Baby kicks or wind?

[NichyNoo]

I am 19+4 and am not sure if I am feeling the baby kicking or am having some weird, new type of wind

I am slim and barely have a baby bump (only really noticeable when I'm naked or at the end of the day). For the past 2 weeks or so my tummy seems to be going crazy. When I sit down at work or lie down in the evening lots of big bubbles seem to explode in my tummy. Not always in the same place - rather all over the front of my tummy and in very quick bursts (surely baby can't be that big to be able to reach all across my tummy?). They are so strong that you can sometimes see my tummy twitching up and down.

When I read about what the first kicks feel like it seems like it should be flutterings or a gentle whooshing feeling. My twitches/bubbles are very strong (almost violent) and so I think it might be wind (maybe my guts have been pushed forward by the womb and are now right at the front of my belly?)

I know that none of you can say for definite what it is but I wondered if this sounds normal??

I have my 20 week scan in the coming days so will ask then but wanted to get some idea from you all before making a fool of myself in front of the doctor!

Thank you!

[EmmaBemma]

With both of my pregnancies, the earliest kicks have been virtually indistinguishable from a brewing fart (sorry!), if that's what you mean by wind. If the sensations weren't followed by a fart, then I knew they were the baby. As she's got bigger, the difference has got more pronounced and there's no way I'd mistake them now! But I never got any flutterings or gentle whooshings.

If you're 19+4 the top of your uterus will be nearly at a level with your belly button so it sounds like it could well be the baby. Good luck for your scan.

[lovelymama]

Couldn't have said it better myself EmmaBemma!

NichyNoo - I'm nearly the same stage as you with baby number 2 and I still can't identify whether I'm having little kicks or wind. Within about 3 weeks you'll know for sure if it's kicks because they'll be a lot stronger.

And don't worry about making a fool of yourself in front of the doctor - you'll be about the millionth woman to be confused about this!

[NichyNoo]

Thanks ladies - I guess it feels a bit like a fart brewing (love the analogy BTW) but more like lots of little volcanoes erupting in my stomach.

Will ask doctor tomorrow!

[missedith01]

Sounds like kicks to me ... they do start off quite gently. In the beginning mine were like a small mouse trying to find its way out of my colon.

I now get three types (1) thumping or kicking or head-banging movements which might give a temporary bulge, (2) side to side or up and down movements which give a series of lumps rippling across my abdomen, and (3) huge movements which feel like a minor explosive going off in there and the whole bump moves. I'm 39 weeks now but it's been happening and gradually increasing in intensity since about 20 weeks.

If it feels too weird, we did find that when my partner rushes over and puts a hand on the bump it all magically stops ... for weeks he thought I was making it up .

[Jacksmybaby]

Last time round I had a sort of twitch right up at the top of my bump, which I assumed was the baby. Was so freaked out after DS was born as the twitch continued! Obviously it was something else e.g. a trapped nerve, I suppose. He was also 5 weeks early and delivered by emergency c section in a very short space of time, so the twitching just added to the bizarre feeling that I was still pregnant and they had made a mistake and he hadn't actually arrived - or else that I must be having twins and there was one still in there!

[marmitelover]

NichyNoo - I'm 20 weeks and if one more person asks if I have felt any kicks and then looks slightly symapthetically at me I'm going to scream! I can't tell if it's the baby or just general tummy gurglings and it's my first one so don't know what to expect it to feel like.

EmmaBemma - love the fart brewing analogy