When you are pregnant, you are supposed to be able to feel about 10 kicks an hour from your baby. I can’t remember exactly what point in the pregnancy they tell you to start counting kicks, but I think it’s somewhere towards the end of the second trimester. I was always very obsessive about it. Any time I noticed we had entered another hour of the day, I would count kicks. I am the biggest worrier in the whole world, except perhaps for my mother.
One night, I was trying to feel her kick and I hadn’t. So, just like the doctors and nurses told me to when I got worried, I drank some juice, relaxed, and waited. Nothing. I was just about freaking out. Luckily, my husband came home from work at that time, so I told him how I was worried. He leaned to my belly and said, “Baby girl, this is your father speaking. Kick so your mother doesn’t worry.” And I kid you not, that girl kicked immediately after he said that. Little stinker.
One night, I was trying to feel her kick and I hadn’t. So, just like the doctors and nurses told me to when I got worried, I drank some juice, relaxed, and waited. Nothing. I was just about freaking out. Luckily, my husband came home from work at that time, so I told him how I was worried. He leaned to my belly and said, “Baby girl, this is your father speaking. Kick so your mother doesn’t worry.” And I kid you not, that girl kicked immediately after he said that. Little stinker.