A presence vs. quickening...

[annaconda]

Hi veteran mamas...

I'm 15.5 weeks with my first and have some questions about your sensations of movement etc.

I've recently moved from feeling nothing and first trimestery to feeling much better and more energetic.  And... I can tell where my LO is.  He/she is in the spot where h/she was found at the  dating u/s and recent hb-hearing apt... which is deep on my left lower side.

So I can tell something is there.  I have felt some gassy feelings but nothing that I'd say is definitive BOOM that's the baby for sure.

Do you remember feeling a presence?  Then quickening?

I'm so excited to feel real definitive movement... do you remember this phase?  I know it will come soon enough and I'm not impatient, just curious.

Thanks!

[WifeofAnt]

I felt movement before a constant 'presence'.  Mine felt like little muscle spasms off to my left side.  I felt it around 14.5 weeks but I wasn't sure until 15.5 weeks.  By 18 weeks I could feel him on the outside under the band of my pants.

[Liora]

I definitely feel a presence from a very early stage.  It is like there is a space in my body that is not mine.  I can FEEL that there is another thing there.  I also feel movement earlier than the books say is possible.  (I feel ovulation too)

I think the books underestimate a woman's intuition and knowledge of her body!