Great news and great scan Mrs. G! Congrats!!
I've heard both week 13 and week 14 being considered the beginning of the second trimester. In Europe (where I am from) people tend to think it's week 13. Here in the US I'm hearing more week 14. So I guess whatever floats your boat
I'll probably call it at 14 weeks, just to be 100% sure.
AFM: I had a bad (emotionally) day today. I'd been feeling very happy in the previous days, but today I woke up feeling negative. Naturally, I tried the doppler for some reassurance. And couldn't locate the hb to save my life
. Or, I did, but only for a split second or so, and then it went away and I couldn't find it again. So then I put it away and tried again a couple hours later. I had better luck this time, but it was still just a couple seconds in the 140s-150s, and I really wanted a more consistent reading. So I put it away again, and tried YET again an hour or so later, because it was bugging me. This time I was able to get several seconds of a 140s-150s reading, and that was enough, but I thought I was hearing the baby through the cord or something, as it didn't sound exactly the way I remembered it - then again, I may be wrong. So I did some googling and found some very contradicting info - some people saying you may be picking up the placenta instead of the baby and the placenta has a rate that matches the baby's, so don't assume baby is ok because of that, while others disagreed and said placenta matches the mother's hb and anything over 120 is definitely the baby etc. etc. It was all confusing and upsetting and then I got mad at myself for giving in to the doppler for such a long time today (I must have used it for a total of half an hour between the three times I tried it). Chances are, baby is fine in there, but I'm still not 100% reassured. Which got me thinking, why am I even using the doppler if it doesn't make me feel better? I've no idea what I'll do going forward, but for now I'm toying with the idea of not touching it again...
Anyway, I'm eagerly awaiting my NT scan on Tuesday (and feeling nervous as hell too about it), and hopefully all will be good then. At least I won't have to wait too long for the next scan after that, as I'm seeing my regular OB again on 3/12 (at 14w2d).