First time feeling baby move?

shanna1573

Relatively new to the board but curious when you first felt your little sweetheart move. We will be 18 weeks tomorrow - almost 40 and a first time momma to humans.

Ours was 17 weeks to the day when I first felt Baby B move. I was so excited!!! It was the best feeling I've ever felt. I was explaining this to a co-worker about how excited I was and she informed me it was way too early to be feeling the baby. Balloon deflated.... as she always hopes for. (Yes, one of those...)

This prompted me to research and it seems more towards 20 weeks but some as early as 16 weeks. I still feel the baby move.. the same flutter as before and sometimes almost a little poke but it has me curious when you first felt your baby move. 

ecwk

shanna1573 said:

Relatively new to the board but curious when you first felt your little sweetheart move. We will be 18 weeks tomorrow - almost 40 and a first time momma to humans.

Ours was 17 weeks to the day when I first felt Baby B move. I was so excited!!! It was the best feeling I've ever felt. I was explaining this to a co-worker about how excited I was and she informed me it was way too early to be feeling the baby. Balloon deflated.... as she always hopes for. (Yes, one of those...)

This prompted me to research and it seems more towards 20 weeks but some as early as 16 weeks. I still feel the baby move.. the same flutter as before and sometimes almost a little poke but it has me curious when you first felt your baby move. 

Hello.

We are a group of women who have been interacting and getting to know each other since December. We’d love for you to join us but you really should familiarise yourself with the board guidelines first.  Please read the *READ FIRST* thread and if you haven’t already, post in the INTRO thread. One off threads like these are discouraged as is treating the group like your personal google. This has been discussed multiple times in different threads. Different women experience this at different times. I felt movement at around 17 weeks. 

shanna1573

My apologies- I wasn't trying to treat the board like my personal google. It's more my feelings were hurt and I was curious what other moms were feeling that are also due in August. 

laurad75

Hi @shanna1573 Like @ecwk mentioned, introduce yourself in the into post and get to know board so you get the lay of the land.  The community is great for questions like yours.  Anyways, I'm 19 weeks and still haven't felt anything but its different for everyone.  The one thing that is true for every pregnant woman is that she is bound to receive unsolicited advice and 'know-it-all-isms' (I just made that up) from everyone who knows you are pregnant.  I try to remember that they all mean well but it can be so condescending and annoying.  Sorry that your co-worker was so insensitive.  Looking forward to getting to know you. 

redheadbride15

I was probably at least 22 weeks when I felt anything with my first pregnancy. This is my second, and I felt clear flutters at about 15 weeks, and then they went away and I haven’t felt much recently. So it’s highly variable! Enjoy your flutters and ignore your coworker

lalala2004

Your coworker is wrong. I felt small movements that early with my first, however, I was only sure in retrospect. But I also had an anterior placenta, so I didn’t feel movement strongly for a while.

If you came here to participate in the community and not just have your question answered, it would be wise to listen to the advice you’ve been given and read the pinned posts. It’s a public forum, but the idea is to actually be a community, not Yahoo answers. If everyone asked their questions in their own separate thread it would get a little crazy. That’s why we encourage board organization.