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[timesway]

It's weird isn't it.. I'm starting to wonder about hiccups they say you start feeling them about how but I've never understood how u differentiate between hiccups and kicks?!minea an act e lil thing.. I can tell this is gonna hurt as he gets bigger!!!

[Trisha Kalous]

Originally Posted by timesway 

It's weird isn't it.. I'm starting to wonder about hiccups they say you start feeling them about how but I've never understood how u differentiate between hiccups and kicks?!minea an act e lil thing.. I can tell this is gonna hurt as he gets bigger!!!

I could never tell when my DD had hiccups! I just thought everything was movements :)

[jessmn]

Originally Posted by timesway 

It's weird isn't it.. I'm starting to wonder about hiccups they say you start feeling them about how but I've never understood how u differentiate between hiccups and kicks?!minea an act e lil thing.. I can tell this is gonna hurt as he gets bigger!!!

yeah I have no idea how you'd tell if they are hiccups! Maybe they are more rhythmic? I haven't felt anything like that yet.

[eepeepee]

Originally Posted by jessmn 

yeah I have no idea how you'd tell if they are hiccups! Maybe they are more rhythmic? I haven't felt anything like that yet.

Exactly - I just figured they were hiccups since they seemed to be happening at regular intervals?  Again, though, who knows...

[jessmn]

Originally Posted by eepeepee 

Exactly - I just figured they were hiccups since they seemed to be happening at regular intervals?  Again, though, who knows...

Who knows but I love the idea of a hiccuping baby! If I feel something like that I'm totally calling it hiccups :)

[scary biscuits]

yeah I have no idea how you'd tell if they are hiccups! Maybe they are more rhythmic?

Rhythmic is exactly how I'd describe them:) I had them or rather my little guy did last time around and it was just a different sort of movement than rolling over or kicking. I didn't even know what it was at first and when I talked it over with my doctor and she said hiccups I was like Oh yeah! It's totally that:)

[GabiCristian]

I just barely started feeling movement yesterday! Yesterday night I was lying on my stomach in bed and I could definitely feel baby moving around in there, but I couldn't feel anything in any other position. But today I can feel her all the time! I can even feel it from the outside, though it's not super obvious. DH said he couldn't feel anything yet from the outside, but that will come.

[Quinalla]

Yeah, with DD, hiccups were rhythmic, so it was pretty easy to distinguish them from kicks at least towards the end. My DD was hiccuping all the time at the end (several times a day and she continued to hiccup a lot as an infant), but it was reassuring to know where her head was because I wanted her head down!

I'm starting to feel the babies separately now which is very cool! I can't wait for my ultrasound on 1/9 to confirm their positions. I can definitely palpate, but it is hard to tell what is a head vs. butt

[timesway]

i think i just worked out what hiccups are.. i had laptop on my belly and it started moving.. and i could feel a sort've pip-pop sortve jumpy movement which was enough to make the laptop wobble.. had quite a few in a row .. does that sound right?

[TwilightJoy]

How long after you started feeling movement did you feel it "regularly"? What's the longest "normal" period of time to go without feeling anything?

Today I felt nothing until about 4pm, and then it was 2 little pushes. Around 7 I felt 4-5 little pushes... and then that's it for today. Is that normal?

[CoBabyMaker]

TJ, I'd say we're early enough that not feeling a ton is pretty  normal.  I am 20 weeks with my third and have really only been feeling this little guy regularly in the last week.  Even at that, it's only in the evenings that I feel him.  He's a bit of a night owl I guess!

[Quinalla]

Sounds like it timesway!

Twilightjoy, there were still lots of days until just recently I wasn't feeling movement. It's finally getting regular everyday a few times a day for me now, but I have twins too so more movement, I don't think it was this early last time with one for regular movement. I think a lot depends on position of the baby(ies) until they are bigger!

[TwilightJoy]

Oh good, thanks for the reassurance, ladies!

I sure will feel better once I'm feeling this LO all day long. Looks like I just have to be patient!

[PhilsBabyMama]

Originally Posted by scary biscuits 

Rhythmic is exactly how I'd describe them:) I had them or rather my little guy did last time around and it was just a different sort of movement than rolling over or kicking. I didn't even know what it was at first and when I talked it over with my doctor and she said hiccups I was like Oh yeah! It's totally that:)

Yup. Rhythmic. I haven't felt this baby hiccup yet, but with Maddox, we were really confused at first when he was hiccuping. My husband thought maybe it was a pulse, but there's no way you just suddenly develop areas where you can feel your pulse like that. Then we realized they were hiccups. Maddox would get them all the time inutero and at 5 years old, he still ts hiccups more than any kid I know. He gives himself hiccups any time he starts laughing really hard. I wonder what was so funny when he was still in my belly.

[PhilsBabyMama]

Originally Posted by TwilightJoy 

How long after you started feeling movement did you feel it "regularly"? What's the longest "normal" period of time to go without feeling anything?
Today I felt nothing until about 4pm, and then it was 2 little pushes. Around 7 I felt 4-5 little pushes... and then that's it for today. Is that normal?

I've been feeling this baby move regularly, but he's only recently started moving much during the day. (I'm 22 weeks) I would go all day long and not feel him until I laid down in the evening. It was honestly like clockwork. I'd feel him kicking the same time every night. Could be that I was on the move so much during the day that I didn't notice the little nudges, or just that he was sleeping then.

My husband was actually able to feel the baby move very early at 16 weeks, and then I hardly felt anything for a few days after. I think it really just depends what position the baby is in, where your placenta is, etc. on how strong or often you feel movement early on.

[eepeepee]

I totally SAW movement when I was in the bath just now.  I was super excited that it wasn't like that scene in Alien.

[eepeepee]

Ooh, and also: we went to see Django Unchained yesterday, and she was super active and kicky during most of the (almost three-hour) movie.  (Guess she was bored?)  There was one scene, though, with lots of gunfire for like five minutes straight (Tarantino, obvi), and she went TOTALLY STILL for the whole duration of it.  And as soon as it stopped, I felt a tentative poke, like she was saying, "uh...is everything okay out there?"  What a little observer I have in there.

[Loogiejane]

I still feel movement everyday. Though these past couple days I've been sick the movement has been less often :( but we're getting back on track. It's so sporadic for me too. I used to think it was mostly nighttime movement but it's really all throughout the day at random times. And the past week I've been able to feel from the outside! Of course when "I bring DH over to feel all movement stops and he's sitting there for 5 minutes feeling nothing. Then he goes into the other room and I feel it again

What I have a hard time grasping though is this: So, I feel movement, and I know what I've got in there is a "human", yet a human who can't survive on his/her own! So like, I can feel you, and you're human, but you're not human enough to survive? Yet I can still feel you? It's just so weird. 

Grrrrrrrrrrrrr and then I go to Google "23 weeks gestation" or "23 weeks baby in utero" to get an image of a drawing or computer generated image of what size the baby is and I get REAL LIFE PHOTOS OF BABIES OUT OF THE WOMB!!!     and I freak. It is so very shocking.

[FarmerMomma]

I feel ya loogiejane. I did that at 16 weeks I think. It was grusom. I think aborted fetuses should have their own category so they aren't stumbled upon by unsuspecting pregos.

TJ what I figure is that we're probably not feeling every kick and stretch at this point. Probably what we're feeling is more of the full body rolls. Kind of like sharing blankets in bed. You don't feel the little adjustments your sleep partner makes, but a roll over definitely shifts the blankets on our side. Lol.

I did a prenatal yoga video this morning. When we were dancing with our bump I started crying. I've been emotional.

[Loogiejane]

Originally Posted by FarmerMomma 

When we were dancing with our bump I started crying. I've been emotional.

I balled my eyes out today when DH decided to take his brunch and coffee into the living room to watch football instead of choosing to sit and eat with me in the kitchen. He was going out to play in his basketball league afterwards too and we hadn't spent the morning together because we slept in so I asked, "is your plan to watch football til you need to leave for basketball?" this (what he thinks are obnoxious questions) bothered him, he came back to sit with me and said "this is nice" but by that time I was too upset and just told him to go back and watch the football because I had nothing to talk about with him anyway, that he already made that choice of wanting to watch football instead of be with me. Then I went into the bathroom and cried. 

Hello hormones. 

(ok, that had nothing to do with feeling movement. Except, in my state of being upset, I felt movement and very meanly thought to myself, "hmph, I can feel that and you can't, and I'm not inviting you over to feel either, jerk)