Cindy, didn't Burrell say in Beep Me when she announced #2 was on the way? IIRC, her due date is close to mine. And I thought Raquel was due in late March.

I have a certain envy for those of you who don't have the placenta in between baby and belly

Wait, I don't get it. Isn't the baby inside the placenta? How would it not be between?

Plei, thanks. I just checked. She said late April, no date, though.

Do you think your pregnancy went quickly? To me, your pregnancy has seemed long. I suspect it will 'til the Ticky Box is here.

Isn't the baby inside the placenta? How would it not be between?

I think she means tha part where it's attached is in the front, not the back of the uterus. I think the plaenta is most commonly in the back with the baby sort of curled around it. (super-generalization, that was.)

Plei, does that mean you feel more movement deeper inside?

Emily, it doesn't look like I'm gonna get chili made. Just so you know...

Wait, I don't get it. Isn't the baby inside the placenta? How would it not be between?

The baby is inside the amniotic sac thinger. The placenta is the disposable organ that provides the nourishment and stuff, and it attaches to to the wall of the womb (and to the baby via the umbilical cord). IIRC, it attaches most frequently up towards the top. It can also attach in the rear (posterior) or the front (anterior). In my case, it attached in the front, and was initially down a bit low (thus the ER trip and the bedrest). Now it's just a normal anterior placenta, but it does tend to muffle things a bit.

Do you think your pregnancy went quickly? To me, your pregnancy has seemed long. I suspect it will 'til the Ticky Box is here.

It's been quick and also not quick. Time is flying and crawling.

Gotcha. I think I never really differentiated between the placenta and the amniotic sac. And, thankfully, it's not been an issue for me.

I always thought they were the same thing, too.

My new fact for the day!

(Besides learning how to say "I know what you just said" in Spanish.)

Plei, does that mean you feel more movement deeper inside?

Nope. It means more that all feeling of movement is muffled. Though at 30 weeks, obviously, there's only so much muffling that can be done. I wasn't certain about feeling movement, period, until 18 weeks.

Where it really comes into play for me is other people's ability to feel the movement from the outside. It's just in the last week or two that Paul's been able to actually feel the kid kicking.

I hope you've been kicking him yourself in her stead. It's only fair for him to get the experience too, you know.