Pregnant Women Really Are Crackheads

Well, at least first-time pregnant women.

Since I got my first real kick from the baby last Monday night, sitting in front of my computer, she (yes, we now know that she is a she) has been moving around quite a bit.
When we went in to have our ultrasound on Thursday, both the doctor and the ultrasound technician remarked on how active she was.
This kept up all the way until Saturday night, when she seemed to peak after having her daddy's spicy chipotle chicken dinner.
Kick, punch, head butt, elbow, knee.
This little one pound girl was moving and shaking to some spicy Mexican rhythm only she could hear.

Then Sunday came around.  And.... nothing.

I thought I felt the occasional kick or punch, but truly nothing compared with what I had felt throughout the week.

"Oh my gosh!  Was it the spicy food?  Was my bath too hot?"  I asked Carlos nervously.  "I mean, she's okay, I'm sure."  I said this more to assure him than myself, because all I needed at that point was for him to be freaked out too.

I spent the whole day trying to sit in positions in which I usually felt her best.  Then, I woke up multiple times throughout the night shifting and moving to see if I could detect a kick.

I could, of course.   She kicked me a few times in the night, but for some reason I had already driven off the cliff of sanity and could not calm myself down.

Now, to be clear, none of this stress or anxiety was apparent from the outside, but my psychological state was frantic.  On the inside, I was quaking.

I woke up this morning, smiled and kissed my husband goodbye... and looked up everything I could find on spicy foods and warm baths during pregnancy.
Obviously, neither of these things are a anything to worry about.  My baby is fine, and she began kicking away again today.
Apparently that hard surface I felt in my belly yesterday and last night when I would touch it was my baby's butt.  She had her back to my hand and her feet facing inward, so I couldn't feel all her rambunctious activity.

All this to say that now, honestly, what I'm "trying" to do most of all, is stay sane.