Little flutters

The thing I love the most about being pregnant is feeling the baby move and wiggle.  I can put up with all the usual (and a couple not so usual) discomforts for that unique feeling of life growing inside of me.  I'm a little bit of a worrywart until I can feel Baby moving, too.  Thankfully I work in a place where I have access to a doppler and other instruments to check up on kiddo from time to time. 

One of my friends, who is a week further along than I am, asked me if I was feeling anything yet- probably about a week ago.  I told her a few little flutters here and there, but nothing definite or consistent.  She said, "Oh I feel flutters every now and then too.  And then 10 seconds later I fart."  I laughed and laughed.  That's one of the great mysteries around feeling the first "quickening" as the experts like to call it.  Is that the baby, or is that just gas?  Luckily there does come a time when there is no doubt that you are feeling Baby.  That time is just a little different for everyone. 

In the last two days, I've been pretty sure I'm feeling Sethbryo in there.  The movements are small, and not predictable or consistent, but that's how it always starts for me.  I could lay on the couch for hours just trying to pay attention to what is going on in my uterus.  I don't, because there's not enough time in the day, but I could.  It may take me a few more weeks to feel any bigger movements, though.  My placenta is anterior (again) this pregnancy.  Out of the 5 times I've carried, I've had 4 anterior placentas- so this is nothing new to me.  "Anterior" just means that my placenta is hanging out in the front of my uterus- right in the part that curves outward to make that beautiful baby belly.  It also means that it usually takes longer to feel good movement out of the baby.  The placenta is in there, like a pillow, between the baby and the outside of my tummy.  So the baby kicks, and it hits my placenta instead of the wall of my uterus- so it will take a stronger kick for me to feel anything.  With my last pregnancy, I had my first ever posterior placenta- meaning that the placenta was on the opposite wall of my uterus, toward my back.  I could feel little Miss Mia all the time by the time I hit 15 weeks, where I am now. 

So, I'll have to be a little more patient.  And pay attention to those little flutters I feel down low or to the side.  By 18 weeks, I should be able to say that I'm feeling Sethbryo all the time, and I can't wait for that.  It's one of my favorite feelings in the world.