Feeling heartbeat above belly button

I’m 21 weeks pregnant and noticed yesterday that I can feel my heartbeat right above belly button in the abdomen. Has anyone experienced something similar? It creeps me out

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I’m 23 weeks and have been wondering the same thing! Apparently it’s not just you :)

Same Omgg I feel it all of my tummy it’s rlly weird

Yeah like Emily said, it's your aorta. I've always been able to feel it and lately I've been trying to see if hubby can feel baby but it's tough and when I was having him try for the first time, I gave him a heads up to not get confused with my heartbeat. After a couple minutes of trying to feel movement, he said "damnit woman your heartbeat is so strong!!" 😂😂😂

I've had this without pregnancy too before. My belly will literally look like it's pulsing. We have a pretty large vein that runs down the center of our bellies😁

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