Will I ever have a good idea which one is moving?

kiwi625 · March 2012

They mentioned kick counting (in the future) at my last appointment. I haven't had an u/s in a couple weeks, so I'm really unsure how they are positioned in there. I feel 90-95% of the kicks on the top and right sides (where A was) but very very little low on the left (where B was last time). I'm trying hard not to be nervous about B, since they got her heart rate on doppler just fine two weeks ago. I can't wait for our growth scan next week so I can see them and know they both are ok. It's so hard not to worry.

Did you ever get to a point where you knew which baby was moving/kicking?

starburst210 · March 2012

i finally can get a real sense of who is who, yes but it took until about a week ago to start really figuring it out....i think as they got bigger it just became more obvious....he is so low down and she is so high up that just on that info alone i know who is doing what in there...so much so that he had the hiccups and i knew it was him and a few hours later she decided to get them as well.

i never thought i would be able to differentiate ....and it took awhile!!

benz2010 · March 2012

I honestly still can't tell. Both of them have been from my belly button and to the right. Nothing and NO movement on my left. I'm starting to kind of tell which is which but their limbs are all in the same area so I don't know. I wouldn't get too worked up over it, but if it really bugs you in never hurts to ask. I know they say they'd rather get the craziest patients asking a thousand questions than 1 who was scared to and something bad happen. Good luck!!

JesseKhloe&Me · March 2012

I never knew.. I guessed, but anyone can do that.

besu-chan · March 2012

JesseKhloe&Me:
I never knew.. I guessed, but anyone can do that.

I'm starting to think more and more, in hindsight, that this was me too. I thought I had it all figured out, and I still think for the most part that I was accurate, but I thought only Baby B ever got the hiccups (and they say you can tell if they will get the hiccups out of the womb by whether or not they have them in the womb), and now both my girls get them all. the. time! So who knows? Some of those hiccups that I thought were Baby B were probably Baby A. You should be able to get a general sense though, especially once they really run out of space, if you get the u/s tech to show you exactly where they are. I got her to draw with her hand on my belly, where each baby's head and butt was.

kimarino13 · March 2012

I never could tell when I got a jab in the middle. But since Lily was down low on my left and Sophia was up high on my right, I could tell who was who if I got a movement there.

AmyJoy728 · March 2012

As of last Wednesday A is head down on my left and B is breech on my right. They both had anterior placentas so I didn't feel either until the end if the second trimester. I still don't feel A strongly from the inside, mostly on the outside. I can't always tell which is which if I feel movements in the center. but now that B is breech I can tell more based on the type/size of the movements.

kiwi625 · March 2012

kimarino13:
I never could tell when I got a jab in the middle. But since Lily was down low on my left and Sophia was up high on my right, I could tell who was who if I got a movement there.

Sounds a lot like how our girls were at the last u/s. They were both vertex. B was way low, with her head near my cervix and A was up under my right rib cage. A has an anterior placenta, so I didn't feel her until a week or two after I started feeling B. Now though it seems like 95% of the movement is high and on the right-a lot right along my sternum. I'm hoping B has her little feet up by my sternum too, or she has gone transverse and she's contributing to the right side kicks... I think it's going to be a long week!

Thanks for sharing your experiences.

everam01 · March 2012

At some point it was really obvious to me which one was moving. A stayed FAR left, almost in my side, head down low. B stayed up high near my ribs and flipped back a forth a lot of times. B had an anterior placenta so I didn't feel him as much, but he also had hiccups a lot and I felt those.

google123 · March 2012

I never knew who moved, even until the end.

tarajayne · March 2012

I'm kind of the opposite. I used to always know (or think I knew) but they have moved positions a few times and now I basically give up trying to figure it out if it's anywhere towards the middle!

13pickle · March 2012

never know. thought i did till we had and u/s and we saw who was kicking and how they move everywhere.... if it hurts or makes me uncomfortable we blame b, she is way more wild, and we did see her kick her sister in the face in an u/s... she will be taking gymnastics and self defense classes one day...

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