13 weeks

Finally through the first trimester, it took forever and yet flew right by. Currently baby is the size of a juicy peach!I'm amazed at what progress the little one has made so far and what's happening this week: 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 and weighs nearly an ounce.

What's new this week:

I had my first belly grab attempt, double handed by my male boss in the middle of the hall! In any office but mine this would seem extremely inappropriate, thanks Dr P! I'm half tempted to just give him the blog address and tell him to follow the progress here thank you very much.

We're having our first official appointment with the midwife on Thursday. I've done all my bloodwork and Dominic even did his! I have B- blood type and was hoping that by chance he was negative as well, which would prevent me from having to deal with Rhogam. No such luck, he's A+. Upon hearing this news his response was, well OF COURSE I AM! Nothing less than perfect from him I guess. I also bit the bullet and got my first flu shot of the season which, short of an extremely sore arm, has left me with no ill effects thus far. Up next is the H1N1 when it's out in October.

Symptom wise I think I'm finally starting to feel normal again. I do have to eat regularly still, but I attribute that to the extra 300cal that I need to build this baby and not the morning sickness thing that was so prolific in the early days. Fatigue is actually seeming to improve as well, famous last words I'm sure. Still no bump to report, which I alluded to earlier, and to prove it I'm bringing back the 'first belly shot' from week 4 for comparison:

Here are the shots for this week.