First time baby kicks

[carolyngrace]

I don't remember the exact first time because it was so fluttery at the beginning I was never really sure.. but around 20w (and a couple days) I was laying in the tub and felt a definite poke. Later that night in bed I felt the same thing and realized I was finally feeling it!

But last week (week 21) I began to feel him every day. Always after I eat (especially if it's sugary or I have coffee, which kind of makes me feel awful, but I guess he'll share my tastes?!).

I like to hear about everyone else's baby feels, too

[littlegrapey]

Jan2nd, At 18w1d I was sure I was feeling the baby. It started as I woke up, I felt weird fluttery movements and thought it wasn't anything. Throughout the day at work, they came and went and I was sure it was the baby. Now I feel her everyday, throughout the day. Especially at night when I'm winding down and getting ready for bed.

[tiffbot]

This time somewhere around 18 weeks I felt the little rolls for a couple days that were small but very familiar feeling. It was 19w1d, the day after my grandpa passed, that I felt it kicking me in the bathtub. A little on and off from there, but since hitting 20 weeks this past Wednesday I've been feeling at least once a day now.

With my first, at my 20 week A/S she would point out when he kicked and I did feel it a couple times, so that's what made me realize what the little kicks felt like. It was somewhere around 21 weeks that I felt him kicking quite regularly. And then he was pretty unmistakable and crazy the rest of my pregnancy, lol.

[bendherova]

I'm a STM-- felt him at 17.5ish weeks.

With DS1, it was between 20-21w. The first I remember was him kicking at the US probe on my abdomen during my anatomy scan. (it was at 21w)

[blasto!]

I first knew that I felt her at about 18w5d (I just remember it was a couple of days before my A/S, which was at 19w exactly). It was really infrequent and light for a couple of weeks. Movements are getting a lot more regular now and firmer, but still no ninja kicks. I *think* that I *might* have felt her from the outside yesterday (21w3d), but I wouldn't stake anything of importance on it and didn't even tell DH because I didn't want to get his hopes up that he'd be able to feel it just yet.

[donizetti]

I believe I was feeling LO during my 17th week but wasn't totally sure what I was feeling at the time. Now looking back on it I'm pretty sure that's what it was. However, the first time I KNEW for sure was Jan 4th: 18w2d. I was sitting down to eat at a local pizza place with DH and a friend we had just ordered and I felt the definitive "flutter" I had been hearing so much about. It kind of startled me and I just blurted out "that was the baby!".

[mrskblack11]

I believe I was 17 weeks but closer to 18 weeks when I felt my first flutters. At first I only felt them at night when I was lying down. I will be 21 weeks tomorrow and now I can feel bigger taps throughout the day. I have an anterior placenta and have not felt or seen any outside movement yet.

[bookninja]

This Saturday for me! For about 2 days I had been feeling a flutter now and then and just wasn't sure enough to say for sure... But then on Saturday, I had this massive, out of the blue sneeze... And felt about 4 "flutters" back to back! I think I scared him/her. Or maybe just woke 'em up!

Edit: I was 18w3d.

[erbear]

I started feeling flutters Friday night! I was 18w2d.

[elvinnoe]

Sometime between 17 and 18 weeks I felt a few quick thumps, since then I've felt what seems to be some rolling around movement, but only every few days or so. It's so cute!! I wish I felt something every day, we're just not quite there yet. 19 weeks yesterday.

[tjanca22]

FTM (21+0) and I honestly have no idea what I'm even looking for. I feel something every now and then and think, this might be it! Then, a few seconds later, my stomach will make some weird noise and then I go back to thinking that it wasn't baby. I'm so confused! The things that I have felt don't feel like what others have described it as, quickening, flutters, a goldfish, or poking. Maybe one day soon I feel something for sure.

[Deleted]

I'm a FTM and I started feeling movement at exactly 18 weeks and I noticed it would happen right after I ate. Exactly one week later (19 weeks) I was laying on the couch one night feeling the baby move and I asked DH to come put his hands on my belly and see if he could feel her. He started talking to her and she let out a few kicks, strong enough for him to feel them. It was AMAZING! We both squeeled and giggled like little girls. Now I feel her moving all the time, especially after I eat. I'm 21 weeks today

Also, at night when we're laying in bed, DH talks to my belly and the baby will kick for him... it's like she knows her daddy is talking to her. It is the sweetest, most precious thing in the entire world!

[billyhorrible]

First time around: Around 16 weeks I started getting a little fishy swimming feeling. Kicks around 20 weeks.

Second time around: Probably around 18 weeks? Maybe late 17? I was chatting with my friends on New Years Day complaining I wasn't feeling movement, just "hearing" it - like bubbles blowing in milk and they all told me that's what movement felt like. Which is funny, because that is not what movement felt like for me the first time. But by 19 weeks I was getting kicks (probably punches based on what we saw in the ultrasound).

[teenybird]

I was surprised to feel a little ninja action around week 18-18 1/2. I wasn't convinced it was the baby (initially chalked it up to super gaseousness), but lo and behold, it was bub! DH had his hand on my belly one night in bed and bub kicked hard enough that DH felt it. He was totally freaked out, and I was giggling like a maniac. Bub seems to love somersaulting when I'm in bed resting, but also mid-afternoons seem to be party time up in tha ute.

[matiekae]

I felt my first flutters at 18w2d while I was painting the nursery. Since I have felt them every day at least once, but I find myself staying awake at night to see if I can feel just one more movement for the day!

[maddib]

I started feeling flutters at. 17w but now at 21 weeks I feel her rolling around in there everyday. DH can't feel her with his hand but if he lays his head on my tummy when she is really active he can feel it against his cheek. I know he wasn't making it up because I could feel her kicking like crazy right where his cheek was and didn't say anything and he sprang up with the biggest smile on his face and said "she just kicked me!!" It was the best. He has felt even more connected to her ever since.

[noeliav]

I started feeling tiny spots of pressure pretty early on (STM) but couldn't commit to calling them movement because they were so so different from DD's first movements. At the A/S, it was confirmed that I have a big, ol', fat anterior placenta (no joke, that thing is huge and thick!), so no wonder.

I can feel thumps and bumps in my butt (he's head down) and pressure when he pushes up against the placenta, and sometimes a bump here or there around the placenta (really low, above my pubic bone, or far in my right side [hello, feet]). I would say that I've been feeling those since about 19w. Now at 21w, they're more or less daily and several times a day.

[herbavein]

STM. I felt the first movements between 17 and 18 weeks - and last night I felt him kick from the outside for the first time! He's bopping around in there right now

With DD, it wasn't until 24 or 25 weeks, but I also had an anterior placenta.

[lunalovegood]

Baby #5, I started feeling flutters a little after 16 weeks. DH felt a tiny movement for the first time just after 17 weeks. Feeling baby every day now and had a fun time watching my belly move from the outside last night.

[gingerbabe]

I felt some flutters for starting probably around 18 weeks, but at the A/S ultrasound she suddenly starting moving like crazy and I felt her stronger than ever, and since then I have been feeling her kick/twirl/move strongly every day.

[sordidvolition]

STM started feeling for sure between 16-17 weeks. It's not everyday but it's getting more definite.
First time around I had anterior placenta so it was like 22+w

[apollo11235]

I felt something at 15w4d for the first time while I was sitting on the couch watching TV and decided it couldn't possibly be baby. But a few days later, I felt it again, and by 17w I was sure it was movement (and looking back, so was what I felt at 15w4d) and was feeling a little something at least once a day. Now, at almost 21w, I feel baby several times a day, and I can tell they're getting stronger. DH finally got a really good set of kicks a couple nights ago, too.

[leenziepops]

FTM with anterior placenta. Felt first nudge and roll at 19+2 while I was lying down in bed. At 19+6 both DH and I felt the first external kick. It was one sharp little kick and nothing else for a fee days after that. I most often feel it lying down

[Deleted]

I felt him fluttering in week 15 but wouldn't have bet money on it until the end of week 17, when I started feeling actual thumps and kicks.

STM with posterior placenta

[kpgrala]

I cant remember when I first felt him on the inside but I definitely remember the outside. I had just turned 20 weeks I was on the phone with my husband and I felt him hit. I told my hubby that I thought it was gas then he did it again 5 more times. Best feeling ever!

[silv3rlining]

STM anterior placenta (again) Right around 16 weeks ago started having flutters so to speak. And then nothing after a few days. Around 18 weeks I felt stronger outside movement. Now at 21 weeks I feel her pretty much every day. Though sometimes 9 have to "provoke" her to move.

[sugarkissed]

STM and started feeling tiny little flutters around 16-17 weeks. I'll be 22 weeks on Friday and this baby is a little ninja now with some pretty strong kicks.

My first pregnancy I was 19 weeks when I knew for sure that it was the baby I was feeling.

[missjenniebean]

Probably about 19 weeks, felt like pokes from the inside.

[noname83]

FTM and I felt what I think was baby for the first time at 17w1d, it was two quick pokes in the exact same spot while on the train home from work. I felt something similar once more later in the week, then on Friday at 18w6d my husband had his hand on my tummy and we both felt movement. Since then it's been somewhat consistent (daily but sporadic). I'm 19w1d now, so we're talking about 2 days where I can tell I'm feeling movement. It's something in between pokes and a goldfish out of water.

[jessila]

FTM and I felt it at 16 weeks. It was a definite ba-da-bump and I stopped what I was doing and was like 'pretty sure that was a baby.' At 18w4d now and feel what I can only describe as rolling and random shoves inside. It's unlike anything I've ever felt before so I'm going to say it's movement. I'm not crazy, right?