Baby moving!

I’m so confused… so I’m 17 weeks and 5 days, everyone keeps asking if I’ve felt the baby move and saying it should be flutters or bubbles I can’t recall feeling anything like that but the past couples of days I’ve had like pulse type feelings in my lower abdomen. This is my first baby so i don’t know what to expect.

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I had this too around 16/17! It feels to me like when your eye is twitching or a pulse in your finger haha! And I asked midwife and they said it would be baby! Now I can definitely feel that it is baby I’m 18 weeks today.

Oh my god I thought I was going crazy🤣 because when I was telling people they was like that’s not exactly what it feels like! After it goes it makes my belly feel all weird😂xx

I am 18 weeks and 2 days I’m not sure I can feel anything . I keep having quiet moments I can sit still and take it in but I’m convinced it’s wishful thinking 🤣 or gas .

I keep thinking I can feel something but I think it is just gas haha… im 17+5 x

I literally said the my partner it feels like something inside me and he said well yeah obviously your pregnant 😂😂😂! It will happen soon, I seen the midwife on Wednesday she asked if I had felt it move and said no as soon as I left the doctors I started getting this little feeling xxv

I feel like little flutters but shortly after I just trump so I’m just thinking I’ve got trapped wind. I’m currently 16 weeks and soo unsure xx

I’m 17+4 with my 7th baby and I haven’t felt movements yet xx

I haven’t felt anything yet at 18 weeks
But at my last private scan she said it’s usually a bit later for first time mums and can be later if your placenta is at the front like mine is
Xx

@Gemma omg i feel this all time didnt have it with me son lol

Approaching 16 weeks with my 3rd and haven’t felt movement yet. At my last scan the sonographer mentioned I may have an anterior placenta and with the boys I had posterior so felt movement a lot sooner!

I’m just over 15 weeks and had a flutter the other day. I told my boyfriend and he asked me if I was sure it wasn’t a fart 😂 I was like I have never experienced this before! Not a fart!!! Hahaha

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