Where did you first feel the baby? (if you have yet)

scootRN · December 2010

Last night at work I kept feeling something I haven't felt before. I have been worried that with all the pulling, stretching, and popping going on on a regular basis in my belly (and has been for months), I wouldn't be able to tell the difference between that and the baby.

This felt like bubbles popping against the inside of my abdomen or being poked with a feather, very irregular in rhythm. The only thing that makes me hesitate to say it was baby is it was higher than I expected, just about an inch below the level of my belly button, and it was also on the side of my belly. I don't know why I figured it would be in front and low, near my pubic bone.

I know it could be the baby, and I'd like to think it is. Just wondering if anyone else has felt it quite that far over.

ETA: I also know it's a bit early for a first time mommy to feel the baby.

Erin1010Sky · December 2010

Baby felt like butterflies at around 14 weeks.

Now LO is jabbing at me on the regular.

scootRN · December 2010

Erin1010Sky:
Baby felt like butterflies at around 14 weeks.
Now LO is jabbing at me on the regular.

But where on your tummy did you feel it?

sparkymcgeee · December 2010

I felt it the first time at 14 weeks. Which is way way early. Just a tiny little flutter on my left lower abdomen. So from what you described it was lower than where you felt it but it does feel like a little fluttering or vibrating feeling. I don't feel it on my right side or even in the middle. Its almost always on the left side of my abdomen.

audrey79 · December 2010

I felt him/her for the first time on Nov. 28th, 2010 around 2am... about 15w. Why do I know this, this is when my baby brother and his wife had their first child. A few hours after my niece was born, I was in the room visiting and meeting my new niece, and my brother rubbed his hand across my belly saying "hi" to my baby and it kicked him SO hard. It was right in the middle of my belly, a bit towards the right...

That was the one and only time I felt a very hard kick... everything before and after was flutters. It was a very special and heartwarming moment.

Lkat17 · December 2010

Between 16 and 17 weeks, I started feeling flutters and pops. I usually feel it off to one side or the other. It's been a little lower than you're feeling it, but not as low as my pubic bone either.

My midwife showed me that my uterus was coming up to about 3 fingers below my belly button when I was in last (around 14 weeks), so that might not be far off from where you were feeling things!

iris427 · December 2010

Both times early movement has down low near my pubic bone.

Erin1010Sky · December 2010

scootRN:
Erin1010Sky:
Baby felt like butterflies at around 14 weeks.
Now LO is jabbing at me on the regular.
But where on your tummy did you feel it?

Oh, duh! (facepalm)

The little butterflies were about 3 inches above my left hip, where I always find LO on the doppler.

Now the jabs are everywhere...always under my belly button, since my uterus hasn't grown past it yet.

swtjesika · December 2010

I felt LO on the lower left side of my tummy the first time-1 little thump. I knew it was for sure the baby when the next day 3 more little thumps in about the same area. Now LO is moving around all the time like crazy-it almost feels like that weightless feeling you sometimes get when really excited/scared. LOL hope this helps!

pandi02a · December 2010

Right down the center, like he drew a line from my belly button down. It kind of tickled. I would say it was a few inched below my belly button, but it was a few weeks ago. I would say what you felt was definitely the baby.

MrsDink · December 2010

I almost always feel LO on my lower left side a little lower than half way between my pubic bone and belly button. The other day I did feel the same thing on my right side, which was the first time on that side.

I think you just know when you feel it a few times. I think it feels like a gold fish fluttering it's fins, not super soft but not a sharp poke.

They started about a week and half ago and have become much more frequent, especially in the morning and evening.

I bet what you feel is the baby! Isn't it great Smile

meghancmm84Wed21413 · December 2010

I just felt the first "popping" yesterday morning around 12:30. I felt it at the top of my uterus, which is about the same area that you described. I'm positive it was the baby. Sounds like yours was too!

meghanchrisaz · December 2010

I just started feeling things yesterday, its usually when I'm sitting down, right around my pubic bone.

MrsPLW71 · December 2010

I think I might have felt the baby this morning. I was lying on my right side trying to get some more sleep and my stomach started rumbling really loud. As soon as it finished I felt three tiny pops about an inch below my belly button to the right. Right above where the dr picked the baby up on the doppler the night before. It was really slight, but I am hopeful I felt some movement.

flutepharm87 · December 2010

I started feeling flutters/popping/bubbles around 13 weeks in my lower abdomen, but I'm probably not the best person to ask because you feel twins earlier and you get bigger faster. At this point, I feel the boys boxing with each other pretty regularly. Now, if only they were strong enough for daddy to feel them too...

mrbear83 · December 2010

HA! I JUST felt the baby for the first time. Little Goldfish bumping around. It is located exactly where I used to have period cramps, but my thumps are almost exclusively on the right side.

I got the first one laying down in the tub tonight, and have recognized about 4 since then weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

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