A kick in the gut never felt so good!

It was just barely six o'clock in the morning.

I had to wake up to get ready for work in just a half hour or so. I laid in bed, on my side, as usual, since I've heard it can be dangerous to sleep on my back and have avoided it as much as humanly possible (and boy, do my hips ache at night!!). Suddenly, I started to feel a rumbling in my stomach. Unlike any rumbling I've felt before. I was sure it was gonna produce the loudest trumpet fart ever recorded in any Guiness Book. I was happy I would have payback for Hub's "Bear Song" that kept me awake again last night.

Then, nothing happened. I felt the rumbling again. Like a wave of bubbles swirling around (picture the surf on the sand by the ocean). I was sure this was gonna produce something satisfying by way of major noise. Nope. Nothing. I put my hand on the lower side of my stomach and pressed. The rolling bubbles happened again.. Then I felt it: a ***THUMP*** on my hand. An actual ***THUMP***. I have been feeling the baby move internally for a while now. Feels more like someone is grasping around on my organs. I hadn't felt anything externally til this morning!! I was so excited!! I just couldn't believe it was actually happening!! Almost 21 weeks and it's really happening! This little boy is really real!! I've known he is real, it just hasn't really sunk in. I've just been getting a belly... and lots beer can do the same thing.

So I pushed and prodded on my belly to get the baby to move again. It was intoxicating! Usually when I poke and prod nothing happens. Now I can feel him respond to my hand!! It's so wonderful!! It's just so amazing to me that just a few hours earlier last night I could feel nothing. Then just overnight, I wake up, and there is a human in my belly that can kick and punch and swirl! And I can actually feel him!!

I delayed going to wake up Hubs to have him feel it, cuz I was afraid if I moved from my spot that baby would stop moving. So I soaked it up for a good thirty minutes and decided it would be fair to share. But of course, baby was done with his aerobics for the morning. Oh well, maybe next time.