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The new game now is trying to figure out if we can feel the offspring yet. The books all say it's anytime now, although their descriptions of what it feels like sound quite laughable- "it might feel like being turned upside down on an amusement park ride" being the one that stuck.

Anyway, I'm not certain. I thought I felt something yesterday morning, an isolated movement near my right pelvic bone that felt like a very strong, single, pulse beat. But that was it. And I was still half asleep so I might have imagined the entire thing.

Apparently, we first time moms are quite daft about it because we mistake it for gas, being hungry, indigestion and often don't notice it till it becomes more pronounced, when the offspring is tired of being mistaken for a gas bubble and uses his/her elbow to jibe you hard in retaliation.

On other news, I think I might have spotted my first stretch mark! And this is despite all the conscientious slathering of stretch mark cream morning and night and putting up with the clammy feeling under my t-shirt or night shirt after that as it dries off. Everyone's warned me that if I was meant to get it, regardless of what I put on the belly, I was going to get those battle scars anyway. So part of me is resigned to it. But the other part of me is whiny.

That's the same part that is slightly upset that my legs seem to have increased in size, reminding me how much I miss running. This morning, it occurred to me that I haven't quite perspired in an extremely long time. A concept rather alien to me. Yes yes, I know that'll change with the confinement food and the breast feeding but that's different. I miss working out.

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