This little one has been bouncing all over the place, and in just two weeks has gone from movements that I feel about once a day, to movements that are reliably felt every few hours. And very explosive movements at that! Every now and then I feel a tickle or a soft bump, but often, when she gets started, it feels more like a fireworks finale of punches and kicks and jumps and rolls. I've been able to feel these movements on the outside of my belly with my hands every once in a while for a few days, but Dan hasn't been able to catch one yet.
Until tonight! Tonight, after work, laying on the couch just before bed, I felt her start moving. Then the gymnastics started, which I announced with glee, and Dan had his hand on my belly for just a moment when she gave a humongous kick! Dan's eyes lit up while I was asking "Did you feel that?" He just bent over my belly and started talking to the baby and kissing my belly and saying silly things and generally being quite excited about his first contact with his daughter. He's such a proud papa and so attached to her already. He felt her kick one more time before she quieted down, and he said it felt like a tiny little bump.
Now I just wonder what Cocoa will think when she's bigger and we're cuddling in bed one morning and his head is getting bounced around on my belly from all her activity...
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