Bump curiosity

Addelie · April 2015

Hi girls!

This may be a bizarre question, but can anyone else actually bounce their baby in the fluid in their tummy? No joke, when the baby is resting against my tummy, I can push it into the fluid and it bounces back against my hand quite hard. It's a really strange feeling - can anyone else do this or am I just weird?

My bump used to be really hard and now it's totally changed consistency - it's soft and squishy. Anyone else experiencing bump changes?

I also thought that at some point I'd be able to figure out different parts of the baby by feeling my bump, like a head or limb, turns out I have no clue whatsoever!

karaelaine1991 · April 2015

I haven't experienced the bouncing sensation but I do have a general sense of where things are. She has definitely been head down for at least a few weeks. Either her knees or her feet are up by my ribs - I think her feet. And I can frequently feel one of her hands on my left side.

Addelie · April 2015

@karaelaine1991 you sound like you have much more of a clue than I do! - I'm jealous

karaelaine1991 · April 2015

Addelie said:
@karaelaine1991 you sound like you have much more of a clue than I do! - I'm jealous

Haha well it's probably just how baby's positioned in there... mine is probably closer to my skin than yours is. Plus I'm constantly feeling my bump to try and figure it out lol. I can only feel her head when I'm laying down, it feels like a softball down in my pelvic area!

knwilliams01 · April 2015

Due to my low amniotic fluid, you can feel exactly where baby is - head, shoulder, butt, etc. When she tried to extend her neck or back my stomach looks downright freaky.

karaelaine1991 · April 2015

The other thing with mine is she moves CONSTANTLY. Kicks are always up by my ribs and hiccups are always down by my hips. And she hiccups a lot lol

Addelie · April 2015

@knwilliams01 Wow that you can make all that out! I think I must have a really big bag of fluid or something. My friend was touching my bump last night and he was like "wow, it feels like a balloon!"

Addelie · April 2015

@karaelaine1991 I can't feel anything in my pelvic area but I think the little one hiccups too. I get lots of "large" movement - where it all of a sudden slowly moves from one side to the next.

Damn that no one else can get the baby to bounce in there though - I get a proper ricochet going on!

BabyHarris15 · April 2015

All I know is that she likes to kick me in the ribs and punch in the center of my belly. She moves alot!

KaLikeAWind · April 2015

I have never tried the bounce move. I also do not know which parts are where. I do get a fair amount of 'Nessie' moves - a big shift of what seems like a larger piece of real estate moving from one side to the other. It feels like the motion equivalent of something large moving just beneath the surface of the water, and you see a small water disturbance and maybe a bit of unrecognizable body - like Nessie the Loch Ness creature. I have a gesture and a sound effect for when I feel a Nessie move, lol

virginiaunicorn11 · April 2015

yeah, was noticing last night that my belly is squishier and i can shape it a bit.

my kid will occupy just one entire half of my belly at a time, like it's using the linea negra as a border or something. usually s/he is on the left side, but just switched over to the right. I feel hiccups from my, um, butthole (so weird to type, sorry, and even more awkward to feel), all the way up to my ribs. and get kicking up in my ribs, too. knees regularly protrude just over my belly button.

I know the position based on all the ultrasounds I get here (every appointment, so biweekly now). thought all my rib pain was from expansion, but now that the kid flopped over to the right side, suddenly my left top rib is no longer painful and tingly. so yeah, I guess that answers my question of how you know when a foot is lodged up there.

Addelie · April 2015

@mellymar love the Nessie/real estate analogies. Shame we can't see/hear the sound effects and gesture that go with it - bet it's hilarious! (I have that Finding Nemo "whale speak" in my head.) Mine is also an identifiable migrating mass.

@amark11 good to hear that you're also a bit squishier. I was gonna ask if feeling hiccups around your butthole is weirdly pleasant but that would be taking it too far I guess hehe I remember you also had a painful and tingly left rib as well! Mine has also gone as I think the baby now lies differently - I definitely appreciate it getting its foot outta there as that was not fun.

Definitely looks like I'm the only one who plays "bounce the baby in the sac". Sigh.

MaliKaela · April 2015

I can't do the bounce thing. But I don't want to try to hard because he'll just start beating the shit out of me....and then the braxton hicks will start... and i'll tell him it's time to go back to sleep, but he won't listen. So ya, maybe you have to push harder to make that work?

Raymer2 · April 2015

I haven't experienced being able to bounce the baby. However, I was stressed out because I'm new to an area with tornados and I think he sensed it so he pushed his back up and I was rubbing it when I would stop he'd get mad and bounce until I rubbed his back. Other than that I've felt legs and hiccups.

virginiaunicorn11 · April 2015

Addelie said:
@amark11 good to hear that you're also a bit squishier. I was gonna ask if feeling hiccups around your butthole is weirdly pleasant but that would be taking it too far I guess hehe
Definitely looks like I'm the only one who plays "bounce the baby in the sac". Sigh.

Sadly, it feels like the hemorrhoid-making process that it is. Fortunately, they aren't so horrible and tend to come and go.
Aaaaand, way over the TMI line, sorry ladies. Was hoping I wouldn't be the only one, but better for you that I am...

At least there's hope for the kid to shift away from the beloved left rib, yeesh

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