3 Months

3 Months
Congradulations expectant mothers when you have reached the 3rd month (12 week) your chances of miscarrage drops to 25% so relax.  Depending on your doctor you should have had your first ultra sound or it is comming up.  This is awesome.  You get to see your baby and hear the heartbeat.  You cant really tell your baby is a baby.  Me and my husband joke cause on our first ultra sound he looked like a frog. 

During this stage your stomach stretches more.  If it starts to itch get you some good lotion to rub on there.  I use Palmers and love the smell of it.  Itching means stretching which mean yes stretch marks.  So far I have only used lotion maybe five times and no stretch marks and Im a 25 weeks.  Some women during pregnancy get a swelling of the mucus membrain.  Yes pretty gross and yes I totally had that.  I still constantly blow my nose everynight and during the day.  Dont worry though my doctor told me it will go away, it is just swollen becuase of the extra blood flow.  I also had freqent ear aches.  We are talking about once a week, and since Im pregnant I just dealt with it by using a hot water bottle and covering my ears from any wind.  My cramping continues but even more.  These are round ligament pains and very common and very normal.  You have to think you have a baby growing inside you so things have to move and stretch and trust me you feel it. 

Many many women also get a lot of discharge this time.  Expecially if you are sexually active while pregnant.  Your utarus is blocked by what they call a mucus plug.  Yep it is exactally as it sounds.  Yuck I know but this helps keep everything out so think of it this way what goes in comes right back out.  Many women at this time wear a pad around.  This discharge does not have a odor and any weird colors.  It sould be white maybe a little cream color but it is also stringie.  When you wipe after peeing you should have lotsw of discharge on the paper.  Yeah you might even have to wipe a couple of times.  Yeah pretty gross, but trust me being pregnant is amazing and yeah it does only get a little grosser as you go.  Dont worry, it is normal though. 

Your baby is not 2.5-2.8 inches long.  This is about the size of a lime :) .