Little Baby

Thursday  in the early morning  Mystie

I am thirteen and a half weeks along and I have felt the baby move three times this week! Once he came up and was hard against my stomach so that even Matt could feel him. Then twice I have felt decided somersaults within me, once last night during a loud firework.

I never felt Hans or Jaeger until at least 16 weeks and never did feel Friedrich move at all. This is such a blessing, such an unlooked-for blessing. My midwife had lent me her extra doppler for this phase, but I’ve only used it twice last week to make sure I could use it; I have felt the baby move about every other day since then.

Matt and I, as always, refer to this baby with a masculine pronoun — never “it” — but Hans consistently, without me even commenting on it to him or doing or saying anything like it, uses the feminine pronoun. It’s actually pretty strange. And if you ask him about a name or about the baby, his comment is invariably, “I want a girl one.” What boy name do you like? “Well, I just want a girl one.” This boy might be seriously disappointed come early August. This time I think it’s a boy, but my instincts do not have a good track record. I hoped Hans was a boy, but that was a hope and not an instinct. Then both Jaeger and Friedrich I was convinced would be girls. This time I think it’s a boy and I’m not sure if that’s because that’s really my impression or if I’m just tired of being wrong with the girl thing. :) I am not desperate for a girl. I would be very happy with an all-boy family, but a girl would be nice at some point. We aren’t planning on stopping at three, anyway, so it’s not like I’m looking at this as my last chance. :) So, I really don’t care either way. We have a girl name already — two, even, that we both agree on! — so that would make that side of it easier.

Sunday will make fourteen weeks, and then supposedly the placenta takes over and morning sickness decreases. That would be pleasant.

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