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Early movement - pls share what it felt like!

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whiterose2011 · 02/07/2013 14:02

I'm 16+3 and keep having a strange feeling really low down. It's hard to describe but feels a bit like I'm being tickled inside. Could this be my baby moving? It doesn't happen all the time - probably felt it about 10 times over the last 2-3 days. Pls share what it felt like when you first felt your baby move, otherwise I'll think I'm going mad!!! Xxx

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Rosenip · 02/07/2013 14:05

That's exactly what mine felt like at about 15 weeks, it was confirmed because it's the same now, only stronger and more frequently. Sometimes the baby responds to music or when I rub my tummy where it's kicked.

It's such a lovely, re-assuring feeling!

Mine was much lower down than I expected, around the knicker line, occassionally it's a bit higher but I think my baby likes to hang out fairly low, which I've heard is fine!

I'm now 18+3.

PistachioTruffle · 02/07/2013 15:08

I first felt it last week at 16+2, and it was a tickly itchy feeling inside my stomach! Not at all what I was expecting. I've felt it a couple of times since, but not every day.

valiumredhead · 02/07/2013 15:12

A bubbling sensation, bit like wind

HMT13 · 02/07/2013 15:17

yeah I would say bubbling/popping too and very low down as well. I thought it was wind to start off with but it's happening more frequently now and getting stronger. I'm 20+3 now and it only started about a week ago.

GoodTouchBadTouch · 02/07/2013 15:26

Im expecting my 3rd 16+5 and have felt it for the last week, exactly as you describe. Im sure its the baby. Lovely isnt it!?

rallytog1 · 02/07/2013 15:47

Trapped wind. None of the lovely butterflies and tickles that other people seemed to be feeling!

LovelyWeatherForDucks · 02/07/2013 15:53

That sounds about right! By 18 weeks I could SEE teeny tiny movements and pokes on the outside and DH could feel it

BonaDea · 02/07/2013 15:55

I had an anterior placenta and so didn't feel anything til about 20 weeks. It was a distinct prod from the inside - I never had any of the to tickling or fluttering others describe!

Kelly1814 · 02/07/2013 16:06

A bit like trapped wind!

And at 26 weeks, my DH can still hardly ever feel it :(

gloti · 02/07/2013 17:03

For me it was def like popcorn popping in the microwave!

FoofFighter · 02/07/2013 17:08

Like gloti, popcorn popping! or as some described it, imagine holding a wee frog in your closed hands and it jumping, tapping against you, like that :)

LabradorMama · 02/07/2013 17:38

I first felt movement at around 19 weeks and it was like tiny pops inside, much like trapped wind but lower. Now at 23 + 3 there are definite prods, kicks and pokes as well as baby somersaults which make me feel very odd indeed!

Coldcuppacoffee · 02/07/2013 22:59

Like a butterfly on the inside. I wasn't sure and then went to the dentist and the drilling sent the baby nuts!

LouiseD29 · 03/07/2013 06:44

That sounds about right OP! Mine felt like tickling too, like someone running a feather across my insides, but I didn't get it until a bit later. Am 34+4 now and still get the tickles, as well as the huge pokes and kicks. It's my favourite bit of being pg

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whiterose2011 · 03/07/2013 13:38

Thanks for your comments ladies! Good to know I'm not imagining this. Can't believe that is my baby wriggling around in there! Xx

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bonzo77 · 03/07/2013 13:52

Like wind but lower down. Felt it at about 12 weeks with my second.

toni1bump · 03/07/2013 15:58

Is it usual that larger ladies feel less movment? Im a size 16-18 so not really what id class as 'fat'. But im 18+2 and have been feeling like someone said little tickles. But they are very very faint. Almost like im imagining (im not haha) .. Is anyone else a lil bigger an feeling lots of movment? And how far are u?xx

FoofFighter · 03/07/2013 18:22

I'm an 18 and felt this one at not long after 10w.

toni1bump · 03/07/2013 18:26

10weeks? Really? Very early! This is only my first though :)

GoodTouchBadTouch · 04/07/2013 14:30

Dont believe anyone feels movement at 10 weeks. Midwife said it is likely becasue you are expecting to feel something, so you attribute any similar feeling to the baby.

Ive occasionally felt "fetal movement" when Im not even pregnant!

FoofFighter · 04/07/2013 16:27

yeah we are lying of course how dare anyone else decide for us what we do or don't feel?

I am on my 5th pregnancy and I think I know what a baby movement feels like you know

If you want the actual specifics, I was sitting on the loo and bent right over and felt a popping movement. I wasn't expecting to feel it. Or imagining it. And no it wasn't poo!

GoodTouchBadTouch · 04/07/2013 16:51

I dont think you were lying.. just mistaken in my opinion.

Like I said, Ive felt the exact sensation while not even pregnant, if I hadve been pregnant I wouldve assumed it was the baby too.

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FoofFighter · 04/07/2013 17:30

well you and your opinion can do one :)

NomDeClavier · 04/07/2013 17:34

I get the weird stretchy feeling you get later on when they try to uncurl except it's only above my right hipbone. I want to feel proper kicks!

I suspect I have an anterior placenta this time too so no tickly butterflies.

I've definitely felt kicks when not pregnant though. Scared the bejesus out of me!

GoodTouchBadTouch · 04/07/2013 18:53

God, touchy much? Sorry if I offended you

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