Status Quo

Your pregnancy: 13 weeks

How your baby's growing:
Fingerprints have formed on your baby's tiny fingertips, her veins and organs are clearly visible through her still-thin skin, and her body is starting to catch up with her head — which makes up just a third of her body size now. If you're having a girl, she now has more than 2 million eggs in her ovaries. Your baby is almost 3 inches long (the size of a medium shrimp) and weighs nearly an ounce.

From http://www.babycenter.com/6_your-pregnancy-13-weeks_1102.bc

Not much news to report this week. Mandi's been having some funny dreams lately. She's separately dreamed that we are having a boy and a girl, so no foreshadowing really there. The diet challenges remain and we are still looking for the light at the end of that tunnel. I have discovered that if I am going to have any veggies at all, I have to make them separately for myself. Due to laziness, apathy, and sometimes both, I have been eating raw veggies along with whatever mound of brown, carbohydrate-meat goo Mandi is able to tolerate. Sprinkle some fries on those cupcakes.

Things we are not fully aware of that might come to bite us later:
Day care. Holey Moley it is expensive. We need some grandparents to move closer.

Gear. There is so much stuff out there, I really don't know what you actually NEED. I am pretty sure that I need to make a list sometime. Crib, changing table, rocker, toys, monitor, toys, earplugs, Jamaican vacation. oh and a breast Pump: Enough said.

Sleep. We are both aware of what is coming. Mandi has a sister that was born when she was 14 (hi Jessa!), so she has been through most of the major elements of the early stages. I am the last of 3 and have very little experience with the tiny humans. I understand they mostly eat, poop, and cry, so we'll have alot in common. I am praying that this kid is healthy and happy. If it is a girl, I hope she'll take to sleep like her mom's female relatives, which is quite naturally and in abundance. I, on the other hand, am a fairly light sleeper because some parts of my brain are left on guard duty at night. If I have a dark, secluded and/or secure place to sleep, like a bank vault or sealed cave, I can hibernate for months.

I wonder how long we will have the child before I fall asleep at my desk at work.

Second trimester, where are you?

I will try to get Mandi to enter something on here sometime.
Ben