Babby is now about 11 inches, and nearly a pound!
A couple weeks ago I thought that maybe I was feeling kicks, and a few days later the full-on-ninja-fest began. So YES! Those little gentle taps were baby kicks. Kicks can even be felt (and seen!) from the outside. Timmy was determined to feel one, so he rested his hand on my belly several times to no avail. Eventually the timing lined up and he loved it. I love it too, except the time baby started kicking downward on my bladder... That feels WEIRD and UGGY. Babby seems the most active in the morning when I first get up and as I'm settling in the evening. It makes me giggle to imagine it just flailing around in there for no good reason. "Baaaah! I'm a baby! Hi-YA! I have nothing to do! Take THAT!" The kicking makes it feel more real now, like baby and I are a little team. It makes me much more conscious that I am carrying Babby around and taking care of him/her. Lucy the cat even felt a kick: she was resting her chin on my bump, and as soon as one occurred, she looked up at me with an accusatory eye.
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I think the kicking made me feel like I need to really start getting things together. Timmy and I have started to mega clean out the house, trying to de-junk and just kinda lighten the load. We sold some odds and ends in a garage sale, and will be donating a lot of items as well. We might toss in a few last minute home improvements (I smell a trip to IKEA). I've also collected all the various baby paperwork to go through, I signed up for some classes, and I'm filling registries. I bought myself a book called 40 Weeks+, which is very helpful: it's full of check-lists and questions to ask and what to plan for at each stage.
As of today, I haven't taken my nausea medicine in almost a week. Hooray! I have still been barfing everyday from too much acid and phlegm, but the awful feeling of nausea has mostly gone. I am so relieved. Symptoms visit me, but I am enjoying being pregnant these days. It sounds corny, but I feel so much love-y-ness. I think maybe maternal juices are kicking in. I've noticed that when I see other babies I am instantly drawn to them. I used to see a baby and rarely would I even care, unless it was like SUPER cute. I've started to cry with joy at the sight of baby animals with their mothers. The best feeling right now is just snorgling with Timmy and Lucy, Timmy holding mah belly. Our little family in the making feels so close. I would TOTALLY roll my eyes at this if I were reading it 6 months ago, haha.
So weird things are known to happen to lady's brains while they are pregnant, and one thing I've noticed is that I've had a song in my head the WHOLE time I've been pregnant: "Loverly" from My Fair Lady. I think it has something to do with my brain mixing the words "preggers" and "pregnant" into "preggernant" which turns into "loverly" in my head. Makes sense, RIGHT?!
A couple weeks ago I thought that maybe I was feeling kicks, and a few days later the full-on-ninja-fest began. So YES! Those little gentle taps were baby kicks. Kicks can even be felt (and seen!) from the outside. Timmy was determined to feel one, so he rested his hand on my belly several times to no avail. Eventually the timing lined up and he loved it. I love it too, except the time baby started kicking downward on my bladder... That feels WEIRD and UGGY. Babby seems the most active in the morning when I first get up and as I'm settling in the evening. It makes me giggle to imagine it just flailing around in there for no good reason. "Baaaah! I'm a baby! Hi-YA! I have nothing to do! Take THAT!" The kicking makes it feel more real now, like baby and I are a little team. It makes me much more conscious that I am carrying Babby around and taking care of him/her. Lucy the cat even felt a kick: she was resting her chin on my bump, and as soon as one occurred, she looked up at me with an accusatory eye.
I think the kicking made me feel like I need to really start getting things together. Timmy and I have started to mega clean out the house, trying to de-junk and just kinda lighten the load. We sold some odds and ends in a garage sale, and will be donating a lot of items as well. We might toss in a few last minute home improvements (I smell a trip to IKEA). I've also collected all the various baby paperwork to go through, I signed up for some classes, and I'm filling registries. I bought myself a book called 40 Weeks+, which is very helpful: it's full of check-lists and questions to ask and what to plan for at each stage.
As of today, I haven't taken my nausea medicine in almost a week. Hooray! I have still been barfing everyday from too much acid and phlegm, but the awful feeling of nausea has mostly gone. I am so relieved. Symptoms visit me, but I am enjoying being pregnant these days. It sounds corny, but I feel so much love-y-ness. I think maybe maternal juices are kicking in. I've noticed that when I see other babies I am instantly drawn to them. I used to see a baby and rarely would I even care, unless it was like SUPER cute. I've started to cry with joy at the sight of baby animals with their mothers. The best feeling right now is just snorgling with Timmy and Lucy, Timmy holding mah belly. Our little family in the making feels so close. I would TOTALLY roll my eyes at this if I were reading it 6 months ago, haha.
So weird things are known to happen to lady's brains while they are pregnant, and one thing I've noticed is that I've had a song in my head the WHOLE time I've been pregnant: "Loverly" from My Fair Lady. I think it has something to do with my brain mixing the words "preggers" and "pregnant" into "preggernant" which turns into "loverly" in my head. Makes sense, RIGHT?!
I sing Loverly to L a lot ad bedtime - there are only so many songs I actually know all the lyrics to, and most of them are show tunes. And yeah, I kind of avoided lots of kid stuff on FB and stuff, but now I find myself liking every post about kids and the cute things they do. Jen from a year ago would be shocked. And Career Jen is certainly pretty pissed at current Jen for some decisions she's made ;)
ReplyDeleteYes! I have started a playlist of songs I want to sing to Babby... mostly showtunes.
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