9 weeks pregnant and I can feel my baby moving.... AIBU/daft? is it gas? is it twins?

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i am currently 9 weeks along with my second child and i swear i have felt movement already and have been feeling it for two weeks. its light enough that only i can feel it and its normally when i'm laying down in bed at night, but having been through this before i know the difference between gas and a baby movement. It feels exactly like the first taps and flutters, and is in my pubic area.

Just felt it just now, sat down on the sofa and knocked back a cold pint of water (just finished big bike ride and am knackered. And then a minute later, movement down low on the left hand side above my public bone. Feeling like insistent wriggling. Like something trying to get comfy.

I've been feeling it since 7 weeks. First time in bed at night. Not sleeping well, so turned over in bed onto other side and straight away and wriggling against my pubic bone. Last night before I went to sleep I was just lying feeling it for half an hour or so.

I really don't think its gas, I know what gas feels like, and I'm not particularly gassy just now either. This gas would have to be vanishing inside me because it's not coming out, if you know what I mean.

Maybe I'm further along than I thought? Maybe i'm nuts? Maybe it's twins? (any twin mums have an opinion?) AIBU to think I've felt my baby from 7 weeks?

what is it then?

If it's not wind it's tiny muscle spasms - or you are further along than 9 weeks

I reckon you are further along than you think. I felt DS3 when i was 11 weeks but 7 weeks seems WAAY to early
congratulations and good luck!

Triplets ARE possible without fertility treatment You could have started off with 2 eggs and non identical twins - then one of those eggs could have split giving you triplets!
Or you could simply have produced 3 separate eggs.
Or 1 could could split 3 ways although that's much more unusual!

Congratulations on your pregnancy!

Nothing like what you're describing, more like a twinge and what I think is just gas!

Hi. With dd1 I felt the first movement at 19 weeks. With dd2 I felt it at 10 weeks. Definitely. My friend felt it at the same time with her ds2

I felt first movements at 12 weeks - like butterlies flittering. Maybe if you were very slim you might feel it earlier?

At 9 weeks the embryo does not even move yet so you can't be feeling movements regardless of one baby or a group of quads in there. You can't feel some thing thats not happened yet.

I didn't feel movements any earlier with my twins than with my other pgs.

I was convinced my 1st 2 pgs were twins (they weren't) and adamant that my 3rd pg wasn't twins (it was)

I defo felt my DD3 move at 9 weeks, such a lovely feeling and after having the DS1 and DD2 defo know it was movment I felt.

Congratulations by the way

very early in pregnancy what you can feel is like a butterfly feeling I think its the womb stretching

The baby moves from 8 weeks gestation. DOES THE FETUS BEGIN TO MOVE?

At 7 weeks the baby doesn't even have arms and legs so not likely to be kicking. Think you must be further along or have a case of killer wind
I def felt dd 2nd baby at 14 weeks, dh and I were arguing and she obviously got cross and booted me quite hard.

Miette's link also shows that an 8 week foetus is 1.5cm long. I'm not sure you could feel something that small move even if it did have limbs.

But it's not kicks, it's a vibrating wriggle. And it's happening once or chance a day. It's definatly not wind.

My dS's are 23 & 20 now, but I have felt gas / bowel glugging that feels exactly the same as what my babies first movements were since I had them and I haven't been pregnant for 20 years now.
Certainly didn't feel it at 9 weeks, maybe 18 weeks.

You wouldn't be feeling the baby move at this stage. They're just too small. Even if you were a few weeks out you would be quite unlikely too either.

Probably stretching as the others have mentioned. Or wind.

I felt my 1st at 17 weeks, 2nd at 14 weeks, 3rd at 14 weeks and 4th at 11 weeks. I had a scan at 9 weeks with my 3rd and it was a little wriggly baby with arms and legs and she was 'leaping', but I couldn't feel anything at all.

I had braxton hicks contractions from 10 weeks pregnant with my 4th, but my midwife insisted that it was impossible! I told her I must me a medical marvel then! My consultant told me I had an irritable uterus and it was indeed possible to feel these contractions very early on. Maybe this is what you can feel?

That's an interesting idea. I never had any braxton hicks with my first, so am not sure what they feel like. What do they feel like?

I've been lying here in bed for the last 20 minutes feeling the movements again. I'm lying on my left side, and I began by feeling it below my hip bone on the side I'm lying on, a wiggling feeling , almost feeling like a little heartbeat but not that rhythmic. It then moved position slightly towards somewhere inside above my vagina. It feels similar to the feeling I get in my vagina when I repeatedly squeeze my pelvis floor muscles , only further inside and not controlled by me. It feels like it's delegate to me, moving for it's own purpose. It's not gas, I know that for sure, it really isn't. It's amazing.

I can pretty much predict it now. Mostnights I'll wake about this time, need a wee and take a while to getback to sleep . Just been and drank a glass of cold water, come back to bed and am lying on my left hip again. And the same feeling, the same movement , wriggle, push, like a tiny little fish caught inside me. 10 weeks now.

So it's the baby then.

I don't see the point in you posting this thread if you've already made your mind up that it's your baby. I can't believe it myself, but if you say so then fair enough.

I had the same, my midwife said it could be the movements of uterus stretching as the baby will be too small to feel it moving. It did feel very similar to baby, so I agree it's difficult to say. Fooled me as well.

I'm just waffling really as I'm not saying anything topsoils in real life, as of ourselves they'll think I'm nuts. Not meaning to annoy anyone. I swing between thinking must be nuts too and thinking no, I know what I'm feeling. I've never been so interested in the status of the wind inside, and have been tracking every fart to see what it feels like and where.

Tis a bit weird, hope i'm not annoying anyone, but writing here helps and it's still good to see if anyone has any explanations. The braxton hicks idea for example. I never had them in my last pregnancy so am interested in how they feel.