Am I a freak for not finding the movements magical.....

[Writerwannabe83]

Everyone used to say to me, with huge gushing smiles on their face, "Just you wait until you feel the baby move, it's the most magical, amazing sensation...."

Don't get me wrong, I love feeling the baby move because it offers reassurance and I like to think of my little one growing, having fun and spinning round etc, but 90% of the time the movements are actually quite uncomfortable Sometimes, when baby is really going for it, it makes me feel quite sick....

I get all kinds of different movements, some more tolerable than others - the latest ones feel like baby is tickling my cervix, very, very odd!!

Am I the only one to be perplexed by them as opposed to amazed??

Nah, course you're not. I find them kind of...interesting. But I don't get all dreamy and starry eyed every time I feel a kick.

Me! But I hate everything about pregnancy, I always felt sick with the movements especially the huge turn DD did near the end

I warn you though you will miss them when they're gone

No, I mostly found them very irritating and uncomfortable!

I distinctly remember in my last week at work asking the baby if he wouldn't mind terribly stopping wriggling for five fucking minutes then I could finish this bit of work then I could get up and we'd both be a lot happier

He did a lot of wriggling to get me to move position, go to the loo or just generally let me know he was there. The running up and down on my cervix was not fun!

Nope. I like them for the first couple of weeks, after that they're (literally) just a pain in the arse.

This baby is turning out to be particularly skilled at jabbing a hand under my ribs whilst stomping on my cervix. Please god it goes head down soon - as I remember that was marginally less uncomfortable.

I remember with both DD's the really early movements felt like someone running a nail along scar tissue eurgh hated it.

Thankfully I never really had the big movements that people talked about, had to sit on monitors a couple of times they were that infrequent to me. Apparently it was because I have/had really strong stomach muscles so couldn't feel them. With DD1 midwifes struggled to gauge baby positions. Oh how I laughed..me muscles ha ha haaaaaaa.

Have never really experienced massive movements...am very thankful. The few I did made me feel very queasy.

Rather like a scene out of Alien if you asked me.

Nice because it's a chance to actually interact directly, but still a bit freaky fundamentally.

I feel so, so, so relieved!!!

I admit to also having asked begged baby to just give me 5 minutes rest......

With DD I had an anterior placenta, and didn't feel movements until 22+ weeks. This time round, I've had movements since about 14 weeks and some days it feels like it is constantly wriggling about.

There is nothing magical about being kicked in the arse from the inside.

(Of course, I had a minor panic the other day after feeling nothing until I realised the big lump sticking out of my belly was babys back and hence why I was having a day off from being kicked! But such is life :))

Hi writer - I feel exactly the same as you! Felt my first movements about 10 days ago. Whilst I find them interesting from a scientific perspective, and reassuring, I don't go all emotional and misty-eyed....which is what other people told me that would happen! Not looking forward to when i'm further along and i'm being kicked painfully in the ribs, thankfully it's just flutters at the moment x

Nah it wasn't magical for me. In fact, I hated being pregnant, and I especially hated the stereotype that all women float around, glowing and beaming and happy, despite the fact that their bodies are going through massively uncomfortable changes and their bladders can hold only about 1ml at a time.

Talking of bladders - has anyone else found that their stream of urine is much slower since getting pregnant? Even though I'm always on the loo and having long wees I am longer be able to eject it with the same force as I used to, lol. I just have to sit there for ages and wait for it to slowly but surely make it's way out

I was at the hospital 2 days ago because I hadn't felt baby kick for 24 hours and my friend told me it was because he'd heard me moaning and was teaching me a lesson

It's very uncomfortable. I'm so looking forward to him being born so I can have my body back (I plan to bf so will have to share but at least baby will be on the outside then).

I like that he's active in there though, it's reassuring.

Yes to longer wees, and also, why is it that when you think you've finished, you stand up and suddenly there's a little bit more wee left to come out?!

Sorry "tickling my cervix" made me laugh!

I love the movements only for the reassurance it brings me, otherwise, they creep me out and make me very nauseous at times.

The funny thing is, I loved DS movements, but he didn't move/kick/roll nearly as much as DC is. It's an awful sensation when she rolls about when I'm trying to sleep.. but I definitely know that I will miss them haha.

I find them a bit weird too although the reassurance is great.

I had a cervical scan on fri and you dont really see loads of the baby, however, what you could see was 2 little fists pounding away at my cervix, the midwife said 'ooof I bet thats not comfortable!' No shit!!!

Your not a freak Hun, I've just started feeling movement, and it's kind of weird like the odd kick but it feels sickly almost.

It's all a bit weird and new to me too this is my first and I'm not enjoying any thing about pregnancy apart from seeing the baby at scans.

I feel like utter poo and now feel grown g pains as well as kicks it's all very unusual.

I'm 21 weeks and I'm still waiting, hoping, praying for this energy boost and the part when you start to glow lol

Definitely not a freak! I have an anterior placenta so was late feeling movements and desperate for them. They are v reassuring but also not comfy.
A friend described early baby movements to me a "like magic bubbles popping inside you". I felt v guilty for thinking it's like when you have got v bad upset stomach and everything is churning and telling you to run to the nearest loo...

Most of the time I felt like something out of Alien :o/ nice to know everything is ok in there, just not a 3am and 4am and 5am etc lol

Haha - reading all these replies has definitely made me smile!!

We still love you though babies

Noooo your not the only one! I posted a similar thread not to long ago and I'm still being creeped out by the movements
And yesss the being kicked in the bum and rubbing on the cervix
I have a very wriggly little one who is moving as I type. Argh!

Ah. Just remember those first four or five months where we'd all be constantly worried that the baby had died because we had no way of knowing if they were still moving? I miss those days

No are u ek!! Abit ps good to know its okay and was good at first with the partner but they make me feel bit sick xx

I saw my midwife today and she gave me a good feel and said that baby is positioned so his arms are in the direction of my cervix and his legs are tucked underneath my ribs - bless him. I guess that explains why I've been having very weird cervical sensations over the last few days