I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m still not 100% convinced, but yesterday morning in the pre-dawn silence, I was lying in bed concentrating very hard on my uterus, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m pretty sure I felt the baby moving.<\/p>\n
Cool, eh?<\/p>\n
It was that indistinct, barely-there sort of flutter that I once read described as similar to the flick of a goldfish\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tail.<\/p>\n
I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d thought maybe I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d felt it a few times before, but then the bubbling feeling passed its way down my digestive tract and I realized what I had been feeling was indeed gas from the previous night\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s guacamole and refried beans.<\/p>\n
But this time, the movement was more fluttery and less, er, bubbly, and it stayed in one place for the few minutes that I indulged in just lying there feeling it. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a long way from those seismic tremors that will visibly shake my whole belly in three or four months, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a start, and I love love love<\/em> being able to feel the baby move. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s my hands-down favourite part of being pregnant. That, and the whole excuse for being centre of the universe for nine months. Ahem.<\/p>\n But I got to thinking\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rather, um, undignified that the poor fetus in utero<\/em> so closely resembles so many of our less savoury bodily movements? I mean, the baby’s first kicks feel like gas, and I clearly remember being astonished when pushing Tristan out how much birthing a baby feels like the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s largest bowel movement.<\/p>\n So much for the romanticism of pregnancy and childbirth!<\/p>\n By the way, there seems to be a rash of pregnancies where I work. Last count there were five of us all due between March and May, and most of them are first-timers. I know at least a few of them read the blog, so it will be fun to share our Speaking of being pregnant, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been trying to think of a more clever category name for my pregnancy-related posts than \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a little bit pregnant<\/a>.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d For one thing, a woman who births 9 lbs and 10 lbs babies and who has switched to maternity clothes by the 15th week is hardly a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153little bit\u00e2\u20ac\u009d pregnant \u00e2\u20ac\u201c especially with the sky-high beta numbers<\/a> I had. And then of course, the name is also dangerously close to a rather well-known somebody else\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n So speak, bloggy friends. Today is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153name that label\u00e2\u20ac\u009d day. What should I call my pregnancy posts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m still not 100% convinced, but yesterday morning in the pre-dawn silence, I was lying in bed concentrating very hard on my uterus, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m pretty sure I felt the baby moving. Cool, eh? It was that indistinct, barely-there sort of flutter that I once read described as similar to the flick of a goldfish\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s … Continue reading “The Quickening”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}horror-stories<\/s> honest accounts of pregnancy and childbirth with them in mind over the next little while.<\/p>\n