Baby Whisperer

1 December 2005, 06:35

When MiniMc started kicking, at about the 22 week mark, I would get McG to put his hand on my tummy so he could feel it. But the little bugger would not kick for Husband… “oh no papa, I’m good MiniMc, I sleep when papa tells me to sleep. zzzzzzzz”

At the time it wasn’t so bad as the kicks were only sporadic, but lately, mother-of-god, MiniMc has been kicking up a veritable tornado. A little mini-rave. Now it’s running out of room MiniMc’s getting even more insistent on boxing my kidneys and bladder and stomach. “oh, let’s do a little tap-dance on mama’s spleen. weeeeeeeeeeee!”

I thought there might have been something wrong with MiniMc yesterday, as it was wriggling around about half the day, no exaggeration. It was driving me nuts, ‘specially because I’m actually expected to be productive at work and it’s the most distracting thing imaginable. They reckon around this mark (32 weeks and a bit) you should feel “10 kicks in a 12 hour period”. I probably get an average of 10 kicks/undulations/jujitsu moves an hour.

...and yet, whenever I put McG’s hand on my belly, when MiniMc is being most active, it would always go into foxing mode and lie perfectly still. McG’s only felt MiniMc move a handful of times. It was getting ridiculous. The Mc was making a liar out of its mama.

This morning though, when I woke up and surprise, surprise, MiniMc woke up too, with a decent left hook to my uterus followed by a series of dodge moves, I put McG’s hand on my skin and…. bliss….. no movement (until of course, he took his hand away and it started back up again).

Don’t get me wrong, I’m grateful MiniMc is moving around (ahem, hopefully not because of sugar rush brought on by too much (non-alcoholic) trifle), but some days I wish I could take resident Baby Whisperer to work with me so he can placate this feisty little baby bugger-of-mine…

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