Difference between kicks and hiccups?

[Bouviergirl]

Hi

This might sound a bit of an obvious question, but please indulge a first-timer!

I am 27 weeks. Only started feeling butterfly flutterings around 21/22 weeks and have now graduated on to much stronger sensations. I know you can sometimes feel baby kicking, and around this time they start hiccuping as well as they practise swallowing. But I'm wondering if you can tell a difference between what's a kick and what's a hiccup, or another type of movement?

At the moment I think what i feel must be hiccups: 5 or 10 minute periods of regular jumping sensations, a bit like a frog inside my tummy or, well, just like hiccups really! Then sometimes i'll feel a bit of sharp jab that i think might actually be a kick. It's just enough to make me slightly wince and notice it.

Any thoughts? And what's in store for me after this stage, when do you get onto feeling definite kicks and seeing bits of body parts moving across your stomach?!

Thanks.

What you are feeling is hiccups for sure! The kicking will stop soon and be replaced by movements instead - think I preferred the kicking! ;)

yup - hiccups. kicks are very definite, and then later on when space gets tight they are replaced by kind of squirming turning movements. DD hiccupped from about 25 weeks and the first thing she did when she arrived was hiccup some more

i never saw any actual body parts, but knew what was what once midwife appointments started and she told me which way DD was lying

Thanks very much, it's always interesting to fill in gaps in your knowledge with the wisdom of those who've 'been there, done that'!