Feeling Baby Move

Feeling baby move for the first time was amazing! I wasn't sure at first if it really was the baby. People said it was still too early but after another week or two I could tell it was baby. I was 18 weeks. Sitting on the floor, playing with the cat...well really looking out the window waiting for the cat to come over and be interested in me. It was quiet, I was calm and then I felt it. It was the smallest twitter. It really did feel like butterfly wings, just two or three wing flaps. It was really low, almost at my pelvic bone. That was really a turning point. I finally felt pregnant. I stopped feeling like I just had this terrible disease that made me super tired and throw up and be hungry and not want to eat and lose control of my emotions. I felt like there was a reason finally. That it's all gonna be worth it. Now, I had something moving inside me. What the crap! I have something moving inside me!? What in the world. Being pregnant is the weirdest thing! I have a tiny bean baby MOVING, INSIDE me. So weird.
   I continued to feel movement a few times a day, sometimes none all day, other days one or four times. It got more frequent and stronger as the weeks went on. Those lil beans really get big and start punching and kicking. I eventually was able to guess if I felt a hand or foot. When he flipped was the most interesting feeling for me. It was almost that roller coaster feeling but not as strong. That's not until you're big. Some people get so big they can see the outline of a hand or foot. That never happened to me. One of my friends said her husband grabbed the baby's foot! That's crazy.
   Another cool thing was hiccups! Yes, hiccups. Nico got hiccups almost everyday the last month. Some people never feel them. You'll know them if your baby gets them. They're tiny lil hiccups. They would last anywhere from 1-10 minutes. A great time for people to feel the baby because it's constant movement for a few minutes. Nico had hiccups a lot after he was born. He still gets them every time he gets really excited. Now, it's cute. When he was born it was scary because they really suck in his whole chest and he can't sleep until they're gone.
  Anyway, I looked forward to the kicks. I thought it was pretty fun. I felt like I could connect with this moving lil alien in my belly as he got bigger. I could learn his schedule, see if he reacted to different foods. My husband didn't get to feel him kick until weeks after I did. I could feel the kick on my hand weeks before he could. But when he finally did, he thought it was pretty cool. It's the first time the dad gets to interact with the baby. Yes, you do have to share time with dad, both of you can't fell the kicks at the same time. So once you learn what time of day baby is most active, sit down together and let him keeps his hands on your belly so he can go through the process of realizing he's about to have a baby.