I'm nearly 12 weeks pregnant with my second child. I didn't feel my daughter move until I was 19 weeks due to an anterior placenta. But this time around, I swear I'm feeling baby roll a few times a day the past few days. They aren't kicks; it feels how it felt when my daughter would flip or push her back against my stomach. Is this even possible?
I know I'm going to get a few eye rolls for this but I'll manage.
Re: There's no way I can really be feeling baby, right?
Married: October 2014
TTC #1 since September 2015
In reality, you are in your 11th week of pregnancy. As long as you're not a few weeks ahead, it's highly unlikely you have a ninja baby who can push through all of those layers of amniotic fluid, uterus, muscle, etc... It's probably your uterus stretching or gas. In a few weeks you might feel quickening.
Nothing is impossible, but it is definitely improbable.
I hope you enjoy it. Since ya know this is the only time you'll ever enjoy gas in your life.
Eta found a gif I like more
You know best. If you think you're feeling your baby move, nobody can tell you otherwise so enjoy it
Just something off of WebMD which I agree with 100%:
It's possible, but not common.
This is a good time to revisit the difference between normal and average. Picture a nice bell-shaped curve and remember that for a given characteristic the normal range is larger than the average range, or peak. People talk in averages because they're most common. But just because something isn't average, doesn't necessarily mean it's abnormal or impossible.
Back to your friend. When a pregnant woman is likely to first feel her baby move, called quickening, depends on several things.
"Most of the time, if it's her first baby, it's around 20 weeks that they'll feel little flutters," says certified nurse-midwife Marion McCartney, who practiced for 24 years before becoming director of professional services for the American College of Nurse-Midwives. In subsequent pregnancies women notice quickening sooner, around 16 weeks, she says. Thinner women also tend to feel quickening sooner.
"She may be a couple weeks off on her dates, too," McCartney says.
If your friend is thin, extra perceptive, on a second or higher pregnancy, a bit off in her timing, or carrying a rambunctious baby, she may well be feeling those flutters. And who are any of the rest of us to tell her she's not?A fetus is still pretty small at three months -- it's about four inches and weighs just over an ounce. It's bigger and increasingly active by the end of the fourth month. But occasionally women feel movement as early as 12 weeks.
I'm very in tune with these boards, the same way that some women are very in tune with their bodies. My prediction is that somebody will come back on here and tell us how their doctor totes said it was their baby moving... 3...2...1...
Oh and also, please don't put words in my mouth. I absolutely did not say that the OP is not feeling that. Go through what I wrote again. You will see that I said that it's possible but not probable. If you want to quote me and say that I said something, please go through and use the quote function.
DD #2: EDD July 2016
I had to double-check which app I was on at first!
this conversation got me like
baroo?
@ButterMyBiscuit enter your "beating a dead horse" gif here.
Well, I mean, her username IS MrsBuzzKill666, so I wouldn't really expect anything less....
ps. I could do this all day
Actually I do. I'm a realist, I don't live in la la fantasy land. If this isn't what you are looking for. I hear babycenter might be more of your style.
Maybe try again to insult these lovely ladies, because that was a fail.