He’s Afraid of the Belly
Last night while lying in bed, I was stroking my stomach and feeling around for the baby. I love when I find his head or butt and I can hold it in my hand through my belly, almost like having him here to hold and snuggle. While doing my feel-adventure, I noticed a spike come up on my belly. I felt it and decided that it was a tiny bent knee. I grabbed Jessie’s hand and put it on the knee. He wasn’t paying attention to what I was doing. He could have assumed that I was going to be putting his hand on my boob, so when he felt that tiny hard bump on my stomach, he jumped up and yelled, “What the hell is that??”
“I think that’s a knee,” I said calmly.
“Geez, Somer! Don’t do that to me! You have to warn me first!”
I shushed him and put his hand back on the bump, and as if on cue, the baby jerked the knee towards Jessie’s hand and then moved it along my belly, rubbing Jessie’s hand with his knee. Jessie’s reaction? A high pitched squeal and the quick removal of his hand.
The bigger this belly gets and the more prominent the little boy inside my belly, the more squeamish Jessie becomes over the whole thing. With Lukas, near the end, you could actually make out tiny feet and hands and it freaked Jessie right the hell out. I find it all quite amusing.
Hey Jen said,
August 13, 2010 @ 8:37 pm
I hope you take photos of it so he can freak out over it for years to come. ;D
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Somer Canon Reply:
August 13th, 2010 at 9:28 pm
I’m going to try to catch some rolling around on video so I can torture him with it!
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Tarrant said,
August 13, 2010 @ 8:59 pm
Not fair! I didn’t get to feel a knee.
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Somer Canon Reply:
August 13th, 2010 at 9:29 pm
I just don’t know how to remedy this! Shall I FedEx you the baby after he’s born for a week or so so that you can get lots of knee feels in?
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Aschlie said,
August 14, 2010 @ 9:57 am
I’m afraid that I would have the same reaction as Jessie, lol
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Pauline said,
August 16, 2010 @ 2:22 pm
Very neat! What does it feel like when that happens?
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Somer Canon Reply:
August 16th, 2010 at 3:22 pm
It doesn’t hurt. Actually, at first, it feels like gas of just digestion happening. As the baby gets bigger, it starts to feel like a big honkin’ baby is trying to burst out of you…again, painlessly )
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