Movements in stomach!

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Regular poster, but changed my name because this sounds so stupid!

I'm having feelings of movement in my stomach, and it feels just like when I was pregnant and my baby started kicking. I can actually see my stomach move. I've never had this before, but for the last two weeks it's been almost constant.

I don't have a tummy upset, I haven't got wind, indigestion, constipation or diarrhoea, and I can't think of anything that would make my tummy move like this other than pregnancy - but I'm not pregnant.

Don't know what this could be, maybe wind!

I haven't got wind, though.

i have that. feels exactly like a baby kicking. i also had chest pains and my gp said he'd give me some pills to rule out the pains were stomach related. they were, as the chest pains stopped and the movement feeling went. i am now constantly hungry with the pills though.
hth at all

Wow, did he tell you what the stomach problem was caused by?

I "feel" baby movements all the time and I haven't been pg for nearly 2.5 years! Not sure about actually seeing your stomach move though.

Phantom kicks?

You aren't the only one, though I don't think we ever agreed on the cause!

DD is four though, so I wouldn't have thought I'd be getting those phantom kicks now!

Although it does sound as if it's more common than I thought, so perhaps nothing to worry about!

no, he said to come back after taking the pills for a month, which will be in a few days. my guess would be that my stomach was a bit slow, iykwim. i'll let you know what he says if you like. i didn't have any other stomach problems (wind, pains, heartburn, indigestion...).

Get it all the time. Maybe you only really notice it after youve had kids because of what it feels like. (My friends have experienced it too)

Yes I get this too. I even started a thread about it too.

Weird isn't it. I even took a PG test once cause I was so convinced it was a baby kicking.

It's weird - and I'm surprised how common it seems to be. No-one tells you about this, do they!

wow, thats quite wired. i also get this feelinh, manly in the evening when i sit down and chill
and its only been in the last 2.5 yrs since ds was born.
i though i was going mad...

Yes I get this too (ds3 is 2), I always just thought it was intestinal contractions... probably had them always but didnt relate to a baby before I knew what a baby felt like iykwim? Also, stomach muscles are somewhat slacker than they were, unfortunately!

gosh I get these too, always thought I must be imagining it. Feels just like baby movements.

i get this and my neighbour said she does too, which was when i breathed a sigh of relief to know i wasn't actually going mental.

so what is it do you think?

If you're quite slim and lying flat sometimes you can see your aorta pulsating in your abdomen. Perhaps that's what it is.

Nope, I'm not at all slim, and it happens whether I'm sitting up or lying down - in different places across my stomach too, not just in the one place.

It's surprisingly reassuring to find that so many others have this too - I thought I must be odd!

emeraldefmach what is this aorta thing? I am slim, and when I go to bed at night I get this strange sensation in my abdomen, lower right hand side and it moves and pulsates. It's been worrying me, was about to go to my GP.

Please explain.

I know what this is!!
Its a main blood vessel that you are feeling pumping the blood around, you are more aware of it after you have had a baby because you have got used to a baby kicking in there.

But my strange feeling is different to my phantom kicking feeling. My strange feeling only occurs when laying down and I can see it moving and rising.