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After entering the 3rd trimester, I noticed there are changes to the fetal movements of my baby.
With her body keep growing, there is less and less room in the uterus for her to play. Therefore, there are less kicking, punching and knocking. Instead, swirling, turning and rolling are increasing.
Sometimes I can feel her foot or fist rotating; sometimes she seems to turn her head 180 degrees; sometimes she turns her whole body to another angle. Once a while, she will still kick or punch, but the force doesn’t feel as strong as before.
The message sent by her movements are the same. When she is hungry, she will turn and wiggle, trying to catch my attention. At night, in particular, she tries to wheel around big movements, pushing me to get up to eat something. As soon as I eat something, she will immediately calm down and go to sleep. This has happened so many times that we seem to reach a tacit agreement (see Understanding fetal movements, part 1).
She still wants more space when I am sleeping (see Understanding fetal movements, part 2). Every time when I lie on my left side, soon I will feel her protesting movements. Some nights she was so quiet and still that I think I could sneakliy change my position back to the left side. Not by a single fluke did my attempt escape her attention!
She still enjoys rubbing and patting, unless she is fed (see Understanding fetal movements, part 3). As to noises, I don’t expose her to politics any more (see Understanding fetal movements, part 4). One thing worth noticing is she is a little bit excited when other people are around. M explained that she was happy to see so many people coming to see her. Grama has a different theory: she might get alarmed and alert when strangers are beside.
