Sunday, February 7, 2010

Better than Hulu?

So our little one has been pretty active lately, kicking and rolling and squirming around (in the evenings mostly).  Figures he is most active at night as both Jason and I are more night owls than early birds.
My stomach continues to grow and expand and look more like a basketball everyday and true to the old wives tales about boys, I'm carrying fairly low.  And because he enjoys staying cuddled in nice and low in my pelvis, I'm having some regular hip pain already.  Luckily it isn't a constant and I am able to do some stretches to relieve the pain for now... we'll see what happens as he gets heavier and the weeks go by. 
Along with the growing tummy, I've been wondering if I was going to be blessed with stretch marks... luckily I'm not looking like a red Zebra... yet.  While I was watching and feeling for kicks earlier tonight, I noticed a line on my lower abdomen and just as panic started to set in that I had spotted my first "scar of motherhood," I realized it was just an indentation from my pants ... Maybe- as I can still somewhat see it. Either way, I'm going to just tell myself its from the pants and rub some extra lotions on it, maybe crazily, before I go to sleep tonight.  (I'm just not ready for that part of all of this yet...) 
It has been fun feeling him move at pretty regular times and tonight was the time that I was actually looking at my tummy while he was kicking.  Fun to SEE the movements now and not just feel them.
(for those of you who have never seen the picture here, there's lots of conversations about whether it's possible to have a picture like this... and highly speculated that it was photoshopped to be used as an anti-abortion campaign.  Either way, reminds me of the crazy dreams I mentioned in my last post)