Have I just felt my baby move?

[AKP79]

I'm 17+2 with my first and am just wondering if I've had the first flutterings of my baby moving. It was very much a fluttering feeling, but it was a lot quicker than I was expecting it to be and was also in my side at waist level. Again I was expecting a sensation towards the front and lower down.

I initially thought it was a pulse, because that's how it felt, but it wasn't regular like a pulse.

What have others experiences been? Could I of just felt my baby for the first time?

Think so. Just wait till you're 35 weeks and he keeps kicking the underside of your desk at work....

Ha ha that really made me giggle! Am very excited at the idea that I may of just felt some movement! :) It just wasn't at all what I was expecting!

It's really hard to know first time. I remember I was 17 weeks with ds1. It's lovely at the start but by the end you're just thinking 'please give it a rest- I'm trying to sleep'. Feels very different at the end.

Hmmm very good point, I can see how after another 18 weeks it'd start to get a bit tiresome!

It can be but then if they don't move for a few hours you get uber paranoid. You just become really conscious that you're body is not your own. Still I wouldn't change it for the world.

Your not you're- sorry. Can't spell. It's been a very long day.....

:) didn't even notice! I like to find something to worry about so I am dreading that whole - haven't felt movement for a while is everything ok stage!

I would say that's a yes too. Before I got to the "belly full of eels" stage I thought his kicking felt more like when you're really tired and have got a twitchy muscle.

I think it's more obvious (or perhaps you're just more focussed on it) when you're having a bath though.