The First Trimester

The first trimester was a bit of an emotional rollercoaster. Due to our past troubles we were quite anxious to get this part behind us so we could breathe a little bit easier. Lucky me, the baby made sure I got the full first trimester experience. I actually lost weight due to food aversions (like meat), nauseating smells, tastes, and textures, and an all day morning sickness that didn't let me keep very much down. Even brushing my teeth made me sick! Exhaustion was pretty evident as well. I'm so glad I happened to be on summer break, I don't think I would have been a very happy or energetic teacher through all that. Now that we're at the end of the first trimester, I'm getting a bit more energy, and slightly less sick. Evenings/nights still give me lots of trouble, but I'm so thankful everything is going well with baby!

Mother's Day 5/8/11These are the four embryos that were transferred as part of IVF. The mass of cells you can see inside the larger two are the baby cells, the cells around the outside are placental cells

7 weeks Baby 1We had two embryos that took. This is the first one. It just looks like a big blob at this point, but we could see the heartbeat and baby measures 10mm.

7 Weeks Baby 2
This is the 2nd. It was measuring small (5.4mm) and couldn't detect a heartbeat. As the doctor predicted, this one sadly did not make it. 

11 weeksOur little alien! I was concerned after this sono that our baby would have Jon's large head. Baby was moving around like crazy (1.7 inches, 155 heartbeat).

13 weeks
As always, baby was swingin' around like a monkey, but you could now make out little hands with fingers and feet with toes and see all the facial features

End of 1st Trimester BellyMy belly is still pretty small because it's my first. Goodbye waist, goodbye clothes, goodbye view of my feet!