I palpatated the babe!

[ScarletBegonias]

so the babe is big. bigger than dd at 20 wks. i can feel it's head (about the size of a tennis ball), it's back (about the width of two bananas) and it's legs are loooong.

i grabbed its' head and held its' back and moved it around until it kicked me *really* hard. the babe didn't take too kindly to mom moving it forcibly. another stubborn, ahem, i mean focused child!

[Angierae]

That happened to me last night! I was reaching down just to see where the uterus was up to, and there was this hard little ball right to my navel. I put my fingers around it and got kicked in the cervix. Message taken!

[the elyse]

i can feel a hard lump under my belly button in the morning...can't tell if it's head or butt yet. just 18 weeks! i'm actually just now feeling kicks... and they're wonderful.

[nolonger]

I found what was definitely the head through my vaginal wall at sixteen weeks. This morning, s/he kicked the keyboard that ws on my belly and it jumped about a half a foot in the air! Nlobody has felt him/her from the outside yet, but obviously now they can and I'm VERY particular about the immediate family having the first contact, so I need to be a bit careful about hugs and enforcing a "hands off the buddha belly!" just to be on the safe side.

To further complicate matters, and important member of my immediate family isn't going to be around for at least another month, so this is going to take some self-control and some standing up for myself.

[nausicaamom]

so cool. I haven't been able to feel specific body parts yet, but I'm prety sure he spends most of his time in a frank-breech position based on where I'm feeling kicks - I just imagine him reclining back in my pelvis - the back of his head leaning against my spine. My husband did get to feel a little kick this morning though, which was a first.

[isra1986]

I can feel the kicks on the outside now, but she stops moving whenever I call DH over to feel. She is definatly going tto take after her dad with being stubborn! I have not been able to feel body parts yet though. My stomach hasn't grown much at all yet! It has gotten harder, but I am still in pre-pregnancy pants!

[LoveChild421]

it is amazing isn't it?! When I lie on my back I can feel the back/butt and the head. This babe stays head down most of the time, although slightly to one side or the other. The back/butt is alternates from the left to the right side, although sometimes I get totally perplexed, its like I feel 2 butts, but maybe that's just a knee or something...

[applecore]

I'm jealous! I can't feel any body parts yet at 18 weeks. I've only felt kicks from the outside a couple of times. But my babies were both small- actually they still are pretty little people!

[ScarletBegonias]

dd was 6 lb 6 oz at birth and i could never palpatate specific body parts while pg with her. i wasn't even "obviously" pg until about 7 1/2 months. but i think experience and studying to become a mw have helped me tremendously. also, with dd, i was fearful of pushing too hard, the placenta etc, as i had 3 m/c before her and was really paranoid about something weird happening. this time i have no qualms and have fun poking around and finding parts.

[NamastePlatypus]

I have for about a week and a half now. Knowing what feels like what is easier now that i have done it before. I can always feel the shoulders, they hurt