Kicking,kicking and more kicking.

[elaineandmichaelsmommy]

I think I'm having a future rockette! This isn't a bitching post because the kicks are mostly wonderful to get. But WOW! Neither of my other dc kicked this hard or were so squirmy. She moves all the time. She kicks hard enough to make my breasts bounce. And when she plants a foot in my bladder-Look out!

What's really odd is feeling her rotate and move in circles. It takes almost a whole day for her to make a rotation but she does it. And it seems the only time she really slows down is when I've eaten.

I had forgotten what this stage is like. Not wholly unpleasant but certainly suprising at times.

Anyone else have a kicker like this?

[elektra]

Maybe she'll be a great sleeper since you are noticing the kicking more during the day and not at night, indicating that she has her days and nights already figured out!
Congrats on your active baby.
No crazy kickers for me yet but we shall see.

[citymama]

I had a kicker like that. Fun, isn't it?

This is *not* going to happen to you, but my little kicker turned herself upside down so many times, she was breech on multiple occasions. At my 31 or 32 weeks, when they said she was breech, I started to perform all kinds of acrobatics to turn her back - legs against ironing board, etc etc. After about a week, it worked - I could actually *feel* her turn all the way back to head-first. Then, somewhere around week 36 or maybe 37, she was back in breech. I went whole hog with moxibustion, acupuncture, more ironing board exercises, no dice. Had to get an external version performed (successfully) to get her back into head-first.

And more antics during labor...won't go into it.

And from the moment she came out, she was truly alive and kicking, the most active newborn I could imagine. She turned over at 2.5 months, started to walk at 9 months and hasn't stopped running since! It is a blessing - all the best to you with your little soccer player.

[irie i]

You have a rockette, I have a footballer! This is my first so its all new to me...the little kicks and bumps are cute...but when this little guy REALLY moves it is SO weird! Not uncomfortable just completely foreign...there is NOTHING I can imagine feeling that could compare. He moves a lot, too...but mostly in the evening/night...

[tnrnchick74]

I had a MAJOR kicker. He would push & kick so hard you could fell his foot on the outside of my belly...with NO DOUBT it was a foot. He would also stand on my backbone and push his butt out my belly button. OUCH!!!

Now that he's here - he's a VERY active child. He's starting to crawl at 6 months; has 2 teeth; and is "high spirited"...he does everything full force - eat, sleep, play, talk, etc. But I can't imagine having a "low key" baby. My DS is hyper and active...and it's NOT a bad thing!

[kijip]

Kicker here. I swear I can see his little kicks and punches protrude from my belly. Now that I am closing in on 34 weeks, he can't spin around like an ice skater it seems (my stomach looked like a rolling earth quake when he did this!) but he does move a heck of a lot, lots of kicking still. I don't remember it like this with T but it has been 5 years, so who knows?

[hillview]

I had a crazy kicker. He was an easy baby and now at 15 months still easy but a CLIMBER and mover.
/hillary

[MamaKath]

Congrats on the active baby!!!!

I had a kicker/mover/shaker, he tied his cord in a knot! He is still quite active.

[ThreeofUs]

Congratulations on your active LO!

Both of mine were super active in the womb. Nothing better for those pregnant and jittery moments than a good swift movement that says, "I'm HERE!"

[KHF]

I've got one of those now. I'm 37 weeks, and he's still rolling around in there. We had a family get-together yesterday and everyone was laughing how they could see him moving from across the room! I see hands and feet punching around in there all the time.

My first never kicked like this!