Hmm.... It feels wonderful at times, and to be brutally honest, it feels like hell at times.
The belly is there, yes, but it also adds back pain from hauling around so much extra weight up front. You retain water, and swell like a balloon in places you can no longer see.
And then, you feel the baby moving. Just a tiny flutter at first, so light you can't even be sure you felt it, like a tickle. As the baby grows, so does the strength of the movement.
Best way to describe it is in terms of indigestion. When my belly's a bit upset, I can feel it kinda moving around, so I'm sure guys have felt that before. It's like that, only all the time.
Once the baby gets to be almost too big for it's "room", they get creative in where they can shove their digits. I kid you not, my first one wedged her toes so tightly in between my ribs, that I had a bruise on the outside until about a week after she was born.
It does feel great, though I found it to be a much more "magical" experiance with my first, than with my other two, mostly because I was able to sit back and savor the experiance. Once I was pregnant with #2, and then #3, I was chasing one or two kids around, and always tired, and never able to get enough sleep or rest.
Those two pregnancies were less magical, and more joblike.
