12 Weeks Pregnant!!

2nd trimester here I come! I got to stop taking the Progesterone on Sunday and so far haven't noticed much of a difference. NO side effects so that's good news, means my body was ready to come off of it! I did try to stop the Zofran last night and well, that wasn't such a good idea. I was up at 3am fighting off the urge to hurl, so I took a Zofran and finally went back to sleep. Guess I will stick with the Zofran a little bit longer! I have felt the baby a little here and there, the baby is still so small I don't feel it much but I think the reason I feel it so much earlier this time is b/c I know what it feels like! We go back to the doctor on Dec 1st and then we will schedule our gender ultrasound and I cannot wait!!

Here is my 8 week belly shot:

Here is my 12 week belly shot:

Job Changes

There is always reason to worry when at 11am on Friday you get an email that there is a mandatory teleconference at 1pm. I had plans to take Lauren to lunch at noon for her birthday so we had to shuffle that to earlier to make sure I was home in time.

Basically they are once again re-structuring the way the claims department works. They are going to a 50/50 model based on the notion that 50% of our claims come from field territories and 50% of our claims come from phone territories. So they are moving 50% of the reps into a full-time office position and leaving 50% of the reps as field reps. With 7 of us, that meant 4 field reps and 3 office reps. They were basing this decision first on geographics and claim volume, well I knew immediately that was me, the claims volume in Mobile has been pretty low compared to this time last year so I figured it was me. Veronica, my boss, didn't want to tell everyone who was going where with everyone together so I waited over 2 hrs to find out my fate.

I will be moving back inside as an office rep. In the grand scheme of things, no biggie and really a good deal for me. When I first started with Nationwide here in Alabama I was an office rep handling Montgomery claims. It was not until a co-worker here in Mobile got promoted that they moved me to a field position, about a year ago. I was horribly upset b/c I had to leave Kennedy Jane. Now I will go back to a complete office position which means NO leaving Kennedy Jane and this new baby and almost as good as that is never having to get dressed up for work!!

The drawback is I lose my company car and that stinks big time. Its been nice Scot and I both having company cars b/c we have no carnote, no insurance, no gas. However, we were planning on buying a used Tahoe or Yukon by next summer anyway and the company gives me $3000 before taxes for the loss of my company car so it will all work out. We will just use that money to pay the carnote and insurance and it will all be fine!

So now we get to shop for a new car and I get my big SUV back!

10 Week OB Appt

We had our 10 week appointment yesterday and it was uneventful, the best kind! I have lost 1lb since my last appt 3 weeks ago so I am pleased about that! I lost weight in the beginning with Kennedy Jane and lost it all quickly after she was born so I am hoping the same thing will happen! I am assuming my blood pressure was good b/c she didn't comment. We were able to hear the heartbeat twice, the first time he found it he lost it and then found it again. It was right where I thought it would be b/c I was certain I was feeling the baby move. Now that I know where the baby is I am certain I have felt the baby move. We go back in 14 weeks and then schedule the big ultrasound for 17 weeks. I am hoping to get in a little earlier than 17 weeks as we found out at 16 weeks with Kennedy Jane! At 12 weeks I can come off the Progesterone and I am really looking forward to that b/c it makes me so tired! So far everything is going really well! Now if I could just get to feeling better!