Butterfly Kisses

I know that when Bob Carlisle wrote "Butterfly Kisses" he was referring to the eyelash kisses that his daughter would give, but there is an even earlier type of butterfly kisses that mommies get to experience from their babies. I am referring to the first time that you get to feel baby kick. On Monday night, I had a little fluttering feeling in my abdomen while I was cooking dinner. I thought that it felt weird and the closest thing that I could equate it to was a mild form of my foot waking up after my legs have been crossed for too long. But the next afternoon I was laying down on my right side and I felt the butterfly fluttering again, in the same place! When I first felt it on Monday I thought, "I wonder if this could be the baby kicking." But I dismissed that thought as I was still only 15 weeks 6 days pregnant on Monday (the estimated timeframe for feeling your baby kick for the first time is 16-22 weeks - usually the only people who feel it before 18 weeks are women who have already had a baby and who know what the kicking feels like and so I was not anticipating feeling it for another 2 or 3 weeks at the earliest). Now every time I lie quietly on my right side I get the same butterfly fluttery feeling. So I can draw one of two conclusions: either I am feeling my baby kick, or I am starting to develop neuropathy of the uterus (I don't think neuropathy of the uterus is a real thing, but since the fluttery feeling also kind of feels like numb waking up tingles, neuropathy is the only other thing that I can think of that might feel like that). I'm getting my first butterfly kisses from our baby. :-)