Baby Week 25 - Dancing Baby!
October 3, 2008
In my first pregnancy, Xander moved in what I would have called a typical manner - he would kick occasionally throughout the day, and have hiccups once in a while, but there would be hours at a time where he would be resting peacefully in utero - sleeping, floating, whatever babies do in there. Once he came out and started to gain control of his limbs, Zach and I often described him as in “constant motion” - he never stops moving until he falls alseep. We marveled at the amount of energy this kid has.
So, now onto pregnancy number two. This baby moves ALL THE TIME. Not an hour of the day goes by without some kicks and wiggles. Sometimes they are strong enough to take my breath away. I’ve actually learned to fall alseep to the lighter kicks, because he kicks all the time. I’ve noticed a few bouts of hiccups, but mostly it’s just wiggling and kicking. I think my voice and my movement used to lull Xander to sleep, but not this one - he stays awake through all of it. And if Xander was a constant motion kid with the more average amount of movement in the womb, and he is a “constant motion kid” what will this one be like? At least Xander slept for significant amounts of time, and wasn’t a bad sleeper when he was an infant. I know there isn’t any way to predict it, but it worries me that this little guy doesn’t sleep for long periods of time yet…
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 
At my doctor appointment this month they started to ask me if I had felt the baby move yet. I wanted to remind both the doctor and nurse who asked me that the baby did have a significant layer of fat to kick through on my stomach, so I’m not really expecting to feel the kid for the next week or two. 16 weeks is generally the earliest one might feel movement. Although I’m not feeling anything yet, the baby is definitely moving. When the nurse put the dopplar on my stomach to listen to the heartbeat, the kid kept moving away from her. She had to chase the kid all around my stomach trying to find a spot where the baby stayed still long enough for us to hear the heartbeat. Eventually she caught up with the baby, and the heartbeat is somewhere in the 140’s, which is apparently still good. We’ve got the sonogram coming up in a few weeks, so hopefully I’ll be able to post a picture of that soon. I’m a bit worried that if the baby won’t cooperate for the dopplar, he or she also won’t cooperate with the sonogram, which could be rather frustrating for us parents who would like to know where it is a he or a she. We’ll keep our fingers crossed that the baby won’t have its legs crossed! 