Goodness, it’s been a long time since I posted! The scan was absolutely fine, and I went off and told then world in a blog post you can read here, on my other blog. As you can see from the comments I have a lot of support in my community of online professionals, so that was a wonderful “outing”.
Since then there’s really relatively litte to report – I am in week 16 now, about to start week 17 tomorrow. All the nausea, food fun, sore boobs etc from the first trimester have vanished (horay!). The only new things I’ve noticed are a higher emotional state from the hormones, and a bigger belly! My tummy is really starting to show now. It’s in a weird place where if you know I’m pregnant, it looks very obvious, but if you don’t I look pretty fat, haha. I find myself touching and holding my belly a lot now too, a sort of maternal instinct is how that feels. It’s also like a self re-assurance mechanism. If I’m feeling anxious or tired or sad, I give my tummy a rub and it reminds me that there’s so much to look forward to, and gets me started on thinking what baby is up to right now.
Work has been super stressful, so I quit a lot of the projects that were becoming too involving. Baby first all the way for me. No amount of money or professional respect is worth my baby feeling stressed, so I feel much better now pottering about the garden and house, nesting away and making things clean and tidy for me and baby Dad 
We have a holiday coming up, and around the same time our 22 week scan, where we will find out if it’s a boy or a girl. I can’t wait to know. It will be great. So lots to look forward to.
I will try and update more, but right now there’s not a whole bunch to say, I feel like I’m in the calm before the storm that is third trimester, labour, birth and babies! Eep and yay!
