The kicks to the front feel like something is poking me from the inside, or if it's turning it feels like a slippery fish writhing about in there. But the ones on the backside of my uterus definitely feel like big bubble sensations on my viscera, so yes, apt description.
Although the amount of movement that is present in every ultrasound seems like a lot compared to what I actually feel. Hopefully it gets more consistent as time goes on.
Last night, while baby was moving around, I felt a single sharp pain just to the right of my belly button. I don't know what she kicked, but I hope she doesn't do it again!
I've been feeling more movement too - mainly in the evening. And sometimes they feel like bubbles - I guess that's when he's rolling around? Most of the time they just feel like pokes from the inside like @neeraja_k mentioned.
Also feeling more pokes and bubbles! That is a perfect way to describe them. That is how DS started out, too, around this same time. I don't think I felt real, hard kicks until closer to 22/23 weeks. He is most active in the morning (like right now) and then at night. I forgot how much I missed those baby kicks!
I haven't felt anything like real kicks yet at 23+3, but I feel a general squirming especially when I roll from one side to the other. Bubbles is probably close to the sensation I feel.
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So in the midst of my caffeine induced insomnia last night, I have discovered that kicks to my cervix feel like I've got a vagina full of air. Talk about frustratingly uncomfortable!
I just posted about this in the Friday Check-In, but I thought I'd ask the wider group: Has anyone had an experience with too much amniotic fluid?
I had my follow up scan yesterday, and although they got the picture they needed and it looked fine, they measured me right at the cutoff for excess fluid. It sounds like it could be any number of things, with the worst being a chromosomal problem with the baby that causes her to not process the fluid the way she's supposed to, and the best being just a fluke measurement and everything is fine. Since the baby looks fine, it's more likely that the excess fluid is a symptom of gestational diabetes, or that there's extra for no real reason. I'm going back in 5 weeks for another scan, and I'm supposed to make sure that I do the GD test before then so we know if that's a part of it. I guess even if it's happening for no reason, it still needs to be carefully monitored, as the excess fluid can cause lots of other problems.
@jsnakehole do you know where your placenta is? Mine is anterior (front) this time and makes the kicks feel more bubbly than kick-y. Anyone else notice difference movement sensation with front placenta?
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@Secretstapler my friend had this and it was just a random thing they discovered near the end of her pregnancy (32ish weeks I think). The only problem it caused is that her baby kept flipping around because he had quite a bit of “room” I guess you’d say. He was changing positions completely right up until 40 weeks, which her dr said they don’t normally see in first pregnancies (more like 5th or 6th child). The only “intervention” she had was having to be induced while they caught him head down at her last appt. She ended up with a c section but it was due to the induction, not fluid.
@shri929 I have an anterior placenta too. I've only had a few kicks that really felt like a thump, and those were only when I was laying on my side.
After a few very active days, I've felt fewer kicks the past two days. According to TB, he's hitting the point where he's sleeping more so I'm trying not to freak out about it. I feel like the fact that I feel something is good enough. Anyone else have experience with this?
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@jsnakehole I’ve got the same experience, baby is super active for a day then pretty mellow for a day or 2 after. I also have an anterior placenta so my strongest kicks are lower on either side of my belly. That could be why you feel baby more when you lay on your side? Baby shifts to one side and your placenta stays in the center so baby kicks are felt more. Never a bad idea to Call your OB though if you’re worried about decreased movement.
@Secretstapler Good luck on your GD test! I hope it’s nothing! Keep us posted
@jsnakehole Yeah, I've noticed it'll really kick up a storm for an entire day/night and then the next day or two it's been less movement. At first I thought it was connected to my sporadic caffeine consumption, but it wasn't, it seems more or less random.
But guaranteed, if I put my husband's hand on my belly so he can feel it kickboxing in there...it'll stop kicking immediately. Every damn time.
@jsnakehole definitely comes and goes, I think when changing his position that affects it. Plus they tend to be less active the more active you are because your movements rock them to sleep.
@Secretstapler no experience, but I hope it’s nothing serious!
I have a question. If your baby is breech, how do they even know? I’ve heard of baby mapping, but it isn’t a science. If you don’t have any US past he AS, how do you know they are head down? DS was head down the whole time, and we had extra ultrasounds because of soft markers on the AS, but this time I don’t expect to have another! And he wasn’t head down at the anatomy scan, which I know is early, but I’m kind of nervous he won’t go into the right position.
@jsnakehole@mrsbubbles-2 I’m actually pretty bummed about the anterior placenta, this is annoying. I feel exactly what you’re describing jsnakehole so makes me feel better that it’s “normal” but kinda stinks knowing I felt much more with my son this point in time with posterior. My friend who is 38 weeks pregnant with an anterior placenta said she felt much more activity towards 25+ weeks so, soon hopefully! @lalala2004 I remember at the end of my pregnancy with my son the dr would be able to determine his position touching my belly! It was pretty neat. I now wonder about that with anterior placenta, assuming that’ll be more difficult. The dr was able to identify the head and bottom from touching the outside of my stomach
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@lalala2004 an experienced provider should be able to tell by feeling bc your belly - well feeling the baby lumps, esp head etc. plus the location of heartbeat. You can figure it out too by where you feel kicks (and I can usually feel smaller movements later on that I attribute to arms and hands).
I knew from my us that she was breech which fitbwirg the kicks- suuuper low and like , behind, like toward my back. Lately I’m feeling her kid go mire up high on my right side, my normal kick spot so I assume she’s hanging out head down more.
@lalala2004 WSS^ and also where you're feeling movement can't also help determine how baby is positioned. My doula gave me a chart where you found where you are feeling kicks corrospnded to how baby is positioned.
I thought DD was breech for while because some part of her body was lodged under my ribs and would not move out from under there. I thought it was her head because I couldn't gently push it out. Turns out it was just her giant feet and she was stubborn!
With DS, my midwife and I were both pretty sure of his position for the last several weeks based on what we could feel from the outside. Plus, he got hiccups a lot, and they were always super low. But either way, when they checked me into Labor and Delivery, they did a quick ultrasound to confirm he was head down.
I'm actually surprised to hear people talking about position at this point. My baby was literally doing flips during the anatomy scan. I thought it was way too early to start worrying about which way they're pointing, since they will still have plenty of room to move around for a while. I just assumed that they were potentially changing position several times a day. But now that I think about it, I actually have no idea when you are supposed to start worrying about it.
I’m not worried about it yet, but I ALWAYS felt kicks in the same place before and lately itcswitchsd. Babies def move around now but my feeling was that she was ‘mostly’ hanging out one way, and that seems to have changed. Mostly just interesting not concerning nor is it time to assume they will stay put. I think 28-32 they want baby to start to get in the right spot, I forget which week but they start to run out of space. Not too far off really for the early aug edds!
Speaking of position and movement, think I just felt hiccups. I'm 21+4, laying on my side, and on the side closest to the bed, it felt like a muscle twitching. It took me a minute or so to realize it might be hiccups, but where her head would have been would make her be laying sideways in there. Weeeird. Anyone else getting hiccups yet? I'm a fan if that's what it was.
Yeah, now that I think about it, I remember during a cervical check my doctor said she could feel his his head right there. I forgot about that!
@Secretstapler I know it’s way early to worry about positioning. But like I said, my son was head down the whole time in my first pregnancy. Movement didn’t change much at all the whole time. So I just took for granted how they even knew, otherwise, since his head was always right there!
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Although the amount of movement that is present in every ultrasound seems like a lot compared to what I actually feel. Hopefully it gets more consistent as time goes on.
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I had my follow up scan yesterday, and although they got the picture they needed and it looked fine, they measured me right at the cutoff for excess fluid. It sounds like it could be any number of things, with the worst being a chromosomal problem with the baby that causes her to not process the fluid the way she's supposed to, and the best being just a fluke measurement and everything is fine. Since the baby looks fine, it's more likely that the excess fluid is a symptom of gestational diabetes, or that there's extra for no real reason. I'm going back in 5 weeks for another scan, and I'm supposed to make sure that I do the GD test before then so we know if that's a part of it. I guess even if it's happening for no reason, it still needs to be carefully monitored, as the excess fluid can cause lots of other problems.
After a few very active days, I've felt fewer kicks the past two days. According to TB, he's hitting the point where he's sleeping more so I'm trying not to freak out about it. I feel like the fact that I feel something is good enough. Anyone else have experience with this?
Married: 6/2016
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@Secretstapler Good luck on your GD test! I hope it’s nothing! Keep us posted
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But guaranteed, if I put my husband's hand on my belly so he can feel it kickboxing in there...it'll stop kicking immediately. Every damn time.
goes, I think when changing his position that affects it. Plus they tend to be less active the more active you are because your movements rock them to sleep.
@Secretstapler no experience, but I hope it’s nothing serious!
I have a question. If your baby is breech, how do they even know? I’ve heard of baby mapping, but it isn’t a science. If you don’t have any US past he AS, how do you know they are head down? DS was head down the whole time, and we had extra ultrasounds because of soft markers on the AS, but this time I don’t expect to have another! And he wasn’t head down at the anatomy scan, which I know is early, but I’m kind of nervous he won’t go into the right position.
@lalala2004 I remember at the end of my pregnancy with my son the dr would be able to determine his position touching my belly! It was pretty neat. I now wonder about that with anterior placenta, assuming that’ll be more difficult. The dr was able to identify the head and bottom from touching the outside of my stomach
I knew from my us that she was breech which fitbwirg the kicks- suuuper low and like , behind, like toward my back. Lately I’m feeling her kid go mire up high on my right side, my normal kick spot so I assume she’s hanging out head down more.
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I thought DD was breech for while because some part of her body was lodged under my ribs and would not move out from under there. I thought it was her head because I couldn't gently push it out. Turns out it was just her giant feet and she was stubborn!
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I'm actually surprised to hear people talking about position at this point. My baby was literally doing flips during the anatomy scan. I thought it was way too early to start worrying about which way they're pointing, since they will still have plenty of room to move around for a while. I just assumed that they were potentially changing position several times a day. But now that I think about it, I actually have no idea when you are supposed to start worrying about it.
11/18/16 missed m/c 9w1
08/03/17 no hb 8w
@Secretstapler I know it’s way early to worry about positioning. But like I said, my son was head down the whole time in my first pregnancy. Movement didn’t change much at all the whole time. So I just took for granted how they even knew, otherwise, since his head was always right there!