Baby kicks

I know it's different for everyone but when did you first feel your baby kick? This is my first pregnancy and I'm 14 weeks and I've been waking up with sharp pains in my sides and sometimes I'll be able to go back to sleep but sometimes I just look at the wall to force myself back to sleep. This morning I woke up around 2am to go to the bathroom and couldn't really go back to sleep till 5am

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I felt the baby for the first time at 14+6, but not kicking as babies are very small at that gestational age. For me, it was more like a bubble popping feeling, and I never had pain on my side at that stage.

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You might be feeling round ligament pains. Kicks especially early on dont usually hurt and arent sharp. I started feeling “quickening” around 15-16 weeks and it was more like the feeling of gas or bubbles rolling across my lower abdomen. Im 36 weeks now and the kicks and rolling is much stronger but still not sharp

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I had a popping feeling at 16w3d while a was having a shower then nothing for 3 days.. at 17weeks I started to feel him everyday… and at 19w4d my husband started to feel his kicks as well 🥰 I have an high posterior placenta

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Around 13 weeks i felt strange fluttery bubbly feelings

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Around 15 weeks I had Indian food and thought I had indigestion...felt like a fish tickling my tummy. Just never stopped. Felt actual kicks around 22 weeks.

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This is my first pregnancy as well! I first felt my baby at 16-18 weeks and it was just the “bubbly” kind of feeling up until about 22 weeks then I started feeling my babies soft kicks, for me the kicks got harder and more frequent with every week that past.

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I felt my baby at 14 weeks, it wasn't painful at all, it felt like light bubbles or even like a little twitch right above my pubic bone area. Round ligament pain is a bitch though, that hurts.

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