Hiccoughs (hiccups) and kicking are a sign of fetal well-being according to
modern obstetrics.  I don't know how they arrived at the conclusion,
possibly it was from noting that babies who stop hiccuping and kicking
sometimes continue to decline until they stop living.

I do know both my kids hiccuped regularly so I could feel it from about week
18, and continued to after birth.  They also were so active that if I didn't
feel a kick or movement for 20 minutes at a stretch I wondered if they had
died.  Neither one had colic (the first cried for a total of about 15
minutes total in her first 3 months of life), and neither one has any hint
of being over average in activity, and both have good abilities to focus on
one thing at a time.  I do not abstain from dairy, and while my kids aren't
wild about it, neither are they dairy teetotalers.  No known food allergies
in any of us.

Just my sample of two, I know, but I think the reason this theory hasn't
become mainstream is that it is lacking in documentation for its premises.

Rachel Myr, Norway
midwife for purposes of this post

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