mangofandango | Numfar! Do the dance of joy!

Things Alejandro likes ("likes", here, is an interpretation of what it means when Alejandro moves a lot. This may signify hate, too, but I don't think so based on the things in question. :))

- Body work. Every time I am on a table, there is a party in my uterus. Especially work on my neck, head, and shoulders - because who doesn't like a hit of endorphins? In fact, during an appointment with Erin, I *saw* the movement for what may have been the first time while she was doing work on my neck and scalp that had me looking down towards my belly.

- Being in the car. This was all well and good until things got kind of rowdy in there suddenly while I was driving. I am now aware that this may happen and thus hope not to be dangerously surprised by being beaten in the internal organs while trying to navigate.

- Haagan Daz coffee ice cream. This is a passion we currently really, really share. (Chocolate chip cookie dough, which I got as a stand-in for coffee ice cream they DID NOT HAVE, is not having the same effect on the baby or on me. :P)

- The middle of the night. I know, they wake up while the mother is resting - and I get some movement while watching TV or video games or whatever quite frequently, too. But dude, it's like a disco in there every time I wake up in the night. At 5 this morning I thought maybe it had hiccups - do they get hiccups this early? I know they start swallowing amniotic fluid at 21ish weeks, and here we are at 22 weeks, so...maybe? I should check. It felt like a somewhat rhythmic jolt, over and over for quite a while.

It is fun feeling my inner alienbaby move. Well, you know, most of the time. ;)