Flutters
desigirl | April 4, 2008
Last night, I felt the baby move for the first time. The poor thing might have been waving its wee arms for all its worth for ever by now but it took all this time for it to break through the layers of fat and reach me! I was reading somewhere that you might start feeling some light flutters around week 16 but didn’t give it a thought cos it ended with a statement like “this is for regular women - not you fat bozos!”
But then, last night, I really felt it! P was asleep and hubby was deep in Horizon so it was a private moment. Well not any more! 
Earlier in the day, P and I had looked at the Babycentre pregnancy update for week 16 and read that the baby would be roughly the size of a pear right about now. This lead to some comical moments with P positioning a pear across my tummy and then over on his! So when I felt something later, I had visions of a pear-shaped being with limbs floating about and waving! (Yeah that’s the way to take the ‘awww’ factor out of things and take it right onto gross territory!)
Let’s hope the baby chooses this method to let me know all’s well inside there and gives up its current way of making me throw up whenever and wherever!
How exciting! You wait until you start waking up in
Planethalder | April 4, 2008 | 8:36 amHow exciting! You wait until you start waking up in the morning and find that your other half has been cupping your belly while you have been sleeping, feeling the baby inside kicking and moving and having a father-child moment without you (despite the baby being inside you).
Like MM says, fat chance of that happening here! Though I bellowed like a banshee last night for the hubby to come and cop a feel (you’d think a guy’d jump at that!), he stayed put by the idiot box. This morning, when I ticked him off, he went ‘did you call me? didn’t hear you!’ *sigh*
yayyyyyyyy!!!!! i love it. now that i am done with
the mad momma | April 4, 2008 | 9:09 amyayyyyyyyy!!!!! i love it. now that i am done with my baby days i look at my tummy rather sadly and wish there’d be a flutter that didnt signal acidity
@ planethalder- hold on to that man. my lazy husband would be kicked awake to feel the movements and he’d grunt, turn over and go back to sleep.
Stop it, you greedy woman! You have two beautiful kids. I am praying every day that at least this one looks like me. I keep saying ‘if the MM can have TWO that are the spitting images of her, can’t I have at least one?’
Planethalder is in a diff planet totally - I’d roll right off the bed in shock if something like that ever happened to me. And check to see who was it lying next as it sure won’t be S, being all mushy and gooey!
Chooo Chewwweett!! Here's to many more flutters!!! awww! Thank you :)
K3 | April 4, 2008 | 6:43 pmChooo Chewwweett!! Here’s to many more flutters!!!
awww! Thank you
Waaah, I haven't cuddled an infant in YEARS! All the
Suki | April 5, 2008 | 3:37 amWaaah, I haven’t cuddled an infant in YEARS! All the cousins and nephews and nieces are grown up!
Somebody tell me. Do teenage hormones make everyone impossibly gushy about babies and want one of their own but firmly tell themselves “in a decade”, or is it just me?
Awww, don’t worry! The Mad Momma used to be like that too and look where she is at year 30 - cuddling two babies of her own!! So, nah, you are weird!
Happy fluttering, less puking:) All the best, DG! Thanks Dipali! God
dipali | April 5, 2008 | 9:13 amHappy fluttering, less puking:)
All the best, DG!
Thanks Dipali! God I could do with less puking!
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!! I WANT!!! Ok, maybe I want to borrow. :D Smart gal
Amrita | April 5, 2008 | 5:08 pmAwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!! I WANT!!!
Ok, maybe I want to borrow.
Smart gal - you know what they say about OPKs!
Awwww...how sweet. Such a lovely feeling that first time. Then
Tharini | April 7, 2008 | 9:04 pmAwwww…how sweet. Such a lovely feeling that first time. Then you just get ‘used’ to it.
Cute post.