Movement Question

davis0905

I'm currently 20 weeks. I felt flutters at 16 weeks then nothing again until exactly 19 weeks. Then I felt movement for a few days in a row, esp after eating or drinking something sweet. I thought the movement was becoming regular. Now I've not been feeling anything for a few days and I'm just wondering if this is normal?  I can't remember a lot from my first pg--blame it on Mommy Brain. LOL. I do remember the movements started sometime after 18 weeks but I can't remember when they started to occur daily. 

ELF4321

I felt the first flutters around 16 weeks, but nothing was regular (like not even once a day) until the end of 2nd tri.

surpriseaddition

I've been able to feel the movement sooner with each pregnancy, but also had it intermittent like you said.  I think it's because you're more in tune with what the feeling feels like.  But, I think since the baby is still so small you can't feel it all the time.  Within the next week or two you'll probably start to feel it every day. 

danuli8

It depends so much on how the baby is positioned. I felt first flutters at 17 weeks (this is my first pregnancy), but then several days would go by before I felt something again. I was not feeling movement on a daily basis until 22-23 weeks.

ShellBear+

I didn't feel anything till nearly 20w and daily movement at about 25w.

danieleandwayne

I have had intermittent movement, especially earlier (from 16 or 17 weeks until about 21 weeks). Now, at almost 25 weeks, I still have stretches where P?pite isn't as active and/or is positioned in a way that I'm not feeling it.

I definitely think a lot of it is positional. When I had my 20 week US, the LO was head down and spine up and by the 22 week US, the LO was head up and face more up. I could definitely feel more movement with the week 22 positioning.

If you buy a stethoscope (doesn't have to be expensive), you can hear more movement than you can feel. Whenever I got nervous, I would listen instead of try and feel and I could hear the babe punching/kicking away and I'd feel so much better...