about the intense desire to pee.

The lady wasn't that chatty, but rather was busy concentrating on her work.  I wanted her to tell me what she was seeing, and how it all looked, but she worked quite steadily, without talking to me.  Every now and then I would look up at her face for a clue as to whether things looked normal or not!

She found the baby almost straight away, which is amazing to me, as it was positioned low, low, low, low down, in the right hand corner.  No where near my belly!  Just at the top of my pubic hair line!  (Sorry for the details ;)  She even said, "I can't believe how low this baby is lying".  But there they were.  Little head.  Little body.  So amazing.

She said, "there's the little jelly bean", and I thought, "wow! So it is.  There really is a baby in there".  The baby had it's hands up resting just under it's chin, and was perfectly still.  I asked if maybe it was asleep, but it soon started to make some small movements, which  increased my amazement.  I couldn't feel it moving, but there is was adjusting!

I was quite surprised when I saw the nose!  Having Island heritage, I am used to seeing family bubs with flat little noses, but our baby has a VERY distinct little nose, complete with bridge and little tip!!! Such a shock. 

When I mentioned it to the lady she said, " we like to see noses, they are a good sign, as Downs Babies noses aren't visible in scans at this age"... up until that point, I had kind of forgotten that the scan was in order to check for Downs Syndrome...and so I was relieved to hear her say that.

But our baby at present, has a distinct nose, with tiny lips, a small chin and large forehead.  It looks like Caleb!!!!! 

I keep looking at the print out thinking, so you are my baby.  "Gee, you don't look like me".  And, "Gee you look like a right little boy."

I went to my sister's house today and asked to look at some of her babies scans.  She could only find 1 set, and it was of baby Malachi when he was 19 weeks.  It was so different!!! I am sure the age gap has something to do with it, as Malachi's profile was much 'chubbier', not so much bone structure, but round cheeks and full lips.  But even so, it drastically different from our babies scan.

And from the 2 little shots we have, 1 quite blurry, I think the baby has it's father's head!!! Which is BIG.  Eeeeeekkkkk.  It's little head isn't round, like baby Malachi's was in his scan, but instead kinda, well it's hard to describe, it goes out at the top... Once it starts growing into the correct proportions I am hoping it won't look so ... well, hard to birth!!

I now feel more pregnant I guess.  I feel assured at least.  Assured that the little person is infact in there.  And I guess I feel somewhat closer to the baby, as I have had a visual reference.  Very exciting stuff.  xxx