17 weeks - What were your kicks like?

[Tilly35TTC15mths]

My midwife told me I should be feeling movement by now.

Sometimes I maybe feel something, but not anything I could be sure isn’t gas? (and usually it’s accompanied shortly after with a 💨 so sometimes its definitely not baby movement 🤷‍♀️)

Occasionally I’ll feel like a lot of pressure, which in my mind I imagine it feels like the babies rolled over.

Im notreally feeling flutters or pops and certainly not regularly.

I'm just a bit worried and I was hoping to hear if its normal or if Im in a minority at this point? 🫤.

At 17 weeks normal to feel like gas. I got the bubbly gas feeling with dd2 at that time. Maybe as she was the second I knew what to look for or maybe everything being more saggy I noticed it more.

DD1 however was a proper kick at 19 weeks. I remember it well I was eating a chip.

Is it your first?

Your midwife is giving you incorrect information, my midwife told me i'll not feel much movement until after 20 weeks and movement properly establishes at 26 weeks when you know it isnt gas or anything like that and is predominantly baby moving.

I started to feel little pops and swishes around 21 weeks.

Then the realness kicked in at 25 weeks when i could definitely feel baby.

Now 38 weeks and baby has hiccups every single day and likes to roll over my bladder like James bond. Uncomfortable but worth feeling them.

If you go to Triage or EPAU they will tell you that you will start to feel movement but it wont be established properly for monitoring until 26 weeks+

(I only know because the movements i thought i could feel had stopped at 24 weeks and i got worried and thats when they told me this information)

Hey OP! I didn’t feel anything with my first until 21/22 weeks. They said I had an anterior placenta at my 20 week scan so that could be why I didn’t feel anything until later, and also I didn’t know what to look out for tbh. It started as bubbles, just like others will say to you it feels like.

I’m currently 13 weeks pregnant, no idea where my placenta is yet obviously but will be interested to know if I feel anything sooner this time round as I know what to look out for.

Try not to worry, although I was the same when everyone kept asking me if I’d felt anything yet and all I could say was no, until it eventually happened! X

Non existent until 23/24 weeks

Thanks for the answers so far .

Yes, this is my first.

Midwife told me I should be feeling movement by now and definitely seemed a bit off when I said I wasn't sure I had.

Although she didn't order any tests which I took as a good sign.

She went on to say, I should feel them by now, between 20-25 weeks I should know what babies pattern of movements is and after 25 weeks let her know about any changes. 😵‍💫

I felt no kicks till about 23 weeks. And that's even with a posterior placenta and being quite petite.

I'm really surprised your midwife would say you should be feeling movement. I'm sure many (most?) first time mums aren't feeling kicks so early.

Oh, that’s ridiculous on the part of your MW. Although some people feel movements by then, 17 weeks is very early, especially as you don’t know yet where your placenta is. I’m on my third, my first with a posterior placenta, and with this one I first felt movements around 21 weeks. My elder two were a few weeks later and very sporadic the entire way through.

I have posterior placenta and didn’t feel proper kicks regularly until maybe 23 weeks. I am 26 weeks now and baby has still not established a proper pattern. I felt things before that for maybe 4 weeks or so, it felt like my insides were being tickled - I think maybe this is similar to the swimming fish feeling!

Thanks everyone this has made me feel a lot LOT better. 🙌

I was really stressing trying to feel movement so I could work out pattern - now I’m just gonna stop wondering if every bubble of wind is a movement and just wait to see what happens.

17 weeks is still early on your first, don't worry! It will take a few times before you recognise it for what it is, and then when you do it will be so magical and the movements will develop so much over the coming weeks :) mine at first always felt like a gas bubble pop pop popping gently. I didn't have anything like a pattern til much more into the mid 20s.