Baby's first moves - what were they like and when did you get them?

[bluesnowfalcon]

Just over 16 weeks and was wondering what those first movements feel like and when people first felt them?

Look forward to reading!

Mine felt like a fish swimming around but a friend described her first movements like bubbles popping low down!

Mine were at about 15 weeks and they felt like muscle spasms - so much so that I figured that it was just my tummy expanding! However, when the midwife listened to the heartbeat at about 18 weeks and I had a 'muscle spasm', it was actually the baby kicking the heart monitor - best feeling ever!!

I didn't feel anything for ages and was desperate too!
At about 17wks my DH shouted at my stomach and I felt something jump but didn't feel anything else for weeks. When I had my 20wk scan it made my sides really really ache which is a feeling I'd been getting for a few weeks, which I then realised was the baby moving. A few days after that I felt definite kicks, the day after my DH felt them too. He did initially think that it was just wind moving around (which is what it feels like to me to start with) so I had to convince him it wasn't.
My placenta is at the front and its my first which is why I didn't feel him kick for ages. Now he's at it a lot, which is a lovely feeling.

I hope you feel your baby kick soon and really don't panic if you don't.

With dd I first felt her just before 19 weeks.

With this baby, I thought I felt him from 14/ 15 weeks on but was definate at 16 weeks - thats generally the case with subsequent pregnancies though, I think.

At the beginning they felt exactly like a strong pulse to me - you know when you get a pulse in your arm/ leg? - just like that.

Is amazing when they get bigger and you can actually see/ feel a whole person though - unexplainable (am 37+6 today and am going to miss this)

Am so excited for you!

Dont they say your expected to feel movement on your first pregnancy between 18 - 22 weeks? - so could me very soon, me love

They feel like a pulse to me too. And at other times they feel like a sort of shudder, almost like the baby is shrugging its shoulders and sighing heavily at the state of the world (maybe it is reading Mumsnet in there). I didn't feel anything until 20 weeks, and even now at 23 weeks it is pretty intermittent but that is partly because I have an anterior placenta which muffles everything. Don't worry if you don't feel anything for a few weeks yet.

with ds1 didnt feel kicks until 22 weeks (i think it was due to the placenta being at the front)

this time around i'm sure i felt a twitching like feeling in my lower tummy from about 12 weeks. although i've been told thats too early to feel anything.

but i'm absolutely sure i've felt that twitching like feeling in the last week, am 16 weeks now.

Felt like bubbles of wind. Not until after 20weeks so was worried and promised myself never to ask anyone if they had felt any movements yet.

I love my baby movements - not much longer to feel them now though.
My first was around 16 weeks and felt like baby did a swan dive inside me. To me they always felt more like wriggles than bubbles or kicks.
It's the most exciting wonderful feeling ever imo xx

I was probably about 20 weeks before I really felt movement and was sure that was what it was.
It was a bit like bubbles, but it's hard to describe it really. Like flutters of indigestion, but from a different place.

My fella couldn't feel it for ages and was getting a bit disheartened. Now, however is a different story! He laid his head on my bump last night, and the little tyke was kicking/punching right against his face! He also gets a bit of a shock sometimes in bed when he feels him kicking after I've laid down. Little one really goes for it then and seems to be wanting to break free.

The big kicks and movements have only really been from about 32 weeks onwards though, so I wouldn't worry too much if you're not feeling masses of crazy movement straight off.

decafgirl Yes! The early movements are very much like a little fish swimming around! That's a great analogy.

Hi
At about 20 weeks I felt a strange 'popping' feeling really low down near by bladder. At first I thought I'd weed myself! Hadn't though then in the middle of the night I woke up to a few more 'pops' as though something was twanging against my bladder and realised that it was the first baby movements. It was surprisingly low. This went on for about a week and then I started to feel pokes higher up.
From about 26-8 weeks onwards my DH could feel the movements from outside.

Now she is rolling around and pushing my internal organs so much I want to weep! I can see her bottom poking out under my ribs. Then again I am 39 weeks now.

It's so hard to describe, but to me it feel most like wind moving around but in the wrong place. I'm feeling this right now (16 weeks) and I really hope it's the baby but I keep thinking I'm probably mistaken. The main clue is that if I feel it in the bath I find myself looking down at my tummy to watch it moving (which it obviously isn't yet). Subconsiously the feeling must be reminding me of later movements in my last pregnancy so it must be the baby, musn't it?

At about 16 weeks, I felt like someone was blowing bubbles through a very fine straw: fizzy.

17 weeks ish. Like when there's music with a strong beat and you can feel it vibrating inside you, only in one place and nowhere else.

16 weeks: and the best way I can describe it is like having an involuntary muscle movement, like when muscles jump under your eye or in your leg.

You know something's moving, but it wasn't you that started it deliberately!

16 weeks: it was after I'd been for a big fancy 3-course meal and had a few glasses of Coke too, and I was lying on my front in bed - like very small bubbles popping.

In fact, the first few times I felt it, it was when I was in bed at night and on my front. Cold milk used to wake him/her up a bit too. It was quite a good while after that that dp could feel anything though.

Great to read sll of your expreiences I think bubs moved last night cos felt like a little fish swimming in me and have felt the same this morning!

Although I am only 16+3 so thoguht it was a bit early but who knows - guess I'll wait and see if it continues x

This morning it was unmistakeable. I was holding my tummy and actually felt a movement popping agaist my hand. There is no way that was wind.