When did you first feel your baby move, and what did it feel like?

ratmist · 04-16-2008, 03:51 AM #1 (**permalink**)

I'm approaching week 15 and I keep getting this weird stretchy-achey-pulley sensations in my lower abdomen. At first I just put it down to trapped gas (I've been extremely, horrifically gassy since getting pregnant), but it doesn't feel quite like trapped gas. It feels like something pressing up against something muscular. Is this the baby moving, or is it last night's dinner? Help me out ladies! When did you first feel your baby move, and what did it feel like?

janwa09 · 04-16-2008, 04:06 AM #2 (**permalink**)

I got that feeling too around that time and my doctor said that it's just trapped gas lol. I felt my baby move around the latter part of the fourth month and it was like these weird floating vibrations on my belly. He always moved at night so it was really noticeable.

Girl about town · 04-16-2008, 04:20 AM #3 (**permalink**)

My son started moving at 16/17 weeks, it started out as a fluttering in my tummy the first week, then it turned into full on jumps as if something was jumping againt the inside of my stomach very weird, its unmistakable though xxx

Kitty Kitty · 04-16-2008, 06:00 AM #4 (**permalink**)

Hey there,

I first felt my bub move at 19 weeks. From about 15 weeks I felt what was like little bubbles in my tummy then it progressed to feeling like little butterflies and then unmistakable kicks. You will know when it happens

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KK.

Shimmer · 04-16-2008, 07:52 AM #5 (**permalink**)

When it first moved, it felt like a guppy in my belly.
Stretchy achyness is probably your uterine ligaments stretching out for teh babeh.

You're at about the right time right now tho, sometime in the next couple of weeks you'll start feeling something like champagne fizzing in your lower abdomen. That's the midge making itself known!

nikki · 04-16-2008, 09:26 AM #6 (**permalink**)

I started feeling my kids right around 15 wks. It kinda felt like bubbles popping at first---but I knew it wasn't gas b/c I only felt it once I was laying around for a while.

ratmist · 04-16-2008, 12:12 PM #7 (**permalink**)

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Originally Posted by nikki

I started feeling my kids right around 15 wks. It kinda felt like bubbles popping at first---but I knew it wasn't gas b/c I only felt it once I was laying around for a while.

I spend most of my days sitting in a chair in front of a computer. If I don't move around for a while, my ass falls asleep... and I get a weird sensation in my abdomen.

I think it's probably just ligaments stretching, like Shimmer said. Still, at least I know I'm not being crazy!

Briar · 04-16-2008, 09:14 PM #8 (**permalink**)

I agree, stretchy-achey sensations are most likely muscles stretching and loosening. I felt my son move for the first time on Halloween! It was almost 18 weeks and was the lightest fluttery sensation. Its pretty unmistakable when you do feel it, it feels like nothing else you've ever experienced and comes from deep inside.

MahalMac · 04-17-2008, 11:34 PM #9 (**permalink**)

I am probably 4 months prego. =) My hubby and I are very excited! Although I can't feel my baby really just yet.. my hubby can feel my baby and hear him/her. I've only felt my baby twice.. and that was 2 nights afo i think.. it was like 3 bubbles popping in a row... and that happened like 3x.. I know it wasn't gas..lol