Movement

I've been a bit neurotic about this pregnancy since it started.  As soon as the little cricket reached a gestational age that I could hear the heart beat I would listen to it at work two or three times a week.  Before that, I would do sonograms on myself to see the heart movement.

I kept telling myself, and Lucas, and anyone else, that I would stop doing all this listening and looking once I could feel cricket move (although, I don't know if I believed it even as the words came out of my mouth).   I did think that I would be more reasonable when cricket could tell me he/she was okay.

A doctor I work with, who recently gave birth to her second child, told me she could start feeling the baby move around 14 weeks.  That's really early.  But don't you know it, I was desperate to feel movement at 14 weeks.  It took a bit longer - I started feeling movement around 17 weeks, but even then, it was so subtle I had to ask myself if it was really movement or just gas. 

I'm 23 weeks now and the movement is great!  I feel cricket almost all day long, more in the evening and night, and sometimes so strongly that I wonder what kind of party is going on in there!  Lucas felt it for the first time last week or so, but his experience was more like mine at 17 weeks, "I think I felt something."  Two nights ago cricket was especially active so I had him put his hand on my belly and BAM! - cricket moved and there was no doubt, Lucas felt it.  It was pretty exciting!

It turns out I'm not a liar - I haven't felt the need to look at or listen to cricket since the movements have started.  I feel a whole lot less neurotic these days.