The Baby Moved!!

Last night I felt the baby move!! I had just eaten some oatmeal and laid down to go to sleep and I felt a little flicker in the area of my uterus. My first thought was, !!Was that the baby??!! but then immediately I thought, nah, it couldn't have been - it's way too early for that! I wasn't expecting to feel anything til at least 18 weeks and no matter what I've felt in my belly, I've never thought it might be the baby. So I laid there quietly and waited for it to happen again. A little while later, I felt something again. It was the strangest sensation and it was in just the right area of my belly. It didn't feel the same as gas moving - it was so much more delicate and gentle and surreal. I waited some more, but nothing happened so I moved around and then held still to feel it... and it happened again!!! I moved again and yes, it happened again!!! After that, there was nothing, no matter how much I moved.

I lay in bed waiting for sleep, trying to figure out how to best describe the feeling. I came up with three ways. The first way I came up with is like when a fish nibbles at you or side swipes you underwater. The second way is if you were underwater and a bubble bumped into you and then bounced off. And the third way is like someone gently poking an organ (directly though - not from the outside). The description I like best is the bubble underwater description. I've heard people say it's like the wind or like butterflies, but that's definitely not how it felt to me. It was much more watery and less light and airy. I can, however, understand the description of a flutter (an underwater flutter though) or a tickle.

I woke up thinking about it this morning, and I laid there for a long time hoping to feel something. I felt nothing. I got up to eat breakfast and then laid back down to wait some more, but still nothing. I rolled around, I coughed, I prodded, and finally felt two tiny flickers. I finally got John to come in and yell right in front of my belly. Right after that, I felt another tiny little flicker and then nothing, even when he yelled a second time.

I was reading other people's accounts about it online this morning, and I found accounts similar to each of my three ways to describe it. I feel sure it was the baby and not gas. I guess I will know whether I was right or wrong in the coming weeks, but it just felt so different than gas or hunger pangs, and in a totally different place too. I am really surprised though that I felt it this early... I was thinking there's no way I'd feel it until 18 weeks or so! It was just the coolest feeling in the world and I can't wait to feel it again and again!!