Week 13

I am feeling great! Things are progressing well and I am in my last week of 1st trimester! I am tired and ready for bed by about 8 or 9 every night, although I actually make it there around 10PM. My sense of smell is still incredibly heightened and things that I normally think smell good, I can no longer stand the aroma! Even things like our automatic dish detergent, my perfume, certain lotions, air fresheners, and certain food cooking make me feel nauseous. Very strange!

My eating has died down, specifically my portions and amount of eating during the day. I don't feel as hungry and actually have not been craving anything. Nothing really sounds that good. Even sweets don't sound good, which is weird for me.

Weight gain, the taboo topic: I've gained about 5 pounds already in this first trimester. I had gained only 1 pound with Karmella's pregnancy during the first trimester. It's very interesting how completely different these two pregnancies are. I suppose only gaining 1 pound in the first trimester with pregnancy number one was due to the fact that I was so nauseous during my first 12 weeks that I didn't eat normally.

I'll put up a beginning week 14 picture this Sunday!