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.

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[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.