How do you describe your baby's movement to someone who has never been pregnant?

NellieHarringtonCarter · August 2015

I know that we are all probably at different stages of feeling fetal movement, and that as pregnancy progresses, the feeling changes, but how do you describe it to your SO, your kids, or anyone else who has never been pregnant?

At one point early on, I described it as "like someone lightly moving their fingertips across your skin, but from under your shirt," but at this point, it's "like the feeling of a fish in a bag of water, when you can feel it swimming around, but inside your body, and less thrashy and more slow, wavy, or somersault-y."

Anyone else?

mrs14678 · August 2015

That's a really good description. Haha! I've been saying its kind of like bad gas mixed with light period cramps..... I like how yours is more positive.

TomekiaB · August 2015

I like your fish description. I don't really get the butterfly or popcorn references even when it is light somehow the visualizing those textures doesn't work for me (those are both dry and fragile...where baby movements occur in fluid and are light but do not feel breakable/crunchable)!

slord33 · August 2015

@TeganAngelina that's exactly how I've been describing it the last two weeks! It's like I have a bunch of goldfish in there swimming around, haha I think people at work think I'm crazy!

slabancz · August 2015

I told ppl that in the beginning it kind of felt like a twitch you can't control but instead of it being around your eye it's in your tummy.

redfallon · August 2015

The first little movements felt like carbonated bubbles to me. Now they are kind of like a muscle twitch.

kristen2b · August 2015

At first I described it as a snake coiling and uncoiling in my belly. Now I describe it as, "you know that scene from alien where the alien tears his way out of the guys chest? It feels like the baby's trying to kick his way out of my uterus."
I'll spare you the alien gif.

sharonholck28 · August 2015

I feel the goldfish feeling. I also have told people that it sometimes feels like intense but short tummy growls when you're hungry. Then lately she every once awhile gives me this feeling of getting the wind knocked out of me but from the inside o.o

ammnam14 · August 2015

I feel like Ronda Rousey is trying to get out of my uterus...too weird? This little girl is a kicker!

ACarter0914 · August 2015

I totally agree with the alien. I very active alien who doesn't know what sleep is.

sbodman82 · August 2015

I said it feels like something crawling under your skin like a worm or something

stickybun14 · August 2015

@kristen2b I use the alien movie as well. I just ask if people have seen it lol.

I do like the goldfish in a plastic bag comparison. If it's a close friend or work colleague that I am comfortable with I ask them if they want to feel from the outside and say it's like that, but magnified and on the inside. Little man is moving around so much now. My belly is moving with his bigger kicks.

breezypip · August 2015

Mine started off feeling like muscle twitches. Now I'll often get that popping sensation, but it's larger and more forceful than popcorn.

And when she's kicking my insides and my cervix it feels like a thunderstorm is going on in there - rumbles and booms - it's so strange.

Jenichael1217 · August 2015

I say it feels like someone poking you... But from the inside. Fish make a good analogy, too. She has a lot of kicks that are visible from the outside so a bunch of my friends have gotten to see!

AlejandraN2 · August 2015

For the initial flutters I always tell people it's like someone is farting inside of you - classy I know. For now I also use the worm analogy - like someone is crawling on the inside and the occasionally kicking out the door.

christidixon · August 2015

I told my DH that it feels like someone is pushing/kicking the back of your seat while in the car...I like the fish one too.

awrtz92 · August 2015

A muscle spasm

MillyDally · August 2015

At first it felt like muscle twitches, then it turned to that popping feeling...

My best description is when I was a kid I used to catch frogs and hold them in my hand... it feels like that in my belly when she is kicking on my side. Lol! Most people I talk to relate to that description best...

kategancla · August 2015

The best description I've heard is that is feels like a bag of snakes rolling around in your abdomen. The earlier movements were more like little muscle twinges.

abidabi · August 2015

Like really strong muscle twitch and sometimes the swimming fish sensation is as close as I can describe lol

amsch · August 2015

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amsch · August 2015

I explain kicks it as if a joint were popping but in the tummy. I've described pushing movements being like a massage chair... The massage balls underneath the fabric roll and appear /disappear unexpectedly. I like your fish analogy.

amsch · August 2015

I explain kicks it as if a joint were popping but in the tummy. I've described pushing movements being like a massage chair... The massage balls underneath the fabric roll and appear /disappear unexpectedly. I like your fish analogy.