Many people have encouraged me to document my pregnancy either via a journal or pregnancy photos. I am now 20 weeks into pregnancy and have made zero journal entries into my pregnancy journal and have taken zero pregnancy photos. My next thought was to try something a little more fun - a blog. Hopefully, I will be more successful at blogging than my previous attempts to document the adventures of the Higginbotham family!
For the past several weeks, I have been unsure whether or not I felt the baby. One day I would convince myself that I felt the baby move and the next day I would second guess myself. I knew eventually a day would come that I would know for sure. Last night I made some chocolate chip cookies from scratch for our Labor Day weekend at the lake with friends. Of course I had to taste the cookie dough repeatedly to make sure that it was turning out well and lick the bowl.
John had stayed late at a work event to help "clean up" (a.k.a watch the Mississipi State/Memphis game). He has always been opposed to the eating of any raw cookie dough or cake batter since it contains raw eggs. Growing up, my family was the exact opposite. We always had fights over licking the bowl and my mom ate raw cookie dough while pregnant with both me and my sister. This is one reason I chose to make the cookies while John was gone so that I could enjoy as much cookie dough as I wanted without his disapproval :-).
Evidently, Baby Higginbotham loves cookie dough too, because within an hour the baby was moving all over the place! I texted John to let him know that he was missing out on feeling the baby move. He called me immediately and told me that he was on his way home. He also asked me to wait about 15 minutes and eat some more cookie dough so that maybe the baby would still be moving when he got home. This was the first time in our almost 6 years of dating/marriage that John didn't lecture me on the dangers of eating raw dough and even told me to continue eating it lol! Luckily, when he arrived home baby was still moving and John was able to feel it too!
Yay!!!! I'm so excited you both got to feel baby Higg!!!!
ReplyDeleteThis made me laugh out loud! YAY for raw cookie dough!! Hope you are feeling well!
ReplyDeletePS - an ultrasound technician one time told me to either drink orange juice or sweet tea before I came in to make sure the baby would be active. I guess we could add "eat raw cookie dough" to the list. :)