14 weeks - Second Trimester!

We are thrilled that I'm 14 weeks pregnant now. I have moments everyday when I'm just amazed by it, that there is a living baby inside of me again, that I have a growing belly again, that my clothes are getting too tight, etc. I feel so fortunate.

This week's belly picture:

The most exciting thing to happen in the past week is that I have felt Boh move. I was sitting at my desk at work and I felt a bump low in my belly. It was right where Boh is and right away I thought it was different. I felt it again the next day around the same time (3pm) and once or twice everyday since. On Sunday I felt several little bumps.....I imagine Boh is bouncing from one side of my uterus to the other as I doubt his/her legs or arms are strong enough to be giving me that big of a nudge. 

I just don't get tired of looking at my belly. I must look down 100 times a day just to look at it. I have my hand on it a lot, I wake up and my arm is wrapped around it. 

We went to Home Depot and to the grocery store on Sunday. I walked around the store with my coat undone just so that I could see my belly better. In Home Depot, I walked past several mirrors and I always looked at my belly in them, wondering if I look pregnant to strangers yet. 

My nausea continues to improve, but I think I've reached a plateau for now. It is much, much better than it was before, but it is still there and I still feel worse late in the evening starting around 9-10pm. I almost always fall asleep on the couch by 10pm and when I wake up to go to bed, I feel pretty bad physically. I have a few dry heaves last night when brushing my teeth, which I hadn't had for a few days. 

The heartburn is becoming more frequent, although it isn't very bad yet. 

Last Thursday I saw that I am starting to get the Linea Nigra, something I haven't had since shortly after Jacob was born. Ted noticed it too. Another sign that made us happy. 

My breathing has improved a lot in the past week. There have been a few days when I didn't have to struggle to get a deep breath once and it was so nice. Now I just seem to have some difficulty in the evenings, but it isn't very bad. 

I get up about 2 times a night to pee and it still takes forever for the pee to come out (trickle, trickle, trickle). I think it may have to do with my retroverted uterus, which, according to some websites can cause this problem and should start to move into place this week. 

I had a sore throat for 2 days last week. It wasn't terrible, but it was sore enough that I didn't want to speak anymore than I needed to. I was so relieved when it stopped on the second day. I felt it coming again last night, but I feel ok now. 

I feel more round ligament pain, usually once or twice a day. Some days I don't feel any and others I feel it for 30 minutes and then it goes away for a day. 

My Mom told me the other day that she saw a really cute dress on sale at a store and was so tempted to buy it in case Boh is a girl. But then she told herself that she just can't take any chance of jinxing things so she didn't get it. Turns out she thinks about Boh a lot and is really worried that something bad could happen. I love knowing that she thinks about it so much. My sister's kids are sick and I was wondering if I should cancel on going to her house for her birthday or just be really careful because I felt bad about not going. Mom said that I definitely shouldn't go, all that matters is "that I get this baby here alive" (my sister's party was cancelled in the end anyway because no one else wanted to get sick either - I wouldn't have gone even if it hadn't been though). 

I told the last person in my department about Boh last Thursday (she was on vacation when I told everyone else). I knew she would act/be happy about it, but I was surprised that talking about Boh helped her to bring up Jacob (because I didn't think she would ever bring him up) and ask if we ever found out what happened to him. She hasn't been the most considerate person over the past 20 months, so I was really surprised when she asked about him and was really interested in the answers. We talked about grief and she said that she just can't imagine how terrible it is to lose a child. I ended up telling her about losing August, Cub and the Twins as well when she asked if we had been trying for very long to get pregnant with Boh. She surprised me again by her reaction. It was nice. 

I'm going to finish off this post with one of the best sounds in the world - Boh's heartbeat. I use the doppler every few days. It is getting easier and easier to tell Boh's heartbeat from mine after listening to it for a second or two. Here it is from February 16: