Geeker Joy: First Trimester Wrap Up

I've made it through the first trimester (depending on how you count it), and the blog is finally up to date. Everything is going well, and I'm excited to head in to what is supposed to be the easiest trimester.

Not that my pregnancy has been hard so far. I've had no morning sickness, and only one morning of nausea. I came close to fainting a couple of times, but I was always able to sit down and recover. Even my dreaded aversion to eggs ended up lasting less than a month.

It was funny, actually, how the aversions and cravings came and went. I learned early not to buy anything in bulk. I'd find something I liked one week, but then my tastes would change and I couldn't stand to eat it the next. I still have a few half finished things in my fridge (seltzer, yogurt) that I'm hoping to develop a taste for before they spoil.

At this point, though, I'm mostly just eating everything in sight. I've got a decent routine down at work, and I'm bringing extra food to fill in the holes in the day. Cereal and fruit have become my go-tos, though I still spring for the occasional breakfast sandwich, or go out for a second full meal in the afternoon. Weekends are easier, because I can just graze all day long. And with Kevin away on business, there are always plenty of leftovers in the fridge.

My fatigue is finally starting to go away, too. I'm still going to bed a little earlier than I did pre-pregnancy, but that's mostly because I can't rely on caffeine to wake me up in the morning. So I really need to make sure I get a solid eight hours of sleep every night.

As for new symptoms, the most annoying one so far is my sore butt. By the end of every day it feels like I've done ten sets of squats or climbed a mountain or something. I'm having trouble figuring out what this is on the internet. There's a lot of talk of nerve pain in the butt and thighs, which is described as sharp, but nothing about sore muscles. I almost wonder if it could be related to walking so much more than normal - with Kevin gone I'm walking Kina twice a day instead of once - but the pain is getting worse rather than better. I just hope it doesn't last too much longer.

There's a lot of good news, too. We're starting to get some test results back. We know that the kid doesn't have Cystic Fibrosis - I'm not a carrier. And my first trimester screen went well. Everything looks excellent and I'm super low risk for all of the genetic disorders they screen for: Down's Syndrome, trisomy 13, and trisomy 18. So no more tests on that front, and it looks like smooth sailing for the time being.

The best part of that screen was the ultrasound. I didn't react very strongly to hearing the kid's heart beat, but I did tear up a little when I saw the kid. Ultrasounds are often fuzzy. When I see one on Facebook, I often have to squint for a while to figure out what I'm looking at. But from the second the tech brought up the image, I was able to make out my kid. It was so cool to see a little humanoid inside of me. I also got some cool pictures to take home.