Monday, December 28th, 2009

Potato in the Oven

Lately I’ve been in the habit of touching my belly a lot, partly because it’s so cool there’s a baby in there and partly because it’s so weird there’s a baby in there! I’m always poking around, trying to figure out this bizarre new shape of mine, especially when I’m lying in bed trying (and often, failing) to fall asleep or stay asleep.

So this morning, I reached down, and there was something different. On the left side of my lower belly region, there was this hard knot. On the right side, not so hard. And suddenly I realized this knot on the left was the baby! It’s supposed to be about 5 inches long crown to rump this week – or, as one website puts it, about the size of a baked potato. That’s about what it felt like, too – a baked potato.

I woke up D and made him feel, and then we got out the fetal heart monitor we’re renting from BabyBeats.com to see if we would find the heartbeat where I suspected the baby was. It took about 5 seconds to find it – right where the baked potato lump was, 2 or 3 inches higher than where we found the heartbeat last time, a little over a week ago.

I find this to be one of the coolest things yet about this pregnancy. I’ve heard very-pregnant women say stuff like, “oh, this is his head over here, and that’s his butt over there,” but I didn’t really get how they could tell or what it felt like. Now, I’ve caught a glimpse of what the future of this pregnancy’s going to be like. I felt my baby! How cool is that?

posted by K | filed under Pregnancy | 4 Comments

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4 Responses to “Potato in the Oven”

  1. kelly on December 28th, 2009 12:38 pm

    Yay that’s amazing!

  2. Kathy on December 28th, 2009 6:42 pm

    So happy for you! Wait until they flip, so amazing!!! Enjoy every minute :-)

  3. priscilla on December 30th, 2009 8:09 am

    I remember feeling heels and knuckles. Write this stuff down.

  4. Sabrina on December 30th, 2009 8:32 pm

    I kept thinking I was getting a foot wedged up under my ribs but it happened at an appointment and the doctor assured me it was a butt! I’m amazed that my “baby” is almost 3 now. He’s hollering from the tub (I keep running back and forth) that he’s got a bubble “ustache” and I better go look. LOL. Enjoy every moment of every stage…it goes by so quickly! (though while you’re puking and have heartburn and a butt poking out under your ribs it sure doesn’t seem to go by fast. LOL)

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