Flutters

brittanyns5

Anyone feeling flutters yet? I'm not, but I would like to see how soon they are starting for everyone

tryingforbabyf

I am 12w 1day and nothing yet

ginger819

I'm 10w 1d and have lots of gas bubbles and what feels like phantom kicks (they're in weird places for gas but baby is definitely not there yet either).

GRJC

I think with my last pregnancy it was around 16weeks...

mmclark10

Generally between 16-25 weeks is the norm, but apparently some second time moms have felt them as early as 13.  I was 18 wks with my first.

presh116

I am 13 wks and 4 days this is my third pregnancy. Yesterday for the first time I felt flutters after eating ores and drinking a cold glass of milk. I'm excited when they will get stronger.

megframe16

3rd pregnancy with twins and I swear I can feel them! I question it because I'm 11 weeks only but they are in the right spots and very minor/light. I mean I've done this before I know the difference between gas and a baby... Lol! I get excited but not too excited because it really seems early to feel that already. 

mrsmommya

With my 1st I was 17 weeks.  I am now 14+3 and haven't had anything going on.

cm716

Ok. I almost posted this but i felt like people would think I'm crazy. I have totally have felt a flutter here and there! I'm only 11 weeks but it's my third. They have almost felt like phantoms of a flutter but i definitely felt one while drinking a cold glass of water.

cm716

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possitivethoughts

This is my 4th baby and i am 12 weeks, nothing yet.. With the others i didnt feel anything until about 18-19 weeks.. Still a while to go

kat22stl

@cm716 - I'm just over 11 weeks with my 3rd too and I swear I felt one this morning after a glass of ice water! I think I might be crazy but it felt right and, regardless of what it actually was, got me real excited for the sweet baby flutters! 

mouse1029

I remember feeling my first at 12.5 weeks. But I didn't rely realize what it was until about 14.5 weeks when I really could recognize it. So @megframe16 it's definitely possible if this is your 4th.

searchingforameaning

This is #3 for me and I am sure that I have felt flutters maybe 3 times so far this week (first was 3 days ago). Once this morning and I am 12w6d. It is in the right spot and I can feel when it is gas and in different areas... I think this little one will be high energy like my boys. - Flutters seem to come most often after a cold drink and if I am sitting still... don't know why...

ellehobbs

Felt flutters yesterday. Three times. Extremely subtle.

mermaidbina

Yes, I did at 10 weeks! Crazy.

mentyone

I felt my last baby at exactly 20 weeks to the day. It felt like a muscle twitch right under my belt buckle. I am almost 14 weeks now and am not expecting to feel it anytime soon but I can't wait - it's nice to have the reassurance it's there : )

brittanyns5

@mentyone that's why I'm so excited to feel it. I'm ready for the reassurance of the baby being okay. I Can't wait for it. 

Itsally1011

I felt my first at 17 weeks. I'm not 12w4d and I swear I feel the familiar 'muscle twitches' as I'm laying here on the couch. Maybe it's gas!?  But we will go with baby!

MamaKSquared

This is my first and I'm at 13 weeks. I know it will be several more weeks before I can feel it, but, I'm really looking forward to it. Also for the reassurance. I just want to be able to wiggle my belly a little to kind of say - "Hey, everything OK down there?"

brittanyns5

@MamaKSquared I had a ultra sound to do and baby was just a moving. My doctor said "before you know it you will feel it moving" I got so excited lol

revlaurawittman

This is my third baby, fifth pregnancy and I'm 10.3 weeks. I felt a bit of a flutter while using my Doppler yesterday and it was right where baby was. I think because I was pressing down in the same spot. I haven't felt anything other than that though. 

haboobjob

Second pregnancy and I swear I felt something starting a couple days ago. Only at night while I'm laying down and only after drinking ice cold water. I thought I was going crazy at first. I felt DD at 16-17 weeks so I figured maybe it wasn't too impossible. 

HeyStVincent

I felt movement with my first pregnancy (internally) at about 14 weeks, which is crazy early (especially for your first). I thought for  sure that couldn't be what I was feeling, but as it became more consistent (and the baby got bigger) I began to realize that I had probably, in fact, been feeling her move all along. I think it depends on the woman's anatomy and where the placenta in located.  I was feeling movement on the outside at about 17 weeks with my first as well (I'm pretty tiny). I also had a posterior placenta with my first.

I'm now 11 weeks with my second and I swear that yesterday I felt the same early sensation I felt with my first.  It happened right after I finished eating something high in carbs, which is what used to be get my daughter up and moving too. I don't know. It may also be wishful thinking.  Most women don't feel anything until 16 weeks at the earliest.

MamaKSquared

I'm pretty sure it was muscle spasms or something else, but I felt something last night. I woke up in the middle of the night really hungry. I had a PB&J and a glass of milk, then went back to bed. I felt whatever it was a few times. At first I got really excited, thinking it was the baby. Then I thought about it and I'm pretty sure it wasn't. The only reason I'm still unsure and think it may have been is because it was in about the same area we were able to hear a strong heartbeat with the doppler at my appointment, so the position made sense. I'm 13w+3d with baby 1, so it's still quite early. 

charmedlifex3

So, FTM stupid question - I keep swatting at my stomach thinking there is a bug crawling up it-this just started today. (So far... no bug.)  Is that the baby? Some other, as yet un-experienced pregnancy weirdness?

Also, I feel like an idiot for needing to ask.

bananers

Allisun85 said:

So, FTM stupid question - I keep swatting at my stomach thinking there is a bug crawling up it-this just started today. (So far... no bug.)  Is that the baby? Some other, as yet un-experienced pregnancy weirdness?

Also, I feel like an idiot for needing to ask.

Sounds more like stretching, itchy skin, which I also have. Baby feels more like a goldfish flopping around, or like gas bubbles in the really early days. 

I have been been feeling the "gas bubble sensation" all day today and this is my fourth pregnancy so maybe? Then again, I am actually gassy right now so maybe not. It's nearly impossible to tell at first, but the "was that baby" feelings slowly morph to "I think that was baby" to "I know that was baby" to "holy shit, calm down, baby!"

JournoGrl23

I've had weird sensations too. It's in the same place we heard the heartbeat of the baby and it doesn't move around like gas does. I have no idea if it's baby or not but I'm pretending it is because that makes me happy. Guess I'll find out for sure in a few weeks!

edited because I used the wrong word and it was bothering me.

Duffgurl

Today is what I think like the 3rd time I felt this little baby move  I had some cold water and I know that usually will get them going. 

mouse1029

Allisun85 said:

So, FTM stupid question - I keep swatting at my stomach thinking there is a bug crawling up it-this just started today. (So far... no bug.)  Is that the baby? Some other, as yet un-experienced pregnancy weirdness?

Also, I feel like an idiot for needing to ask.

Not so stupid. My daughter did this from early like 15 weeks until the end. Should would be scratching the inside of my uterus. It feels very creepy crawly. The docs could actually see her doing it in sonos and she would do it to me with her arm that was tucked when she was eating.

THATdisneyMom

My first I felt at about 15 weeks but was in denial lol for about a week I was unconvinced.  I'm 12 weeks 1 day and thought I felt something during bfast. But I'm not totally convinced it's so so early!

fasteddie311

16 weeks with my first. I would have had no idea but I was having an anatomy scan when it happened. Baby kicked, tech said woah did you feel that? And I said yeah but I thought it was gas

echurley

12w 6d and DEFINITELY just felt a baby flutter. So exciting!

Jaspertheyoungturnip

Today is my fifteen week mark, and I swear I felt baby this morning.
My belly is distended more on one side, so I think that's the side baby is lying on. I woke up on that side this morning, and as I was lying there I felt a weird pressure pass over my upper belly. I had my hand against my belly and my fingers twitched, and I pushed into the spot where I think baby hangs out. A couple seconds later, I felt a flutter, as though I had pushed them out of their spot, and they were trying to snuggle back in after the poke! I cried pretty much, because I swear it was actually baby!

cait5413

Haven't felt a flutter, but had a dream I poked my belly and felt the baby squirm a ton. Can't wait to feel it for real.

MrsAlT68

I felt my first at 11weeks, but thought there was no way, so I ignored it.  Felt them again at 13 weeks and very sure that's what they were this time, literally "flutters" like there was a butterfly trapped in there. 

allishally13

@bananers oh my gosh, like a goldfish flopping around! That is exactly what I've been feeling but couldn't come up with a good description for my husband. I've definitely been feeling it for the last few days, usually at night and right where the baby is (and where the Doppler finds a heartbeat which is always at a higher rate when I feel the tiny floppy goldfish!).

SkiChic626

Yes, here and there.  With DD I felt the first around 16 weeks then consistently around 19 weeks when I got my first hard and fast kick that I could feel from the outside.  This time I felt the first flutters around 9 weeks and have felt them maybe 5-6 times since then (I'll be 14w on Thursday), and they've been a little stronger each time.  At first I thought there was no way I was feeling it already, but the ultrasound confirmed that the tickles I felt was definitely baby moving as I felt it as I was watching the screen - holy tiny dancer in there lol, DD did NOT move nearly as much at this point.

beenabee

All you ladies are making me so excited to feel my little pumpkin, ahhhh

ShanRum3

I think I started feeling it and knowing that it was baby at about 18 weeks with my first. I was 14weeks with the second. I'm 14 weeks now and I think I've been feeling #3 for almost 2 weeks now, on occasion, but when I talked to my mom about it, she seemed to think it was too early to feel it. I respect her knowledge and opinion a ton, but I'm NOT convinced she's right this time!

ginger819

For our first I felt a twitch (that's what my early flutters feel like) at 14 weeks, but DH didn't believe me. Then about a week later he happened to have his hand resting on the right spot cause he felt her. This time I started feeling the twitch at about 13 weeks and have felt one I'm pretty sure I would have felt if I had my hand there. This time DH believes me. Both babies are in the same spot which makes me think they're kicking a nerve or something that makes me twitch really hard. I'm excited for them to be more consistent.