Baby Kicks

Is it normal to feel weird and like semi grossed out when feeling/seeing the small kicks?
I’m close to 23 weeks and I love seeing them and feeling them but it kinda grosses me out at the same time and I feel so bad for feeling like that 🫣😭

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omg no its understandable and the bigger they get they would make me gag a bit sometimes but i was so grateful seeing them knowing she’s ok

definitely normal! I hated seeing videos of how big some babies kicks are, it looks like something out of alien 😭😭 as chloe said though obviously it's nice having them to know they're okay but it's so uncomfortable and weird 😭

It's so normal. I'm now 31 weeks and can see the baby literally turning herself over. Being grossed out is very normal because it's so unnormal. I keep joking to my partner I feel like Sigorney Weaver in Alien waiting for the baby to just burst out of my skin 🤣 just be prepared for a foot to the ribs, that hurts and makes me take a sharp breath, and then the tap dancing on the bladder.

I absolutely HATED pregnancy. All I’ve wanted my entire life is to be a mom (breastfeeding baby dolls at age 3 😂) but I hated sharing my body, I was very ill for the entire first trimester, hated feeling the kicks, hated all the heart burn and round ligament pain, lighting crotch etc. second trimester kicks grossed me out so much that I was hoping the 3rd trimester ones would just hurt and be less gross (they weren’t). It doesn’t mean I don’t love my daughter, it doesn’t make me a bad mom. It just means that pregnancy is not the time that I thrive.

I def had the guilty moments for not “appreciating the season” like the internet tells us to but at the end of the day she’s here happy and healthy and it’s worth it. I’m not jumping at the chance to get pregnant again… but if I could go back I wouldn’t not get pregnant.

lol it’s normal it definitely felt weird for me and when I didn’t feel it I would be so worried like please continue sugar but it gave me a icky feeling because I’m not use to it

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