When can I expect to feel my baby movements ? It's already 16/17 weeks

[sarahhoping]

Like I have a protruding abdomen already with belly button slowly coming out but not yet feeling any movement of baby inside
Should I be concerned.
It's my first pregnancy

I think I only felt it for definite from 19wk so you certainly have nothing to worry about

With my first, I felt him at 20+ weeks.

I didn't feel my first until 22-23 weeks, but felt my second from 16 weeks. Placenta location can make a big difference.

Over the next few weeks you might start to feel some flutters. It can feel a bit like wind or possibly like there's a fish wiggling around and then they start to get a bit more proddy as you move through the weeks beginning with 2.

But 16/17 weeks would be quite early to feel anything properly in a first pregnancy so no need to worry at the moment.

Mine was around 19weeks 😍

Your entire baby is only the size of an lemon - its legs and arms are the length of a toothpick. So you won't be feeling much movement yet. I felt my first movements at 22 weeks , which is pretty normal.

I didn't really feel anything much before 22/23 weeks, although I had an anterior placenta.

I first felt flutters at 15 weeks but it’s normal to not feel anything up to 24 weeks xx

I Felt movements from 16 weeks. By 18 weeks I could see my belly moving. Pregnant with my first xxx

I didn't feel anything until 19 weeks with my first and that was flutters. Even then, I wasn't convinced it wasn't wind until I started to feel proper movement around 22 weeks and realised it must have been something at 19 weeks. I had an anterior placenta last time.

Second baby this time and started to feel flutters around 17 weeks. Posterior placenta could have made a difference too.

You don't monitor movement patterns until around 26-28 weeks so there's still time to feel things. It's still small in there and soon you'll be wishing their feet weren't in your ribs as you try to sleep!

I didn't feel anything til after 20 plus weeks. Its common to feel it later in first pregnancy

First baby - felt something at 19 weeks but then barely anything for another week or two. Probably daily from 21 weeks or so.

Second baby - odd twinge from 16 weeks but definitely movement (albeit faint) from 18 weeks.

Nothing unusual about not having felt movement by now AT ALL.

Nothing obvious until about 24 weeks, very slight sensation at 22. At my 20wk scan I could see baby moving away but felt nothing. Even now at 39+3 they are not strong.
Normal posterior placenta, but nothing felt for ages! I have just concluded that my core is so strong (I’m a rider) that it doesn’t penetrate in the same way for me.
Tonight I can see my bump moving but not feel it! Weird.

Sorry meant to say I’ve had 6 growth scans and baby is moving entirely normally, is actually very active. But MW can’t explain why I can’t feel it either!

18w with DD and I think about 19.5w with DS.

#1 was 20 weeks.. #2 was 14 weeks.. #3 was 21 weeks!! So dont worry all different x

Please don't worry, a lot like other posters, I started to feel a sensation like a combination of lower stomach hunger pains and gas (sounds horrible but the only way I can explain it) at 21 weeks and then at around 24/25 weeks it turned into more bubble popping and by week 32 it became obvious movement as he started to kick my ribs.

Movements happen from 16weeks. I have an anterior placenta so i think it took me until week 22 to feel a definite something and she's been getting stronger as the day goes by.

Don't worry. S/he'll soon be banging away at your insides.