just wondering how early people have been feeling baby kick? I'm 11+5 with my 2nd baby & I swear I felt the baby move last weekend. Was just a wee flutter around my bladder - maybe I'm imagining things!
I have had phantom movements since having my daughter but they are in the ribs so I am positive it is not my little lime my doc said some second + moms can feel movembt around 13 weeks but it is more likely to be around 14-16 weeks. With my first I felt movement at 17 weeks and my husband could see/feel movement at 20 weeks. I have a friend who felt movement at 12+5 with her second. She was at work (l+d) so she was able to confirm by ultrasound that the flutters corresponded to fetal movements!
Last pregnancy, I started feeling something right before 15 weeks, but it wasn't until 16 weeks that is was really noticeable. Before then, it could have easily been gas. Around 12 weeks the baby is only about 2 inches long, not likely that you'd be able to feel it. It's more likely phantom movements or gas. For weeks after I miscarried, I could swear I felt movement; the mind is a powerful thing.
What does being underweight have to do with detection of movement on nerve endings in muscles surrounding the uterus?
Hint: Nothing. Literally makes no sense. Your nerve endings would be no different if you weighed 400 pounds.
You don't think someone who's thin can feel externally feel movement earlier than someone that has a couple extra inches of fat?
Is this a serious question? The answer is no. Do you think that people who are overweight can't feel their stomachs growl? Your baby is inside your body - external feeling has nothing to do with feeling your baby move.
Feeling the outline of your uterus is one thing, but feeling movement just because you're thin or underweight does not make any sense.
What does being underweight have to do with detection of movement on nerve endings in muscles surrounding the uterus?
Hint: Nothing. Literally makes no sense. Your nerve endings would be no different if you weighed 400 pounds.
You don't think someone who's thin can feel externally feel movement earlier than someone that has a couple extra inches of fat?
.... You can't be serious. Body fat has nothing to do with nerve endings, especially internal ones. Do you assume it would hurt less for a person who weighs more than you to get hit with a bat? Because that's the logic you're using. Take an anatomy and physiology class - it'll help
Hahaha No, I'm not missing your point, you just don't know what you're talking about. Weight has no impact on internal sensory nerves. End of story.
But now I understand why OBs have given up having this discussion. You're a special skinny snowflake with special skinny sensing powers. Awesome yay and stuff.
What does being underweight have to do with detection of movement on nerve endings in muscles surrounding the uterus?
Hint: Nothing. Literally makes no sense. Your nerve endings would be no different if you weighed 400 pounds.
You don't think someone who's thin can feel externally feel movement earlier than someone that has a couple extra inches of fat?
****QUOTE BOX FAIL**** Edited because I got caught up in a hypothetical that doesn't even make any sense.
Look lady - you can think that you felt your son move at 12 weeks if you want to. I still call BS because frankly you do not have science on your side. In the land of rational thought, science always wins.
Wow this took a crazy turn... You can't feel external movement without feeling internal Movement and no 11 week fetus is strong enough to kick through the wall of the thick uterine muscle. I hate to break it to you but you had some gas that you could feel externally
What does being underweight have to do with detection of movement on nerve endings in muscles surrounding the uterus?
Hint: Nothing. Literally makes no sense. Your nerve endings would be no different if you weighed 400 pounds.
You don't think someone who's thin can feel externally feel movement earlier than someone that has a couple extra inches of fat?
****QUOTE BOX FAIL****
Are you saying that you felt your baby move from the outside of your stomach (as in, with your hand on your stomach)? Because that's a whole other ball of wax than being able to detect movement from inside (i.e., the nerve endings on your palm vs the nerve endings in your uterus). And since fat does not accumulate inside your uterus, you would not be able to detect your baby moving in this way faster than someone who has bigger fat stores.
YES. That's exactly what I'm saying. I felt it literally, as in with my hand, placed on my abdomen. I don't think I actually felt internal movement until 20+ weeks.
ETA: the point I was trying to make, which seems to have been completely missed, is that being underweight meant I didn't have any extra cushion between my organs an my skin. I was able to feel a flicking sensation externally that I wasn't picking up on internally.
If you can't feel it internally, there's not a chance in nine hells you are feeling it externally.
You're saying at 11 weeks when the fetus' legs are barely 1/3 of an inch that you could feel "kicking" through your uterus, all of the fluid, and several layers of abdominal muscles. Nope. Those are gas bubbles. Sorry to disappoint.
What does being underweight have to do with detection of movement on nerve endings in muscles surrounding the uterus?
Hint: Nothing. Literally makes no sense. Your nerve endings would be no different if you weighed 400 pounds.
You don't think someone who's thin can feel externally feel movement earlier than someone that has a couple extra inches of fat?
****QUOTE BOX FAIL****
Are you saying that you felt your baby move from the outside of your stomach (as in, with your hand on your stomach)? Because that's a whole other ball of wax than being able to detect movement from inside (i.e., the nerve endings on your palm vs the nerve endings in your uterus). And since fat does not accumulate inside your uterus, you would not be able to detect your baby moving in this way faster than someone who has bigger fat stores.
YES. That's exactly what I'm saying. I felt it literally, as in with my hand, placed on my abdomen. I don't think I actually felt internal movement until 20+ weeks.
ETA: the point I was trying to make, which seems to have been completely missed, is that being underweight meant I didn't have any extra cushion between my organs an my skin. I was able to feel a flicking sensation externally that I wasn't picking up on internally.
Yeah, no. Not possible. Sorry sweetie, but it didn't happen.
Google abdominal muscles. They are quite thick, no matter how skinny you may be. Ever seen a very slender woman having a c section? Still several inches of muscle tissue to get through.
Baby is too small for anyone with a June due date to feel right now. I was 20 weeks before I was able to feel anything, and it was another week or two before it was a regular occurrence.
) The very best part is that I edited my original response because I thought to myself "no way is she suggesting that she felt the baby kick from the outside of her stomach at 12 weeks - that's just silly". Nope - that's exactly what she meant. Silly @threearrows, that's just not physically possible, even if you were beyond malnourished and inches away from death.
I am still wondering where on the abdomen you were feeling this movement? Can I get a diagram? It is sad how little people understand their own anatomy.
Let's all continue to beat a dead horse, shall we?
You don't think it's possible. I'm stupid. I don't know anatomy. I think I'm clearly super special. Because I felt something at 12-ish weeks that I continued to feel for the rest of my pregnancy. And clearly that's just not possible because, duh, science. And @mccall35, that's a nice reach to make. Because, on top of it all, that's clearly what I meant.
At 6 weeks I felt flutters very low in my pelvis. They felt exactly like movements I felt with my daughter. I had a split second of OMG!!!! I can feel my baby!!! Then I came to my sences and realized it was either gas Or phantom movements.
. I am actually interested to know where you felt the movement. If you are super underweight it could also have been peristalsis or your abdominal aorta that you felt externally. Your uterus would have been pushing organs around and may have made things more noticible. You have to understand how crazy it sounds to others that you felt external movement for 9 weeks before you felt internal movement.
@threearrows - This only became such a shitshow because you were taking science/anatomy as a personal insult towards yourself. Its not, I promise. Its just real life.
Thanks for being a tool. I think it's hilarious that it's totes not PC to make fun of someone who says they are grossly overweight, but completely legit to do so for someone who is grossly underweight. But you must be a special snowflake too
I don't think someone who is "grossly overweight" would ever describe themselves using those terms. And, in fact, I think it's a strange cry for attention for anyone (overweight, underweight or otherwise) to describe themselves as "grossly" anything.
But I can tell you, if an overweight person was making the same ridiculous claims you have been in this thread, people would have jumped all over them for it just the same.
Ay yi yi. This thread needs to STOP! There's no way you felt the baby kick it's impossible I don't care if you are 10lbs or not. Look up how small your baby is right now. Its impossible PERIOD stop fighting back.
Haha, I knew I was gonna get that response from you. Yes, I think women should lay off judging each other's bodies. Women judging skinny girls is a real issue, and it sucks and it worsens our communal body issues. That said, the way you've handled this entire thread and repeatedly drawn attention to/ described your weight to a bunch of people on the internet contributes to body issues - it doesn't detract from them or help them go away. You brought this on.
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I think she has a serious medical condition to blame for being underweight.
This does not, however, validate her claim or make this line of posts any less AWish.
And this is why threearrows has some legitimacy in coming back at me - if what sensitivesally says is true in particular. I am really sorry if this is a sensitive issue for you. We should not mock each other's bodies as women, period. However, I feel fine making fun of the mindset, rather than the bodies, of people who can't stop talking about their appearance dramatically/inappropriately to people on the internet. I was poking fun at your attention-grabbing more than the particular trait you were using to grab attention. I'm sorry that I hurt you by touching on a sensitive issue, though. Perhaps I didn't think it through.
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All right, fun's over. I apologize. This seems much more serious than I thought, and I made a joke about "attention-grabbing" where it was clearly not appropriate and actually refers to some real issues. Peace to you, @threearrows.
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I felt my son at 12 weeks. There will be 90 people who chime in afterwards and tell me that it wasn't possible, but at 5'7'' and 103 pounds, grossly underweight, I knew it wasn't gas. Even this time around, I can feel the outline of my uterus. I haven't felt anything yet this time around though.
I'm 5'7 101 ... I eat so the time.. Guess I'm just going to be skinny till I get older and slow down... Do you eat all the time too?
Re: Earliest you've felt Baby Kick??
Hint: Nothing. Literally makes no sense. Your nerve endings would be no different if you weighed 400 pounds.
.... You can't be serious. Body fat has nothing to do with nerve endings, especially internal ones. Do you assume it would hurt less for a person who weighs more than you to get hit with a bat? Because that's the logic you're using. Take an anatomy and physiology class - it'll help
No, I'm not missing your point, you just don't know what you're talking about. Weight has no impact on internal sensory nerves. End of story.
But now I understand why OBs have given up having this discussion. You're a special skinny snowflake with special skinny sensing powers. Awesome yay and stuff.
****QUOTE BOX FAIL****
Edited because I got caught up in a hypothetical that doesn't even make any sense.
Look lady - you can think that you felt your son move at 12 weeks if you want to. I still call BS because frankly you do not have science on your side. In the land of rational thought, science always wins.
I feel like we've had this conversation before . . .
What in all of the fuck?
That is all.
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Or phantom movements.
. I am actually interested to know where you felt the movement. If you are super underweight it could also have been peristalsis or your abdominal aorta that you felt externally. Your uterus would have been pushing organs around and may have made things more noticible. You have to understand how crazy it sounds to others that you felt external movement for 9 weeks before you felt internal movement.
Don't forget. Chuck Norris was a fetus at some point too.
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But I can tell you, if an overweight person was making the same ridiculous claims you have been in this thread, people would have jumped all over them for it just the same.
MC at 8 weeks {EDD 9.2.20}
Rainbow Girl! {2.28.16}
Baby boy, lost at 16 weeks {EDD 6.10.15}
MC at 8 weeks {EDD 9.2.20}
Rainbow Girl! {2.28.16}
Baby boy, lost at 16 weeks {EDD 6.10.15}
MC at 8 weeks {EDD 9.2.20}
Rainbow Girl! {2.28.16}
Baby boy, lost at 16 weeks {EDD 6.10.15}