how soon can you feel a baby moving in you?

Question

and what exactly does it feel like to those of you that have felt it? what symptoms usually occur in the first trimester?

Answer 1

I felt my son at 16 weeks. It didn't feel like the bubbles or butterflies everyone talks about though, it feels more like a muscle twitch way deep in your stomach, it's super cool!!

Symptoms in the 1st trimester are different for everyone. Usually you'll be really tired and maybe nauseated. Different smells and foods will bother you. You may get headaches as well. By the second trimester, you'll be back to yourself again, with lots of great energy, etc. It's awesome::)) Good Luck!

Answer 2

You can feel your baby move as early as 16 weeks if you are super skinny or have had children in the past. Most people feel their baby move around 20-24 weeks or so if it's a first child. Mostly because they dont realize what they are actually feeling is the baby! Some people describe it as a gas bubble, or fluttering like butterflies in your stomach. The first trimester expect to feel super tired, you may have sore breast, stomach upset, some people have morning sickeness in the morning or night or all day that lasts several weeks until you are almost in your 4th month.

Answer 3

I felt my son move at 15 weeks. To me it just felt like a little flutter inside. As soon as I felt it i knew what it was. The first couple of months my breast hurt soooo bad, I couldn't stand my clothes to touch them. I had nausea very bad during the first trimester, even lost weight. Everyone's symptoms are differrent some have them all and some are perfectly fine.

Answer 4

the best way to describe the movement is.... it did not feel like fluttlers or bubbles popping, it felt like something was inside between my hips and sometimes up towards my stomach poking here and there. I felt that for awhile and then when I had my ultrasound that verified the movment for me. I was about 18 weeks when I felt it. Sorry I really don't know about the 1st trimester symptoms, I really did not have any except neasea and extremely tired all the time

Answer 5

Baby will not be felt till 2 trimester about 16 weeks... during your first trimester you will have the normal moring sickness (not always just in the AM), tireness, little to no weigh gain, though at he end of it you will start to feel your pants being too tight, some women get very sexually driven then. Intercourse will be painful at times, you can be overly emotional due to the hormones.

Answer 6

I felt mine move at about 22 weeks. Every women experiences different symptoms in the first trimester. My only symptom was itchy nipples. I seriously though that I was going to scratch them off. You may get no symptoms at all or you may get a whole array of symptoms.

Answer 7

I felt it moving at about 17 weeks, but i didnt realise thats what it was.
First trimester, I had heartburn, nausea, and lack of appetite
Second trimester I didn't have much at all, still a bit nauseous, little heartburn, felt the baby kick and had people say to me, are you pregnant?
Third trimester, Nausea, Heartburn (worse than first) uncomfortable sleeping, belthing the crap out of me, cant bend over, and have people rubbing my belly constantly. GRRR I am not buddha!

Answer 8

First time moms generally don't feel the babies movements (called "quickening") until around the 18th week.

I felt my baby move around 16.5 weeks (but only if I was paying attention for it and laying still...it took me until around 20 weeks to be able to feel the baby without having to concentrate)...lots of people say that it feels like flutters, a goldfish swimming inside your belly, gas bubbles, etc

Mine personally feels like when you get a muscle twitch in the corner of your eye...but I have it in my lower belly instead!

It's a pretty neat feeling!

Answer 9

I think the first time I felt movement was around the 4th month. It is like a flutter or gas moving. (sorry it is the best way to describe it) And the second that it happens you know. It is just in stink

Answer 10

First time moms typically feel the little pokes and flutters between 18 and 21 weeks. Experienced moms, earlier, often by 15 weeks, and almost always by 20 weeks.