Can you describe how first baby movements feel?

[BPrincess]

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?!!

You have my sympathies - 15 weeks seems such a short time to be going back to work. What a shame.

Glad the thread's cheered you up a bit though.

Hope it gets better for you.
x

I once heard it described as feeling like something was eating you from the inside out!

Thankfully, m experience is much more like the frog!

Great thread! :)

I was going to say - yes - it is exactly like a little frog, but others got there before me!

It was slight pops but big "muscle twitches" for me. Love the fact that when she gives me a good boot I can see it as well as feel it now. :o

At 18weeks I felt like a human popcorn machine. The sweetest feeling ever! Now at 20 weeks I feel little kicks, I have a disco dancing diva in my tummy

Like lemonade in your veins.

Like when your heart skips a beat, but lower down!

I'm interested to hear these - I am 18 weeks and three nights ago I felt something (I think BPrincess's description of the fish flipping over and over comes closest to what I felt).

I'm a bit of a fatty (which I've heard can affect feeling these movements). Was it the baby or all the cake I'd eaten? It's not something I've felt before!

I'm fat too and I felt it at 17 weeks. I cannot think of a single logical reason why being overweight would stop you feeling movements as early. I am not fat on the inside of my uterus! Obviously it took longer to be able to feel from the outside.

I was also on the large size (22) and I still left it at 18 weeks. I think it is a bunch of hooey that bigger women can't feel it.

left it? felt it

Thanks ecuse and Yank, I did read that somewhere (damn google!) but also suspected it was a load of 'hooey'.

Can feel my bump but mostly just flab :(

I'm almost 19 weeks now and I'm typically a size 8-10 SO far I don't realy think I"ve felt the bubles/frogs/butterflies and what not. Sometimes my stomach has felt weird but I"ve always attributed it to the food or my own motion. It's my first pregnancy and I really look forward to feeling it soon. When's the latest you've heard women feel the kicks?

I had what felt like exam nerves at 16 weeks. Definite fluttering.

Different with both pregs - first time felt like bubbles moving and little flutterings, second baby has felt more like muscle twitches and tiny flicks, and very very low down too, along my pubic bone.

My mum described it like having a goldfish in your tummy (for the early movements) so I thought i wasn't feeling anything..... until i realised that those little muscle spasms/twitches were actually the baby and not my uterus stretching after all . I have an anterior placenta and knew for sure it was baby moving at about 19ish weeks.

I'm now 32+3 and the whole belly seems to jump and squirm but i still cant tell what is a foot, hand, head or bum.....

At first, it was like the dentist gently brushing against the inside of your mouth during a check up.

Towards the end, more like someone had put a cheap wig on their fist and was slowly grinding it into your pelvis.

Yep twitchy muscle here too.

definately muscle twitches for me - I likened it to ones I sometimes get in my eyelids

oh, and I was about 17 weeks when I first felt movement

Like a little fish nibbling me from the inside - very gentle but firm.

Not frog like at all.

You know when you go to see a band and there's a wooden floor and you can feel the rhythm vibrating in your feet? Like that, but inside you.