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My belly is clicking!

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DaleyBump · 23/09/2013 11:41

30+2 and my belly is making a noise like when you crack a knuckle. Had a search on Google and it seems like I'm not the only one. Anyone have any idea what this is?

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mycatlikestwiglets · 23/09/2013 15:34

Not sure what causes it but mine's started doing the same in the last week or so (35 weeks here). It's surprisingly loud!

intouch2 · 23/09/2013 15:35

No clue, does it happen consistently?

BummyMummy77 · 23/09/2013 15:43

Hiccups?

That's what I figured it is.

mycatlikestwiglets · 23/09/2013 16:01

Don't think it's hiccups - it's occasional not constant/regular, and connected to the baby's movement. It sounds a bit like a 'pop' (or knuckle cracking as DaleyBumpsaid)

BummyMummy77 · 23/09/2013 16:03

Hmm. That's odd.

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DaleyBump · 23/09/2013 16:58

It's just occasionally when he moves his feet, it's like he's cracking his ankles or something! It's actually really loud

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DaleyBump · 23/09/2013 16:59

Definitely not hiccups, they feel totally different :p

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Mogz · 23/09/2013 17:55

I think someone told me a while ago they thought it was little pockets of air being disturbed by baby moving. No idea if that's right though!

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DaleyBump · 23/09/2013 18:04

That's interesting :)

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CrispyFB · 23/09/2013 18:31

All of mine have done it in the third trimester! I have been told bubbles by midwives, but I wonder where the air comes from. To me it sounds like joints cracking. Which they don't when they're out. Well, not for a few decades!

Newmum0113 · 23/09/2013 18:33

I really have noticed this in the last two weeks 36+4 today)

I thought I was imagining it. It sounds like knuckles clicking - I also thought it sounded like baby kicking me had made a noise on the outside IYSWIM ?!??

At least I'm not completely nuts (yet!)

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DaleyBump · 23/09/2013 18:34

I wondered if it was a hereditary thing, all my joints crack constantly (I'm 18) but I suppose not

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AhoyAhoy · 23/09/2013 18:55

Weird. 34+6 and been noticing this for about a week. Thought I was imagining it.

I love logging onto the pregnancy talk- at every stage of my pregnancy there seems to always be someone with the latest bizarre symptom, and same worries that I am experiencing at the time. Very reassuring.

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orangepudding · 24/09/2013 12:48

I had that with my DS, he had clicky hips when he was born and I wonder if that was the sensation I was feeling.

ladymalfoy · 24/09/2013 22:19

Spider nest? Remember that urban myth about a clicking plant and it was a tarantula nest?

Midwifeandmum · 24/09/2013 22:38

Theres no evidence to prove anything but the most plausible explanation is the baby's bones cracking when they move. Just like when we move after sitting for a while.... babies are the same. Lol funny sound tho xxx

BouncingBelly · 25/09/2013 21:45

Me too! I'm 32 wks and have been hearing this for weeks! Mine sounds like fingernails being clicked together. I asked my friend who's a midwife who had never heard of it. She confirmed it couldn't be water as the sac is filled to the brim as it were. I personally think its bones clicking as I always hear it when the baby hasn't moved for a while then does a big move.
Hubby heard it the other day and was baffled!

Fascinating pregnancy hey!

mumtobealloveragain · 25/09/2013 22:37

I have the "clicking" too. It's definitely not hiccups. I thought only I could hear it and that I may be imagining it.. then DP heard it too!

mumtobealloveragain · 25/09/2013 22:39

I'm thinking it's more of a "clicky pop" than clicking. I can "feel" it too, not just hear it. I worry I will hear a clicky pop and my waters will break! :)

LadyMedea · 26/09/2013 15:48

Argh! Mine's just done it for the first time, proper 'pop' noise and feel.

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DaleyBump · 26/09/2013 16:38

So glad it's not just me!

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2Labradors · 26/09/2013 19:10

Me too, I'm 31 weeks, it's a strange thing to explain to someone else. I wondered if it was me, and because it's my 3rd I was all clicky inside cos everything's loose.

Jo1984uk · 26/09/2013 19:50

I had that too and after my dd was born I asked the doctor to check her hips and one was clicky. Might just be coincidence though!

trixymalixy · 26/09/2013 20:14

I had this when I was pregnant with DD. Her shoulder used to click sometimes just after she was born, but she grew out of it. I did ask the doctor about it, but her shoulder never clicked to order.

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