I haven't felt anything yet at almost 18w. The answer I've gotten from the FTM around me is 16-17 w, so I'm looking for a bigger sample. Heard the HB at my appt yesterday so I'm feeling good and non-anxious about everything just curious about the range of experiences.
It took me a lot longer than other people. I also have an anterior placenta and didn't start feeling definite movements until about 24 weeks. I guess I was feeling some stuff but I wasn't sure until pretty late. I just thought it was little contractions.
Post by starburst604 on Mar 19, 2015 8:57:54 GMT -5
I have an anterior placenta but I did feel movement in my 18th week to my surprise. It was definitely kicking movement, I wasn't able to feel the more subtle stuff (bubbles etc) that most people say they feel early on. It was just occasional until about 20 weeks.
Post by patches31709 on Mar 19, 2015 9:08:05 GMT -5
I don't know for sure that I've felt anything yet. I'm around 19 weeks. There are some things where I question if it's movement or not, but maybe next week after the anatomy scan, I'll be able to know for sure.
Post by centralsquare on Mar 19, 2015 10:01:25 GMT -5
I felt nothing at 16-17, and I had a posterior. I feel like there were small things in the 18-20 range, but it was at least after 20 that I felt regular small movement.
For reference, I had two anatomy scans, one at 17 and a follow up at 20. In both I saw her moving like crazy but felt nothing.
I was feeling soft taps around 16-17 weeks. I don't know where my placenta is, though? Lol, mom fail.
It came up at my appt yesterday because she had trouble finding the HB (really it was prob like 30 sec. Felt like forever though!) and when she did it was a mash up of mine and the little's. It's hard to explain but my HB sounded closer than the fetal HB. Anyway, she thinks the placenta is anterior based on that. We'll see if her hypothesis pans out.
22 weeks seems so far away! I know there will come a day, likely at 3am mid fetal dance party, when I'm all 'what was the rush?' But right now it feels like it's such a long time til the next appointment and the reassurance that everything was OK in there would be nice.
I had an anterior placement for my first. It wasn't until about 22 weeks that I felt something and quite a while longer for DH. I probably felt something a little sooner, but didn't really know what I was feeling at the time.
Post by sapphireblue on Mar 19, 2015 10:35:57 GMT -5
I started feeling little flutters around 17-18 weeks. Then they stopped. Because I have an SCH I get an ultrasound every two weeks so I've seen the baby and it moves around a lot during the ultrasounds.
The last one was 10 days ago. She said I do not have an anterior placenta, but that he is currently facing my backside, with his feet pointing to my cervix. When I asked if that was why I wasn't feeling anything she said probably. Because kicks are going toward my backside. I hope he moves around soon so I can feel it soon though!
I have an anterior placenta but I was feeling light movement around week 17 and I would have to sit very still and focus to be able to feel it. If I was walking around or busy working I wouldn't notice. I had some "is that baby or gas" stuff going on in week 16. Now at 21+6 it's definite kicks, although it's not constant. I feel a few in the morning, then he's pretty active after lunch, and I'll feel a few in the evening again. At my last ultrasound (20+3) he was squirming around and I only felt maybe 5-10% of it.
I was pretty surprised that I was feeling movement that early, and even more surprised once I learned about the AP. I'm overweight, and typically heavier women feel the baby later than thinner women.
I just started feeling taps (which I'm guessing is kicking?) last weekend, which put me around 21.5 weeks. And I have a posterior placenta. Maybe I'm just oblivious!
I had an anterior placenta last time and I think I didn't start to really feel things until about 21 weeks. This time I started to feel flutters at 17 weeks and now full gymnastics tumbles all the time. It makes me wonder if this one is just more active than H or if I just didn't feel H as much.
I have an anterior placenta and baby had her arms and legs facing toward my back at my last anatomy scan. I started feeling something that I wasn't sure was movement around 17 weeks, but started feeling definite movement over this past weekend at 19w4d. I still haven't felt any definite kicks or punches, it has been more flutters or tickles.
Post by runblondie26 on Mar 19, 2015 11:14:13 GMT -5
20 weeks with both pregnancies. I probably would have felt the baby sooner with my second (they say you do), but I had an anterior placenta that time. I never felt hiccups, and only felt the big rolls, with that pregnancy. I probably wouldn't have thought anything of it, had I not had my 1st pregancy to compare to. DD was like the karate kid in there.
I'll be 16 weeks tomorrow and swear I've felt the baby. However, I have an anterior placenta again, so it was probably just gas :/
I haven't felt anything yet at almost 18w. The answer I've gotten from the FTM around me is 16-17 w, so I'm looking for a bigger sample. Heard the HB at my appt yesterday so I'm feeling good and non-anxious about everything just curious about the range of experiences.
Hmm, 16 weeks sounds pretty early for a FTM. It thought ~20 weeks was pretty standard for FTM?
I was feeling soft taps around 16-17 weeks. I don't know where my placenta is, though? Lol, mom fail.
I would never have known if I didn't have access to my u/s reports on the patient portal. I saw it mentioned there and asked the doctor about it. Otherwise I'm not sure they ever would have mentioned it since it has no real bearing on the pregnancy.
I have a posterior placenta (the only reason I know this is because I asked). I'm sure I started feeling movements earlier, but I actually identified those movements as baby at 20w exactly, after my OB described them in a way I could understand.
I started feeling rolls and flutters around 16 weeks. I'm 19 weeks now and I have felt taps every now and again for a couple days now. I have no idea where my placenta is though.
First flutters started at 10wks 5 days with this one. I would feel little taps days after as well. Since then, I feel them here and there but not that often. I'm just 14 weeks.
I'm attributing feeling movement so early due to it being the 4th baby and my uterus was very tender in the beginning, and im thin. The tenderness barely subsided a week and a half ago.
I will be 18 weeks tomorrow and haven't felt anything. For my first pregnancy, I didn't really feel anything until 25 weeks or so. It was nerve wracking waiting so long to feel anything!