2nd Trimester
jayellekay
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Is fetal movement ever supposed to feel uncomfortable?
jayellekay
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I'm talking early fetal movement here, not 38+ weeks with a foot lodged in your ribs.
My doctor said she expected me to start feeling something before my next appointment next week, and for a couple of weeks now, I've been feeling "something." It doesn't feel like flutters or a fish squirming, like I've heard others describe. It's very low in my pelvis, where I'd expect baby to be, and it feels like something moving, for lack of a better description....but it almost hurts! Not like a cramp or like gas pains...but just a very uncomfortable, wtf-is-that feeling.
Anyone else with this experience or any insight?
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Re: Is fetal movement ever supposed to feel uncomfortable?
I think Elizabeth is very active. I can feel her moving all around and sometimes it feels like I just got off a roller coaster when she flips around. I love it though!
Well.. the only two times it felt really uncomfortable and Wtf, was when I was about 17 weeks maybe? I was peeing and when I stood up, I felt something really weird! like the baby did a back flip or something... That felt uncomfortable, and then I remember another time while sitting at my desk at work, I felt something push my cervix, that also felt uncomfortable. Now that Im 25 weeks, I feel the baby sometimes put his foot or knee (cant really tell what it is) in the left side of the lower pelvis, (baby is still sitting) and after a while, it feels a little uncomfortable.
Hahah but when laying on the left side, he tickles so much!!!
Lucky you that your doctor expects you to be feeling the baby this early. I'm a little over 18 weeks and am not feeling much, if anything, at all. My OB said it's normal for first time moms to feel the baby move sometime around the 18-20 week mark.
This is my first child as well and I started feeling her at 16 weeks and yes it was a little uncomfortable and just felt odd.
I started feeling movement at 13.5 weeks, like your stomach flipping in your ute, and kicks all day by a week after that. (if you think you feel movement, don't let other people tell you it is too early, just because they couldn't discern between movement and gas!)
I think it feels weird sometimes b/c just the juxtaposition of different densities moving in there feels a bit odd- (fluid, placenta, the baby.) I also think it has to do with the ute growing...nerves that used to be right next to each other feeling only period cramps are now stretched apart and feeling new sensations. (akin to the clumsiness of someone who just grew a foot) I guess It feels most uncomfortable when I switch from side to side while sleeping....it's like she sinks to the other side! ugghh! (along with when she kicks my cervix, or sticks her tiny butt as deeply in my crotch as she can.)
Same here -- this is my first and I started feeling him at 14 weeks. I would not describe anything so far as comfortable -- it's all been uncomfortable, both the squirming around and the kicking. Not painful, just noticeably uncomfortable.
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