and so it was written.....

it has been requested that i post but i have been waiting for something to write about and now i have something that tony and i are really excited about. i have started to feel the baby move on the inside. even though tony cannot feel it from the outside, he knows that means that soon he will also be able to feel the baby move and kick. it's hard to explain the feeling but it feels like butterflies in your stomach but instead of it being all over your tummy, like when you are nervous, it's only in one spot and it's really light. cup your hand and lightly brush your fingertips from your other hand over your palm and down the inside of your fingers and that's how it feels to me. the doctor says that the mother can feel the baby by 16 weeks and it was on jan 4th, when i was a little past 17 weeks that i first experienced this sensation but was unsure that that was definitely what i felt. it was saturday, after feeling it more times that i knew that feeling was the baby. what a joy for a mother to experience the movement of their 1st baby for the very 1st time. tony is constantly feeling my tummy where i tell him i feel it just in case he can feel it too. he also likes to put his head on my tummy, talk to the baby and rub it. he can't wait until he too will be able to feel his first baby for the very first time. i have a basketball tummy. i'm carrying everything in front. so far nothing in my hips or back. and since everything is in the front, i look huge and round all because it's all only in one place. i am wearing maternity clothes even though i can still fit into some of my old clothes but they are more comfortable and i look so cute in them now that you can tell i am pregnant. i should and will soon take a pix and post it so all you too can enjoy my preger belly but for now i am going to relax with tony before we have to go to bed early so he can be up by 2:15am to get ready to leave for work. tata