It's ALIIIIIIVE!!

*Disclaimer--this is not my stomach, it's just a picture I found to use for this post*

Okay, so we don't have feet imprinting from the inside out--but something SO cool happened last night!

I was talking to Grant's med school brother Seth who mentioned in passing how cool it was when he could start seeing their baby move from the outside while his wife was pregnant. I was very intrigued with this idea and started to wonder when/if we could actually see our little girl move. I mean, she's growing so quickly. She already weighs a whole pound and I can definitely feel a difference in the movements I'm feeling now and what I was feeling at first. She's totally getting bigger and stronger. A few days ago Grant was even able to feel her just with his hand (he usually puts his cheek on my belly) when she randomly started kicking waaaay up where I didn't even know my uterus had expanded to above my belly button.

So last night while Grant was playing with our new camera (yes, we bought a new camera even though both of us have great point-and-shoots we're having a dang kid and we decided before we even got married to blow some cash on a new camera before our first child was born) which turns out, only one person can do at a time. I had just laid down which meant that the disco ball in my womb turns on and baby starts to party like it's 1999. So, thinking about what Seth had said I pulled up my shirt and started watching my belly.

Turns out, you can totally see your own heartbeat on your stomach--neat hunh? So first I focused on watching that to get used to watching the rhythm of both that and my breath. But then, she started moving and I could totally see it! All of a sudden I'd see completely noticeable bumps from the inside! Some of them even knocked my pajamas. I kept saying to Grant how neat it was and finally convinced him to set the camera aside for just two minutes and watched.

He was skeptical at first, but then we had a HUGE one. He perked up with excitement and plunged his face down to settle it on my belly so he could feel her move. Which, was very effective and he felt her whole disco routine right on his cheek. Actually, she kicked him so hard at one point I saw his head jerk up off my belly.

It was the coooolest thing! I was tempted to take a video to post...but because by the time I got that far in my thinking she had calmed down a little and the inside bubbles on my skin were happening farther and farther apart and I knew it would take a while to get a perfect little video of it. And, let's be honest...my belly ain't the sexiest thing in the world even when it's not fat and pregnant-aited out. I decided to spare you.

So, now I'm much more happy about pregnancy. She's so active and I can feel it all the time and even see it sometimes. I'm also really glad that Grant can feel it too. This is totally the miracle of Life stuff everybody was talking about.

And I've decided that even though it makes me look like a big weenie and a whiner (which...I actually am, but pregnancy exacerbates everything from my bra size to my personality quirks) I'm glad that I'm so open about my complaints. I'm glad because every time I am, someone who's had a baby speaks up and says, "That totally happened to me! Here's my story..." And then I feel sane again.

So thanks to all my Mommy friends for sharing your horrors--I mean joys--about bringing your own miracles in! It helps me out a bunch to know that I'm not the only one!!