With all the uncertainty/complications going on right now, I felt the need to reflect and write about something positive - the first time I (and Andy) felt one of the babies kick!
When we were around 16 weeks, I started feeling "flutters" every once in awhile and not too long after I started to feel them move around. (This is so weird to describe, it's like my stomach was turning itself inside out and you would be able to see/feel one part of my stomach getting tighter. Who knows what the babies were doing in there!)
But, it wasn't until Saturday, May 4th, that I was laying down and felt a big 'ol kick! I looked over at Andy as soon as it happened, then all eyes were on my stomach. Within a minute we both could SEE baby kick again! Thankfully baby did it a third time when Andy's hand was there so he could feel it too!
With three of them in there, it's hard to know exactly who it was/is, but we have our suspsion that it's Baby B - "Party Girl" (That's her nick name that we'll we'll have to tell you about another time!) based on 3 things:
1. Baby Girl B was head down (putting her feet near where the kicks were happening) and Baby Girl A was breech at our ultrasound the day before (plus I was getting some kicks lower in my stomach later, making me believe that Baby Girl A wanted to make her presence known as well!)
2. Baby Girl B NEVER STAYS STILL during our ultrasounds! It probably takes us twice as long as it should simply because she won't stop moving long enough for the technicians to get the measurements they need.
3. Baby Boy C has an anterior placenta, so we've been told we won't be able to feel him kick until later on in the pregnancy.
It really doesn't matter which baby it was, the point is, we hit the milestone of FEELING and SEEING our babies move around in their current "home" -- and what a wonderful reminder the miracles they are!
~ Sarah
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