I'd felt the baby move very lightly on two earlier occasions in my 15th week and then my 17th week, but was not really sure what it was.
I've figured it out. Since the last time, I've felt it on several occasions, mostly when I was lying down quietly. It is a verrrrry light touch that I can feel, and yes, I'm ticklish. Sometimes it can happen when I sit in one place for a long time, like in a meeting when I suddenly squirm from the tickle.
It is the baby moving. I guess it isn't strong enough for me to feel it very well yet, but if my body is really quiet and settled, I can sometimes feel it, which is what is happening.
How did I feel it so early? No clue. Perhaps it just jumped very strongly when I was already very still and almost asleep, so I felt it. Perhaps, with my constant anxiety that something may happen to the baby, I'm constantly focused on it, so I noticed it.... whatever, I felt it briefly, and I didn't feel it for almost two weeks after that till I started feeling it more reliably.
Now, its really quite funny, because I am certain of what I'm feeling, but this tickling can drive me nuts.
Rubbing my tummy helps though, and ticklish as I may be, I wouldn't miss it for the world!
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Monday, April 13, 2009
Felt it again
Is it the baby?
More than two weeks ago, I'd felt a touch/tickle kind of thing in my lower stomach. I'd been waiting on and off to feel something like that again, but it didn't happen. Last night, it happened again. Twice.
Pretty much like the last time. That touch/tickle feeling just as I was about to sleep. It could be gas though. It felt like there was a bubble racing under my skin very briefly. I've never had gas feel like that before, but it did feel like a bubble. I waited for a long time (okay, maybe 10 minutes) and felt it again. Then I waited for a long time and nothing.
Woke up my husband, and he was a little more interested this time (probably a result of my constant sharing of information on this front since the last time). Maybe he knew how much I was looking forward to feeling my baby move, so whether he had answers or not, he was willing to listen to me wonder about it. Eventually he convinced me to come into his arms and wait like that, and I conked off.
I'm notoriously difficult to fall asleep as long as there is anything happening even when I'm not pregnant, and the husband is quite skilled at getting me to sleep. He calls it practice for when the baby is here ;)
I'm still not in my fifth month yet. However, I'm in my 17th week (16 weeks, 2 days), which is the early side of when most online resources say I can feel quickening.
Could it be the baby? How long till I know for sure?
More than two weeks ago, I'd felt a touch/tickle kind of thing in my lower stomach. I'd been waiting on and off to feel something like that again, but it didn't happen. Last night, it happened again. Twice.
Pretty much like the last time. That touch/tickle feeling just as I was about to sleep. It could be gas though. It felt like there was a bubble racing under my skin very briefly. I've never had gas feel like that before, but it did feel like a bubble. I waited for a long time (okay, maybe 10 minutes) and felt it again. Then I waited for a long time and nothing.
Woke up my husband, and he was a little more interested this time (probably a result of my constant sharing of information on this front since the last time). Maybe he knew how much I was looking forward to feeling my baby move, so whether he had answers or not, he was willing to listen to me wonder about it. Eventually he convinced me to come into his arms and wait like that, and I conked off.
I'm notoriously difficult to fall asleep as long as there is anything happening even when I'm not pregnant, and the husband is quite skilled at getting me to sleep. He calls it practice for when the baby is here ;)
I'm still not in my fifth month yet. However, I'm in my 17th week (16 weeks, 2 days), which is the early side of when most online resources say I can feel quickening.
Could it be the baby? How long till I know for sure?
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Is it the baby?
Last night, as I was just about to fall asleep, I felt a touch/tickle in my lower stomach. Not gas. I woke up straight away. Was it the baby? Was it not the baby?
Woke up my husband. Told him. He was drowsy, but heard me out and pointed out that if it was the baby, then that ends a lot of my worries about it.
I continued to speculate, and he got a little grumpy. He wanted me to SLEEP! He said, there was no way he would know, since he hadn't felt it, and wondering was not going to bring answers, while sleep was important for me.
I shut up, and let him drift off again. I waited for a long time, but no more touch/tickle happened. At some point, I guess I fell asleep.
This morning, I called up a couple of people who had been pregnant recently to find out when they first felt the baby. All of them said in the fifth month. Great! I'm in my fourth. So was it the baby? No clue.
Read up online. Many second time moms felt movement early, but I was a first time mom. Plus there were plenty of people claiming to feel movement as early as 6 weeks, which didn't really make sense, so there was no way of knowing who was truly speaking of quickening (yeah, that's what its called) and who was not. From the sound of it, most first time moms were in the same boat as me.
Finally, I reached the conclusion that there was no way of knowing what exactly what I felt was. Great! Another point to the husband. What he figured out with his earthy logic within 30 seconds, I researched and found out in a whole day.
We still don't know if it is the baby. I still haven't felt anything similar to what I felt last night.
BTW, I'm now officially growing a bump. I seemed to have one for a long time now, as I started growing out of clothes almost with the HPT changing colour, but most of it was gas and bloating. Now, well, I'm not as gassy and the stomach is actually larger. I still fit into the loosest of my earlier clothes, but most of them are out of action for six months or more (IF I ever get back to my 26" waist and use those expensive trousers that I've never worn.....)
Woke up my husband. Told him. He was drowsy, but heard me out and pointed out that if it was the baby, then that ends a lot of my worries about it.
I continued to speculate, and he got a little grumpy. He wanted me to SLEEP! He said, there was no way he would know, since he hadn't felt it, and wondering was not going to bring answers, while sleep was important for me.
I shut up, and let him drift off again. I waited for a long time, but no more touch/tickle happened. At some point, I guess I fell asleep.
This morning, I called up a couple of people who had been pregnant recently to find out when they first felt the baby. All of them said in the fifth month. Great! I'm in my fourth. So was it the baby? No clue.
Read up online. Many second time moms felt movement early, but I was a first time mom. Plus there were plenty of people claiming to feel movement as early as 6 weeks, which didn't really make sense, so there was no way of knowing who was truly speaking of quickening (yeah, that's what its called) and who was not. From the sound of it, most first time moms were in the same boat as me.
Finally, I reached the conclusion that there was no way of knowing what exactly what I felt was. Great! Another point to the husband. What he figured out with his earthy logic within 30 seconds, I researched and found out in a whole day.
We still don't know if it is the baby. I still haven't felt anything similar to what I felt last night.
BTW, I'm now officially growing a bump. I seemed to have one for a long time now, as I started growing out of clothes almost with the HPT changing colour, but most of it was gas and bloating. Now, well, I'm not as gassy and the stomach is actually larger. I still fit into the loosest of my earlier clothes, but most of them are out of action for six months or more (IF I ever get back to my 26" waist and use those expensive trousers that I've never worn.....)
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