For 2nd+ time moms or anyone who has experienced it so far....

sweet_nitenale

How would you describe the feeling of the baby's first movements? I googled it but article descriptions are so generalized it doesn't really help. I felt something that for me I would describe as the way it feels when a nerve twitches it made me wonder if that's what the websites describe as "flutters"..

books4brooke

To me it feels like the same as if someone brushed a feather across my arm.

lostaspen

It feels like small gas bubbles moving around kind of deep inside...if that makes sense.  I know it's not gas because I feel a bunch of the same bubble movement in the same area over several minutes.

SassyRedhead

I'd say bubbles popping or an involuntary twitch. Every once in awhile I'll feel the baby move a lot and it will feel like losing your stomach on a roller coaster ride (but less intense) 

 

sweet_nitenale

lostaspen:

It feels like small gas bubbles moving around kind of deep inside...if that makes sense.  I know it's not gas because I feel a bunch of the same bubble movement in the same area over several minutes.

Well if this is the case I won't notice until I get some real kicks because I have gas bubbles all day long everyday! LOL!

lostaspen

sweet_nitenale:

lostaspen:

It feels like small gas bubbles moving around kind of deep inside...if that makes sense.  I know it's not gas because I feel a bunch of the same bubble movement in the same area over several minutes.

Well if this is the case I won't notice until I get some real kicks because I have gas bubbles all day long everyday! LOL!

Yeah, me too.  These are different, I guess it's hard to explain since I can't say they don't really feel like gas bubbles since I just said they did!  I feel the baby move the most when I'm still and leaning forward.  

At some point you'll just sort of realize that what is going on in your lower gut isn't just gas or cramps or whatever, it is very different and unique!  For my first it was 16 weeks, but I've heard that some people don't feel/notice movement until 25 weeks. 

diana.filipi

with my first pregnancy it first felt like a fish swimming around inside me

satama

diana.filipi:

with my first pregnancy it first felt like a fish swimming around inside me

I don't know why, but this description cracked me up.

I agree that it feels like bubbles popping at first.

Mrs_MBed

SassyRedhead:

I'd say bubbles popping or an involuntary twitch. Every once in awhile I'll feel the baby move a lot and it will feel like losing your stomach on a roller coaster ride (but less intense) 

 

This.  Yesterday it felt like one or both of them was doing barrel rolls - it made me kind of nauseous.  Sometimes its like a light scratching.  

Kathschu

satama:

diana.filipi:

with my first pregnancy it first felt like a fish swimming around inside me

I don't know why, but this description cracked me up.

He he!  Me too, it's cute.  

Mrs_MBed:

SassyRedhead:

I'd say bubbles popping or an involuntary twitch. Every once in awhile I'll feel the baby move a lot and it will feel like losing your stomach on a roller coaster ride (but less intense) 

 

This.  Yesterday it felt like one or both of them was doing barrel rolls - it made me kind of nauseous.  Sometimes its like a light scratching.  

This sounds a little too Rosemary's Baby for me. 

 

I'm not sure, but I felt something yesterday.  My hand was pressed up against where baby lives and I felt some movement in my hand, not in my body, but rumbles on my hand.  I wasn't gassy and it was a little low for tummy grumbles.  Could it have been a rolling baby?

greengirl0909

You know how when you watch a fish tank the bubbles like wiggle to the top and burst on the surface? That's how I'd describe it.

oops34

For me it felt like popcorn popping. It was how I described for a long time. Maybe it's just because I love popcorn so much, but I swear, that's really what it felt like!

chronicoles

This is my third child, and for me I agree with a previous poster, kind of like muscle twitching deep inside at this point.  I usually feel it for a minute or so and then it stops for a while.  With my 1st and 2nd I did not feel them this early.

jgal84

Mine felt like there was a butterfly in my belly. Or, like someone was lightly tickling me from the inside. Can't wait to start feeling that again! I started feeling mine at 15 weeks, but wasn't sure of what it was until my 16 week OB appt.

Squishy622

This is the best thread, it made me smile! I can't wait to start feeling movement.