@mommywesley right here! i've gone a day or two without feeling the baby move, and then out of nowhere it hits again. in the afternoon if I eat a snack and pay attention while at my desk, I'll feel it. sometimes it's just a kick here or there and if I wasn't paying attention, I never would've noticed it. i bet you are so busy with your other kiddos that this one is kicking up a storm and you're either missing it, or when you're trying to notice it is nap time for baby. I did some Dr. Googling and read it is totally normal when they are this little to feel some days and not others.
I figured with the 4 boys keeping me busy I'd miss it, but weeks? Days I get, but 3 weeks has me a tad concerned :-( but I'm sure it's fine and just missing it.
I started really feeling baby around 14 weeks and then just this weekend I realized I hadn't felt it much and I kind of panicked, considered calling the health link line that we have here, but then Sunday night baby started going crazy!!! And now at 17 weeks 2 days I am 78% sure I can feel it on the outside! Last night at work I had a glass of Dr Pepper and it was probably like crack for the baby, it didn't calm down until 3 am!
I've had this feeling that's kind of like when you eye twitches. Is that what you all mean by pulsing/fluttering? The only thing is that I'm only 13 weeks and so I know baby is still supposed to be pretty low down there. The twitchy is a little above where I thought the tapeworm would be. Maybe just a muscle being weird?
Baby had been busy for the last 2 weeks (17weeks with #4) I have always felt my babies fairly early. It started out as small bubbles, kind of like pop rocks in your stomach. Now baby is doing barrel rolls all day long. I had a cup of chai tea the other day and baby must have been practicing for the Olympics in there!
During my ultrasound earlier today I watched Cletus the fetus kicking and punching me and I didn't feel squat but I realized he was hitting my placenta. Ugh. What's the point of having a posterior placenta if he's just going to punch there any way.
Yesterday(17wks 3d) in the middle of some alone time with DH, I felt the strongest thump and looked down to see an actual visible bump, hard as a rock on the right side. I didn't think baby should be strong enough to do something like that, but I don't know what else it could have been!
Definitely could be @bajdesigns. I'm just 18 weeks today and my husband is able to feel baby from the outside if baby is in the right position and if he or she kicks hard enough. I was shocked by this. I thought for sure it would be several more weeks, if not more before, he could feel it from the outside. I am pretty convinced now though. The movements are very distinct and stronger (or at least I notice more) at night when I am laying down or after I eat something sweet or drink something cold. Last night I had a piece of cake from a birth celebration and a few minutes later is when my husband could feel the distinct movement 3 or 4 times before it stopped.
Just in case anybody is wondering about this or is in a similar situation... sometimes when you feel the baby move and then don't feel it move for a day or two, it's because their back is faced towards your front and the arms and legs are towards your back. They're still so small, that in this direction, you won't feel them as much. I felt constant movement and then it stopped, which was worrying, but then I learned this from Dr. Google. After doing my baby's sex ultrasound, it was clear that he was just chillin' with his bum at us and his arms/legs away, so it all made sense. He looked pretty comfy in there, so I don't blame him for his new position of choice.
We had an ultrasound yesterday and the baby is chilling straight upside down, arms and legs spread wide (making placenta angels perhaps). It explained why the movement has been so sporadic at times. And now I understand why I can feel kicks in my upper left abdomen and then my lower right abdomen seconds apart. I'm glad the little peanut is comfortable though!
16 weeks and I also don't feel a thing yet! At night, and now more often during the day, I touch my stomach (right underneath my belly button) and it's as hard as a rock. It's comforting to know that even though I don't have much of a bump, baby is slowly rising up in there! Can't wait for my next ultrasound!
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For those who are feeling regular kicks already, are they kind of staying in the same area? My first experience with them was on my right side but for about a week now, it's been strictly on my left side, about an inch south of my belly button. It makes me feel a little sad for him in a dumb kind of way like "aw, he's stuck with his head on the right and his legs on the left all the time."
Okay, so I don't know if this belongs here because I didn't technically feel baby kick, I think I felt baby!
I was laying down and I felt something really hard on my stomach, size of a golf ball just to the right of my belly button. I am laying there, it moves to just below my belly button and then disappears. Then s few minutes later I felt what felt like a small pickle (maybe back?). I didn't really feel it move within my body, just felt it move on the outside. Am I crazy? Anyone else felt this?
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I'm 16 weeks today and I SWEAR I felt the baby while driving to work today. It was consistently in the same spot- little fluttery twitchy things. I'm going to keep trying to pay attention, but from what you all have described it sounds like it might be it!!
@AmRe214 you are not crazy - I'm the exact same way. Never feel him moving - just feel the pressure that results from him ending up balled up somewhere. I have possibly felt a few timing pops that could be him kicking or punching but at my last ultrasound he was using my placenta as a punching bag so no wonder I can't feel it!
@canavara yes. I feel them on my left side mostly.
This is bizarre to me. I'm only 17+ weeks, and this baby is consistently kicking at least twice/day. I feel her on the outside. Which is amazing. Dd1 was a TERRIBLE kicker. I can't tell you how many kick counts that girl failed or how many emergency NSTs I needed. The theme of the the third trimester was "give mom a heart attack". I was eventually induced at 40+4 because she was so sluggish.
I'm pretty sure that I've felt movement now. I'm 18 + 5. Last week I thought I felt something turning in there, but wasn't sure. This week when I lay on my side I feel a fluttery, vibrating pulsing that lasts for like 30 seconds or so. That has to be the baby! It's not like I thought it would be, but it's cool! Excited to feel some kicks though!
I'm 17w4d I am definitely feeling baby and now that I am confidant what it is I have been since three weeks ago at 14w - it's definitely not what I expected. I don't feel flutters or roller coaster type feelings - I just feel pressure from him balling up in one area - but I decided that counts because it's a result of baby moving.
ANTERIOR PLACENTA LADIES: Question! If you're a STM and the first time you had an anterior placenta, or if you are a FTM mom now and have one AND are feeling the baby move...does it feel like the other ladies are describing, like flutters or butterflies, or is it more like tiny gas bubbles centrally located or like tiny little thumps? I know baby would be kicking the placenta and not my abdomen, so I'm wondering if I can feel it, but it just feels different. SOMEtimes I can feel something really tiny in there, like popping bubbles or something, but down where my ute would be, and doesn't last long. It's possible it IS gas, especially if I have an anterior placenta, but curious if maybe it would feel different for me. I was really disappointed that my placenta is anterior, because I just cannot wait to feel it.
@sweetyjenj FTM anterior placenta here, no flutters or butterflies whatsoever. Just kicks. Little gas bubbles or thumps. They've grown increasingly stronger and more frequent in the past 2 weeks but at first it was like a popcorn kernel popping sporadically... and then I wouldn't feel anything for a couple of days. Now it feels like someone is flicking me with their fingers from the inside and it happens several times a day. I always feel it off to the left. Apparently my placenta is on the right so I never feel it on that side You're about as far along as I was when I first started feeling the kicks, so I'm guessing you probably are really feeling the baby.
I don't know if my placenta is anterior, but I've never felt butterflies, roller coaster, fluttering or tickling. A few weeks ago it started as totally random bubbles or pulsing and was incredibly sporadic. Now I feel it more like thuds and multiple times a day usually. Basically exactly what @canavara said. I go for my AS at 21 weeks (approx. 2 weeks from now) so I'll let you know about my placenta placement after that, but I suspect you'll already be sure you're feeling baby by then
@canavara@LoneStar21416 thanks for sharing!! I know what gas bubbles are like, so I do think what I described above are different. It's good to know that there's a good chance it is the baby! I feel like usually tiny gas bubbles you can tell are moving through the abdomen, but only a few times now I've felt the little popping sensation and it's in one spot, usually the same spot every time I've felt it. Maybe I really will feel baby get stronger and kicking much sooner than expected!!! Hopefully in the next few weeks it'll start to kick in a way that I'll know for sure it's baby
Yes I have felt the baby move. It started two weeks ago I believe but not a lot. Definitely mostly in the evening. I had a baby last year and so comparing to how I felt at this stage last time, he doesn't really brutalize me...at least not this early. There is still time
Almost 18 weeks and I for sure felt the baby move on Sunday! So crazy! I was standing in the water at the beach and it was a little chilly and I could feel the baby flipping around in there, craziest thing ever. Guess he isn't a fan of cold water
So are the bubbles/ popcorn actually movement? It feels so strange and I never noticed it with my first 2 pregnancies. I'm just wondering what type of movement would cause such a strange sensation.
16+1 here, 3rd time mom, and I've suspected I felt the baby a couple times, but nothing consistent or super discernible yet. I chalk it partly up to the fact that I'm constantly chasing after my two DD's and not sitting still much.
I think I felt the little flutters today while I was eating lunch. It happened a couple of times, and it actually tickled! I was sitting there at my desk eating and giggling to myself, and I might've gotten a few weird looks. I guess I'm still not 100% positive if it was baby, but if it was gas, it was some pretty weird gas.
I think I might have felt something these past couple days.. Ftm 16+5, it was kind of a popping feeling. Yesterday it was on my far left side and today just off to the right in the middle. Who knows it could have been anything but its fun to think maybe it's kicks!
I am 17w3d and I feel like I am harboring an acrobat. I feel rolls, kicks, and punches, and I fear for what's to come these next five months! Yesterday when I woke up the left side of my abdomen was super hard. After brushing my teeth the baby must have rolled over because my belly was soft again but my lower abdomen was hard. I feel most of the movement after I eat. It fuels the acrobatics.
I love reading about everyone's experiences of baby's movements! Yesterday after talking to my nurse, I am now pretty sure that what I've been feeling for a few days is probably movement. It's not a frequent occurrence (I'm only 16 weeks), but I feel a fluttery/twitchy sensation in my tummy after sneezing, and sometimes when I'm lying in bed as I wake up in the morning. Sneezing just got a lot more fun!
@sweetyjenj my daughter had an anterior placenta and this baby does not. With dd1 I felt "movement" super early, but it was lots of nauseating swirling and popcorn popping sensations. With this baby, I also felt movement early, but the feeling is actual limbs kicking me, and I can feel them on the outside and so can my husband. With dd1, nobody felt any movement until 28 weeks.
@The_A_Team I have seasonal allergies and this year they've been much more fun!
@ThePax89 My A/S showed I had a very high anterior placenta, but I've been feeling movement since 16 weeks. I've only felt actual limb pokes once or twice, but everything I feel is way down low. It's so interesting how things can be so different between pregnancies/people!
This baby gets cranky when DH tries to cuddle with me lol. He was spooning me in bed last night with his arm over my belly and he could actually feel the pushes on his arm at 17+2. He lifted his arm and baby settled right down, it went on for almost a half hour. DD never seemed to object to him touching me but I had a friend who had a baby that hated when someone else touched her belly too. So funny how these babies have such big personalities already.
I'm starting to feel his kicks in places it seems like I shouldn't feel them. And both OH and I can feel it from the outside... I don't know if it was just because I was curled up or something but I felt a really swift kick about 2 inches below my ribs this morning. Kind of surreal. It's pretty clear where my placenta is based on where the kicks happen. I feel it all over the left side and then kind of low on the right side but nowhere in the middle of the right.
I'm 19+2 and feel the baby move at least twice a day. She's super active and I feel her pretty much the same amount as I did with DD1. I'm not a huge fan of the feeling kicking and shaking because when I was in 3rd tri with DD1 I'd get motion sick from her moving so much. However, my PGAL brain loves feeling her move
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Yesterday(17wks 3d) in the middle of some alone time with DH, I felt the strongest thump and looked down to see an actual visible bump, hard as a rock on the right side. I didn't think baby should be strong enough to do something like that, but I don't know what else it could have been!
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I was laying down and I felt something really hard on my stomach, size of a golf ball just to the right of my belly button. I am laying there, it moves to just below my belly button and then disappears. Then s few minutes later I felt what felt like a small pickle (maybe back?). I didn't really feel it move within my body, just felt it move on the outside. Am I crazy? Anyone else felt this?
btw - I am very thin, before I was pregnant I was a runner.
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Indeterminant levels of APS IgM antibodies (baby aspirin)
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This is bizarre to me. I'm only 17+ weeks, and this baby is consistently kicking at least twice/day. I feel her on the outside. Which is amazing. Dd1 was a TERRIBLE kicker. I can't tell you how many kick counts that girl failed or how many emergency NSTs I needed. The theme of the the third trimester was "give mom a heart attack". I was eventually induced at 40+4 because she was so sluggish.
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I had a baby last year and so comparing to how I felt at this stage last time, he doesn't really brutalize me...at least not this early. There is still time
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@ThePax89 My A/S showed I had a very high anterior placenta, but I've been feeling movement since 16 weeks. I've only felt actual limb pokes once or twice, but everything I feel is way down low. It's so interesting how things can be so different between pregnancies/people!
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