2nd Trimester and Other Stuff

Can you believe that 14 weeks have passed and we are officially into our 2nd trimestester!?! Just a week and half more until we are at 16 weeks/4 months pregnant! On April 25th Jessica will be having her 16 week appt. She has gotten many u/s's so far this prengancy too monitor the bleeding issue she's had, and everything still looks great with baby. At this appt. I hope everything still looks good of course, but I also hope the u/s will be able to tell us if baby is a boy or a girl. I just want the baby healthy, but it is continuously on my mind.
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The pediatician that we were going to have for Evelynn has an office at the same hospital where I work. I first met him and his wife, who is his nurse, during my interview with them last spring. I had told them Liam's story and they felt horrible when Evelynn passed as well. They also donated and came to the fundraiser. Quite a bit lately, when I go down to the cafeteria for lunch, I run into him. He always says hi, asks how the pregnancy is going, and how Jessica is doing. I love how caring and concerned he is. When we finally bring a baby home we are defintely going back to that clinic for our baby's care.
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Not sure if anyone else has read about this but here is the most recent article about the woman who got the very first uterus transplant, and she is NOW PREGNANT. This is so amazing! I hope this works for her. Maybe then one day more women like her, who are born without uteruses, can have a chance to carry their own baby. Maybe it could even help women like me who have had uterine ruptures or, even hysterectomies, and can't or are told to never get pregnant again.
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I wanted to mention a friend of mine who I met through my blog around the time of the fundraiser. She emailed me and shared her story of how she too had lost son and has no other living children. Like us they have been trying for years to bring home a baby. It is in her and her husbands best interest to do IVF and use a gestational carrier like me, their reasoning is genetic related. She did her first egg retrieval in December. We had hoped that in January I would do my egg retrieval and transfer, and they would do their transfer into their carrier, and our carriers would be pregnant together. They only ended up with one embryo and decided to try for another and so went through the process of egg retrieval again, but unfortunately this time all of her embryos died. They had decided just to transfer there one perfect embryo this past month, but it didn't take. I am so sad my friend. So much loss, time, and money invested into having a baby to be back where you started. It could've happened to us, it could still not work out, but her and her husband have been on my mind a lot lately. They are going to pursue adoption and are even considering ttc on their own again, although that is a risky option. Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I just keep hoping that they will be one of those couples that you hear about that as soon as they find out they can get a baby to adopt, they also end up pregnant, and everything works out. They deserve things to work out.
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I also want to share this blog with everyone that I think is pretty cool. It is called white signs of grief and was created by Lindsey who's baby Nora was stillborn at 40 weeks. I am hoping to get a sign made for her blog real soon. Check it out.
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I have still been working hard on my house projects and also on getting stuff finished for Evelynn's first birthday. I can't believe it is a week away, and that she isn't here:(