This is a question my husband's asked me before, and it's so hard to answer. At the beginning, before you start to show and the baby starts to move, it's this amazing awareness that you're carrying another life inside of you. The first movements are like small butterfly wings, or fizzy bubbles maybe, so slight and gone so quickly, that you wonder if you really felt it. Later, when the movements get more pronounced, you really start to get a sense that the baby has a "self", if that makes any sense When you can feel turnings, and stretchings, and see small hands and feet moving across your belly. Near the end, as the baby grows and begins to take up all its space, your breasts start to feel fuller and it almost seems as though all of your skin is stretched, and sensitive all over.

That's as best I can describe it, and it still seems so inadequate It really is the most amazing thing.