Flutters? Ahhh!

dande2129 · July 2012

Today I was sitting down, and I felt this flutter in my lower stomach, right around where baby was when we had used the doppler last night. I don't know if it was just a random muscle spasm, and I almost wish that I wasn't a STM because it felt JUST LIKE first time flutters with DS, but that didn't happen until 22 weeks because of an anterior placenta. (Thankfully, I don't have that as of yet right now)

I'm sure it really was just a muscle spasm. I haven't felt it since. But damn... I miss being blissfully ignorant where I wouldn't know what the hell flutters felt like if I tried.

Rynleigh · July 2012

I always attribute any flutter, bubble, or twitch feeling to gas or muscle spasms - especially in the first trimester.

I *just* felt the first bit of movement that I have to say "I think that was a baby" yesterday - and I'm still not entirely sure that I'm not just going nuts just for feeling it lol

The only reason I can confidently attribute the movement to one of the babies is because I felt the "roll" - any others who have had more than one child know what I'm talking about... when you feel the baby's full body turn/somersault against the wall of the uterus. I felt it four different times yesterday - three times high on one side, once low on the other side (laying down, internal feeling only - no external, of course).

I would be convinced I must be imagining things if I didn't have twins in there and hadn't already had two pregnancies giving me first hand knowledge of the feeling.

ikypea · July 2012

I honestly believe I've felt my LO a couple of time in the last week too. Always happens right before I fall asleep when I'm completely relaxed. Definitely feels like baby not gas. I'm ok with being blissfully over hopeful.

SandiaPinaMama · July 2012

I would call you a lying liar if it would make you feel better, but I'm sure you felt a baby. I also had an anterior placenta last time. I think that not having one plus already having been pg means you are feeling LO.

dande2129 · July 2012

Rynleigh:
I always attribute any flutter, bubble, or twitch feeling to gas or muscle spasms - especially in the first trimester.
I *just* felt the first bit of movement that I have to say "I think that was a baby" yesterday - and I'm still not entirely sure that I'm not just going nuts just for feeling it lol
The only reason I can confidently attribute the movement to one of the babies is because I felt the "roll" - any others who have had more than one child know what I'm talking about... when you feel the baby's full body turn/somersault against the wall of the uterus. I felt it four different times yesterday - three times high on one side, once low on the other side (laying down, internal feeling only - no external, of course).
I would be convinced I must be imagining things if I didn't have twins in there and hadn't already had two pregnancies giving me first hand knowledge of the feeling.

Oh yeah, I definitely don't think it was baby, but I'm saying that when you've had one pregnancy, for me, early movement felt like a muscle spasm sometimes. So even though I don't believe it was baby, knowing what it feels like makes me go "OH! ...Oh, probably just muscle spasm." I honestly probably felt DS move more than I actually believed that he moved but didn't believe it.

I can't wait to hear about when the babes get bigger and they're moving and kicking around! That has got to be a crazy feeling compared to a singleton pregnancy.

dande2129 · July 2012

watermelon mom:
I would call you a lying liar if it would make you feel better, but I'm sure you felt a baby. I also had an anterior placenta last time. I think that not having one plus already having been pg means you are feeling LO.

I'm still not convinced. I need ute goggles to verify.

utgirl2 · July 2012

I felt my first at 21 weeks. My second child at 16 weeks.

dande2129 · July 2012

utgirl2:
I felt my first at 21 weeks. My second child at 16 weeks.

16 weeks I would probably believe it. But not just a little over 12. I was only measuring about two days ahead at the 3d/4d u/s, which really is nothing in the grand scheme of things.

I didn't feel my first until around 22 weeks either. Long wait.

mama&baby · July 2012

I'm no longer PG (LO is 8 months) and I still get " phantom flutters" in my belly. Odds are it is muscle spasms. If you think of how little your baby is, there is no way it's movement. Sorry!

ambernjj · July 2012

dande2129:

Today I was sitting down, and I felt this flutter in my lower stomach, right around where baby was when we had used the doppler last night. I don't know if it was just a random muscle spasm, and I almost wish that I wasn't a STM because it felt JUST LIKE first time flutters with DS, but that didn't happen until 22 weeks because of an anterior placenta. (Thankfully, I don't have that as of yet right now)

I'm sure it really was just a muscle spasm. I haven't felt it since. But damn... I miss being blissfully ignorant where I wouldn't know what the hell flutters felt like if I tried.

I have had the same thing happen to me! I have even stopped doing whatever im doing and sat real still to see if it happens again, but then nothing...dang gas bubbles! Hopefully we dont have much longer and we will definately know when its LO moving around.

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