I've been feeling him/her move around a LOT the past week and a half. I had felt little movements here and there before but now it's throughout the day and every day. Today s/he is liking my vacation just as much as I am. (I have today and tomorrow off this week since it's UEA here so no school for the kiddos). I have just been relaxing all day so far. I finally got to catch up on the lack of sleep that has been plaguing me for a few weeks now. I have been a walking zombie and was so ready to have a few days to sleep in as long as I could.
In the hypno-birthing book I am reading there was a page that was so fascinating to me and I've been dying to try this out since I read about it. It talked about how you and your significant other might be feeling anxious, nervous, hopeful, and all those things you feel right before you have a baby, but then it talked about switching those perspectives to your baby's perspectives. It talked about how before your baby is born it has a somewhat limited knowledge of what to expect since it can still hear and perceive things from inside the womb and by the time s/he is ready to come out it's probably just as scared, nervous, anxious, or excited depending on what it has heard & felt (ex - it posed some different scenarios - a baby entering a household where it heard a lot of yelling versus a baby entering a house where it's parent(s) would talk to it before it was born or listen to calming music). It said to try and do some things before the baby is born to make it feel "welcomed" such as talking to him/her, rubbing your belly to let it know you are there, listening to calming music, singing to him/her, etc etc. By doing this it actually helps you bond with your baby faster after s/he is born because you are making yourself aware that there is actually a little person there that is not just a blob on an ultrasound screen and the baby also already feels some sort of connection to the outside world. I think I found this part of the book so interesting because I had never really thought of it like that before.
Ever since that part of the book really stuck out to me, I've been looking forward to starting to do something like that once the baby started to move around and today I finally got a chance. As I've been sitting here relaxing, s/he was moving around quite a bit so I took the opportunity to try this out. I rubbed my stomach back letting it know someone's out here too and once I stopped s/he just moved around in response to the little nudges and we wen back and forth for 5 or 10 minutes. It was pretty fun and made me even more excited to see the little one tomorrow.
Nick still has yet to feel the movements from the outside. He tries, but he keeps thinking he's just feeling my pulse and the movements aren't strong enough on the outside yet I guess for him to be able to tell the difference between a pulse and a kick or roll. For me it's easy because I not only can feel it on the outside I can feel it on the inside too so I know it wasn't just my pulse. haha. Hopefully in the next couple of weeks though he'll start being able to feel the little one moving around too.
Can you believe this little one is just about halfway done growing already?
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