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Sitting at work yesterday morning - trying to review a few surveys and keep up with the massive amounts of email coming in for this New York deal - I felt this 'pop - pop' feeling a bit lower than where you would normally feel gas bubbles. It was an odd realization, that the movements I have been on the lookout for had suddenly arrived (or I was suddenly aware of them - maybe I missed them earlier on). But I think that is the official "quickening" that you always read about. Since then, I feel pretty constantly aware that there is something doing somersaults down there. It's pretty crazy. I have always wondered what this felt like - what can it possibly be like to feel something moving around independently in your abdomen? - and now that it has happened it surprisingly doesn't feel all that strange. When I saw my stomach moving a bit this morning, though, that was strange. I think it only gets more like "Alien" as you go along, right? Because eventually I'll be able to see elbows and knees and shifting around pretty clearly. Crazy.

Except for all the tiredness and indigestion, this has been a pretty good pregnancy by any measure so far. I am pretty excited about the upcoming ultrasound in a few weeks. Last time they did one, the baby was the size of a kidney bean. My disappeared waist is testimony it's already a lot bigger than that now! (I'm going to have to abandon my nice darted button-down work blouses from here on out, I think - the one I had on today was stretching too much. Boo.)

Full post as published by Irish Law on June 13, 2008 (boomark / email).