I'm sure most of you have seen this picture before. I think its kind of gross looking, and obviously photo-shopped. But this is the image I had in my mind last night. Matt and I were laying in bed watching a movie and I was rubbing some lotion on my itchy belly. (You're welcome for the nice visual.) Plus I like having my belly free when I'm lying in bed because I enjoy watching her move around. Well, my right side suddenly got very tight and began cramping. I wasn't sure what was going on because her moving around has never been painful, but what she was doing started to hurt. Then it was clear Gertrude was popping up to say hi. She shifted most of my internal organs to accomplish this maneuver, so it was quite painful. But I was laughing at the same time as saying "Ow!' because it just looked so darn cool! She had her entire body pushing up and out against my right side. I put my hand over the bulge and she was literally sitting in the palm of my hand. I could feel her tiny body wriggling against my palm and fingertips. So cool! I, of course, got Matt's attention when I started saying "Ow!" That word really freaks him out these days. Go figure. But he didn't find it as fascinating as I did. He actually thought it was pretty creepy looking to see our child bulging out of her mother like that. I'm not a big fan of taking naked belly pictures when pregnant, but I wished I had the camera right at that moment! I could feel what she was doing from the inside and the outside, but it would have been cool to see how it looked to him.
