Week 27 – Baby Hiccups
June 26, 2006
As predicted, the baby has been moving more frequently and seems to be getting stronger by the day. This week, the baby had its first bout of hiccups (or at least the first since I’ve been able to feel movement…). And in true child fashion, the hiccups couldn’t have happened in the middle of the day, or while I was watching tv at night – nope, the hiccups started right around 11pm, when I was just settling down to sleep. At first, I felt the rhthmic movement and wondered what that was all about. Then I recalled reading something about baby hiccups at Baby Center. Of course, as I recalled the article, I remembered that they simply mentioned hiccups, as in “your baby may even have hiccups” before moving onto the next thought. I couldn’t recall a single piece of literature that had any suggestions on how to treat baby hiccups. Since it was Thursday, and Zach was playing video games on campus, I wasn’t able to easily tell him of this new discomfort. So, I called his cell phone. Zach was quite entertained at the though of my jiggling uterus, and half-heartedly suggested that I drink water while doing some jumping jacks. Some of our other friends had some more colorful suggestions that are not worth repeating here. In the end, I simply had to wait it out. I don’t know if you’ve ever tried to sleep with a jiggling uterus, but I’m pretty sure that it isn’t possible. The baby had hiccups again this week, but at least the second bout happened at work, so I was able to continue working while my uterus jiggled that time, and the hiccups were not nearly as inconvenient. So, if anyone has any suggestions for curing baby hiccups, I would love to hear them, as I have a feeling that will not be the only time the baby thinks jiggling my uterus while I’m trying to sleep is a good idea.
This week we painted the nursery. When we bought the house a little over two years ago, we spent a week going through the entire house and took down all of the wallpaper and carpeting, and painted all of the walls white, and all of the already painted trip a buttery yellow. Since then, we have been going slowly from room to room, repainting and decorating in colors that we plan to keep for a while. Since I found the perfect wallpaper border at 
Several months ago (I think somewhere around my 4 month check-up) we signed up for Childbirth Classes. The classes are offered through my ObGyn office, and are of course highly recommended for new parents. The 8 week class covers lamaz, basic child birth information, etc. and then one class on infant care and one class on breast feeding. For two months I have been talking about how the class starts on June 27th. I even asked 
My mother-in-law, Rachel, mentioned that she had seen some very nice convertible cribs in the 
I have no doubt about baby movement anymore. I have noticed that in the mornings and evenings my kids likes to get some exercises by doing some jumping jacks around my stomach. When I can feel kicks/punches in two or three locations at once, I know that kid is busy in there. I’m not sure if the baby is saying “hey Mom, what’s up?” or “geeze it’s tight in here!” Either way, if I get up to use the bathroom at 4am, I can be almost certain that a few minutes later my kid will be busy with the workout routine. I did finally get Zach to feel the movement. The baby was kicking hard one night, and Zach was able to feel the hard kicks, which quite entertained him, though I didn’t find the discomfort all that funny… The literature I’ve read says that I’ll be able to notice a routine in the baby’s movements after a while. The movements aren’t always a guarantee in the mornings or evenings, but the baby seems to prefer those times over the middle of the day, which is a plus, since they can be somewhat distracting in the middle of meetings, etc. I wouldn’t say that baby movement is exactly comfortable or fun, but I do find it reassuring when the baby kicks, it reminds me that things are still going along as they should in there.