I have had the easiest pregnancy, so easy that it started to feel very unreal. I've had almost no symptoms and was just getting on with life ...

Than I hit 17 weeks, my belly popped out, I finally gained some weight, and all of a sudden I felt baby giving me a series of good solid kicks. It's like baby just woke up and went "oh, by the way ... here I am".

I was reading a book in bed, with the book resting on my abdomen and baby clearly didn't like it, so it gave the book a couple of firm kicks. I put my hand over the same spot and I watched my ring finger jump a couple of times as baby kicked my hand. It's pretty cool. So glad to finally feel pregnant!!