First flutters?!

Molissa10 · January 2012

ChancieMark:
ChellyBelly7:

Hello everyone! I just wanted to hear from people who have also experienced the first movements of their baby in the first trimester. I'm a small woman, 5'1 & 115 lbs. I am currently 10 weeks, 5 days. I felt my first movement at exactly 10 weeks. It felt like a muscle spasm almost, and lasted about 3 seconds. It made me gasp at first and then IMMEDIATELY began to smile like an idiot. That's how I know it was the baby, it just gives you this amazing filled up joyous feeling!

PS - no negative posters please. I don't care if you didn't feel your baby move this early, I am addressing women who have. Please do not tell me how to interpret my own bodies sensations.

Thanks for the laugh, OP.

Don't post it on a public forum if you don't want the interwebz meanies to bother you with their "knowledge" and "facts".

(Also, please look up the size and weight of your baby and consider how likely it is you actually felt it moving around)

Wow, some of you are very rude! Way to burst a girls bubble!

I went for my first u/s yesterday and my OB asked if I have felt the baby move yet. I have not, but it is possible (per my OB).

Molissa10 · January 2012

mchupie:

marhar7106:
Wow ladies! Way to beat a dead horse!! We all realize that what she felt was not actually the baby, but holy cow! How dare her express the joy she felt thinking that it was her baby. The nerve of her to enjoy her pregnancy and smile at the thought that was she felt was the life growing inside of her. There are a lot of miserable women around here who need to find something better to do with their time than bash people who are doing nothing to anyone else.

Oh come on, we're not bashing. We're just having fun. Sense of humor, anyone?

Laughing AT someone and laughing WITH someone are very different. Nice try, you ARE bashing!

kcl22 · January 2012

ChellyBelly7:
Hello everyone! I just wanted to hear from people who have also experienced the first movements of their baby in the first trimester. I'm a small woman, 5'1 & 115 lbs. I am currently 10 weeks, 5 days. I felt my first movement at exactly 10 weeks. It felt like a muscle spasm almost, and lasted about 3 seconds. It made me gasp at first :]

PS - I don't care if you didn't feel your baby move this early. And I am not an idiot who has never felt gas. Gas feels nothing like twitching.

That's not what first movement feels like.

kcl22 · January 2012

LoisLane23:
tch81:
No, maybe some of you should just GROW UP! It's not funny if it's at someone elses expense. What are you teaching your children?!?!? Cyberbullying is cool... lol mommy does it all the time. So immature!

LOL @ cyber bullying.

Bless your heart.

jworkman1980 · January 2012

marhar7106:
Unfortunately, if you're looking for support and compassion you have come to the wrong place. I feel like this seems to be more of a place where women take out their pregnancy hormones on other women. I rarely post except in response to other posts for that reason. You will feel that precious baby move soon I'm sure.

I concur........it's sad that some people feel the need to poke fun at others for their comments/questions on here. It's typically the same people do it time and time again.....wish they would get jobs/lives and not live on the 1st Trimester board because obviously they know it all and don't belong there!

stever · January 2012

I love these posts

MandeeFoFandee · January 2012

I'm so in tune with my body that I can tell when the baby is doing the electric slide vs. the YMCA.

katcarls · January 2012

Wait a minute, you're positive that must be the baby and everyone who disagrees is a big meanie, but you posted here that you don't know if you should believe that you're pregnant. Which is it?

mommygrams0730 · January 2012

katcarls:
Wait a minute, you're positive that must be the baby and everyone who disagrees is a big meanie, but you posted here that you don't know if you should believe that you're pregnant. Which is it?

dunn-dunn-dunn....and the plot thickens, lol!

jworkman1980 · January 2012

For starters........stop being such a f'ing beotch!

Celtic Ember · January 2012

MandeeFoFandee:

I'm so in tune with my body that I can tell when the baby is doing the electric slide vs. the YMCA.

LOL!! Awesome. I do think we're generally making a bigger deal of this then needed. If the OP wants to live in happy kitten land where her baby dances through the flowers holding his teddy and plays with puppies singing tra-la-la, it's not our problem. She'll find out the difference between gas and movement when that first little kick hits her kidneys at 18 weeks, and anything else we say is just going to increase her persecution complex.

jworkman1980 · January 2012

LoisLane23:
jworkman1980:

marhar7106:
Unfortunately, if you're looking for support and compassion you have come to the wrong place. I feel like this seems to be more of a place where women take out their pregnancy hormones on other women. I rarely post except in response to other posts for that reason. You will feel that precious baby move soon I'm sure.

I concur........it's sad that some people feel the need to poke fun at others for their comments/questions on here. It's typically the same people do it time and time again.....wish they would get jobs/lives and not live on the 1st Trimester board because obviously they know it all and don't belong there!

:::Looks at ticker::: I belong here. I'm at work right now. I have a life, a husband, and a toddler. What else ya got?

6000 board posts tells me that you need to focus on your husband, toddler and job a bit more whatcha think?

WeBelieveInMagic · January 2012

Even though it may seem as though you felt the baby it is rather unlikely. At 10 week into pregnancy the uterus had yet to rise above the pelvis. Also, the baby is rather small. They just don't have the strength to move enough for mommy to feel it. Most first time mothers will not feel their babies until, about, 18 weeks. At this stage the baby is high enough from the pelvis and big enough to be felt.

I just had a checkup with my midwife yesterday. Even at 15 weeks my baby is still low. As is normal. Every once in a while I'll feel a very light flutter. Like bubbles popping or little tickles. I have to be lying very still and quiet. Most times, even at this stage it is gas moving through. While using the doppler my LO moved, bumping against it. My midwife asked me if I felt anything and I hadn't. I was disappointed.

Feeling movement makes us feel better and I can understand wanting to feel it.t During my first pregnancy my OBGYN said, "They should invent a window you can open so that you can check on baby whenever you want. It would make the first trimester so much easier." Here's the thing. If it makes you feel better and you really believe that you are feeling the baby why does it matter what strangers on the internet say?

Areli71611 · January 2012

katcarls:
Wait a minute, you're positive that must be the baby and everyone who disagrees is a big meanie, but you posted here that you don't know if you should believe that you're pregnant. Which is it?

Wait...what?? *gigglesnort* OP, methinks you ain't even KU, much less feeling twins kicking your ute! Sorry, sounds like you need to fart, instead...

Kasi80 · January 2012

Yea, that post on the Natural Birth board is interesting.

Shiz I totally need an effing life with my 19,000 combined posts.

KNemo · January 2012

ChellyBelly7:
PS - I don't care if you didn't feel your baby move this early. And I am not an idiot who has never felt gas. Gas feels nothing like twitching.

When you feel movement for real, you are going to kick yourself for being so dumb!

OctoberBabyH · January 2012

ChellyBelly7:
Thus far, no one has provided me with any facts as far as I am concerned. Who the hell says interwebz? You should grow up. I didn't realize that posting something completely non threatening was grounds to be mocked and laughed at. Someone's a bit catty. Ever heard if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all?

Perhaps you should ask your OB then. It was most likely gas.

With my first pregnancy, I first felt REAL kicks/movement at exactly 18 weeks.

The baby is far too tiny now (even though they move a lot) for you to feel him/her moving around. They do say that if you do not feel any fetal movement by 22 weeks, to then ask your OB about it.

pinkpepsi · January 2012

MandeeFoFandee:

I'm so in tune with my body that I can tell when the baby is doing the electric slide vs. the YMCA.

Yes I You lol.

jworkman1980 · January 2012

Scout2005:
jworkman1980:
LoisLane23:
jworkman1980:

marhar7106:
Unfortunately, if you're looking for support and compassion you have come to the wrong place. I feel like this seems to be more of a place where women take out their pregnancy hormones on other women. I rarely post except in response to other posts for that reason. You will feel that precious baby move soon I'm sure.

I concur........it's sad that some people feel the need to poke fun at others for their comments/questions on here. It's typically the same people do it time and time again.....wish they would get jobs/lives and not live on the 1st Trimester board because obviously they know it all and don't belong there!

:::Looks at ticker::: I belong here. I'm at work right now. I have a life, a husband, and a toddler. What else ya got?

6000 board posts tells me that you need to focus on your husband, toddler and job a bit more whatcha think?

111 posts in less than a month. How's your husband handling the sudden neglect?

Yeah my 111 posts unrelated to bullying someone who is newly pregnant and has questions.......but not to brag or anything compared to your numbers!

jworkman1980 · January 2012

Scout2005:
jworkman1980:
Scout2005:
jworkman1980:
LoisLane23:
jworkman1980:

marhar7106:
Unfortunately, if you're looking for support and compassion you have come to the wrong place. I feel like this seems to be more of a place where women take out their pregnancy hormones on other women. I rarely post except in response to other posts for that reason. You will feel that precious baby move soon I'm sure.

I concur........it's sad that some people feel the need to poke fun at others for their comments/questions on here. It's typically the same people do it time and time again.....wish they would get jobs/lives and not live on the 1st Trimester board because obviously they know it all and don't belong there!

:::Looks at ticker::: I belong here. I'm at work right now. I have a life, a husband, and a toddler. What else ya got?

6000 board posts tells me that you need to focus on your husband, toddler and job a bit more whatcha think?

111 posts in less than a month. How's your husband handling the sudden neglect?

Yeah my 111 posts unrelated to bullying someone who is newly pregnant and has questions.......but not to brag or anything compared to your numbers!

I believe I answered this ridiculous post nicely and without any bullying to speak of.

You might admit it pretty hypocritical to be calling someone for posting...on the exact same message board as you.

Yep you got me.......must be that brilliant elephant brain of yours!

LittleApple · January 2012

This whole thread is full of win.

OP- your attitude and ignorance is so incredibly laughable.

ken&jennifer · January 2012

my baby's so advanced that he (I can intuitively sense that he is a HE) picked up his baby cell-phone and ordered a cheese and pesto pizza for tonight. No joke, I could feel the flutter in my lower abdomen as his little fingers did the dialing... man, i'm looking forward to that pizza.

Also - i love it when people post about feeling movements... always a good day on the bump first try board when that happens

ps: next time, use the search function and see how your early intuitions have fared in the past - lolz

CraignSha · January 2012

Some of the women on here are just being a complete ass. Ignore them.

Smcauley7 · January 2012

I love all you negative people!!!! Grow up and take your pregnancy hormones elsewhere ....sheesh!!!!!

Anyways- I'm very happy that you felt your baby move that is wonderful!!!! Hopefully many more feelings of the same to come ;-)

bananarama11 · January 2012

It's not your baby. It's probably gas.

violaplayer · January 2012

Let's see, I do have twins. I didn't feel much until 18w. Nothing really hard and definite until about 21w. Of course, I had an anterior and a posterior placenta. So I'm voting gas as well.

And FWIW, it's not rude not to tell people what they want to hear.