Today marks the official beginning of my 2nd trimester.  This is supposed to be the best one.  supposedly you’re not yet too big to be uncomfortable, the morning sickness goes away, energy returns, yadda yadda yadda.

That’s a big load of bull crap.

I guess in the grand scheme of things, it is *better* but it’s still not great.  Morning sickness could last a few more weeks, or it could continue throughout the pregnancy.  Both have happened to me before.  I’m feeling pretty humongous already, and I know this is barely the beginning.  I’m already having trouble getting comfy in bed, so I’m definitely still tired, I just don’t sleep that well.  And the peeing 2-3 times a night doesn’t help with that either.  The good news is that the 2 year old is definitely weaned and (mostly) sleeps through the night now.  Even when he doesn’t, he just comes in our room and joins us in bed.  He rarely wakes us, at least not enough to remember.

I am rejoicing to have reached this milestone, though.  Once in the 2nd trimester the chance of miscarriage drops dramatically so that worry is (mostly) gone.  It is possible that the nausea is going away.  As long as my stomach doesn’t get too empty I don’t feel terrible.  I have a bad habit of ignoring the hunger signs until it’s too late, though.

My biggest complaint is that my skin is doing something absolutely awful.  I am so broken out that I feel like I need to be wearing a bag over my head when I venture out of the house.  I feel so gross!  Normally I do have mild acne issues but this is really bad.  And I’ve never had such terrible problems with my skin while pregnant.  Usually my PCOS (which causes my regular acne) kind of goes into remission while pregnant but this time it’s not.  Just one more thing that makes me go hmmmmmmmm!