Baby Moving and Food Desires

The bun has been moving about a bit more regularly.  I've felt a couple of kicks. But for the most part, he appears to be swimming in the olympic sized pool of my belly.  He still tends to snuggle to the right when I'm sleeping.  Last night, before I went to sleep, and I'm not sure I actually ever went to sleep last night, I had my first real feel of him.  It was the first time I could clearly identify that what I was feeling was him up against the side of my uterus and not just feeling my uterus.  He was a hard line of mass on my right side, of course.  The mass felt big considering that it is actually another person in my belly.  He was there for about a minute and then he swam away.  That was one of the coolest things I've felt thus far.  I've felt kicking to let me know he's there, but this was the first time I've felt him separated only by a few inches of skin and muscle.  Way cool.

I really am not having any food cravings but I am having some food enthusiasm.  Although I'm generally feeling positive about spicy foods, there are two foods that I could eat about every day right now.  The first is pureed cauliflower which is beyond delicious.  Steam or boil cauliflower until it's soft.  Put it in the food processor with a bit of butter and some chicken stock/broth and salt. Blend away until it's smooth.  Adjusting seasonings until your eyes roll back in your head in food ecstasy.  Yum!!!  The other food is red grapes.  I have eaten an entire bag since Friday.  And I'm going to the store today to get some more.  They are sweet and juicy enough to get me past any girl scout cookies cravings I may be having, and they have to be better for me. 

I'm going to do a review of labor and birthing books I've bought over the last few weeks. I've stumbled into the granola zone on some of these, where seemingly kind mominators dispense good advice as well as stern warnings about OBs as surgeons in disguise.  For the most part these are good books, but my ire is raised when I see what I know to be biased rhetoric and "critical thinking" which is not.  Besides, do you really have to be naked to give birth?  And does you birth partner/coach have to be naked too????

Congrats to the Alien/Earthling who has arrived and to Liz who is letting us share his arrival with us!  She has a good list of her top ten maternity recommendations which I plan on following.  I think she must have started blogging at about the point where I am now.  Pretty cool to see how it all turns out! 

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