The past few weeks I have been asked, "Can you feel the baby yet?" Um... I should be feeling something? My doctor and nurse both asked, other pregnant girlfriends, and random people. The doctor told me that between 17-18 weeks you will start to feel the baby. Its going to feel like butterflies, almost a flutter feeling. My baby books all said the same things. They have suggested sitting in a quiet area and just concentrating on your belly. Sometimes I would just sit and think, "did I just feel something?" I wanted to feel the baby so bad.
Last night I was laying down after work and Rob was standing in the doorway and we were just talking. All of a sudden I felt something weird... a flutter. It was closer to my left side and lasted for only a second. I looked at Rob and in mid-sentence interrupted him that I just felt the baby. He looked at me like I was nuts. But what a cool feeling! I can't wait to feel shrimpy moving more and more. We're about half way there!
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Hooray! That is so cool. I so remember that. It was a butterfly feeling. It was random, but it will get stronger over the weeks.
The best is when Ed felt her. We were on a plane coming home from Arizona, I said she's kicking, just assuming again he wouldn't feel it again. But it's worth the try. He did. He felt her move, then the captian announced that we were flying over Kansas City, Mo. the city my mom was born it.
So of coarse Jacki goes to the back of the plane and tells the stewardess (sp?) and she announces to everyone! Yeah!!
Enjoy these moments between you and your baby, it goes so damn fast.
Ok, yes, the moving thing was fun ... until Chris and I could take a page of the LA Times, I'd lie down and he'd lay the sheet of newspaper across my belly and WHACK! You could actually hear/see something flick the paper. It was my daughter ... and talk about a "whoa!" moment!
It only gets better ...
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