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potbelly asked on 12/14/2008 9:59:44 AM Report this post
Hi everyone and Happy Sunday!

So, I just felt a little "gurgling" in my belly, up near the top of the center of my belly. Is it possible that it could be the baby or is it too early to tell? This is my 1st, I'm at 13wks and 6 days.

And since we're on the subject, any of you with kids or pregnant, when did you first feel movement? Yay, an unexpected poll LOL!!


Mara04 said on 12/14/2008 10:47:45 AM Report this post
I suppose it could be movement but thats awfully high for 13 weeks. I'm 24 weeks and my uterus is only about an inch over my navel. Alot of my movements are around my belly button area or lower. I think she likes to kick my scar tissue cause it hurts lol Last night I rolled over too fast and I swore she crashed into my ribs lol I was laughing cause it was funny but crying cause it hurt lol

Mara04 said on 12/14/2008 10:49:28 AM Report this post
Oh, with my osn, I was maybe 13-14 weeks but he was freakishly strong, still is, and there was always speculation I was further along than that. This baby took til 18-19 weeks. I have an anterior placenta and I think she's lazy lol But I was worried when I hadn't felt a thing ajnd had no belly by 18 weeks so they did a non stress test. The heartbeat was strong and since then she hasn't stopped moving for about 10 minutes lol

sheababy44 said on 12/14/2008 11:11:34 AM Report this post
I am feeling mine too. And i am 13w1day. I have been feeling the baby for about a week. I felt it early with my 3rd baby too. So i guess the more babies you have the earlier you feel it cause you know what to look for. But everyone feels it at different time. I am happy that you are feeling it. It is exciting and new.

esp9 said on 12/15/2008 11:37:59 AM Report this post
I just read that 3 or 14 weeks isnt to early to feel flutters... especially if this is not your fist pregnancy.

So be think positivly, It's a flutter!!!!

Mara04 said on 12/15/2008 1:31:24 PM Report this post
Wait til those flutters become jabs and those jabs become hoofs lol My sons feet still arent allowed anywhere near me and he's almost three lol

Nikki1982 said on 12/15/2008 1:44:36 PM Report this post
LMAO Mara...Peanut is still grounded for something...I cant remember what it is, but I know she/he did something to piss me off. and, I haven't started to get beat up yet.

Charmaine26 said on 12/15/2008 7:30:06 PM Report this post
I was 15 weeks or so, and all the movement I felt was pretty low for the first little while, I remember my MIL was like I want to feel the baby move and I was like ummm I don't really want your hand all the way down there lady! Now he is getting up higher so I don't mind so much!

rara said on 12/15/2008 8:02:57 PM Report this post
i'm due december 26th, i'm getting awfully tired of the jabs, pokes and punches!! because it's my second they said he'll engage later so i'm still feeling tons of movement even this late.

it's so funny, i looked so forward to feeling it again, then you savour it when it comes, now i'm just dying to have a still belly again!

potbelly said on 12/16/2008 5:03:21 AM Report this post
Thanks for all your replies! I havent felt anything since so I'm thinking it wasn't the baby at all. Oh well- something to look forward to in the upcoming weeks though!

millijess said on 12/16/2008 9:37:09 AM Report this post
I first felt movement at about 16 or 17 weeks (its my first) I might have felt it earlier though because everyone told me it would feel like butterfly flutters...it didnt', at least not for me! I described it more like a gas bubble rolling over that went no where (which is how I knew it wasn't gas :D). However, most my movement was felt really low, actually until just the last few weeks or so. Now baby's favorite place is to jam itself up in my ribs (I'm 32 weeks).

Anyway, I hope you feel it soon! The most worrisome part of my pregnancy so far was between 13 and 17 weeks when I wasn't sick anymore and couldn't feel the baby move. Good luck!

Froggy5 said on 12/16/2008 10:25:32 AM Report this post
rara wow a december baby my oldest brother was born on christmas like 34 years ago are u hoping for the baby to be here before christmas u only have a few weeks to go i havent felt nothing yet but i am only 8 weeks so it will be a little while for everyone having their first baby it's the greastest thing to feel the baby for the first time but this is my 3rd and i cant wait to feel the baby i like the kicking around it's so cool and my kids cant wait they wanna feel the baby they touch me everyday and ask when are we goin to feel the baby and they wanna know what the baby is i say we have to wait till march k i have talked alot ok

Mara04 said on 12/16/2008 11:47:27 AM Report this post
Yeah I remember loving the movements at first then its like ok yeah I've had enough lol I thought for sure I was going to be the first woman to give birth by explosion lol I heard too with your second you do engage later but right before you are gonna go into labor. It's like what takes two-three weeks to happen in your first takes a day or two in your seocnd. Nothing happened in my first so I'm just hoping something happens this time! lol

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