out of this world

i cannot describe how strange it is to have another person inside of you. I could spend hours just staring at my own belly waiting for the next kick, or punch, or somersault... i want to see it happen, and feel it, and tell Olive she's doing a good job. i wonder so often exactly what it's like for her. She knows my voice now and knows my ballet music CD (she dances when i teach); the books say she can feel and taste and hear and maybe through some strange "through my mom's senses" osmosis smell too. Strange! Yet all of this is happening underwater so to speak. Her kidneys have taken over flitering and refreshing the amniotic fluid, though most waste still goes through my blood and kidneys. She's already doing all of this and she won't even be full term for another 15 weeks! Sucking her thumb, feeling her face, playing with her umbilical cord...and all of it hidden from me exept for occasional bumps and pushes out to my world from hers. I can't wait to meet her. I can't wait to watch her explore the outside world. : ) Here's to the joys of pregnancy. Thank God for 2nd trimesters!!!