--- description: "It's moving all the time" title: Princess Kate: I Feel the Baby Kicking! image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta446b7872f61b4aa/69877ab52dce01605d9dd0d6/kate-middleton1.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Living](/tag/time-section-living/) ## Living Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Princess Kate: I Feel the Baby Kicking, Moving 'All the Time' by [People](/author/people/) ## People Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 19, 2015 9:42 PM CUT  Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, leaves after visiting the new Kensington Leisure Centre on Jan. 19, 2015 in London, England. Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, leaves after visiting the new Kensington Leisure Centre on Jan. 19, 2015 in London, England.Max Mumby—Indigo/Getty Images by [People](/author/people/) ## People Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 19, 2015 9:42 PM CUT She may not know the sex of her second baby but [Princess Kate](http://www.people.com/people/kate%5Fmiddleton "undefined") knows one thing – her future child is kicking away with gusto. Kate, 33, told well-wishers she could feel her baby kicking while opening a London recreation center as part of her official royal duties Monday. “It’s moving all the time. I can feel it kicking now,” she told Martina McDonagh, 17, while holding her tummy to prove her point. Martina, a student at Jack Tizard School, London, met Kate when the princess officially opened Kensington Leisure Centre in west London. “I told her I hoped it was a girl but she said she doesn’t know yet,” Martina told reporters afterwards. “She said it was moving around a lot.” The $48 million facility is the perfect place to learn to swim – and [Prince George](http://www.people.com/people/news/category/0,,personsTax:PrinceGeorge,00.html "undefined"), 18 months, may take advantage. The Kensington and Chelsea Council presented Kate with lifetime membership for her family, along with a duck-shaped rubber ring for Prince George and his own swimming lesson kit. The center has special meaning for the royal family. [Prince William](http://www.people.com/people/prince%5Fwilliam "undefined") learned to swim there as a child, when a pool existed on the same site as the new center. “The Duchess was talking about Prince William learning to swim here and she said she hoped Prince George can come here to learn too,” Tim Ahern, the council’s Cabinet member for environment and leisure, told reporters. “If George goes to school at Wetherby or one of the other local schools, he will almost certainly come here. Wetherby will use it.” As she toured the center – which has three swimming pools, a 120-station gym and a dance studio – Kate watched a series of sports being played. Over at the tai chi demonstration, Kate told grandmother Shelagh Laslett-O’Brien, 65, that she liked the look of the sport. “She said she’d maybe come down and try it after she’s had the baby,” Laslett-O’Brien, a retired social worker who ran a centre for homeless and refugee families in nearby Bayswater, tells PEOPLE. ### See Kate Middleton's Best Pregnancy Looks  Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge welcomes the President of Singapore Tony Tan Keng Yam at the Royal Garden Hotel on Oct. 21, 2014 in London. Chris Jackson—Getty Images  Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge visits Hope House, an Action on Addiction women's treatment centre on February 19, 2013 in London. Neil Mockford—FilmMagic/Getty Images  Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge visits the Donald Dewar Leisure Centre in Drumchapel to launch a new Scottish project for their Foundation in Glasgow on April 4, 2013. Rpe-Albert Nieboer—Picture-Alliance/dpa/AP  Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge during the National Review of Queen's Scouts at Windsor Castle in Berkshire on April 21, 2013. Olivia Harris—AFP/Getty Images  Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge arriving for a visit the National Portrait Gallery in London to celebrate the work of The Art Room charity on April 24, 2013. John Stillwell—AP  Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge arrives for her visit to Warner Bros studios in Leavesden, Herts where the popular Harry Potter movies were produced on April 26, 2013. Chris Jackson—AP  Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge during her visit to Naomi House Children's Hospice in Winchester, Hampshire, England during Children's Hospice Week on April 29, 2013. Steve Parsons—AP  Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge attends a Garden Party in the grounds of Buckingham Palace, hosted by Queen Elizabeth II on June 30, 2013 in London. John Stillwell—AP  Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge stands on the balcony of Buckingham Palace during the annual Trooping the Colour Ceremony on June 15, 2013 in London, England. Max Mumby—Indigo/Getty Images  Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge attends the Princess Cruises ship naming ceremony at Ocean Terminal on June 13, 2013 in Southampton, England. Chris Ison—AP She spoke to 3- and 4-year-old arise new from St. Francis of Assisi Primary school, asking them about the throwing game they were playing. “I thought the children would be nervous but they were really comfortable talking to her,” teacher Ailbhe Donoghue, who praised the duchess’s calm nature, tells PEOPLE. “She seemed very natural with the children. She had a nice presence.” Their ease with her contrasted with earlier when a little two year old had dissolved into nerves at the prospect of handing her flowers and a tiny baby started crying when he met her. Zack Benson, eight months old, and with his first teeth about to come through, was in the greeting line-up in the arms of his mother Rosie at a new high school in west London that Kate was opening. He is the son of David Benson, the head of the Kensington Aldridge Academy. “You¹re very tired,” six-month-pregnant Kate told Zack. “He is very sweet.” His mum, 33, explained, “I think he is quite tired and hungry.” During her tour of the school, she met children in reading groups, including one 11-year-old girl reading a book called How To Avoid A Wombat’s Bum. “She said, It looks like a good book,” Chyna Mealin told reporters. “She mentioned that she likes to read to George, books with pictures.” And she left with some gifts for George – a xylophone and baby-grow. And pupils who make ceramics, jewelry and other objects to sell at the nearby Portobello Road market, gave her a plate with a portrait of a golden-haired boy and Prince George’s full name – George Alexander Louis – and date of birth, July 22, 2013. 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