I Haven’t Been Pregnant for 15 Years, but I Still Get Phantom Kicks

The first time I felt another human flutter in my uterus I was lying on the sofa watching Friends. My then husband was sound asleep beside me. We had done an ultrasound that morning to find out if we were having a boy or a girl, and I remember asking the doctor when he thought I’d feel the baby kick.

He told me it could be anytime, or not for a few months

When I talk about this, people laugh and tell me they are gas bubbles

But I know my body (and, believe me, I know what gas bubbles feel like) and I khow the difference between a toot coming down the pike and feeling a baby kick inside of me.

I wonder how long these will last, because honestly I love them and wouldn't mind if they stayed around a lot longer. Every time I feel one, it takes me back to that night when I felt my first one and the overwhelming sense of happiness I felt.