When you say flutters..

mkanderson85 · January 2010

what exactly do you mean? The books say it feels like gas or bubbles, but how do you know it isn't gas?

Also is there a way to make the flutters happen? My friend said drink cold coke at night and lay on your back and you'll feel it . I haven't felt a thing.

rlscheck · January 2010

When we say flutters, it feels like flutters! I also have an air bubble popping feeling or a muscle / nerve twitching feeling. This didn't happen till week 18 though. You're still pretty early

The Future Mrs. Rhodus · January 2010

My Dr. told me you won't really feel "flutters" until around 20 weeks.. I'm right there with you, I cant wait to feel my little guy!

newbie31 · January 2010

You might be a little early yet. I am just now starting to feel something (I guess it's the baby). It feels like a wave right below my belly button. It only happens when I'm laying on my back. I can't wait to feel more.

justinlovesme · January 2010

rlscheck:
When we say flutters, it feels like flutters! I also have an air bubble popping feeling or a muscle / nerve twitching feeling. This didn't happen till week 18 though. You're still pretty early

All of this exactly. Great description.

Flutters, like a butterfly is hanging out in your uterus. I feel a lot of the muscle twitch feeling as well.

My earliest feeling was at 16 weeks or so.

micaelasmakeup · January 2010

I feel a little goldfish low and far to the left and then sometimes to the far right. It almost always happens right after lunch and then ater dinnertime when I lay down to watch tv at night. It started early last week so 16w.

magdalina.h · January 2010

It felt like I was being gently tickled from the inside. I knew it wasn't gas bubble because if I had a gas bubble I had the gas immediately after that.

spitzchic09 · January 2010

The movement I feel is more of a rolling feeling... like someone rolled their knuckles on the inside of my ute. so weird. I guess its cool it just feels so strange and I dont know if I like it, hopefully distinct kicks will be more exciting.

Also my child only decides to move at inopportune moments; bedtime, when Im eating, standing in surgery holding sterile instruments.

MNgirl326 · January 2010

Flutters to me were described as butterfly wings litterley fluttering on your skin.

To me they feel more like a fish blowing bubbles on the inside wall of my stomach.

I didn't feel them much until about 17 weeks, and has only been in the last week that I have felt them consistently.

laurasue · January 2010

Never felt like flutters or bubbles or anything to me. Felt like a distinct muscle twitch. And I notice now eating or drinking certain things can get her moving - but with early movements they were sporadic at best and I couldn't egg them on. Also, I felt mine best while sitting at my desk working - not while laying down.

tomkat35728 · January 2010

I didn't feel anything until 15-16 weeks and when I did, I wasn't really sure that is exactly what it was.

I knew around 18 weeks that it was movement because I was feeling it in the same spots repeatedly and it always felt the same - kind of like tapping from the inside.

Honestly, the best way to tell the difference between gas and movement is whether or not you fart afterwards (sorry, TMI). If you keep feeling flutters/bubbles/taps without passing gas, it could be movement.

It will come soon enough and when it does, you'll absolutely love it! I still giggle everytime he kicks my bladder. Big Smile

MzShonie · January 2010

my flutters felt like muscle twitches also. Then it started to feel like he was rolling around in one spot. I first felt them @ 15 weeks for like 2 days. Then when I made 17 weeks it was every day since then. Now I feel kicks on my bladder and right around my navel area, just from the inside though.

serarose · January 2010

When I first felt it several weeks ago, to me it felt like someone was blowing very gently through a cocktail straw into me. Now it's happening more strongly and a lot more frequently, so it really does just take time.

To me it didn't feel like a rumbly-tummy sort of feeling - it's happening in its own place and feels unique. My guess is that when you do sense it you'll know exactly what it is. :-)

mmeeccee · January 2010

I'm glad you posted this. I've been freaking out the past 2 days wondering what was happening in my abdomen. I've been feeling a vibration to the far left side and sometimes to the far right side. I was worried until I realized it was probably movement. I usually feel it after a meal. I know it isn't gas because I don't actually have gas afterwards. I wouldn't describe it as flutters more like a vibration. Maybe because it's so early.

teelaman · January 2010

The best way I can describe mine would be carbonation. Like...someone opened a really fizzy soda in my belly.

Lins_n_Derek · January 2010

I think I felt our baby boy last night. I was laying on the couch and our dog was laying on my stomach. I felt 3 little vibrations low on the right side. I hope that's what it was because if so that excites me!

georgia_peachy · January 2010

teelaman:
The best way I can describe mine would be carbonation. Like...someone opened a really fizzy soda in my belly.

This. I tell DH it sort of feels like champagne bubbles are popping in my abdomen. I can tell it's not gas because it doesn't feel like "gas". I didn't feel them until halfway through week 15 (like 5 weeks 5 days? I think) and I've been able to feel them much stronger (more like tap tap instead of bubbles or flutters) and more frequently the past few days. I mostly feel them when I've just eaten something and am sitting or lying very quietly.

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