How early did you feel movement?

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Averys_mom

Discussion Starter · Jun 19, 2007

I may be crazy, but I think I've felt movement already at 9 weeks. This is babe #3 and I was slim to average pre-preg. Is it possible I feel the quickening already?

When did you feel movement?

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thefreckledmama

· #2 · Jun 19, 2007

Baby #1 was 18 weeks or so, baby#2 was 14.

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With #1 I didn't feel anything until 24 weeks. I had an anterior placenta.

This time, I felt definite movement at 17 weeks. I thought I was feeling things before then, but it could have just been gas.

I have heard other people talk about feeling very early movement here.

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beckyphry

· #4 · Jun 19, 2007

I don't think the baby could possibly be big enough at 9 weeks to feel anything, but you would know better than I.

I felt movement around 18 weeks, but this is my first.

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Averys_mom

Discussion Starter · #5 · Jun 19, 2007

I felt movement at 14 weeks with #1 and at 11 or 12 weeks with #2 (without a doubt). I heard baby starts moving at 6 weeks so I thought it may be possible. The movement isn't the regular fluttering, but a shift and buldge from one side of uterus to another.... I think I'm crazy.

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dantesmama

· #6 · Jun 19, 2007

My first pregnancy, I didn't feel movement until 16-17 weeks, but they were vigorous kicks right from the start!

This time, I became aware of very faint brushing-like movements at 9 weeks. Many people say you can't possibly feel movement this early, but it definitely happens. Most women can tell the difference between gas and something moving inside of their uterus, kwim?

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Banana731

· #7 · Jun 19, 2007

14 weeks this time around

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melissakc

· #8 · Jun 19, 2007

I felt DD at 14 weeks while meditating. I still haven't felt anything from this baby at 18 weeks. Anterior placenta. Maybe I should meditate and see if I can get quiet enough to feel something!

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Inspired007

· #9 · Jun 19, 2007

The first time I consciously felt her move was at 19 weeks 4 days. I know I felt her move before that but at the time I didn't know what I was feeling. It was only a few days at most. This is my first child.

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mamabearsoblessed

· #10 · Jun 19, 2007

with my first~ dd~it was at 14 weeks.
with my second~ ds~ it was a bit before 12 weeks, about the same this time around with my 3rd

:. I'm about 22 weeks now

and can feel from the outside as well

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With my first everyone said it was gas, I knew it was my Baby. As she never stopped moving once she started, and the same goes for my ds!

and FWIW I'm a fluffy Mama, I've never understood why it would be easier to feel internal movement if your thin as compared to heavy. From the outside, I could understand but from the inside, I guess I just never got that

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Congrats on your pregnancy!!

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QueenOfThePride

· #11 · Jun 19, 2007

I think I felt movement at 9 weeks too with this one. I also doubt my sanity since most people online said it wasn't possible. But I was measuring 14 weeks at nine, and since I was charting, I'm certain of my dates. I remember it, because it was the day I put my dog to sleep and I was a sobbing mess, and when I felt the baby moving, it was thrilling and made me feel a lot better. It was just a little wiggle-worm feeling every once in a while. Then I felt him having hiccups at 13 weeks.

My first I felt at 12 weeks.

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adon

· #12 · Jun 19, 2007

also around 9 weeks with this one

. i think i knew what to look for this time around. MW said it was normal to feel it that early

i can't remember when with DS....i think it was a lot later, 12wks, and i was really sick so i don't remember. this time i was just barely into m/s so i was paying more attention

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nikisazombie

· #13 · Jun 19, 2007

Well, this is my first child, I felt her move at about 20 weeks or so... and it just felt like a thump at first. I would only feel it every once in a while, and once the weeks passed, I felt her more and more... now it feels like she's having a fiesta every time I try to sleep!

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aylaanne

· #14 · Jun 20, 2007

I was 8 weeks the first time I felt something that I *knew* was baby. I was feeling stressed out, and I was lying in bed cuddling with DH, and I was thinking about the baby and how I was alternately unshakably confident or terribly worried, and I felt a little flick on the inside of my belly, down low. It wasn't gas, because I didn't have gas at the time, and it was a nice strong pop in an upward direction. I pictured it as the baby maneuvering so that he got his whole body to hit the top of my uterus to send me a message that he was Okay.

My mom said I was imagining things, but when I started feeling more regular movement at 16 weeks, it felt (and still feels) pretty much the same way as it did that first time.

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