I think every pregnant woman suspects at one time or another that she’s carrying an octopus, or an acrobat troupe, or, at the very least, twins. Some days it seems that it’s simply not possible that it’s just one baby doing all the flipping and flopping and kicking and jabbing that goes on in there.<\/p>\n
This baby I’m expecting now — and reliable sources assure me that there is, indeed, only one — is very active. Much more active than I remember any of my older three being, particularly at such an early stage (I’ve only just entered the last trimester and have nearly three months until my due date). The kicks come so fast and furious that in my peripheral vision I catch glimpses of my shirt fluttering with the movement. Sometimes, particularly at night when I’m trying to sleep, the poking and prodding from inside is actually painful and I have to push at what I assume is a tiny foot to move it away from one or another tender spot. How can something so small — the size of a butternut squash, if babycenter.com<\/a> is to be believed — pack such a wallop?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I think every pregnant woman suspects at one time or another that she’s carrying an octopus, or an acrobat troupe, or, at the very least, twins. Some days it seems that it’s simply not possible that it’s just one baby doing all the flipping and flopping and kicking and jabbing that goes on in there.… Read More Powerful tiny fists<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}