What do baby's movements feel like?

[SierraBravo]

I'm about 18+2 with my first pregnancy. I think I might have felt baby move for the first time this morning, but I'm not sure.

Can you describe what it felt/feels like to feel the baby move? My midwife said it would feel like 'bubbles', and a friend said it feels almost like you're being tickled from the inside. Is this how it felt to you, or would you describe it another way?

Internal fart bubble ishow it felt for me.

I was about 18 weeks when I first felt it move and to me it felt like I was being lightly flicked from the inside 😊 took me a couple of nights to realise what it was. I found if I laid down and relaxed I felt it more, usually at night to start with.

Definitely like a fart

I’ve also seen it described as like a popping candy sensation.

Varies from mum to mum, OP. and also with the baby's position. I first felt faint flutterings. Later, as DD was lying occipital posterior (back to back), all her limbs were facing front, so the kicks were actually visible bumps and movements on my abdomen. I grabbed her foot through my tum once, and she snatched it back hurriedly!
Very obese mums, with a baby correctly positioned occipito anterior (front to back) may struggle to feel movements at all until quite late in the pregnancy.

Tickled or tapped from the inside was what I had first around that stage too. It's amazing how many in-utero habits my DD has kept up since she's arrived,!

Don't say that @Heyha I feel like this baby is constantly moving at 30 weeks. We have had 4 scans and each time they have said how difficult it is because it moves so much 🙈 think we will have our hands full.

I felt bubbles popping too, it's hard to duscrive but a bit like the internal rumblings you get when you've got gas.

What I felt could be described as all of what has been said by posters previously, but I'd say it felt more to me like 'tickling from the inside' than 'bubbles' or 'gas'. To be honest, it felt more unsettling than I was expecting (made me feel slightly nauseated: like something was messing with my insides), but wasn't painful at all.

The best way I can describe the feeling I had was that it was more like a 'twitch' (like you might get in your eye, for example), but inside my tummy.

Can anybody relate to this? I'm still not sure whether it was the baby moving or something else going on in there.

Yes that sounds familiar. If it is, you will start to feel it more now and it will get stronger. It is an amazing feeling.

Bubbles. Or butterflies - fluttering inside.

At first very much like wind. Then you can feel them flipping and prodding you. Later like you're being beaten up from the inside (active 11lb baby )

Way more ‘twitchy’ than anything else...or a weird swoosh. Didn’t feel cute like bubbles or butterflies to me! My MW said that if I think I can feel something, I’m most likely right.

First movements I felt were kinda like when you hold a butterfly or something in your hands and it's trying to get out.

Now it feels like I'm being attacked from the inside with the kicks and punches lol. I'm 24+4.

@SierraBravo I'd describing it as being flicked through a thick material, or a bit like a fish juddering around in there, or like a twitch you can't attribute to a muscle.

I get the 'sick' feeling too - not nauseated as such but that weird feeling you get in your tummy when you drive down a hill or on a rollercoaster.

I have a super active baby it seems so constantly feeling little kicks and punches and I swear earlier today the baby had hiccups. I find it super cute and fascinating! Can also see the baby poking through the stomach now - I'm 28 weeks tomorrow.

Pressing or pinching. Never got flutters or air bubbles.

Mine felt like bubbles initially, like in a fizzy drink. Now it feels like she's fighting to get out and can be quite uncomfortable though I find it very amusing when she changes sides and I get a lopsided pointy bump
One thing I find really, really uncomfortable and makes me feel quite nauseous but I don't know why, is when she has the hiccups.

Ooo @secretlyhermione I felt hiccups for the first time last night! It was so cute, a bit like a slow heartbeat pulsing away for a while! I'm 28 weeks today.

Mine felt like muscle twitches or spasms - I didn't know for about a week whether what I was feeling was baby or muscles! Now I know it's baby. Movements have become much stronger

Sounds most definitely likely to be baby. My first thing was a bubble popping, I'd never felt anything like it before and didn't feel like gas and knew right away it was baby. That was at 16 weeks exactly. For the next week I frequently felt like I was being lightly ticked from the inside. It quickly moved to small kicks at 18 wks and then actually feeling and seeing my tummy move by 20 wks. Won't be long till ur feeling the kicks, it's so exciting!

Yes, the eye twitching was what I was just about to say! It was exactly my interpretation of my baby's first kicks. It's so sweet isn't it!

Thanks for all the feedback on this! It's great to hear all of your different experiences and how it feels different to everyone. Sounds like what I was feeling was probably the baby in there.

It's so exciting to feel it! It makes me realise there is actually something in there after all!

Yes eye twitching was another way I described it to someone, I remember now.

DD had hiccups more than once every day, still does!