(Ah, an oldie but a goodie.)
Someone’s finally decided to make her presence known around here. A couple weeks ago, I was jolted awake by a little something something poking my insides (although to be honest, while I’m totally counting that as a baby kick, I fear it was actually just pangs of YOU NEED TO GET UP AND PEE NOW. AGAIN.)
After that, I started poking around a little bit to see if I could get the kid riled up enough to punch or kick me again and it worked! Of course, now she’s little miss active up in there, although unfortunately, she seems to be most active when I am not. Like at 11 o’clock at night. I normally like to be in bed by 9:30 PM or so (yes, I’m a 100 years old) and yet every night around 11, she’s poking away, doing jumping jacks or the Macarena or something. (God, I hope she’s not doing the Macarena. I don’t want to her to be a dork.)
Here’s the thing about baby kicks, though. They’re not cute. Everyone speaks of these “baby flutters” and they make it seem like they’re cute and feathery and enjoyable. They are not. They’re uncomfortable and, quite honestly, make me want to throw up. (And to think! Just a week ago, I made it my life’s mission to poke my belly and elicit movement from her! What a fool.)
But listen, before you all have the chance to tell me, “THEY’LL ONLY GET WORSE!” (the Internet loves to tell you how things are ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE, doesn’t it?) trust me, I know this. I’ve watched the freaky-deaky YouTube videos (like this one, thanks Marie!) where the woman’s belly looks like it’s been inhabited by an alien. I have watched these videos and THEY SCARE ME.
But hey, if there was any doubt as to why I’d given up drinking the past four months, at least now there’s confirmation.
Just kidding, here’s my confirmation…Look at these little baby feet!
I have four feet right now! Trippy.
WHOA! You have FEET in your BELLY! Trippy indeed. I’d never be able to get over that.
Ok i just watched 20 minutes of videos of ladies I don’t even know and their kicking fetuses…feti…thanks to that link haha
I used to work with a woman who could grab her baby’s FOOT through her stomach. Made me want to barf.
The hiccups bothered me more that the kicks, at least until the very end, when one of my twins sideways up underneath my ribs. At that point, I went into “feel sorry for myself ALL THE TIME mode”. I’m thinking and hoping that your baby will switch positions and the moving and kicks will become less irritating to you. Also, as baby gets bigger, there comes a point where the kicks get less dramatic because there’s so little room to move in there.
I cannot watch those videos because all I can think about is Sigourney Weaver and an alien bursting out of you know where and THANKS A LOT, RIDLEY SCOTT.
(And now I have Poker Face in my head.)
I really wish you’d not told us about those videos. CREEEEPY.
Cute feet! Thanks for all of the warnings about the creepy videos. Thou shalt not watch.
I’m offly intrigued about the YouTube videos…I must watch now.
Also, it never occured to me that pregnant ladies have feet in their bellies! And brains and another belly! I know it’s obvious but I never thought of that in that way!
Lastly, I’m finally de-lurking to say hi!
I’m really intrigued about the YouTube videos…I must watch now.
Also, it never occured to me that pregnant ladies have feet in their bellies! And brains and another belly! I know it’s obvious but I never thought of that in that way!
Lastly, I’m finally de-lurking to say hi!
Ok, so I watched ALL the freaky You Tube videos (even birthing videos right before I went into labor…horrible) & I never saw Taylor totally wave across my belly like that during my pregnancy. I actually dreamt about seeing my baby’s features through my stomach, like a hand in a glove, only the glove is my belly. Weird.
I don’t remember being totally annoyed by the baby kicks until the last couple of months when it gets all alien-like but THE HICCUPS! OMG. The hiccups. I hated the hiccups. Both of my boys had what seemed like non stop hiccups and those were adorable at first too until after the 3rd or 4th week in a row of them just hiccuping away and then I was like *tap tap tap* “that’s ENOUGH in there!” Yeah, that didn’t work. They both came out and got hiccups every single time they ate for the first couple of months too (also annoying lol!)
oh babies, it’s such a damn good thing they’re so freaking cute and cuddly and squishy when they come out b/c it just makes the whole thing so WORTH IT.