Early baby movement?

Question

I’m almost 19 weeks and I don’t know if I’ve felt baby move yet. People talk about “flutters” and I don’t know exactly what that means. I’ve had a couple times where I felt some random pressure and felt a little off for a little bit... is this the same thing? So confused. My MIL seems concerned that I haven’t felt anything. She said she felt flutters with her first pregnancy at 16 weeks.

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The pressure might be your uterus contracting (Braxton Hicks, maybe). The first movements feel a lot like gas bubbles moving throughout your lower belly. At 19 weeks, you might feel them closer to your belly button. I always use a Doppler at the beginning of my pregnancies to be able to hear the babies heartbeat and to hear their movements, which allows me to correlate the sound to what I’m actually feeling :)

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I'm 20+5 and all I've felt is what I can explain as a rolling feeling

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I didn’t know what flutters meant either. I wouldn’t have even considered the feeling a “flutter”. It’s more like a little tap. I first felt my daughter kick when I was 20 weeks pregnant. I had an anterior placenta so she was set a bit further in so I would have to push in a little bit to feel her kick. But I remember feeling her the first time and staying still waiting for her to do it again to make sure I was right. You just know. I know that may not help but it’s true. You’ll understand when it happens to you!

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A lot of people don't feel movement until 22 or so weeks. Call your doc if you need peace of mind but everyone is different. I felt them at 15ish weeks...all my sisters felt them around 20-23 weeks with all their babies. If the doc says you have been healthy try not to worry.

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Everyone feels baby move at different times Espically when it’s your first pregnancy.  Just because she felt it at 16 weeks doesn’t mean that you need to worry your placenta could be in the front causing you to not feel things just yet. Or baby could be in a funny position causing you to not really feel them yet.  Normally between 16-24 weeks people start feeling flutters, kicks etc. Others just don’t notice till further along they are still pretty light feeling until later on. A common way to describe the flutter feeling is like when you get “butterflies” in your stomach when your nervous etc, could also be like a muscle twitch but it’s actually baby. As you begin feeling the movements and really focusing in on them it begins to get easier to notice it happen. As long as your doctor isn’t concerned I wouldn’t be concerned. You’ll feel him or her soon. Best of luck

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I felt flutters around 16 weeks. I’d describe them as butterflies or gas bubbles 😂

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