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How Do You Describe A Miracle?
March 16th, 2010 | 
Author: By Michaela
As we were laying in bed getting ready to fall asleep, my husband asked me a question that many pregnant women are asked… but usually earlier in the pregnancy.
“What does it feel like when she moves?”
Here I was, 33 weeks pregnant, and I had been feeling our little girl move for nearly 5 months already. At first the movements just felt like little air bubbles or gas pockets in my lower abdomen… but everyone tells you that. Those first movements are great and you look forward to feeling them, because they are the sporadic reminders that, yes– there is a little person growing and living in there.
As the pregnancy progresses, the movements become not only more regular, but also get more of a force behind them. Before long you can actually see the movement from the outside too; another reminder to you and others that something is growing inside of you. Then sometime a few weeks later, things start to get cramped for the baby and now you’re not just getting kicked and prodded in the stomach… no, now there are feet and arms stretching up into your ribs and a little head and butt that likes to use your bladder as a trampoline.
I had been feeling all of these things for weeks… months… and yet how do you describe what it feels like to someone who will never get to experience it for himself? If you’re a mom, how would or did you describe the feel of the movements to others?
To me, feeling her move at 33 weeks is a mix between many things. There are still times, like when she may just move a hand or a leg, where it feels like gas bubbles… larger than the ones felt early on… but gas bubbles nonetheless. There are the times where she’s just rolling and moving and it’s like waves rolling through your stomach… it doesn’t hurt… it just feels and looks a little alien. Then there are the stretchers… these seem to happen more when I’m sitting than at any other time. The stretchers hurt… she gets up under my ribs and pushes up and out. Fun times!!
So that is how I explained it to him. It’s odd, because you can’t control it. You can’t say, “Okay little person, now I want you to move like this.” She already does what she wants to do, and in doing so, lets me know that she’s real. No matter how alien or foreign it may feel, she’s my daughter and not just some image on a screen. I love feeling her move. I love feeling when she gets the hiccups. She gets them often… even more often than my son did. Just like with him, I know that I will miss this once she’s born. I will miss the hiccups, the gas bubbles, the alien rolls and yes… I may even miss the stretchers…
…just not the ones that go under the ribs.
For now though, I’ll try not to think about all of that. Instead I think I will enjoy it all for the few weeks that I have left… and try not to complain too much when it feels like she’s trying to break out!
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Michaela, I think it’s so proverbial that Abby broke out BEFORE this article was published. I’m so glad she’s here and that mommy and baby are doing well!
~Elizabeth
I could never really describe the feeling to my husband. It is definitely a miralce. Although, I never enjoyed the hiccups so much!!
I see a congrats is in order. Welcome baby Abby.
I love being pregnant and feeling that little being moving around. It’s so amazing. I guess the best way to help my DH understand it was to let him feel my belly.
This post made me want another baby!!!
I can still feel the movement 11 years later. Great post, but no I do not want another baby! Babysitting Mater is good enough!!
I never thought that Abby would be here before this posted! I think it’s fitting that as I read this she once again got the hiccups!!
Thank you again for the congrats and well wishes!!
I agree with Cop Momma, this post makes me want to have another baby.
Going home after having my son, I missed the movements that early. After having a baby you remember what they felt like but almost can’t remember. It’s like the pain of childbirth. During the birth the pain is pretty bad, but you forget it once it’s all over and it’s hard to describe. It’s amazing and strange how the mind works.
Life is just so amazing.. Congrats..
The most awesome feeling in the world actually! I remember with my first how my hub man and I would just lay around and watch my belly move. She (now 5) would always dance around to the Eagles Hotel California…it was like a wave in my belly. With my last one he was so big that seriously we could see hand prints and foot prints on my stomach and the rib kicks were so not fun! It was like being in the movie Alien with him, like seriously don’t you dare forget Im in here lady!
Congrats on the new baby!
I remember the first time buggy boy moved ….I was freaked out, happy, nervous and ready to have him then…I also remember being so tired I could barely move…
So happy for you and your new little one
Love this!! I’ve been feeling those first little jabs and “gas bubbles” for a week or 2 now… so sweet!!
Feeling the baby moved was the ONLY thing that made my pregnancies tolerable. Seriously, it was like, the one redeeming quality. Well, that and the actual baby I guess.
I complained when the pregnancy was further along, well, for the same reasons listed above…the pain…but, in reality, I LOVED being pregnant, and I would totally do it ll over again!
you nailed it on the head!! awesome description! i LOVED the rolling waves feeling. i loved it. i can still feel it. can’t wait for #3!!
I think you described it perfectly. I loved the feelings too, minus the stretches of course.
It looks like you’re enjoying a whole new version of stretching now! Congratulations! Sweet post, it *is* so hard to describe what it’s like, because it’s so much more than something physical when it’s happening inside you!!
I don’t know that I ever felt hiccups. At least I didn’t know that’s what I was feeling.
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I love being pregnant just for the reason of feeling the little baby growing and stretching and squirming. It’s great and yep it’s hard to explain to someone who will never get to have this neat feeling.
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