Second Trimester (Week 13-27)

This was much better for me than the first trimester. It was so much more exciting. You start to show, you can feel the baby moving, you start to feel better. People around you start to get more excited too. My favorite is that I eventually got my appetite back. I couldn't eat as much as I wanted but I could eat and not feel nauseous.

 I started to get my energy back, meaning I could make it to the bathroom and back to watching tv without needing to take a nap. Although, as I got bigger I started getting shortness of breath once in a while. I wanted to get out and do stuff now that I was feeling better. I regretted going shopping every time. Not only because I had to look at all the cute clothes that I couldn't fit but also because my feet would kill me by the time I got home. It got much worse in my third trimester. I could only wear supportive flip flops because my feet were swollen. Now, my feet are a size bigger than they were. The shoes I bought to give my feet relief actually are the only shoes that fit me now so don't go cheap.
I also started rubbing cocoa butter on my belly every night. I left the bottle on the nightstand so I wouldn't forget. I didn't want stretch marks. I didn't get any either until the last two weeks I was pregnant which also happened to be the same time I stopped using cocoa butter. Coincidence? I don't know but next time I won't stop. It looks like a cracked egg shell on my belly now, aagghh.

Sleeping:
I know these look dumb and people say they cause so many issues in the bedroom with their husbands but they work. Not that I know personally because I was too cheap to buy one but everyone I know bought one and said they were AMAZING:

I just slept with a pillow between my legs, one under my head, holding one and one behind my back, I basically made a nest and wiggled into it every night. You gotta do what you gotta do in order to sleep. Tell your husband to get snore strips. I even asked my hubby to sleep on the sofa a few nights because I was so tired and badly needed a snore free night of sleep. I slept on the sofa a few times too just to be fair. (with lots of pillows)
I got leg cramps a few times at night. They felt like death in my calf. It woke me up and I had no clue what was happening. I screamed and my hubby ran in. Once he figured out that I was not in early labor he helped hold and stretch my leg. His idea, not mine. I wanted to cut it off to stop the pain. Luckily he knew better. Doctor said that stretching before you go to bed should prevent them. The same stretches will make them go away once you get them, if you can manage to get up and do them.
These ones: (against a wall, she's not double air high-fiving)
I did get a wedge to I could sleep propped up when I got really big.
During the day I still put a pillow or two on it and it's prefect for reading books. Not to mention it's great for sex. He he he. They sell them pretty cheap on amazon and when I was looking for one I noticed that some of them were in the sex category. I thought what in the world...oh. So of course when mine came I had to try it and it was great...

While on that topic. Since I felt better in the second trimester, sex was on the table again. I actually had to call off sex in the middle of it because the back and forth was making me nauseous. I even threw up after sex once. Not sexy. But all the crazy hormones will make you horny. I just went through a phase, a few weeks of wanting it all the time. And after that not so often but when I did get horny it was strong. It was a need to happen right now kinda feeling. If you continue to have sex through your pregnancy it won't be so awkward. You'll adapt and figure it out. Remember that you won't be having any for a while after the baby comes so you might as well get it in while you still can.

You will be an emotional wreck. Crying during commercials or being super sympathetic or whatever. You're just gonna have to deal with it and so will everyone around you. They'll get over it, scream at them but always end it with "I'm pregnant, ok!" lol

I became super forgetful and it just got worse as the weeks went on. I couldn't remember the names of people I've known my whole life or the people I saw every week. Get paper and pencil and leave them around the house. I had post its everywhere! I had lists on the table of things I needed to do or get. I downloaded a "note" app on my phone. I still use it. One of the nurses told me that your brain starts working again 6 months after the baby is born. Mine is just starting to kick in again. Just don't make any big decisions while pregnant. If you have to then give yourself time to think it over and revisit it on different days to make sure you still feel the same way.

Last thing, I YouTubed Prenatal Yoga. It really helped. Even 10 minutes helped stretch and relax me. I felt so much better on the days when I got some yoga in. I mean OnDemand has a few and YouTube has lots. Don't do any standing on your head (although i know a lady who worked out and did hand stands and stuff with her doc approval but she was hard core) but normal easy yoga will do. Even just the breathing crap is helpful :)