Second Trimester Recap (v.2)
Well we are officially in the third trimester of this pregnancy and the countdown to baby boy’s arrival is on! I have been feeling pretty settled in this new house (we moved in mid-October), but there are quite a few things we wanted to do to really make it feel comfortable before his arrival and Rob’s paternity leave, so we are working with a designer to “finish off” our bedrooms and hopefully get some custom built-ins done in a few spots downstairs before May rolls around—but that’s a whole other post!
Here’s a quick recap of my second trimester with Baby Boy:
Cravings:
Pad Thai, preferably 2-3 times a week
Ramen
California rolls! Every time I went to Publix I would grab a spicy California roll and either eat it in the car or as soon as I got home. It got to the point that even if I didn’t really want one I would get one and put it in the fridge, only to end up eating it a few hours later.
Pancakes. When it comes to breakfast, I’m usually more of a savory egg-and-cheese kind of person, but for a few weeks there all I could think about were pancakes. We made them at home but then started ordering from IHOP or other breakfast places around town and it was always so good.
All the hot fudge sundaes
Aversions:
I was super excited to start drinking coffee again around 15 weeks. It had been grossing me out so much but it is such a part of my morning routine and I was really missing it.
Symptoms:
I still threw up most mornings throughout this entire trimester. I started taking B6 in the morning which helped a little with the daytime nausea, but taking it at night never quite helped with that first-thing-in-the morning puke.
Around 16 weeks my hips really started bothering me, but exercise always seems to help with that which is great.
18 weeks I would wake up wide awake at like 4AM and have trouble going back to sleep.
Around week 22 the nausea started to make way for heartburn, which I had a terrible time with my first pregnancy.
My feet started hurting pretty badly by the end of the day, but I got some house slippers with arch support that help a lot.
Exercise:
Around week 21 I was able to start riding the Peleton regularly and added a few strength workouts into my routine. I would do a cycle class 3 times a week and a strength class 2 times a week, which felt like a lot of exercise after the first trimester of almost nothing.
Other Stuff:
I swear I felt him move at 13 weeks, which was so much earlier than with Sophie but I read that subsequent pregnancies can be like that.
I had someone come to our house to do a prenatal massage because I didn’t want to go to a spa during COVID which was nice, but I found it really hard to relax in my own house, especially because it happened to take place on a day where Sophie decided not to nap. But I really needed some work on my back and hips, and I definitely felt better afterwards.
There was never a time where I felt like I had that “second trimester energy surge” or the magic spot between first trimester nausea and third trimester aches and pains. For some reason this time it felt like I was just getting the worst parts of the first trimester and some early struggles of the third. I was somehow nauseated, exhausted, and would get heartburn at night.
That’s about it for those three months! I’m surprised by how good I feel currently in the final trimester, but I’ll have more on that later. Thanks for reading!