This week started off at a bachelorette party. It was awesome to relax with girls, in the sun, poolside for a weekend. When we were told there was a "surprise" for the bachelorette on one of the nights, my first guess was stripper. I was confused when a woman showed up at the house...then pleasantly surprised when I found out we were taking a burlesque class. It was pretty hilarious and also super awkward. What I learned is: 1) Air-humping is super weird. At all times. 2) Some people were born to be strippers (or have insanely lucky husbands). 3) Pregnant ladies doing burlesque are cute, way funny, and sexy? For some reason everyone was very enthralled with the pregos (there were two of us) doing burlesque and couldn't stop telling us how hot we were. Hey, I'll take it.
Aside from bacheloretting, the week was pretty eventful. On the plane ride home I felt what I thought was the first "flutter". But I wasn't convinced because of all of the plane vibrations. And because it didn't feel like a flutter at all.
Tuesday I had a checkup with my OB where we heard the heartbeat for the very first time ever! I was half expecting/hoping that they wouldn't be able to find it because they couldn't last time and that we would get a little ultrasound peak. No go, but still fun to hear it beating away (at 140ish beats per minute). My OB asked if I had felt movement yet, to which I replied, "maybe?" Apparently that's a very common answer.
The next day I felt movement FOR SURE. When I say it doesn't feel like a flutter, I mean it doesn't feel like a flutter at all. The way I describe it is a poke from inside, which kind of makes sense since the legs are probably about the diameter of a finger :) It has been one of the more exciting parts of the pregnancy so far to finally be able to have some almost daily tangible evidence that something is growing (besides my belly). It's also amazed me how much that little one moves in there! Usually I feel a series of kicks in one focused area, then nothing. Then the next series will be in a completely different area of my tummy, which gives me images of the baby flipping and somersaulting around in there. Pretty amazing peeps.
This week the acrobatic bebe is about the size of a sweet potato.
Aside from bacheloretting, the week was pretty eventful. On the plane ride home I felt what I thought was the first "flutter". But I wasn't convinced because of all of the plane vibrations. And because it didn't feel like a flutter at all.
Tuesday I had a checkup with my OB where we heard the heartbeat for the very first time ever! I was half expecting/hoping that they wouldn't be able to find it because they couldn't last time and that we would get a little ultrasound peak. No go, but still fun to hear it beating away (at 140ish beats per minute). My OB asked if I had felt movement yet, to which I replied, "maybe?" Apparently that's a very common answer.
The next day I felt movement FOR SURE. When I say it doesn't feel like a flutter, I mean it doesn't feel like a flutter at all. The way I describe it is a poke from inside, which kind of makes sense since the legs are probably about the diameter of a finger :) It has been one of the more exciting parts of the pregnancy so far to finally be able to have some almost daily tangible evidence that something is growing (besides my belly). It's also amazed me how much that little one moves in there! Usually I feel a series of kicks in one focused area, then nothing. Then the next series will be in a completely different area of my tummy, which gives me images of the baby flipping and somersaulting around in there. Pretty amazing peeps.
This week the acrobatic bebe is about the size of a sweet potato.
And a side view!
