When I was 5 months pregnant, 20 weeks on the dot, I started to become aware of my baby’s movements. I always heard people say it feels like a butterfly fluttering inside, and that’s exactly how I experienced it also. Actually, the first time it happened I didn’t know if it was the baby or just too much Taco Bell. But then a few days later it was stronger and I knew it was definitely the baby moving at that point. This child went from little taps to full-out kickboxing round houses within a week. Seriously. I had friends who were pregnant around the same time as me, and they didn’t even feel movements yet, but I was getting pounded. I loved it though. I thought maybe it’s because I was still going to the gym 3-4 times a week and that the baby was getting its heart rate up also, so maybe that’s why all the movement. I limited my workouts to going slow on the elliptical, and later in my pregnancy to just walking on the treadmill. I also did light weights for the upper body, limited to 10 pounds, per my doctor’s instructions. I know this makes no sense whatsoever, but my baby would move the most when I was listening to certain songs on my mp3 player while on the treadmill. It’s not like the headphones were on my belly; they were on my ears, so the baby couldn’t hear the music I was listening to during my workouts.  I wonder if certain songs I listened to triggered a release of serotonin or some other chemical in me, and that the baby could have reacted to that? Whatever the reason, the baby loved to kick during various fast tempo Live songs, especially “Lakini’s Juice,” “Heropsychodreamer,” and “Like I Do.”