A couple of weeks ago, when my sister-in-law asked me how far along I was in my pregnancy and I told her that it’s already been almost 4 months, she said that I should start feeling the baby kick soon. So since then, I would go to bed half an hour before my bedtime to be completely still and wait for the baby to kick. I’ve also read in the pregnancy book that the baby can now react to light. So I would turn on the flashlight on my belly to make the baby move. Alas, all to no avail.
Until today.
It was amazing. It was around 10 in the morning when I first felt it. I felt a movement across my lower belly. I thought nothing of it at first. Then I felt it again. And then again. Then, instinctively, I knew it was my baby. I called my husband right away. I called my sister next. It’s now 3pm and I’ve been feeling it every 5 minutes or so. It would stop for an hour or so. Then it would start again. But now it doesn’t move across my belly anymore. I just feel it on one spot below my navel.
I can compare the sensation to how my heart feels when I stop myself from crying when I watch sad movies. Except, of course, I don’t feel it in my heart. I feel it in my belly.
Claire + 1, xo
P.S. I think the baby knows that it’s his grandfather’s birthday today so the baby made it even more special for him.
