18 weeks, 5 days - It's Alive!

Remember the post where I said I wasn't sure if I felt our little Sputnik (or Nik as Matt and I have started calling it) moving or if it was just muscle spasms/twitching? Well, I'm sure: it's Sputnik. And boy, is he/she moving! My books say that babies in utero frequently are most active at night because your daily activities rock them to sleep, but this little dude seems to really hate my morning work meeting. Holy Moses! It makes it really really hard to concentrate when there's a tap dance going on in your belly. And right now, it's a very gentle feeling; I can't imagine what it's going to be like when I'm big and fat and Nik is much stronger. Aye-yay-yay! Matt was able to feel it move over the weekend, so that was fun. I was surprised that he was able to feel it because all but a few pokes and prods have been very gentle thus far. But I was thinking to myself last night about how fun this part of pregnancy is, really. I mean, you start showing, you feel the baby move, you can find out the gender if you want, you get a good picture of it... those are a lot of pretty awesome milestones to hit all within a few weeks of each other!