For several days now I've felt our baby (fetus) moving in my womb. It's really great, feeling his presence and feeling like he's healthy and active. I'd felt him pretty early, a flutter or three, but only now are my husband and I sure of him.
I feel that this is our child's "quickening" time--and am sure that this is the origin of the beautiful word--when mother and father could sense the quick, fluttering moments of their growing child.
My father believed that the quickening, an unknowable event for humans, was when G_d imbued a fetus with a soul. That is a wonderful vision, but I believe that we have souls from our conception, and that G_d always protects innocent and good souls.
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