IT’S ALIVE!!

AND MOVING!!

I’m finally 100% convinced that this movement in My Belly is MyOur Bebe!!

A confession of sorts – I’ve been feeling the Bebe move for probably two weeks now.

When I first starting feeling the Bebe swimming around down there (and not the “down there” that Grandma means, I’ll get to that in month 10) I wasn’t so sure that what I was feeling wasn’t gas pains or heartburn flaring up into a VurpFest. So I didn’t say anything to anyone besides my mom & my husband.

To me it feels like what I like to call “A Frog” – those tiny little muscle spasms you generally get around your eye or thigh area – the ones you can actually watch “leap”. Heh, just had one while I was sitting here contemplating whether that was an apt enough description! I was waiting to make sure I was fully over The Sickness & that this was in fact my little Bebe Frog leaping around from lily pad (bladder) to lily pad (kidney).

Right now, the movement is still “too far inside” for Matias to feel anything. I have no other way to describe it to him other than “too far inside” and really, how far inside is this little Frogger swimming?? But every once in a while, I’ll let him know that the Bebe just moved around!!

So far, I’ve noticed he likes the bottom of his pond and the left side/West Coast – not a lot of movement up towards “the surface” or on the right side/East Coast.

Sleep positions are becoming interesting…

I sleep on both sides and my back – in that order. I HAVE TO fall asleep on my left side and then I will flip over to my right side (it’s not “tossing & turning” – it’s totally comfortable and cozy for me to do this) and then I will tend to end up on my back at some point with a cat sitting on my face or boobs.

These days the left side is more comfortable to sleep on, as most pregnancy literature will tell you but I still have the urge to flip to the right side. This causes severe SLOSHING Effect. Which leads to an uprising of fluids culminating into a Vurp in Lying Down Position – which equals VERY DANGEROUS LAKE SIDE EFFECTS. I’ve tried to curb my flipping but really, to no avail. I’ve definitely slowed it down though in order not to Slosh. But I can also BE Sloshed – if and when Matias jumps around during the night (cause he does) I get Wake Movement Sloshed. Makes me want to have one of those beds where I can jump up & down and still not knock over the glass of water!! At least my little West Coast Frog is learning to ride the waves early, no?

My FAVORITE sleep position though is the Crouching Monkey, Hidden Froggie.

And it goes a little something like this:

I have to be lying on my side and Monk will drape his body over My Belly and rest his body on me while hanging his head and paws over my side with his feet in “sitting” position. And then he purrs. And I can imagine that the Bebe is feeling Monkey purring on him and that makes me smile & a little weak in the knees.