Kicking out below rather than from the front!

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Does anyone sometimes feel that their baby is kicking downwards so it feels like it's coming out from below, rather than from the front?!

Smanfer
22+3

Ds used to do this - rather uncomfortable isn't it!

I wouldn't say it's uncomfortable (I'm not being booted hard at all at the moment) - it just feels strange!

Oh just you wait. Ds used to something I called 'bladder-bopping' - ie using my bladder as a trampoline. Uncomfortable though not painful, but giving me a sudden severe one-second-urge to wee. MIL told me that dh bladder-bopped so hard that she kept wetting herself in her last 6w or so.

When do you start getting "bladder-bopping"?!

I have to say all my kicks have been very sedate and I've not been booted hard at all!

Mine does this (although now bigger, kicks all over) and I find it rather uncomfortable, especially if I'm leaning forwards when he does it!

Ds used to boot me right on the cervix

Ds did it a lot - don't recall exactly when, but I was getting ungainly by that time, so probably 3rd trimester. Dd OTOH barely bladder-bopped at all, but she faced inwards most of the time and was head-down for most of the 3rd trimester, so I didn't feel her kicks nearly as strongly. Boy did she stretch outwards though - it often felt as if she was trying to come out through my belly-button!