19 Weeks

This has probably been the most exciting week so far in my pregnancy. I have been anxiously waiting to feel the baby kick for the past several weeks. I've felt lots of weird things in my stomach but none that I felt like were the baby. Garrett has also been ready to feel this movement, and wasn't too thrilled when he heard that typically it's a few weeks from between when I feel it from the inside and he can feel it from the outside. So we were at at friend's birthday party on Saturday and Garrett got to feel another one of my pregnant friends' baby kick. (Thanks Megan!) If he can't feel our baby why not someone elses? :) 

Well that following Wednesday I was laying in bed and got to feel the baby move. At first I was just in shock then after it did it a few more times I couldn't help but laugh. I tried to get Garrett to feel it but there wasn't any more movement after that point. I've heard and read lots of things about how it feels. None of them felt like what I felt. Several people have said it feels like you have an actual butterfly in your stomach flapping it's wings (if so, my butterfly is on steroids because I'm pretty sure butterflies don't flap that hard). Others have said it just feels like you have "butterflies," I didn't get this feeling either. To me it felt a little like a balloon or a bubble popping inside of my stomach.

On Thursday after Garrett got home from work he got to feel the baby move also. This makes me think I've probably been feeling it for a while now, I just wasn't sure what I was feeling.  We've also been able to see little movements on my stomach from where the baby is moving. This has all been such an amazing experience for me. I can really only feel the baby right now when I am lying on my back or sitting really still. So the past few days have been very unproductive. I've spent a ton of time laying on my back (ya, ya, I know pregnant women shouldn't lay on the backs) staring at my stomach. It's been such a beautiful blessing to get to feel and see the baby move inside of me!