2nd Trimester!

So here we are in my second trimester. This past week has been dramatic.
Have I mentioned the pain that has plagued my poor lady bits? IT IS AWFUL!! I wake up with the pain, go to work with it, and go to bed with it. There is no relief. My ears have been popping because I am all congested and this adds to my already prominent hearing problem. Then, if my ears stay popped long enough, it makes my head hurt ridiculously bad. Luckily for me, this doesn't happen that often and for that I am grateful.

Anyhow, enough of the complaining. Last Wednesday I had my first prenatal appointment with my midwife. It was great. We were able to spend about two hours with her talking about everything we wanted to know. We mostly talked about some tests we did or did not have to take(totally OUR decision) and what the tests meant. Our midwife is just a very sweet lady and I'm looking forward to getting to know her throughout our pregnancy. I'm not sure if I mentioned this last week, but one of the reasons we picked Bella Vie is because we will have only two midwives for the entire length of our pregnancy. Only one of the two midwives will be there during the birth however. This means we actually get to develop a relationship with the person who will be helping me bring my child into the world. This is really important to me and I'm so excited about being able to establish some trust, which is something I may have not been able to do at a hospital.

 At the same appointment, our midwife tried to find Little Sprout's heartbeat and all she kept finding was mine because I have an anterior placenta and Sprout was hiding. I wasn't too worried about it at first because I have my angel sounds monitor at home and I knew I could find it with that later.Well for a couple days after that I tried and tried and I couldn't find Sprout's heartbeat and I began to panic. I started to feel disconnected and I was afraid. I called the on-call number for the birthing center(they are closed on Saturdays) and they told me to come in so they could try to listen again. My midwife was there and told me they could schedule an ultrasound  if she was unable to find a heartbeat. However, just a few seconds after she placed the Doppler on me, there was Little Sprout's heartbeat. I breathed a HUGE sigh of relief and took a recording with my phone so I can listen to it whenever. My midwife was so nice to do that for me. I feel MUCH MUCH better now. That Little Sprout sure knows how to give me a little scare.

We have another appointment on the 28th and I'm looking forward to it. Maybe by then I won't want to rip my "girls" off because of the pain. Here's to hoping. I'm also really looking forward to showing. Right now I can push my tummy out and you can tell, but pretty much everyone can do that. I also just really want to feel Sprout move. Come on little one, wiggle a bit!