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18 weeks and not felt baby move yet!

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pinkranger · 20/03/2007 08:45

thats it really but when i read on here most people with their second have had movements by now and i dont think i have any, had a scan at 16 weeks and everything was fine so not too worried but just wondering what i can do to help feel the movement???

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fryalot · 20/03/2007 08:47

If it is your first, 18 weeks is the absolute first possible time you will feel baby move. It is much more likely to be later. Also, as you won't have felt it before, you may be feeling it move, but not realising it (I know that sounds silly when you are so aware of everything that is going on, but even so...)

Apparently, with subsequent pgs, you can feel movements earlier, but tbh with all three of mine, it was about 20 weeks at the earliest.

fryalot · 20/03/2007 08:48

sorry, just re-read your post, it's your second. Even so, as I said, with all three of mine I didn't feel movements till later. When did you feel movements with your first?

MrsBadger · 20/03/2007 08:49

I'm 18wks too and still not convinced I've felt movement - keep going 'ooh, is that the baby?' then realising it was actually just wind .

I have heard that drinking a glass of cold water is meant to encourage movement but reckon it's an old wives' tale.

Enjoy the peace while it lasts - it won't be long before they're kicking you constantly in the ribs / bladder / miscellaneous tender bits.

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pinkranger · 20/03/2007 08:49

Sounds awful but i cant remember, he is nearly 5....

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pinkranger · 20/03/2007 08:50

mrs b - i have also had that getting all excited saying i felt it, then 40 seconds later it was def wind - my dh thinks its so funny

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fryalot · 20/03/2007 08:51

I really wouldn't worry about it.... and it doesn't sound awful at all, the only reason that I remember was because I remember being worried that it hadn't happened when it was "supposed" to.

Baysmum · 20/03/2007 08:52

I had exactly the same thing, felt my firt at 20 wks and nothing by that time with 2nd - despite the fact that I kept reading that I should feel it sooner. Anyway, at the 20 wk scan they told me that my placenta was positioned at the front of my womb which was the reason I couldnt feel it as much - ie baby kicking placenta and not me! Could be the same for you x

mylittlestar · 20/03/2007 09:04

Mine was really late too - about 20 weeks. He's a lazy little monster and I think he just couldn't be bothered!!

honey2theb · 20/03/2007 09:23

Im 16 weeks and i have been thinking about this too. Ive read everywhere its shouldnt be til about 20 weeks, but there are so many people saying they felt it earlier!

mylittlestar · 20/03/2007 09:26

but people might be saying that to convince themselves, when really it's just wind!

or you might be thinking it's just wind when it's actually the baby moving!

DivaSkyChick · 20/03/2007 09:40

I'm 21 weeks plus 4 and I STILL haven't felt anything. Just had my scan, all is well (it's a girl!) but can't feel movement at all.

RedFraggle · 20/03/2007 09:45

I was the same as Baysmum for my first pregancy and my current one. With my first I didn't feel movement until about 23 weeks due to front positioned placenta.
This pregancy has been similar, about 20 weeks before I felt anything. Again my placenta is at the front. As the pregnancy has progressed my placenta has "risen" so I can feel movement at the bottom of my uterus, but I still feel nothing at the top end of my bump!!

DumbledoresGirl · 20/03/2007 09:49

I had a 20 week scan with my fourth and I can remember saying I hadn't felt him move much. Then I lay and watched him on the scan, kicking, punching, wriggling and turning and I could not feel a thing, even though I could see he was moving. It depends which way they are facing and therefore which way they kick. Kicks to the back are not esy to feel at this stage.

fennel · 20/03/2007 09:51

I didn't feel anything with my 1st til 26 weeks. she wasn't a very hyperactive baby even when born.

fryalot · 20/03/2007 09:52

I was the same, dumbledoresgirl - I could SEE my baby moving on the screen, but I couldn't FEEL a thing.

KatieandBB · 20/03/2007 10:20

so glad about this thread - havent felt mine either! am 19 weeks tomorrow.

think it depends, I was no skinny minnie when I got pregnant so maybe thats why?

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pinkranger · 20/03/2007 12:00

thank you all!

i was also no skinney minne either

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Nbg · 20/03/2007 12:01

I didnt feel my second move till I was about 24 weeks and even then they were only slight movements.
I wouldnt worry.

jabuti · 20/03/2007 12:26

hi pink and all, there was another thread not long ago about the lack of movement for some of us... and few of us had an anterior placenta that muffles the movements.

second pregnancy here, 21 weeks and kicks just once in a while, but quietness most of the time. arrrrgh!!! cant wait until i have constant kicks.

ShowOfHands · 20/03/2007 12:30

Can't really add anything constructive (have an anterior placenta too, so took a while to feel the baby but at 32 weeks she never stops!).

Really just wanted to at you pinkranger and see how you were doing? 16 weeks, it's flying by!

ShowOfHands · 20/03/2007 12:30

18 sorry, can't even type...

gscrym · 20/03/2007 12:32

DS hardly moved at all. Whenever I told midwife, she hooked me up to a monitor to check things and they were fine. He was a lazy foetus but has made up for it now.

Jamantha · 20/03/2007 12:42

In similar situation to some of you ladies, 23 weeks and hardly feeling anything - only about one movement a week that I can definitely attribute to baby. Keep getting worried about it, so midwife is kindly seeing me on Thursday to have an extra check. Even though I know it's an anterior placenta and therefore probably normal, and that I KNOW it turned completely round on the day of the scan but I never felt a thing so it could be soing someraults in there for all I know, can't help but worry. But this thread has settled my doubts somewhat so thanks! (though still going to see MW to be sure )

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pinkranger · 20/03/2007 12:56

soh - thank hun , how are you doing ,32 weeks OMG, how time flys...................... seems like only yesterday xx
do you know is babe a pink or a blue yet ??

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ShowOfHands · 20/03/2007 13:00

Tis a little pink one. Still coming to terms with it. DH can do all the ballet/princessy stuff if she is so inclined. Can't quite believe it's 32 weeks myself. Not entirely sure of the logistics of getting her from in there to out here either!

So, are you bumptastic yet?

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