Baby likes to mess with me in the morning

[dampscribbler]

I'm not sure what combination of food, drink, and sleep I managed in the past 24 hours, but it seems to have worked. I feel really good. I actually got 8 consecutive hours of sleep last night, something I don't expect to happen again for 6 months or so. I'm doing some housecleaning this morning, and hoping that I'm 'nesting.' Can nesting be forced? Maybe.

I'd been up a little over an hour when I decided I hadn't felt the baby move since 6am. I didn't worry. For about a minute. Then I did. So I drank my grapefruit juice. Lil' gal loves her grapefruit juice. Sure enough, in about 6 minutes (3 minutes too long for my taste, young lady) she started kicking and squirming.

Relief.

Edited 4 minutes later to add
I hope posting about this doesn't draw the attention of the evil eye. I'm shockingly superstitious about these things, yet what's done is done.

Comments

[fj.livejournal.com]

How does one know that baby loves the juice? Maybe she's kicking "Stop. That". Do you know Morse code?

[dampscribbler.livejournal.com]

How does one know? One projects. I like the juice, and I like when she kicks (unless she kicks too hard), hence she likes the juice.

My mom said she didn't drink much alcohol when pregnant with me, although toward the end of her pregnancy someone handed her a bourbon at a picnic. She said "one sip and you were kicking like mad, so I stopped." Nowadays I love bourbon, and I told her "maybe I was asking for more."

[dampscribbler.livejournal.com]

I should clarify. Nowadays, I love the bourbon, but have abstained while pregnant. I'm looking forward to a shot in a couple of months, though.

[fj.livejournal.com]

We need to teach fetusses how to tap Morse. "Next time marshmellows with the hot chocolate!"

How amazing they can taste so quickly after you ingest it. Well, they probably need to as a mechanism to tell you what they need to grow.

[dampscribbler.livejournal.com]

I do think that the little buggers have feedback mechanisms. When some of my favorite foods started making me (really) sick, the only explanation I could come up with was that Baby doesn't like them. I don't know that she's "tasting" the food so much as just reacting to it -- sugar in the grapefruit juice is probably what's making her excited. Something in the garlic, I don't know what, bothers her and then she makes me nauseated.

This is all pretty amazing and incredible.