Feeling bub kick...

[Brad1701]

A couple of nights ago, I felt little Mia kick for the first time. Up till now, things hadn't seemed quite "real"...I hadn't felt any movement when my DP would constantly grab my hand and push it on her belly, and her bump wasn't really very noticeable.
I never thought something as simple as feeling my baby kick would bring me down to the level of tears, but there it was. Just felt I should share it with everyone.

[Mahjong]

That's wonderful DH didn't feel part of the pregancy until both our boys started kicking him

DH would talk to my belly and ask them to kick him, they would always move with the sound of his voice.

[aje001]

I think that the Mums are able to have a really close bond with the baby right from the start, as they can feel it there all the time.

Us Dads don't usually have the same attachment until we can feel it kick or sometimes even once it's born.

It's a great thing to be a part of though. I used to poke DW in the tummy, then baby would kick her *evil laugh*

[Toffee apple]

awww that is just gorgeous♥

[MetalTechHead]

Us Dads don't usually have the same attachment until we can feel it kick or sometimes even once it's born.

That is sooo true..

Although we feel the bond to the bub just by knowing he or she is there, we need to have some sort of physical prompt to show us how real it is.

It is not that we do not believe in the bub until we feel or see it - it is just that it is nowhere near as tangible fas it is for the mother..

We get ripped off in the biggest way possible (although sometimes I do not envy the what the mother goes through... ) as we do not feel the growing and the maturing of the bub etcetera first-hand..Instead we get told about it (usually in no uncertain terms) by the mother until the kicks and movements are strong enough for us to feel...

Whatever way the cookie crumbles, as soon as the kicks and the like start coming - the magic begins..right up until...well...it doesn't stop

Either way...once the bub is born, and the mother is recovering - it is a good chance to yoink the bub and hug the guts out of him or her

[aje001]

When DS was born, he wasn't allowed to feed until the Pead had come in to check him out, as they were worried about his airway blocking. Luckily, it took the Pead about 3 hours before she came in, as she was assisting in the Ceasar birth of twins in another room.

This gave my wife and I HEAPS of time to just hold Aidan. I'll never forget sitting there in the armchair with him in my arms, just staring down at him with him looking back up at me for hours. It's still bringing tears to my eyes now, just thinking about it. He's such an amazing kid, we're so lucky.

Now I get up early every morning to be with him. When he wakes up anytime between 5:30 and 6:30am, I get up and play with him until I either go to work, or DW wakes up a few hours later. In fact, just as I was reading this, he was sitting on my lap grabbing my hair and pulling my face to his so he could kiss me all over my cheeks.

I love him.