Hundred and Fifty Six

NATALIA'S POV

My baby kicked.

I jolted up from the bed to make sure I wasn't hallucinating. With my both hands placed firmly in my stomach, I waited with anticipation for a similar experience to occur.

I didn't have to wait for long cause the next moment it kicked again and again until it confirmed to me that it wasn't just in my head. I was overwhelmed with emotion.

I couldn't quite express the feeling but anyone who has got pregnant will know what I felt at that moment. It was surreal. For all this while, I knew I was pregnant and hadn't really sat down to give it that much of a pounder but now that the baby kicked, now that it confirmed to me that it was indeed there, alive and healthy, It was almost as if now I was made to believe reality even more.

The thought of having a whole living being growing inside of me was overwhelming enough and now that it kicked, well the emotion only doubled.

Instinctively, I wrapped my hand around my tummy in a protective way, the motherly instinc