How to explain to DH...

Happily Overwhelmed · August 2011

DH asks me DAILY what it feels like to have LO kick, move around, etc inside.

My doctor claimed "it's like gas". I don't think that's the best way to explain it but don't have a good analogy. I feel bad for him since he's curious but it's just...different.

How would you ladies describe it?

alexvause · August 2011

its like an alien living inside of you.

Julia_JJ · August 2011

Just this morning I described it as that gurgling feeling you get before you have diarrhea. Gross, definitely, but that's what it feels like to me.

TauntyCupcake · August 2011

When baby wiggles it feels like if you were to hold a fish underwater. . . except in your belly.

That's how it feels to me anyway. When I told DH that he laughed and has called our LO little fish or wiggle worm ever since.

buggywhips · August 2011

For me it literally feels like someone poking me from the inside...gas was a good analogy early on (and when he's shifting in there) but when he's kicking/punching that's what it feels like. Little kicks feel like muscle spasms.

The first time H felt him kick he was like "Wow that's crazy....seems like it would get annoying after a while!" And that, H, is why women carry the babies for nine months...

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stephers_7 · August 2011

There are different feelings.

I've used Fish swimming. Like if you've ever had a goldfish in a bag and it swims up against the side of the bag.

Sometimes I feel a twitch like when your eye lids twitch

sometimes it feels like a roll....like a rolling pin rolling slowly in my tummy.

COmommy · August 2011

ruby soho:
its like an alien living inside of you.

This!

Christeef · August 2011

I think the gas feeling is close, but without the accompanying stomach/bowel feeling that usually comes with gas. However, sometimes it literally feels like someone punching you from the inside.

MissBHaven1024 · August 2011

I have always disliked when people describe it as gas, because I have never had gas that feels like fetal movement, or I guess a better way to say it is, I have never experienced fetal movement that felt like gas bubbles. Especially now at almost 27 weeks, it feels like a person is kicking and moving around in my stomach! In the early stages, it felt like someone was flicking me, thumping me, and sometimes it would feel like when your stomach drops on a roller coaster. That's how I explained it to DH.

Chippmunk · August 2011

When you were a kid, did you ever catch minnows in your hands? That's what it feels like to me, on a larger scale and in my stomach.

It feels like when I'd catch minnows in my hands and they'd dart from side to side and hit my hands.

spacedolphin11 · August 2011

TauntyCupcake:
When baby wiggles it feels like if you were to hold a fish underwater. . . except in your belly. That's how it feels to me anyway. When I told DH that he laughed and has called our LO little fish or wiggle worm ever since.

Yep, this exactly. When I was waiting to feel movement, I kept expecting it to feel like gas, or butterflies, or a muscle twitch... and then it felt like I swallowed a rather wiggly fish.

dondraandluis · August 2011

MissBHaven1024:
I have always disliked when people describe it as gas, because I have never had gas that feels like fetal movement, or I guess a better way to say it is, I have never experienced fetal movement that felt like gas bubbles. Especially now at almost 27 weeks, it feels like a person is kicking and moving around in my stomach! In the early stages, it felt like someone was flicking me, thumping me, and sometimes it would feel like when your stomach drops on a roller coaster. That's how I explained it to DH.

This is exactly how it has always felt for me too

InTheSun · August 2011

Julia_JJ:
Just this morning I described it as that gurgling feeling you get before you have diarrhea. Gross, definitely, but that's what it feels like to me.

This.

lnrussell · August 2011

For me it feels like when you get a random involuntary muscle twitch, like in your shoulder or bicep. Not painful, at all, just a twitchy jumping feeling, but localized to wherever she is kicking at a particular time, My hubby seemed really excited cause he could identify with that.

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