They say that 1st time mother can start feeling their little one moving between the weeks 17 and 20 (and earlier for second time mother) - My partner is wondering when HE will be able to feel our baby moving with his hand on my tummy?
Would it be on the same time scale as me or the movement will be too subtle?
I would prefer comments from present or past experience instead of being referred to another pregnancy website.
Many thaks in advance for all your answers !!!
2007-03-25 07:59:18 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
When you first feel it it will be like butterflies or gas bubbles...it might even be a week or so before YOU figure out that it's the baby for sure LOL. It will be so weak for a while that he won't be able to feel it even close to when you do. Sometime 6th to 7th month is when he should be able to share the good stuff.
2007-03-25 08:05:11 · answer #1 · answered by Proud Mommy of 6 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It depends a bit on luck! I would find that from 20 weeks onwards I could sometimes feel kicks if I put my hand on my tummy, but it was maybe only once a day. So my hubby was never around when it happened! Babies have this great habit of totally stopping as soon as someone else put their hand there!
As the weeks go on more and more of the kicks will be able to be felt from outside, so there is more chance of your partner being able to catch one. He definitely won't be able to feel those first little kicks that you get at 17/18 weeks because they are really tiny movements and very deep inside you.
My hubby first felt kicks when I was about 23 weeks.
2007-03-25 21:10:53 · answer #2 · answered by Ricecakes 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can feel it before your partner does of course; but it wont take long, maybe another two weeks, before the movements are so strong that you wonder why you were never aware of them before!
About 20-22 weeks, your partner should have the same joy as you. There is nothing in the world like that feeling of new life moving inside you.
2007-03-25 10:50:04 · answer #3 · answered by marie m 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I started feeling my second baby at 16 weeks, I am now nearly 18 weeks and you can just sometimes feel them when i hold my hand on my tummy. But they are quite faint, you have to be quite patient waiting for them.
Around 20 weeks is probably the best time to start feeling them properly..
2007-03-25 08:33:09 · answer #4 · answered by LadyDeville 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
all pregnancies are different hun ,so some will feel it sooner or others later, my daughter is expecting her first baby,she felt him move around 18 weeks then about 22 weeks she asked me if i could feel him,i felt a little flutter,but over the weeks i can actually feel him kick, i tried to listen to his heart once and he kicked me in the head lol was a good kick too, she is now 28 weeks and and getting stronger all the time
congrats and hope hes feels baby soon as its a wonderful feeling.
well is with me as its my first grandchild
2007-03-25 08:33:48 · answer #5 · answered by ♥♥™Tia™♥♥ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In my experience you'll feel it for about 4 weeks before he'll be able to.
I started to feel it at 20 weeks but it was almost 25 weeks before my hubby could feel it too.
i think as soon as i called out to him the baby stopped moving, he reckons just to annoy him!!
but, everyone is different so don't panic if you don't feel it at 20 weeks, some people take a bit longer.
xxxxx
2007-03-25 08:11:00 · answer #6 · answered by lola 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hey, i'm currently 33 weeks pregnant wiv my 1st, my partner culdn't b bothered to be around to feel my lil girl kick, but i could feel her kicking on my hand about the 22, 23 weeks mark. i kno what u mean abt the web sites, most tlk a load of bull!!
does ur partner kno that dependiong on how much fluid u hav around ur baby, he suld b able to HEAR the heart beat around the 28 week mark? just putting his ear 2 ur stomach n babes heartbeat is strong enuf 2 b heard very faintly. just b in a quiet place n slow ur breathing dwn n he SULD b able 2 hear!!! apparently a very cool thing...shame i cnt get me ear dwn there!!
good luck, n u may think u need a bloody gd fart the 1st time u feel a kick, but dnt b fooled! its baby moving around!
2007-03-25 11:19:45 · answer #7 · answered by evilbunnyhahaha 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i first felt my baby move at 16 weeks this was just little flutters i was around 21-22 weeks when i felt a proper kick but it wasn't till around 24 weeks that my partner first felt him but this didn't happen that much but now I'm 31 weeks and every time my partner puts his hand on my belly he kicks or moves its like he knows its his dad weird.
congrats
2007-03-25 09:07:01 · answer #8 · answered by Sam W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your partner will be able to feel slight movement at about 22 weeks!
2007-03-25 08:12:54 · answer #9 · answered by grainne 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm 24 weeks along and my husband was able to (finally, in his words) feel the baby moving around. Now that he can, his hand doesn't leave my belly!
2007-03-25 08:05:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋