Funny Feelings

[marchmommy]

Hi Everybody!! Hope all our little ones and mommies are doing well! Maybe this is a little wishful thinking but who knows...this weekend I splurged and went out with some friends to a small local bar. I went outside every ten minutes to escape the smoke but I definitely hit the dance floor like I haven't done in five months....As soon as I stopped, my baby started-i think! I felt like someone was drumming on my lower tummy and pubic bone.....baby dancing? or protesting? or my imagination.....lemme know what you guys think!!!

[Phoenix_Mommy_4]

I have been most definitly feeling movement more and more as the weeks progress. When I first felt "flutters" it was a bout a month ago, but now their thumps. They dont happen on a regular pattern or anything (after I eat and stuff) but every now and then I get one. Its amazing feeling. I love it. Completly love it. The 5th month is an amazing time...so many things happen!


Phoenix

[RedOakMomma]

I think it was the baby! Isn't it right around now that they start hearing?? Maybe the baby liked the beat!

Someone on the chat thread, maybe ahwuko?, said she felt something like popcorn popping. That's such a perfect way of describing it (even dh liked the comparison)! Right now I can definitely tell when baby is awake....for stretches of 15 minutes or so, he or she gives me little popcorn kicks. Last night baby was kicking really low between my leg and tummy (while I was curled up in bed), and I put my hand down to feel it....I think I felt it from the outside!!!

I love, love, love this part of pregnancy.

[AppleCrisp]

I'm glad you said that because I still wasn't sure if the popcorns were baby or (sorry) just my tummy....but today all day I felt it and after I ate chocolate cake, that kid kicked me for a good hour. I am pretty sure its the baby. How exciting!

[Ell-Bell]

Me too! I've been feeling it for about a week and a half, now it's several times a day! I read that 8:00 pm - 8:00 am is when they are most active- apparently when mama is active, walking, dancing, etc, it puts them to sleep. But when we stop and relax, they wake up and are active!

I also have noticed that when DH comes home and starts talking baby moves a lot. I like to think that it recognizes his voice and is doing a happy dance that daddy is home ... but probably it is because when DH comes home it is my time to relax and baby wakes.

I also had some chocolate last night for the first time in awhile, and could feel baby much more active after that point.

Fun for us!

[AppleCrisp]

Once you feel it, should you keep feeling it? I really thought I did, but now for the past two days nothing. I'm 18 weeks today so it is still a little early.

18 weeks - wow - time is passing. Seemed like I would never get here.

[Ell-Bell]

No, I felt it once and then nothing for about a week! Then when it started again I now feel it daily. Same with a friend of mine, it was a week before she felt it again. No worries!

[RedOakMomma]

Same thing with me, ahwuko. Last week it was actually freaking me out a little. I figured out eventually that feeling the baby depended a lot on the position I was in and the pants I was wearing. Having something tight against the spot s/he is kicking is the key (for me) to feeling the kicks. If I'm wearing really loose pants or just sitting, I usually don't feel much. If I'm wearing normal-fitting pants (that are getting kinda tight around the middle ), or if I'm leaning a little on my belly while in bed, then I feel the kicks a lot better.

[nubianamy]

I'm so bummed, I'm already 18 weeks and haven't felt one kick yet! I have a retroverted uterus, so my MW said it might be a while yet.

[marchmommy]

OH, it is so fun, I feel them every day but never from the outside....i feel it and then try to touch my stomach to feel it, but then it moves....I'm 19 weeks, and my OB said I won't really feel it for another week or so!!!! Now if only my belly would pop out I'd feel perfectly pregnant!!! (I LOVELOVELOVE my second trimester, this last month has been amazing!!!)

[yvonnemlv]

Originally Posted by nubianamy

I'm so bummed, I'm already 18 weeks and haven't felt one kick yet! I have a retroverted uterus, so my MW said it might be a while yet.

I have retroverted / tilted uterus as well and i have been feeling kicks for a long time.. hmm, interesting. Maybe the placenta is in a place that dampens the kicks so you don't feel them as much too?

I love how different every mama and pregnancy is, it's so powerful and awesome!

My lil one kicks so hard already that I can feel it on the outside, as can my mom. It kind of frightens me :LOL My son almost broke my ribs near the end of his pregnancy.... I hope this lil one doesn't.

[HappiLeigh]

Originally Posted by Ell-Bell

I also had some chocolate last night for the first time in awhile, and could feel baby much more active after that point.

Chocolate...eh? Maybe that's why I've been feeling mine move a lot. :

[beansavi]

Yeah, I've read babies respond to some music with rhythmic movements, and if the music is still on, can be seen dancing with definite rhythm!
:LOL

[marchmommy]

YAY!!!! I am very musically inclined and I told my boyfriend our baby would have some awesome rhythm!! Glad he's started already

[beansavi]

Great! It seems like he is already shown you some of his personality... :LOL

[marchmommy]

OH that makes me so happy!! I'm an opera singer and I used to dance but the boyfriend wanted a Heisman winner looks like i win!

[AppleCrisp]

Originally Posted by HappiLeigh

Chocolate...eh? Maybe that's why I've been feeling mine move a lot. :

That's it...I'm going right out for some chocolate! I cut back big time when I found out I was PG.

Actually yesterday I ate spicy mexican corn chowder and the kid went nuts. At least I think that's what it was - not kicks, but a buzzy, fizzy sensation. The poor thing either hated it, or really liked it!!

[Ell-Bell]

I still have a hard time feeling it from the outside, but I feel it all the time inside now, it's so cool! I think our little bean is sneaky- every time I put my hand on my belly it stops moving! DH has only felt it twice, even though I've been feeling it for weeks. Last night I lightly put my hand on my belly when it was active, and just left it there for about 20 minutes. Finally it started to move after it must've forgotten I was there. :LOL

I always see pictures of mamas with headphones on their bellies- can the baby hear music without it? If I just listen to loud music like in the car, etc. will it hear? Sorry this is off topic. I've also been wondering when it can hear DH's voice, I swear it moves more when DH comes home and starts talking!

[yvonnemlv]

Originally Posted by Ell-Bell

I always see pictures of mamas with headphones on their bellies- can the baby hear music without it? If I just listen to loud music like in the car, etc. will it hear? Sorry this is off topic. I've also been wondering when it can hear DH's voice, I swear it moves more when DH comes home and starts talking!

Yup, baby can hear the music just fine. I don't think headphones are necessary, myself. Also, lower frequencies, typical male voice, travels through liquid much better than our female voices, so the babe actually can hear pappas voice better and before it really hears our voices, if i remember right. (That's why boats make that deep muuuuuuaaaaaaaah noise on a foggy nights.)

Cool stuff, eh?

[kellykins]

I don't feel mine very strongly or very often yet - I'm 16.5 weeks - but I do and have felt it for a while.
I had the same reaction the other night, ahwuko... I hadn't felt them in a WHILE, then all of a sudden when I was eating dinner - Skyline Chili, with all the fixings- beans, onions, hot sauce.. it was like bubbles popping, over and over, in rapid succession, in about the same spot. Hope that means they liked it!!! Odd as it sounds, its the only thing that can get rid of my migraine headaches - aside from highly caffinated Excedrin migraine which is a big nono now..