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I always knew that you should be able to feel your baby move inside you. What no one ever told me was just how much. It all starts with the odd little kick, so gentle that it can easily be confused for wind or a stomach upset. Then one day you get a really hard kick. Next the midwife tells you that should feel about ten kicks a day and if you don't feel anything then pop into hospital so they can listen to your heart. Some mothers tell you stories about baby getting its foot stuck under the rib cage (painful) or of you being able to identify the odd bottom or foot (cute).
No one told me that I would be able to sit or lie and be able to feel constant wriggling and kicks that could go for ages. The odd, cute little movement of my tummy can now sometimes look like a rippling effect. At the moment I can tell that he has spent the last few weeks lying across my tummy as I tend to get feelings on either side. If I lie on my side then I get scrabbling movements on the side I am lying one making me think that I have squashed my baby or at the very least he has some how slipped under gravity and is dancing (or headstanding) on my side. Two nights ago he decided to turn around. As I went to sleep (joke) I could feel scrabblings towards my pelvis and when I woke up the next morning all the muscles under my rib cage were as sore as if I had done dozens of situps and really overdone it. As I type he may well be trying to turn around again as movements are random but determined.
I think it is fair to say that he has moved on from the stage of working out what his arms and legs are for and is now well and truly practising. It is difficult to say what exactly he is practising for as it feels like he is trying to dig his way out early or is using my insides as a punch bag.
I did wonder if this was too much sweet food but that seems makes no difference at all, all dinner is good for providing an energy boost it seems.
One last bit of information that I got from Daniel, and once he told me sounded so obvious I don't know why I never worked this out but... babies have two time zones roughly speaking, mummy being still and mummy making the world bounce around a lot. Later on they can associate one of these with dark and one with light (presumably better in summer when you aren't wearing lots of jumpers). For some reason I really can't work out, the nice still, dark time is for bouncing around and having fun, the lighting, moving time is for sleeping. Seeing as a baby's metabolism doesn't slow down when they sleep and that when you are trying to sleep they are busy practising for what athletic career they currently have in mind, sleeping can be difficult, and uncomfortable, and your other half might get a good kicking too if they cuddle up too closely.
No one told me that I would be able to sit or lie and be able to feel constant wriggling and kicks that could go for ages. The odd, cute little movement of my tummy can now sometimes look like a rippling effect. At the moment I can tell that he has spent the last few weeks lying across my tummy as I tend to get feelings on either side. If I lie on my side then I get scrabbling movements on the side I am lying one making me think that I have squashed my baby or at the very least he has some how slipped under gravity and is dancing (or headstanding) on my side. Two nights ago he decided to turn around. As I went to sleep (joke) I could feel scrabblings towards my pelvis and when I woke up the next morning all the muscles under my rib cage were as sore as if I had done dozens of situps and really overdone it. As I type he may well be trying to turn around again as movements are random but determined.
I think it is fair to say that he has moved on from the stage of working out what his arms and legs are for and is now well and truly practising. It is difficult to say what exactly he is practising for as it feels like he is trying to dig his way out early or is using my insides as a punch bag.
I did wonder if this was too much sweet food but that seems makes no difference at all, all dinner is good for providing an energy boost it seems.
One last bit of information that I got from Daniel, and once he told me sounded so obvious I don't know why I never worked this out but... babies have two time zones roughly speaking, mummy being still and mummy making the world bounce around a lot. Later on they can associate one of these with dark and one with light (presumably better in summer when you aren't wearing lots of jumpers). For some reason I really can't work out, the nice still, dark time is for bouncing around and having fun, the lighting, moving time is for sleeping. Seeing as a baby's metabolism doesn't slow down when they sleep and that when you are trying to sleep they are busy practising for what athletic career they currently have in mind, sleeping can be difficult, and uncomfortable, and your other half might get a good kicking too if they cuddle up too closely.