Overweight Ladies - when do you feel movement?

madamsmurfette · October 2010

First pregnancy here. The books say us overweight ladies may not feel movement as early as our thinner pg friends. When did you feel movement?

Hyfagal · October 2010

I have AP and I'm overweight and still felt movement at 16 weeks. It was always on the sides at first but I still felt it pretty regularly.

LesleyH11 · October 2010

I've just recently (a week ago) started feeling movement, and not all the time. GL!!!

JustOne · October 2010

I am 18/20 pre pregnancy, and I started feeling definite movement around 16 weeks. It is getting more frequent now. Usually after I eat.

CurvyFashionista2014 · October 2010

I'm an 18/20 pre pregnancy and I started feeling movement a few days ago (I'm 15 weeks).

NWIbride · October 2010

This is my 2nd pregnancy, so my answer may be a bit earlier than it should be. I felt movement at 18 weeks.

staycee · October 2010

I've had an Anterior placenta both times. 1st I felt inside movement at 22w and could feel outside kicks at 24w.

this time, I've felt a couple flutters the other night, but nothing since. Felt them really low, but at my anatomy scan they told me my placenta is high this time.

bootsnbananas · October 2010

My 3rd baby, size 16 pre-pregnancy but I have posterior placenta so baby is all up front. I felt flutters very early but not all the time (12ish weeks, confirmed by movements during NT scan) and real kicks around 20 weeks. BF felt movement from the outside around 21 weeks and movements got super frequent and regular around 22-23 weeks.

jknit · October 2010

Size 14 pre preg and I just started feeling her/him yesterday (19 weeks). I think I have a tilted ute, though so that might have delayed it a bit

DefiantRose · October 2010

I'm 20/22 pre-pregnancy - I think I may have felt a few flutters here and there, but not actually too sure of it. Still waiting for the real movement to begin.

ms12345 · October 2010

I'm a size 18/20 pre-pregnancy... started feeling flutters probably around 17 weeks, and it was one of those "is that the baby or just gas" debates for a good three weeks or so.

Started feeling actual kicks every so often around 20/21 weeks. In the past week or so, LO has really ramped it up and I feel her almost all the time! My hubby finally was able to feel from the outside about two nights ago. She was kicking the ultrasound wand this morning at my fetal echo. Big Smile

adriasf · October 2010

I was a size 12/14 pre-pregnancy and I don't think I have felt movement yet (at 19 weeks). Reading this post is making me even more impatient! What does it feel like? Maybe I am feeling it and thinking it is just aches and pains from my uterus stretching?

buckin · October 2010

15 weeks 5 days I felt the first flutter right below my belly button. Dopplar used the next day to listen to heartbeat at Dr's located baby, right below belly button in same spot.

green bean · October 2010

Iam a 12 pre pregnancy I am pretty sure I felt lo moving last night. It kind of felt like a slight pulsing only on one side of my lower abdomen .it lasted for like a minute then was gone. But of course when I told dh. He tried to tell me it was waaaaay to early to feel lo moving. Sure dh sure.

hmontty · October 2010

DefiantRose:
I'm 20/22 pre-pregnancy - I think I may have felt a few flutters here and there, but not actually too sure of it. Still waiting for the real movement to begin.

This, exactly.

ImGoingToBeAMommy · October 2010

18 weeks and 23 weeks for outside movement.

JCragg · October 2010

Initially it was about 18 weeks
Consistently was about 20 weeks
Outside (feel/see) was...today! 22 Weeks

Rindesai · October 2010

I'm a fatty, I promise, and I felt movement at like, 15 weeks. Just wasn't sure what is was til 16 weeks or so. I think that they just tell us that to make us feel bad for being overweight. People try to guilt me all the time, but I'm healthy, I have low blood pressure, and a very healthy LO. So, I stick my tongue out at the books.

Edit: Just wanted to share that I get heated about this, and apparently so does LO, who went on a kicking spree after I posted this.

BeetleLinz1125 · October 2010

I was 225 pre pregnancy and I started feeling movement around 15 weeks. At first I wasn't sure, but when the doctor was using the doppler it was moving like crazy and she confirmed that's what I was feeling. I am surprised that I felt it that early because I am larger and this is my first. I wasn't even thinking I would feel movement until at least 22-24 weeks. It was a nice surprise though!

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