kicker

the little guy started kicking last Monday while I was sitting at the desk. He's been kicking pretty strong since then, J can even feel it.

In other news, the election results made me feel better about life here, even though the mayor now strongly ressembles an ex boyfriend who is deranged....

Last night we went to Forces of Nature, a doc about David Suzuki. In one scene David quotes someone by saying that "the most revolutionary words you can say are 'I'm staying'". He meant that deciding to protect and love the land you are on is a huge revolutionary step. I don't know about this, but it keeps going over in my head that neither me nor Justin can say this. I might google this quote to find out more about the meaning.

Lately I've been eating a lot of Good Earth Cafe's "Seed Rolls", an organic flour cinnamon (sticky) bun that is rolled in poppy seeds, pumpkin seeds and sunflower seeds. I have no idea if it's good for me, but I think it's the seeds I've been craving. And having them in a sticky sugary mixture makes them easy to swallow.


As for aches and pains, my right ribs are killing me (google says this is normal). So I'm being proactive by getting back into regular exercise with push-ups, chin-ups, lunges and most recently, I added wall-sitting. Damn, it kills my quads! Right in the middle, which is really hard to stretch in any saddle variation. I really gave it my all teaching yesterday and felt incredible from stretching and doing core. I also ran to teach and home although there was a lot of walking. Later in the night I felt a little 'funny' but sometimes this is just gas causing discomfort. Either way, it followed my headstand attempt, which felt bad at the time too!

First kicks

Yesterday morning I felt the baby's very first kicks. I felt something in the morning, as me and Justin snuggled and refused to get up, but I didn't want to jinx it by telling him. Then, as I sat in the office reading about baby's development at 21 weeks, I clearly felt 3 kicks right in the centreline of my body, just above my pubic bone!

Last night as we settled down on the couch, the baby got active again and we tried to see if Justin could feel it. He couldn't, but we tried again in bed, as he kept kicking, and Justin could tell each time the baby kicked! It was so amazing to share that with Justin, and to have it happen.

I did wake up at 2am with bad congestion, and it seemed the baby was doing some jui-jitsu on me too, but my irritable state might have exaggerated that. Either way, nothing really this morning. I miss it when it's gone, but find it a little "instrusive" when it happens. So cool. Either way, I'm so darned tired from last night's bad sleep that I can barely muster the excitement I felt yesterday. Can't wait for bed tonight.

Off to Banff with J tomorrow for another of his Eco conference thingies. Not sure what I'll do, I don't think my massage lady does prenatal. Maybe some yoga and shopping for more tights/dresses now that I have my kickass boots to wear with those ensembles.