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Can you describe how first baby movements feel?

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BPrincess · 03/02/2011 19:34

I'd been pondering this one for the last few weeks, and it is such a strange sensation....

I'd head it was like a butterfly or indigestion or bubbles, but that just didn't seem to describe it to me. I think I've cracked it, though! If you've ever held a weeny frog in your hands, you'll know what I mean - it's like when that frog jumps. Kind of soft and jumpy, not like a cricket or a grasshopper, but a soft baby frog!

Or perhaps a little fish, flipping over.

Am I going insane or does anyone else agree?!!

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Flisspaps · 03/02/2011 19:34

Like popcorn

littlebylittle · 03/02/2011 19:36

Best description ever!

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BPrincess · 03/02/2011 20:21

What does everyone else think? Would love to hear if we all feel it differently...

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lurcherlover · 03/02/2011 20:23

I didn't feel the bubbles - the first movements I ever felt were two definite little kicks at 19 weeks. I had an anterior placenta though, so that possibly masked the bubbly stage!

YankNCock · 03/02/2011 20:24

It reminded me of going fishing with my dad. We'd get a styrofoam container of worms for bait, and when you held it and were really still, you could feel the sensation of something moving/wiggling inside.

The frog thing works for me too though!

MatNat · 03/02/2011 20:25

Yeah I definately got the little bubble sensation with all 3 of my ds, one of the best feelings in the world!!!

WoTmania · 03/02/2011 20:28

I found it like a twitchey muscle.

LeBongers · 03/02/2011 20:30

Butterflies

Panzee · 03/02/2011 20:30

I thought it felt like someone flicking the inside of my abdomen. I would come home from work, go and lie on my bed and feel it. :)

MotherJack · 03/02/2011 20:32

It felt like trapped wind.

(Can you tell I haven't been pregnant for over 6 years? )

ivykaty44 · 03/02/2011 20:32

floating at first but by the end like the exosist woman doing a spinning head in my between my pelvis

tigerbear · 03/02/2011 20:34

Totally agree with Flisspaps - definitely like popcorn popping!

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BPrincess · 03/02/2011 21:04

Yeah, the twitchy muscle thing, too. Like when you've got a jumpy muscle near your eye when you're tired...

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LittleMilla · 03/02/2011 21:08

Ha ha - laughing a lot at the frog analogy. Love it.

At first it was a feeling of a wind bubble in my tum...but then no guff would come out.

Now (at 28 weeks) it feels like I have a real baby in my tum wriggling, kicking, punching and generally making me smile by reminding me that it's there!

LOVE it x

JBrd · 03/02/2011 21:15

Twitchy muscle feeling for me, too! Took me a while to realise what it really was...

jaggythistle · 03/02/2011 21:16

twitchy muscle here too. :)

GeekLove · 03/02/2011 21:17

Wind but without the agony

davidtennantsmistress · 03/02/2011 21:22

you know that thing you get when you have a rush of blood to your eye and it flickers - like that. can't wait for hopefully only a few more weeks before I feel DC2 moving about. :)

Laura05 · 03/02/2011 21:28

When did u all start feeling movement?

lilly13 · 03/02/2011 21:30

like bubbles in the stomach...

BurnAfterReading · 03/02/2011 21:33

Beautiful thread, I'm feeling emotional and I miss feeling my baby inside me, then again nothing can beat having her in my arms.

Love the frog analogy..well put xx

(NB: kisses equal emotional wreck right now)

SoMuchToBits · 03/02/2011 21:35

I think it's like when you are heating soup, and it's just about to come to the boil, and starts making those little bubbly pffts!

nuttyone · 03/02/2011 21:39

water swishing in a bucket...
Thinking about movements it was hilarious when the hiccups started. I didn't realise and ran to the loo thinking i was about to have the worst diarrhoea ever. Laughed so hard when i realised it was just hiccups. Makes me smile to this day when DD gets hiccups

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BPrincess · 03/02/2011 21:39

Yes! Love the soup thing!

Burnafterreading when did you have your baby? Hope it all went well!

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BurnAfterReading · 03/02/2011 21:41

BPrincess - she's 15 weeks and everything went really well thanks.

I've just gone back to work after mat leave and I'm finding the transition difficult :(

This thread made me smile :)

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