What does it feel like when you first feel the baby move?

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I’ve heard people describe the feeling as “flutters”, but I’m having a hard time conceptualizing it. I’m 15w1d and I’ve felt what I thought were muscle spasms on my abdomen, is that it? To me they feel like they might be a little too high up.

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Ohhh fishing swimming around is a good alternative to butterflies. It almost feels like little tickles or something.

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I never understood the flutter reference. For me it always felt like muscle spasms. At least for the first few weeks. Kinda like when your eye twitches or some other random muscle, but in your lower abdomen. It will get stronger as the weeks progress and become obvious kicks and movement.

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At 13 weeks it feels like a pressure and my uterus was hard on certain sides because that’s where baby was laying. Now I’m 17 weeks and I feel the hard ball on one side and today I felt kicks for the first time. I had flutters at 9 weeks.

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It's like someone very very gently poking you, from the inside. It does not feel like fish or flutters to me, maybe a bit like muscle spasms, but really just like very light poking. The very first ones were incredibly easy to confuse with digestion related movements inside (gas bubbles etc) and I'm pretty sure that's why you feel it earlier with a second or third baby.

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I’m 17w and just started to feel flutters! Feels like butterflies or a fish swimming but I feel that just below my belly button

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I can best describe it as water ripples 🥰🥰 like when you swish you hand in water and feel that water movement you made :))

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17 weeks FTM, felt like a little worm wiggle in my very low abdominal area. Was only for a second. Happened for a few days then got a little stronger and more consistent so that I could feel it against my hand.

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Bubbles popping is the best way I can describe it. And they just get stronger and stronger until it feels like a bowling ball rolling around inside your tummy 🤣🤣🤣

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I’m 18 weeks and it feels like little tummy rumbles at times but when he really kicks it feels like someone is lightly flicking my stomach..

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Yes! I describe mine as muscle spasms - as far as how it actually feels! It feels like a muscle twitch! 💙

What does it feel like when you first feel the baby move?

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