Baby Deux

I think she might be a handful. She's currently a uterus full. I had my 27 week/glucose screening (which I passed btw) appointment yesterday and I was measuring 30 weeks, which explains the "growth spurt" I've/baby has had recently (i.e. jump in weight gain). I'm pretty sure I mentioned that I first felt her at 12 weeks. And she's pretty darn active still. For a while we even looked up baby names that meant "bird" or "hummingbird" because that's what she felt like inside for so long. Now that she's getting bigger....well, I'll have to rethink the comparison. We didn't get to hear much of her heartbeat yesterday, either, although we heard plenty of her moving around--sounding like scratching on the doppler. It's terribly hard to describe the sound and the delightful humor of it but it made me and the midwife laugh, like my uterus is her own personal jungle gym.

Today while I was icing my back, the darling started at it again and I rubbed my belly where she was going at it and she "rubbed" back and this went on for a while. It was like in utero cuddling or something. Again, hard to describe but so sweet and precious. Feeling the baby is definitely my favorite part of being pregnant, it's such an amazing thing, a sweet secret, a real delight. Today I was thinking about it as a kind of physical or movement-based communication and wondering if this baby will need lots of touch...as well as lots of room to flail and eventually run around ;-)

That's all, just wanted to record that sweet moment before my other sweetie wakes up.