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Wrong
April 12th, 2010
You know, I’ve always heard other women talk about feeling their baby’s kicks. I’ve heard about strong kicks that hurt, fluttering kicks that tickle, etc. But I’ve never heard anyone talk about the crazy ass distortions one’s pregnant belly goes through.
When I was pregnant with Maddie my obesity meant that I didn’t feel her kicks very strongly. I had an ovarian cyst throughout my pregnancy and the only times her kicks bothered me was when she hit the cyst. I never saw my belly move like there was something alive living inside me. Hell, Gerald only managed to feel her kicks once or twice before she was born.
This time, however, HOLY CRAP. This kid is insanely active and while his kicks aren’t painful, they’re disturbing on a whole ‘nother level. My belly roils and shakes and punches outward like there’s a wild animal trapped inside. It is quite possibly the most disturbing thing I’ve ever seen my body do. Logically, I know it’s my baby moving around in there, but on some deep, primal level, it’s fucking creepy. There shouldn’t be parts of my body moving independently of me, you know? Any they definitely shouldn’t move so much that they slosh water around in the bathtub. That shit’s just wrong.
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Right? And when other people can see it, it’s downright disturbing.
Oh my, yeah. Eli’s movements were so uncomfortable by the last three months, I was always randomly gasping and wincing. And I could see knees and feet shoving through my belly skin. It was kind of creepy… like an alien invasion.
I think that’s AWESOME. And I hope my weight loss to this point (or whatever point it’s at when I get pregnant) will be enough that when I get pregnant, the same thing will happen to me.
Amen, sistah. Up until pregnancy, all the stuff going on in your body was, um, YOUR body! Not some alien invader’s. Someone I know described all that movin’ and shakin’ as “going about your business with a live squirrel down your shirt”. Apt, no? But it’s beoooootiful and all that…
Also, ha ha (said like Nelson in the Simpsons), you’re gonna have a wiggly little boy! Good luck with that, says the lady who is putting in an order for her next kid to be one of those babies that just sits there. :>
Lmao! It’s so surreal when it looks like there is an alien in there, and other people notice too. WEIRD!
I’m a lurker, not a poster, but I have to say – you are so awesomely hilarious Erica. I love that you say, without censoring, the things most of us women think!!
Thank you, Cindy. I’m pretty sure yours is the best comment I’ve ever gotten!