second trimester...

...woooo hooooo. as barry manilow croons, "looks like we made it."

...the whole baby countdown has me confused. by most counts, you start counting on the date of your last period. since my memory is at the best of times spotty, that particular milestone eludes me. mid-july sometime? fortunately there's some magical mathematical formula based on the ultrasound technician clicking on the approximate length of the fetus on a verrry blurry photo that then emits signals to the univac (insert appropriate old school computer processing sounds) which then spits out the gestational age of your fetus. for project jalanquera, that would be 11 weeks. the nurses give you a due date but say that most first time mothers are either 2 weeks early or 2 weeks late so don't get attached to the due date. why not just fess up to this not being an exact science, and the due date will be sometime in april? for all intents and purposes i'll be using the estimated gestational age as that's the one that actually makes sense to me.

...spotting is normal. i don't care, i still found it terrifying and i'm glad my doctor a sent me in for an ultrasound. all is well now.