Each of my babies has had distinct movement patterns while in the belly and amazingly, those patterns have persisted and even allowed me to predict what kind of babies and children they would be.<\/p>\n
Honeybun\u00a0was what I imagine a \u201cnormal\u201d baby to be. \u00a0She moved fairly frequently in my belly but her movements were generally smooth and subtle.\u00a0 As a newborn, she was extremely calm.\u00a0 She was very observant, spending most of her awake time looking around and taking in her world.\u00a0 Though she sat, crawled and walked extremely early, she was not an overly active baby.\u00a0 She didn\u2019t flail but instead seemed to have very early control of her muscles and movements.\u00a0 Even now she is generally calm.\u00a0 She likes playing and doing more calm activities and whines when she\u2019s tired from doing too much physical activity.<\/p>\n
Sugarplum was a completely different sort of baby in the belly.\u00a0 She was constantly moving and not in a smooth or controlled way.\u00a0 You could watch my belly and see her moving from one side of my belly to other constantly flipping and changing position.\u00a0 As a newborn she was extremely active.\u00a0 She started rolling from tummy to back at 18 days old and has been in constant motion since she was born.\u00a0 Even now as an almost 3-year-old, she rarely stops moving.\u00a0 She\u2019d rather be running and flipping around than sitting and watching TV.\u00a0 Even when she is doing calmer activities like games or puzzles she usually avoids sitting and moves around while playing.<\/p>\n
Doodle was somewhere in the middle.\u00a0 While he wasn\u2019t unusually active like Sugarplum, he had much more intense movements than Honeybun.\u00a0 He loved to stretch himself out.\u00a0 He moved into a head down position before 24 weeks, staying there until delivery, and loved to stretch himself out.\u00a0 I often felt his bum on my left side and could feel all the way down his outstretched legs to his tiny little feet on my right side.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t often flip flop, usually only at night when I laid on my right side (he preferred to be back down rather than tummy down).\u00a0 I knew he was a tall little bugger based on how far he could stretch across my belly (at 22 inches long, I wasn\u2019t wrong!).\u00a0 Now out of the belly he is also very active.\u00a0 He is constantly stretching and wants to be held sitting up so he can look around.\u00a0 We shall see how his activeness plays out into his personality in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Each of my babies has had distinct movement patterns while in the belly and amazingly, those patterns have persisted and even allowed me to predict what kind of babies and children they would be. Honeybun\u00a0was what I imagine a \u201cnormal\u201d baby to be. \u00a0She moved fairly frequently in my belly but her movements were generally […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2320,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions\/2320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}