Pregnancy- Second Trimester

At this point in my pregnancy both my husband and I had told our families that we were expecting but we had not yet told our coworkers the news. I was still not showing in the beginning of my second trimester and luckily I didn't have any pregnancy symptoms like nausea so it was easy for me to be able to keep it a secret at work. I wasn't quite sure how I wanted to announce my pregnancy at work yet until in an early morning huddle another one of my coworkers made an announcement that she was expecting in early August. I was so excited to hear about her news but in the back of my mind all I could think about was now we were going to have two people on maternity leave for potentially 12 weeks. I asked when her due date was and to my surprise it was only 2 week after mine. I looked at her and then looked at my manager with a surprised look. Another one of my coworkers jokingly asked if there was something I wanted to add. That is when I announced that I was also due in July. Everyone was shocked but also exited for the both of us. Around this time I was still waiting for the results of my NIPT test to let us know not only the gender but also if there were risks of genetic abnormalities. Coincidentally my coworker who was also pregnant was also waiting on her results since she too had participated in NIPT testing. When I received the phone call from the nurse about my results I was so nervous that I didn't really know how I was supposed to respond to the reveal of the gender. When she told me the results I replied with, "Oh, that's awesome". I feel like I should have maybe responded more enthusiasm. Inside I was so happy. I secretly wanted a girl but I would have been happy with either results. One thing that I also did find out was that I did have something show up from the carrier screening. I found out that I was a carrier for cystic fibrosis. I had heard of the disease but I didn't know a whole lot about it. After the phone call I did a little research and then called my husband to tell him the news. I wanted to keep the gender a secret until I was able to tell him in person later that night. Since I was a carrier for cystic fibrosis my husband had to also get his blood drawn for a carrier screening. If he was not a carrier then we would be in the clear but if he also was a carrier then we would have a one in four chance that our daughter would possibly have cystic fibrosis. Fortunately, my husband was not a cystic fibrosis carrier as well so the only risk we have is that I have possibly passed the carrier gene onto her. Later that night I quickly ran to the store to get two cupcakes and pink frosting to fill in the center. When I got home I gave him a cupcake to bite into and inside was the pink frosting. He was so excited. We had decided that we didn't want to do a gender reveal party with our family and we wanted to tell our families as soon as we found out. So that night we called our parents to tell them the good news. That next day at work me and my other pregnant coworker announced the gender of our babies together. She was having a boy and I announced I was having a girl. Since I kind of have a shy personality it was nice that I was able to share some of the spotlight with my other coworker who was right along with my pregnancy journey. It wasn't until later in my second trimester that I started to show a little baby bump. As soon as I saw my stomach starting to stick out a little I lathered on the bio oil. I would use it every morning after taking a shower and luckily I was able to keep from getting stretch marks. It wasn't until my third trimester that I started to get more noticeable pregnancy related symptoms.