The First Kick

I felt you kick today. It was amazing. It was light and it happened once then not for a while after that, but I knew without a doubt that it was you and not my stomach. They said it would be like a little fluttering that I would feel first, but that I never noticed anything that I would describe like that. It was definitely a jab. It was the first time that I got really excited about you coming. Up until then I was just very sick so I was more often frustrated with the inconvenience of pregnancy than the excitement of your arrival. Your little kick changed the ball game. It made it real. I wasn’t just sick with the flu - there was a little person inside of me working very hard getting ready to meet me. It really was real.