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

[ditziness]

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?

To people not topsoils! Damn you auto correct!

Please don't be scared or upset, but it could be a fibroid external to the uterus. I have one that i could feel moving from about 7w. I didn't know what it was until my first scan at 11w, I just accepted this movement as a normal part of pregnancy. Discovering what it was was a big shock!

The fact that you always have the sensations on the same side suggest to me that you may have one, too, and that its movement may be causing it to nudge nerves or ligaments.

Like I said, please don't let this worry you. My fibroid was very big - bigger than the uterus until about 13w, and swung around my abdomen willy-nilly between about 7 and 20w, yet caused absolutely no damage to my body nor to the pregnancy - all were normal, term, SVD, and large healthy babies.

I would mention it at the scan, so that the sonographer can check what it is.

Aha! That might make sense as I had a fibroid in my last pregnancy! Maybe it's got larger. Thank you so much! I'm definitely going to mention it now to midwife and sonographer. :-)

Thanks so much pretty candles, I'll bet that is totally what it is! Notquite as special, but definitely less weird and makes more sense. The fibroid didn't cause any complications last time apart from a pph but I wonder if it's much bigger now, especially as I'm showing already. Ooh slightly worrying, but very good too to know. Thank you!

When's your scan ditziness ?

8th November. Ooh I hope it's ok. Half relieved and half worried now. Atleast it's an explanation that could make sense tho, as I know it's not wind or stretching feelings as they feel totally different. I wonder whether I should try and get an earlier scan?

Couldn't hurt to ask? Especially as you now have an idea of what it could be?
Do you have a drop in EPU or do you need a referral from your doctor?

could be a fibroid being stretched

could be the Round Ligament being pulled and resettling

deffo not baby, unless your dates are wrong

congrats anyway...very exciting

Found a site that says it would be 2.3 cms long and weigh less than 2g so you wouldn't really expect to feel it moving.

I have just remembered something

I saw the doc once in early pg complaining of funny "vibrations" very low down...he confirmed it was the Round Ligament stretching

later in, it progressed to "electric shock" type feelings...no baby on this earth could cause those

I can feel a "baby" moving. I am not even pregnant.

I gather it is just normal "body stuff" and trapped wind and what not going on, but as I have been pregnant twice before I am more aware of the sensations.

quint, that is called a poo

HTH

nah, dont have any of those that far up, nearly at bosom level!

bosom level ?

erm, that might be a baby

I must have evolved.

I am carrying a superhuman who takes a few years to gestate, and grows very slowly. Yep, thats it.

< awe >

I could feel ds2 from 10 weeks... I was told it was nonsense too! :)

I’m currently 9 weeks pregnant with my second and have felt the same!! deffo bigger than the size of a baked bean as I’ve seen someone say in here lol….

Congrats on the pregnancy

Not sure why you felt the need to resurrect a 12 year old thread 😂

Lol excuse me? Felt the need…. It came up when I search something similar, saw the thread and commented as that’s what you do on this site but okay… how rude!