Baby is.... pulsing? Anyone else?

returnhomegnome · August 2009

I've noticed yesterday and today some times when baby is gently "pulsing". It's very mild. I just don't know what it is. It's slower than my heart rate, but faster than my rate of breathing. Maybe it's baby's rate of breathing?

Anyone?? TIA!

Edit: it is not hiccups: feels very different than those do.

The first time I noticed the "pulsing" it was down low, just above my pubic bone, and today it was up high where her head still is (breech).

christin3580 · August 2009

are you sure its baby and not the placenta? the placenta also carries a heartbeat and for obvious reasons pulsing.. it could be either or

ShandaRL · August 2009

Could it be hicups? I know what your talking about though i always wonder and sometimes i can even see my belly moving up and down with it...

FlaCourtney · August 2009

Could it be hiccups?

bim38106 · August 2009

hiccups maybe?

I don't think you'd be able to feel baby breathing..

prneyes3 · August 2009

I have started having that feeling. Last week it happened during an NST scan and I could hear it. The nurse said it was hiccups. Then a few minutes later during an ultrasound I could feel and see it happening, the tech said yep she has the hiccups. Probably just hiccups your feeling.

jesssy1204 · August 2009

I think I know what you are talking about- I get it too...I have NO idea what it is though

imaPrincess · August 2009

Mine was just doing this 2 min. ago! I felt something pulsing and was able to see one area next to my belly button going up and down in a pulsating pattern, it continued for about a min. or so. I just watched it, it was so wierd! I have no idea what it was.

zeesbride · August 2009

Sounds like hiccups

sgrl · August 2009

I've started feeling this almost every evening after we eat and I've decided it's hiccups.

febgirl · August 2009

totally... hiccups

ashinms · August 2009

I noticed the same exact thing this past weekend. I'm with you...I know it's not hiccups, but I have no idea what it is. Somebody on this board suggested that the umbilical cord may be pressed against my stomach and pulsing. Who knows!

Jenny3 · August 2009

I know exactly what you're feeling because I have felt it too. And it is NOT hiccups

jwpbride · August 2009

I would think it's the blood pulsing through the womb/placenta.

pregali80 · August 2009

Jenny3:
I know exactly what you're feeling because I have felt it too. And it is NOT hiccups

This. If its hiccups, its the weirdest ones I've ever felt.

melly918 · August 2009

I felt the pulsating today too and even posted something about it as well. It is NOT the hiccups. The hiccups are more spaced out. This is like a heartbeat or breathing. I mean I know it is not my heartbeat or anything. It's very weird. I've been having BH like crazy all day too.

lil_nette4 · August 2009

I just started to notice that to. I don't know what it is, it doesn't happen all the time, or last for long periods of time.

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