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phranic
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What do i do?
phranic
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this will be my 4th baby but it will be my DH's 1st . We are having a lil girl in dec and he is BEYOND excited. our baby experience is so diffrent , i know what to look for when she kicks and what it supose to feel like , but also i feel it from the inside, so it dosent feel the same to me as it does for him . She isn't even born yet and she is already a daddy's girl he can put his hand on my belly, or talk to my belly and she goes kicking crazy !! I can feel it .... but he cant 
He gets disappointed and just so sad looking when she she kicks right under his hand and he misses it. He says he doesn't know what he is feeling for and i don't know how to explain it .
Does any Dads or Dads to be out there have a good way to explain what to look for when he is trying to feel her kick? Possibly something a guy will understand a bit better than my best of " a ball moving in a water balloon"
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Re: What do i do?
You really are only a few weeks away from where he will be able to feel them as well. I remember when my wife started to feel the kicks and I couldn't. She described them as butterfly flutters, whatever that means.
Soon enought you can do my cell phone trick....
put a cell phone on your belly and I assure you the kid will kick up a storm. He will see the phone move, and it will make his day!!
And a little further down the road, when he an actually see the movements....mind, blown!
You could watch that scene from "Alien". That's always how I imagine it felt like.