OK so it sounds like the title of a really bad horror film (in fact, I've just discovered that it is), but it's still a great term. It's that feeling that mothers get about four months into pregnancy of their baby starting to move around, and Kate's been experiencing it for the past week or so.
At first it was hard to read what this was. Pregnancy does hellish things to a woman's guts anyway, so amidst all the heartburn and indigestion and what have you it's hard to pick out the significance of turbulence from a baby foot stirring up the amniotics. In the early days Kate was pretty convinced that it was probably just a bit of banana smoothie that was stubbornly refusing to digest properly, but now she gets a little flutter several times a day, and it's consistent enough that it can't just be reflux. She says it feels like bubbles fizzing away in her stomach at the moment.
This is particularly wonderful because it's like a constant daily reminder that the pregnancy is progressing well - and also that the baby is inheriting its parents' fidgety tendencies.
I don't know about Kate but you were a hugely fidgety baby!
ReplyDeleteThis is just so exciting!
ReplyDeleteI thought the "quickening" was an old Catholic doctrine for the moment when the soul enters the foetus after about three months. In the old days, abortion was permitted under Catholic law before that point.
ReplyDeleteIs that your picture? It's beautiful.
Not our picture - the best you'll get is fuzzy ultrasound as in the earlier post.
ReplyDeleteThe photo did look a bit too good to be true!
ReplyDeleteBTW We are back in Sydney at the end of April/early May. We should catch up!