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Anyone had weird movements? I mean rather than the usual kicks and punches?

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annaspanna · 15/01/2007 15:28

At 30 wks second pg but these movement i get are more like shudders or shivers. Like a spasm i could describe it as. I have normal kicks too but have these shudders several times a day. I haven't felt hiccups this time either. Anyone else?

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TrinityRhino · 15/01/2007 15:30

I have them too and weird sliding type feelings. I think the hiccup thing is different with every baby. My first hiccuped for england, second not as much at all and this one TONS

Ettenna · 15/01/2007 15:33

Yes I often get 'tremors' as well as kicks and squirms. New thing is feeling an elbow or knee slide all the way down one side - now that's weird!! I think any sort of movement is fine - it depends on size and position.

dassie · 15/01/2007 15:33

I have the weird spasm thing (I'm 30 weeks too) and not many kicks. Haven't felt hiccups.

Midwife said he was a dancer not a footballer

ProfYaffle · 15/01/2007 15:35

I get those too and Ettenna's slidy elbows and knees, especially weird when I'm resting my hand on my bump and can feel it on my hand as well as from the inside.

TheBlonde · 15/01/2007 15:37

Never felt hiccups myself
I'm 32 weeks with my 2nd and it mostly feels like a cat trapped in a small sack

annaspanna · 15/01/2007 15:38

Phew thanks girls. Been mithering about it for a while. First PG i got elows knees and alsorts from early on and hiccups all the time it seemed. The thing i'll never get used to is the scraping/puncturing feeling on the bladder thats happening as i type!!! PG1 became painful towards the end because of it!! Vile!!!

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SHHHH · 15/01/2007 20:54

I get the feelings and movements you have mentioned.
To look at my tummy when I getb these shudders its bizarre and like a shake... At 38 weeks I am still getting them along with what looks and feels like limbs and all sorts moving. TBH it can be quite uncomfortable. Im huge and thought movements became less towards the end .

Also get hiccups...same as with dd.

enrjones · 21/01/2007 02:44

any more news on the strange kicks? my wife also has them

WriggleJiggle · 21/01/2007 04:41

I had the whole range of movements already mentioned, plus it felt like hands running up and down, sort of like stroking/tickling. She was a little wriggler on the inside, and still continues to be one now - hence my name!

BrummieOnTheRun · 21/01/2007 12:56

I had those spasm-like shudders in my 1st pregnancy, and worried it was some kind of epilepsy in the baby! very silly, I know. Baby (now 3) was fine. Don't worry

lillaura · 21/01/2007 12:57

think its prob hiccups movements totally diff 4 me this time

sazzybee · 21/01/2007 13:04

I had a load of violent movement in the middle of the night a few weeks ago and then a shudder and then nothing. So I burst into tears, convinced something terrible had happened.

But he's fine. Now it feels like he's doing finger knitting in my cervix

margo1974 · 21/01/2007 13:16

We thought we could feel my dd2 breathing as we could feel a rhythmic up and down motion at the side of my tummy. When we said that to the MW when I was in labour she gave me the "I've got a pair of really stupid people here" and said that they do not breathe until they are born. Ok, she wasn't breathing but she was doing something and my DH felt it too. It was so strange.

my 2nd moved a lot more than my first (both girl)

SpaceCadet · 21/01/2007 13:36

when preg with my ds 2 I had such bizarre movements that i was frequently in tears thinking something dreadful had haopened!
one evening when I was 33, it suddenly felt as if he had gone into a major spasm, then something(a foot, hand poss), shot across the front of my bump!!, I nearly flew out of my chair! he also managed to kick me viloently, as he was being born!( a protest possibly??)
also I used to feel the breathing movements, its normal, unborn babaiesdo practise "breathing" in the womb, it shows up on US.

SpaceCadet · 21/01/2007 13:37

grr, dreadful spelling, meant to put violently

lillaura · 21/01/2007 13:38

well done space cadet, there you go margo another one to the mums 0 to the kranky mw

Tommy · 21/01/2007 13:40

I'm quite sure mine has his/her fingers wriggling around at the top of my fanny - trying to find their way out?!

lillaura · 21/01/2007 13:43

lol know that one the squeezing of the bladder pinch of the lovebox and using your ribs as monkey bars

annaspanna · 21/01/2007 14:18

Well my mind has certainly been put at rest that it's normal to have spasms/shudders. The hiccupps have started several times a day now as well. This baby definately not as violent as DS. He would kick so hard I'd gasp loudly in shock and scrape my bits like he had a flick knife on the go!! I've never felt the kicks in the ribs thing though either last time or this.

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lillaura · 21/01/2007 14:41

well with my last it was completlty diff than this time , ds was very active had the same with shouting with shock nearly every day , ds in tum is a lot more placid and content in there, i swore that ds was doing star jumps - saying that only 6 months gone so plenty of time for things to change

tidyjane · 21/01/2007 20:31

I'm also 30 weeks pg with second baby and get the "shudder" thing which worried me at first until I read a thread on here that said I wasn't alone.
This one is extremely active, and seems to be so strong I'm convinced it's a boy.
I get kicked or punched in the ribs and really low down as well.
Doesn't seem to sleep much.
I wonder if we feel movements more with the second pregnancy then.

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