“How’s the baby? Is it kicking already?” This is one of the most common questions I get asked by friends. 
My usual answer is, “its fine” or “its sleeping I guess”.

Honestly after the first trimester discomfort and nausea, if not for my bulging tummy I wouldn’t even feel I am preggy.  My tummy is as calm as a river, no movements at all that would indicate a human-being growing inside. I was up to my usual routine and back to my normal self.

But sometime in the middle of March prior to the doc’s appointment, I feel a weird sensation in my stomach’s left side, like there is something falling.  Could it be the baby moving? I wondered. This has been going on for sometime until I got a confirmation from ivillage.com pregnancy article which says:

One reason for the return of your energy is that the arduous work of fetal organ development is mostly complete. By week 14, your baby is four and one-half inches long from head to toe and weighs about 45 grams. He or she is quite active, doing somersaults in the amniotic fluid. You will probably feel these movements as a fluttering sensation that begins between weeks 18 to 22.

Somersaults! Whenever I feel the “falling” sensation, I picture my baby doing somersaults.  How amazing!

Then last night, I got the first real kick! M and I were already lying down to sleep when I felt the strong kicking movements inside.  M placed his hand over my tummy and strangely enough he sensed the movements too.  Aha! Almost 5 months and my baby is finally kicking! 

“Maybe he wants to be like you, a soccer player,” I smilingly told M. But my gut feel is telling its going to be a girl. So what will she be when she grows up? A gymnast?  Nonetheless, with the jerky kicks I am getting, I’m expecting a hyper-active kid.