How often did you feel flutters between 16-20 weeks?

ladyteach0505

I suppose with the stress of a possible UTI and weird spotting on Friday I am maybe looking for a problem when there hopefully isn't one, but I felt a lot of flutters at the end of 16w and pretty regularly in week 17. Now at the 18 w mark all is quiet. I am trying to get an apt tomorrow with my OB to follow up on the UTI issue so I'm going to bring it up then, but it just seems weird to me that the baby should be bigger but I'm feeling less. I did pull the Doppler out on Friday After my spotting episode and once more on Saturday to check and picked up the heartbeat, but my anxiety is getting the best of me. Can the baby face my back at this point or be turned in some way where there's less concentration of nerves?

The only thing I've got consistently right now are what feel like random pains for brief moments in my lower region under my bikini line, but they don't last long.

ladyteach0505

Thanks!

gsancho

Everything I've read says to absolutely not keep track of the amount of times you feel movement from 16-20 weeks or you will go crazy.  What I feel is very sporadic - at around 16w it was almost daily, but now maybe 1-2x a week.  

Are you seeing anyone specifically for your anxiety?  I agree that it may help you overall to see someone or do something specifically to help with it, so it can make your overall pregnancy experience better.  Even once baby comes, the worry will never end.  I joke with my DH how I can now see myself being an overly paranoid mom until this kid is at least 30.

southernyankeegirl

You seriously have me worried with how much you worry about everything. Please consider seeing a therapist if you aren't already.

I suggest reading the Mayo Guide to Pregnancy - it's a very fact based, not "worst case scenario" guide to pregnancy, including this kind of stuff. I suggest stepping away from What to Expect as it literally talks about every potential complication - it will drive you nuts! I wouldn't let DH read that.

That early, it's easy to go a few days or week without feeling anything as baby can move to a position where the kicks are going internally rather than those little butterfly kicks towards the belly.

Most OBs don't tell you to consider kick counts until around 25 weeks or so.

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mrs.willie

You may feel some sporadic movement between 16-20 weeks. They usually say after 20 weeks is when you start to feel movement, but baby is still small then too so it's still ok if you don't feel a lot at that point. You'll most likely feel a lot more and more consistently in your mid-20 weeks. Also, if you have an anterior placenta (attached in the front like I do), it pads the movement a bit. I'm sure your OB will reassure you.

Milagros315

I didn't feel anything that I was 100% sure was actually the baby until sometime between 18 and 19 weeks. Then I didn't feel him again until 20 weeks exactly. After that it started to get pretty common but it was still nothing regular until much later.

pblge

I'm pretty thin with a posterior placenta, and I've been feeling regular movement for about a week (I'm 20+2). Before then it was very sporadic, and I wasn't positive about anything until around 18 weeks. From my understanding, I'm pretty lucky to have regular movement at this point, and there's a good chance it will stop or have lulls for a few days here and there. I would probably try the ice cream or cold, sugary beverage trick in that case, as that seems to make her reliably dance a jig.

I've read lots of women don't feel much of anything until close to 25 weeks, so this really is very early to worry about irregular movement.

cls78

I am pregnant with twin girls and did not feel any flutters at all. Just movements at the end of 22 weeks.