question about feeling baby for those that have

em_713 · July 2010

So, I'm still waiting to know for sure if I'm feeling baby. I'm hoping some obvious movement will happen soon. I've had a ton of gas lately, so its difficlut to tell. I do know that when I go to bed at night and roll to my right side, I start to feel little, slight pains on that side. They seem like it could be movement. Then I roll to left and it stops on the right and starts again on the left.

The question I have, is the feeling is not like cramps, but sort of little pains. Lol. It defiinitely does not feel like a buttlerfly or "flutters" as I've heard others say. Do any of you feel little pains as movement when you lay on your side?

LovesMM · July 2010

Mine aren't really painful. They just catch me off guard. At first they started out like someone was poking me lightly down there. Then there was 'fluttering' or bubble popping sensations. Now it's full on rolling and stomping on the bladder.

Smores730 · July 2010

None of the feelings I've had from the baby have felt painful. The first kicks to me feel like when you have a twitch somewhere. They're very light little jabs. Try laying completely flat on your back after eating or drinking something. Also don't expect kicks way up at your navel. My kicks right now are an inch or so just above my pubic hair line. Also with my 1st, I didn't feel kicks on my sides until I was much further along.

kat81 · July 2010

The baby does tend to move around a bit when I first lie down or change position as you describe. However, there is nothing even remotely painful about it. I'm thinking it will be painful when it's to the ribs many weeks down the line, but now it feels like gentle little touches/taps.

I do sometimes get other pains when I move and switch positions, ones that feel like cramps. So my gut (no pun intended) reaction is that you're not feeling the baby. However, everyone is different! You did call it "little pains," so maybe it is the baby, if it's really localized. If I felt what you were describing it wouldn't be baby, but only because my baby feels different than that.

rainydayluck · July 2010

Mine felt like muscle twitches, but they weren't painful. They were low on my stomach and try what pp said: lay on your back, that is usually when I felt them

lilmgirl · July 2010

Ditto pp's Definitely not painful in the least bit. For me it almost tickles my insides sometimes. If the baby kicks me in the wrong spot (and make me have to pee) I'd say it's mildly uncomfortable, but definitely not painful.

britne08 · July 2010

LovesMM:
Mine aren't really painful. They just catch me off guard. At first they started out like someone was poking me lightly down there. Then there was 'fluttering' or bubble popping sensations. Now it's full on rolling and stomping on the bladder.

basically this too.

Tamzin418 · July 2010

Sometimes I notice movement when I've got a great song playing (a little loudly). I felt lots of movement this past weekend on a long road trip. My husband was driving so I was relaxing and singing along. She seems to enjoy Bruce Springsteen- definitely her father's daughter! It might have had nothing at all to do with the music, but it's the second or third time I've felt movement while having music going.

I've also felt the pokes and flutters that others have mentioned. Not sure if they are hands or feet, but something is definitely going on.

jillybean800 · July 2010

Mine actually feel like someone is "flicking" me from the inside. Does that make sense? Or, when they are lighter, like someone drumming their finger tips on a table. Never pain, though. Maybe that is just RLP or other growing pains.

babyonthebrain2010 · July 2010

so far I have only felt slight pains and light, almost crampy feelings at times.. I think it's probably just everything stretching and growing and moving around. I do feel some of the tiny gas bubbles but I really can't tell if it's baby or not. I'm trying not to worry about it too much...

Miranda_10/27/07 · July 2010

I just felt LO kick for the first time this Sunday, and the only reason that I new that it wasn't gas was because it was very localized, about 4 inches below my belly button. I agree with PP who said it feels like bubbles popping or being flicked from the inside. I seem to only feel it when I'm sitting up, and LO seems to prefer to be active b/t 4:00-7:00 pm.

jenvalet · July 2010

Not painful except when I've had a few kicks to a full bladder. But a week or so before I noticed movement, I did have some little "pinches" I would say. They didn't necessarily hurt, but they weren't comfortable either. Not sure what it was.

curlydoglover · July 2010

Definitely not painful.

The first kicks were on my left side and they stayed there for a few days. Now I'm feeling them all over.

They feel kinda like sharp pokes and nudges. I'll occasionally gasp when he really lands a good one, but that's more because I'm startled than because it hurt.

bosha711 · July 2010

I've had side pains when laying down from very early on, which for me, are very different than the baby's movement.

The side pains I chalk up to my muscles stretching & gravity.

The first movement I felt were flutters very low & centered in my pelvic area. Now that I get tiny kicks/pokes, they are slightly painful if they are going inward toward my organs. The ones I feel outward do not hurt.

apokatie · July 2010

Mine have been very similar to all the movements described here. Although, yesterday I got a really strong one that startled me.

Most all the movement that I've felt has been really low, about 4 inches below my belly button.

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