Baby Movement - will I recginse it?!

[FlirtyThirty]

I realise this sounds stupid but I'm wondering if I am mising feeling my baby move (it's my first). I'm 17+4 and to my knowledge haven't felt anything yet. I thought the other day that something felt funny - like a sort of tickling - but it didn't last long and I guessed it must just be something else.

So...is it a distinctive enough feeling for me to be able to recognise that it's baby and not just my tummy!?

Also, how long from those first 'flutters' to feelign a proper kick is it?

Keen to hear your experiences...

Flirty x

I felt my first movements at 17+2, and they felt just as the midwife said they would -- like the physical manifestation of watching a pot of water come to the boil!

I had been afraid that I'd get all the way to the delivery room thinking I was just suffering from indigestion, but it was quite clear that this was something different.

As far as the time from a flutter to a kick, that took me about 3 weeks. And now (22+1), Cletus won't "shut up"!

I think it's hard to tell with your first. Certainly I was 23-24 weeks pg before I could really say I felt anything and even then I felt a bit of a fraud. Certainly knew later though.
Am on 3rd pg now and thought I could feel something from 15 1/2 weeks. It's easier to say when you know what you should be feeling if that makes sense.

If it feels like tickling I'd say this was the baby moving. This is my third pregnancy and I felt this from about 14 weeks. The other feeling I had to start off with can only be described as having a butterfly in your tummy As for when it starts to feel more like kicking I'm not really sure, I think its just something that happens gradually as the baby grows.
The other way I know the baby is kicking is if all of a sudden I really need to go for a wee, and then a few seconds later I don't. I'm sure this must be the baby kicking my bladder. Either that or I need to go to the doctors
Whilst its still quite light movements enjoy it. In a few weeks time you will be lying awake in the middle of the night begging it to stop so you can get some sleep.

I am on my second preg and i was still only feeling flutters at my 20wk scan with the odd karate kick when i bent over too suddenly and squished him/her. am now 26+1 and i can SEE my tummy move with kicks if i am patient enough.

Im 18 weeks with #3 and still havent felt anything (in fact things are going so well im begining to wonder if im pg!) but i do remember feeling my first around 18 weeks and cant remember with my second

Have had a few possible flutters or gas
dont know its so difficult to tell even with a third pg! im looking forward to when you know its a definate kick coz the foots still sticking out and you hang things on it lol!!!

You may miss it now but you wont in time thats for sure

I felt this one at 14 weeks and it felt like someone rolling a marble up and down inside, quite different to how it felt with DD. i had proper kicks and visable pokes at 16 weeks and now at 22 weeks nearly, there is no mistaking it atall.

I am a first timer too...and from 16/17 weeks I kept feeling something, something I had never felt before, but not something I would definately say (at the time anyway) was baby!! Then at about 21 weeks I knew I was feeling baby and now (24 weeks)I can feel him wriggling and kicking and even hiccuping apparently (thats what the doc said!)

So I would definately say its possible youre feeling baby at 17 weeks...although you may not quite believe it is baby until you look back on it!

I was 19+4 when I felt those bubbles, like flutters, for the first time. I had just had spam fritters and chips (!) and we were sitting on the sofa watching Cocoon, and I felt it and laid down flat on the carpet to feel it again. I wasn't convinced, but I realise now they were definitely baby movements I was feeling.

I was 21+1 when I felt the first proper full-blown kick, what I describe as an unmistakeable "dush" inside, again, just after having my evening meal.

Now, at 34 weeks, I have been seeing my tummy move with remarkable force, my DP feels it when we are in bed and I am asleep, sometimes he'll say to me in the morning "the baby was active last night". I can tell when it has hiccups (usually at 4 in the morning!), and the difference between a kick and a squirm.

It feels wrong to say it but I'll miss those sensations when baby actually arrives!

I felt mine from 16 weeks (1st baby) Was like bubbles, or trapped wind in your tummy - could feel something squirming and popping in there.

DH could feel it from 17 weeks!! And we could both see tummy move from kicks at 18 weeks. Those early kicks were more like if you or I were doing a quick prod or poke, like a jabbing movement.

Can also tell when baby is front to back or if it's sticking its bottom out as I get a feeling of pressure behind bellybutton, or one one side (usually the right side I find) and I will say to DH "Watch, the baby's going to move any second!" and it does. (sometimes it keeps us guessing though and waits until the minute DH turns his eyes back to the football .

Can now feel it hiccupping, kicking, squirming (rolling over) and it is more than happy to kick DH in the head if he is "listening" to my tummy . When I get up for the loo in the morning, I get back in bed and that usually wakes it up - all will be quiet for a minute then it will start moving like mad (either annoyed it's woken up like its Dad, or raring to go like me!)

Flirty - I think that the tickling is movement, I have had exactly the same thing and was also unsure. However, as time has passed (It started at 14 weeks and I'm now 19) I've noticed that there are distinct patterns to it - for example baby only seems to move around when in own surroundings and there is nothing exciting going on outside!!! I have now started to feel little kicks but they are not really how I expected - more like "stamps"!

When I was pg with DD I felt her first movements when I was 16 weeks, and it felt a lot like tickling, some people say it feels like bubbles popping though, but to me it was more like tickling.

I fely her twice in quick succession then nothing until 20 weeks, she didn't stop after that

Hi
I'm 12 wks with # 1 and cannot wait to feel the baby kick or move - feel like I'm in Limbo at the moment where I've seen the scan but want to feel the baby move to reassure me all is well....

I think a good rule is if you feel something you haven't felt before its probably movement. I was unsure of mine partly cos they were not 'kicks' or 'butterflies' as described by lots of people, it was more like tickles or a trapped nerve. Felt but didn't clock it around 18/19 weeks. Now 29 weeks and its madly active and you can't miss it! Some people don't feel much cos of where the placenta is - so don't panic!

i was worrying due to previously m/c twice and find it so reassuring and beautiful now to feel a flutter. Only started feeling things at about 20 weeks but it was very subtle, still is really.
I lie down on the bed and put my hands on my tummy lightly - usually feel a little flutter then when i am relaxed. put little tiptoe fingers across my tummy too and baby usually responds it is so fantastic - like we-re having a little chat.
now well over half way but still can't feel fully blown kicks. think everyone is different and it can happen at different times for different people. try not to get to worried and stressed about it - i am sure that it will happen for you and soon.
when you go to bed - go a little earlier - and just close your eyes and put your hands lightly on your tummy - i find it works well and i hope it works for you.
when you are busy rushing around it is easy to miss movement - and the placenta can affect how you feel movement too.
lots of babydust

I m pregnant with twins, it took about week 25ish to feel the kicks. My first too. My dh was very eager to feel the kicks but he had to wait another 2-3 weeks to get some good ones.

I'm 19 weeks with my first too and have been feeling movement for about two weeks, and can even see him kicking sometimes - but then I did have a very flat tum before - not so much now!
Don't worry too much if you haven't felt anything yet, as its a whole new worry once you do - I'm finding that when he doesn't kick I get really worried, but its only because he is facing the other way. I'm having lots of scans due to complications, so I can often see which way he is facing, and can only feel him when its legs to the front.
As for knowing, I think I just did as it was strange and frequent. Hurts sometimes too, especially when he has a mad half hour just as I get into bed!
Good luck, it won't be long for you now