Jan 7, 2007 - Happy New Year and Baby Gymnastics

Rick and I welcomed 2007 with a dozen of our friends at Club Venom in Seattle. Although I couldn't celebrate with champagne, it was still great to dance the night away at our last babysitter free new year's eve. This year will be the Year of the Boar, which is a nice way of saying the Year of the Pig. Our baby will be a little piggy, same as the baby's Daddy!

Around 19 weeks, I started feeling little flutterings in my belly. At first I thought it was just my stomach grumbling but after a couple of days, I started to suspect maybe it was the baby moving. My doctor had told me to expect some baby movements soon but I didn't know what they were supposed to feel like! My friend Kayla described her baby moving like butterflies and my sister in law Betsy said it feels like fluttering. After a few days, it became more apparent that those gentle movements were not caused by me but the baby. At the beginning, I only noticed them a couple of times a day and the location of the movement seemed random. Rick was anxious to feel the baby as well but the movements were too unpredictable or gentle for him to feel. Now, at week 21, the movements are more frequent and stronger . I noticed that after I eat and I sit or lay still, I can feel the baby moving quite distinctly. Last Thursday night, I sat on the couch after dinner and put my hand on my belly to see if I can feel the baby. After feeling the baby 2 or 3 times in the same spot, I told Rick to put his hand on the same location. After a few seconds, the baby moved again and he definitely felt it! We both giggled in excitement and I was so happy that Rick could finally share some of what I was feeling!