Every night I have the pleasure of rubbing down Esther’s belly with some oils and I use the opportunity to probe for signs of our son in there. Which way is he facing? How deep in there is he? The midwives showed me how to go about this investigation, but I have to admit that I didn’t really catch on to what exactly is the baby and what’s Ester’s guts and organs. I try to push her belly from side to side, trying to sort of bounce the baby around in there to get a sense of where resistance is met and where it gives. Her belly seems to be pretty balanced from side to side for the most part. But then how do kicks sometimes appear on all different sides of her belly? Does he have 8 legs? Is he part cephalopod (my spirit animal kingdom)?
Well, all of this prefaces the fact that last night , right next to Esther’s belly button, I felt a definite limb! And he kicked with it! And it was definitely a foot. Esther felt it too and she squealed with delight. I think that was the first time she had felt him from the outside as well.
It was pretty awesome.
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Get used to that, it’s going to get much stronger the bigger he gets! I remember laying in bed and watching what looked like a crowd doing the wave across my belly. Totally insane!