I'm 15 weeks along, and this is my first pregnancy.
When should I begin feeling the baby kick, and what will it feel like? Also, how long until my husband will be able to feel the baby move by placing his hand on my belly?
Serious answers from experienced Mom's only, please.
Thanks!! = )
2006-07-07 07:49:15 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
Just wanted to say thanks to all who have taken the time to answer this question seriously! I appreciate it very much!! = )
2006-07-07 08:01:46 · update #1
I was told by everyone that when my baby kicked it would feel like butterflies in my stomach. When months went by and people would ask if she kicked, I'd tell them no. I never felt butterflies. I thought something was wrong.
Then one day, on my back in bed, I awoke to the weirdest feeling. It wasn't butterflies, but more like a tiny bubble popping. Since I had plenty of gas, I'd always assumed that's what it was. It wasn't until I was further along that I felt her kick harder. It was all in the way she had turned. I awoke my husband to feel it and we both cried. I think I was about the end of my 5th month, or beginning of the 6th.
Later, I was put on bedrest in the hospital and visitors would ask to feel it. It got stronger as she grew. When they put the monitors on my to check her, she'd kick so hard, they'd fall off.
When you are closer to the due date, the doctor will ask you to count the kicks per day. If you don't feel so many in so many hours, you have to call in to make sure your baby's ok. I freaked on this one. She only kicked 7 instead of 8, or 20 kicks in a row in the morning and nothing all day. But all was good.
congratulations!
2006-07-07 07:57:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
I have had two babies, and the kicking was so heartwarming. If you think you are attatched now, wait until you feel the first kick!!! I can't remember when they started, but it feels like small pressures pushing from the inside out. They are AMAZING!!!!! When they get a little bit bigger, they may kick you in the ribs, which is not so enjoyable, but don't be afraid to push back! I never really did, but I kind of massaged his feet away from the ribs. Your husband should be able to feel it when you do! well, congratulations on your first!! and GOOD LUCK!!!!
2006-07-07 07:56:36 · answer #2 · answered by hotmama3712 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It feels like butterflies or gas. Seriously. I think around 16 weeks is on the earlier range of things to start feeling it. I wasn't sure if it was it for sure, but then when I had the ultrasound and felt it again as I watched him kick it confirmed to me that this was it. For your first one I think it takes awhile to recognize it. I'm afraid I don't remember how long it takes until the husband can feel it externally. I think for me it was around 5 or 6 months. Quite awhile later!
2006-07-07 07:59:07 · answer #3 · answered by ham76 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first time I felt my kids move it kind of felt like butterflies fluttering around in there. Your husband won't be able to feel until the baby is roughly I would say 25 - 30 weeks.
2006-07-07 07:55:48 · answer #4 · answered by Amanda 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're husband my never feel it. It happens too fast and you won't know when it's going to happen. It feels alot like a gas bubble popping. If you are 15 weeks, you should have felt it move already. Maybe not kick, but moving around.
2006-07-07 07:53:48 · answer #5 · answered by double0negitive 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, since you asked when will daddies be able to feel it, I'll answer, too: Maybe never!
If you are thin, then your hubby may be able to feel the baby move. My wife is large, and I could never feel our baby move. There were a couple of times that I /thought/ maybe I did, but I was never really sure.
This is going to sound corny, but my wife said the early baby movements felt like gas bubbles. You know how sometimes you get bubbles in your intestines and you feel them burble-burble-burble? Well that was what she said it was like. In fact, once she was certain it /was/ the baby moving, she said she thinks she really felt it much earlier, she just thought it was gas.
2006-07-07 07:54:59 · answer #6 · answered by forth_armoury 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like butterflies fluttering in your stomach,yuo migh only feel the baby moving around at first....it will come soon after that..............then the kicks get HARDER,like a soccer player!I startee around 15 weeks to feel my baby moving,so pretty soon you will feel it.As for your husband he will have to wait until it is visible to the naked eye to touch your belly and feel the baby..it'll look like youer belly has hiccups.At 22 weks everyone should be able to feel the baby's movements.
2006-07-07 08:03:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like bubbles floating in your tummy. That's how it feels. It will probably be at least seven months before the kicks are strong enough to be felt by a hand placed on the abdomen,
2006-07-07 07:53:07 · answer #8 · answered by Del 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It'll feel like butterflies in your lower abdomen, or maybe even gas (like when you can feel gas bubbles moving through your intestines). Your husband probably won't be able to feel your baby move until long after you do...maybe end of your second trimester, beginning of your third.
2006-07-07 07:58:27 · answer #9 · answered by brevejunkie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
between 5 and 7 months others will be able to feel the baby. to me it kind of felt like a muscle spasem at times, but usually like ping pong balls rolling under my skin. it is exciting the first time you feel it. my second son would kick a lot at night because i was resting, but he would be still if i walked. he really didn't like it when i held my first son, 2 1/2 at the time, or when i would hug someone. suddenly they would get kicked. my first son thought it was nifty. my first son is 5 now so i really can't remember how he felt
2006-07-07 08:04:17 · answer #10 · answered by bcdhowell 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋