1 - My first trimester with Margaret was worse than with Andrew, and they say that is common when pregnant with a girl. But my first trimester this time around was the most challenging, by far. The same fatigue plagued me, but I don't remember being so paralyzingly lethargic. Perhaps it was because of the June heat, or now chasing two kids all day while pregnant, but the lethargy really made me quite mad. I have too much to do for that! And weeks 6-8 I just felt downright rotten. I felt queasy and nauseous all day, which lead to more weight gain in this first tri. "Surely another bite to eat will settle my stomach, right? Or maybe I just need something salty. Nope. That didn't do it. Let's try sweet....."
2 - The only other feeling for girl so far is that perhaps I sort of want a girl, just thinking that she and Margaret may have more in common long term than Andrew would with a little brother nearly 5 years younger.
But all of this girl feeling may have changed at our 16-week US (which, once again, everyone in both offices gave us trouble for..."if you're not testing for anything, why are you here?"). That's another story. We told the Ultrasonographer that we did not want to know gender, but I did catch her saying "he" one time. Perhaps "he" is her default, or maybe that means something. I was so focused on the screen that I didn't notice if she said it again, or alternated using "she", or said "baby" from then on out. Then when she printed the shots, she cut three pictures out of the middle that she did not give us. We didn't even ask. Was she cutting out views of something obvious??? Hmmm. Come January, we shall see!
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