I got a little bit of pregnancy validation a couple of days ago. All along, I’ve been thinking, maybe I’m so miserable because I’m just more in tune with my body than some other people. I realize that sounds like a ridiculous thing to say, and something that can never be proven. But I kept hearing about all these people who never got sick or even weirder, didn’t even know they were pregnant for ages. I know TWO actual women who didn’t know they were pregnant until 11 and 12 weeks. ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME? I have been very AWARE the whole time. Even when I wasn’t feeling sick I was feeling different. I’ll spare you the details, but things felt different. And the smells My God, the smells. I can smell the bourbon in SB’s glass from across the room, and I can smell my boss’s grapefruit scented hand lotion and Bubblicious from down the hall and around the corner.
Anyway, you’re supposed to be able to feel the baby move anywhere from 16 to 22 weeks. And guess what! I started feeling it, bang on the dot of 16 weeks. At first it was just a weird sort of lower intestinal fluttering, that I could see how you could ignore, but then the next day, there were a couple of distict taps. Not the big kick I was somehow expecting, just a tiny little gas bubble-like tap. Neat, eh?
And just to prove I don’t plan on making my blog the All Knocked Up All the Time channel, please enjoy the following funny picture, of a gift from my Hong Kong Friends, home for the summer:
It’s actually for mosquito bites which rules because my flesh is apparently particularly tasty.
For the record, I’m okay with the 24-hour knocked up station, but I do enjoy a good box of Chinese mosquito bite cream. I’m jealous! I didn’t feel any flutters until I was almost 22 weeks along! But then again, I was having an awful lot of actual gas, so that could have been camouflaging any tiny baby kicks. Fun stuff!
But I LIKE that channel!
I love reading everything you write (but thank you).
Beth: See? There’s no rhyme or reason to it. I would think that someone as timy as you would feel it right away.
Swistle: Ha! Thanks.
Rona: Yes, I must keep all my readers happy.
Um your baby kicks way out weigh the humor of the MOPIDICK.