How does it feel?

Question

I have various symptoms but when do you actually feel that there is something growing inside you - how many weeks into it?

I dont feel that something is - is that usual?

Answer 1

I'm currently 12.5 weeks into my second, and I feel nothing either. It's not unusual to feel nothing until approximately 15-18 weeks, sometimes more or less. I felt my first son squirming at around 15 weeks. That's an amazing feeling.

Generally, unless you are talking to the porcelain god every 5 seconds because of morning sickness, you will probably feel little different than you would normally do. I had an aversion to sliced cold meats my first pregnancy, and this one, cheese and bread anywhere in the same sentence will turn my stomach.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Around 5 months or so you will feel the real first signs of life.Have you ever been on a amusment park ride and for a moment and felt a flutter in your tummy as you dipped and turned? It feels alot like that.You may not notice it the first time or relize that is what it is.Waiting for it to happen again will seem like eternity but it will come.Soon after that the movements will increase so much at about 7 1/2 on you will clearly see and feel kicks and punches to your insides.My husband would have tears of joy/laughter at watching me lay on my back and my whole belly shift from one side to the other,take differant shapes as the baby moved and then look like popcorn was popping inside as tiny fists and toes poked around.It trually is a miracle and enjoy every second of it!

Answer 4

With My First At 12 Weeks I Felt Like Popping Tiny Bubbles.
But My Friend Is 16 Weeks And Has Not Felt Anything.

Answer 5

I'm expecting my first and started feeling movement at 16 weeks but I've been told thats very unusual and you don't normally feel a first baby move until much later.

It just felt like a squirmy feeling at first.

Now it feels like actual little kicks and I can see my stomach move a little bit (not the pronounced ripples and hands/feet some women talk of) when he moves. I'm 26 weeks and 5 days.

I still can't imagine my baby as an actual baby though, iguess that won't happen until he's born (we know its a boy - saw the "bits" on the ultrasound).

Answer 6

It depends on the size of the baby and how active your baby is being. When I first started to feel things at 18 weeks and it was like little flutter, any by week 32 the baby could kick a bowl of cereal off my stomach. That sometimes felt like an alien was going to pop through my stomach.

Answer 7

I'm currently 19 weeks pregnant and i started feeling little kicks when i was 14 1/2 weeks my midwife said this was an early one and you don't usually feel anything till after 16 weeks. I have a very active baby who kicks ten tonnes of crap out of my insides every night and it still hasn't sunk in that there's a little person inside me.
I was worried about it seeming so unreal that i asked my mother if it ever sunk in with her she replied "It only sank in when they put you on my stomach and told me you were a girl"
Don't worry about it, every pregnancy is different if you have any concerns speak to your midwife or even ask friends or family who have children about their experience.
GOOD LUCK xx

Answer 8

I realized that there's a life inside me when I felt first baby's movements. then it was funny and so emotionally touching to lie down and feel his soft kicks from inside and outside. I started feeling it early - abt 16 weeks (usually it happens around 20-22 weeks). before that I was also wondering if anything is really growing inside me.

Answer 9

Depends how pregnant you are? If you are just pregnant then you will get sickness and sore boobs but you won't feel the baby moving just yet it is only the size of a pea if that!! First time mother's usually feel the baby from aroung 17-22 weeks depending on the size of the baby.

Answer 10

it all depends on how far along u are cause the first couple of weeks the baby is very small like the size of rice to the size of a lemon for a while before u feel much