I woke at 2am this morning feeling horrible. My head was pounding and my mouth dry as could be, i felt queasy and hurt all over. No i wasn’t coming down with something but seemed to wake up with a terrible hangover, now before everybody starts yelling at the computer NO i was not drinking last night . I think it was due to not drinking anywhere near enough water yesterday so i was becoming dehydrated , i try to drink at least two liters of water (which i normally manage easily) but was out and about and just forgot.
Don’t think it was fair had to suffer through the hell of a hangover without getting the fun part the night before, im still feeling blah this morning so trying to drink as much water as i can.
Isn’t it funny how you can not completely trust your body? How easy it is to mistake one thing for another?
Feeling the baby move is one of those issues, it varies so much from person to person - heck even from pregnancy to pregnancy and its sometimes difficult to pick out the movement from gas.
Now im NOT feeling the baby move, im only 10 weeks and one of those people who is always cynical when someone this early declares there feeling the baby. Lately though i have been feeling alot of gas bubbles that im pretty sure first time around would have had me convinced it was the baby, im guessing it could be hard to tell the difference but i can still easily tell its not the baby . With Rebecca i felt movement around 17/18 weeks and knew exactly what they were, small almost fluttery movement that would only happen when sitting still and could not be mistaken, Eilidh was slightly later around 20 weeks and started much more obviously (but i had problems with feeling her move through out the whole pregnancy, she was always pretty active but i just couldn’t feel it).
I’m always amazed the amount of mothers especially those with other pregnancies declaring at 10 weeks or even earlier they are feeling the baby move around, i don’t doubt that it does happen now and then but i don’t see how it could possibly be as common as some people declare.
I will never forget a situation on a message board i was once on, the girl was around 10 weeks pregnant and going on and on about feeling baby movement . A few others pointed out how unlikely it was and she jumped on them, it was something like her 5 or 6 pregnancy and she KNEW what she was feeling, she could tell the difference between movement and gas. The following day she went for a u/s to sadly find out she had miscarried , the baby has passed a few weeks before hand. This case is tragic and i really felt for her but felt it illustrated the point perfectly , its so easy to read into a situation the wrong way .
Part of me has to wonder whats the big deal, sure we all want to feel our baby moving around but does it matter if it happens at 15 weeks or 20 ? I think its one of these strange pregnancy competition things (like who is bigger, who is having contractions blah blah blah) that stupidly doesn’t stop when the baby is born (yes my 2 day old is already eating steaks for dinner and walking , doesn’t that make me the best mum ever!!!! )
I would love to know when others first felt movement for the first time 
I think I felt adam around 22 weeks… And matthew around 19 or 20. The baby just isn’t BIG enough to feel any earlier. Now gas… I felt LOTS of gas!!! haha.
With Saige I really did feel her moving early, I thought it was gas. At my 12 week u/s they assured me it was the very active baby, not gas. I had always heard the second one you will feel even sooner. Nope I was about 21 weeks when I first felt him move.
I think I was around 16 weeks with each of mine, a bit later with my first as I didn’t know what to expect. It’s such a rush to feel those first movements that i think some folks may be a bit premature in diagnosing “real movement.”
oh, with bean it was about 20 weeks. with this pregnancy i was shocked when i felt the baby moving at 14 weeks. there was no mistaking what i was feeling though- it definitely wasn’t gas, it was a tiny thumping sensation. i said something to the doctor and she said that she could hear the baby moving a lot when she checked the heart rate and it wouldn’t be out of the question for me to be feeling it.
Congrats on the pregnancy!! How exciting!
I didn’t feel my little one move until closer to 20 weeks if I’m not mistaken - and she’s my first and only thus far.
Hope you feel better soon!
Around 16 weeks I began to feel…something. I wanted to believe it was my baby, but I just couldn’t believe that, so early with a first baby. So I told myself it was just gas. And then at thr big 20 wk sonogram, I SAW and FELT her move at the same time…and I realized I really was feeling her move. :o) That was a magical moment!
I felt Amy move at 13 weeks. I think I was only feeling her so early because I lost alot of weight. There was basically nothing between her and me.
Nathan could feel kicks from the outside of my belly at 16 weeks and she didn’t stop.
Oh, it seemed to take *forever* with Lucas!!! I *so* wanted to feel him move, and I kept waiting and waiting … finally, in November 2004 I felt him move for the first time (and consistently). So I was four months along. With Meredith, it was quicker … I felt her first movement the day before my big ultrasound to find out boy/girl … that was May 2006, so I was three months along.
I first felt Isabella move around 18 weeks, I think. I was constantly doubting everything I felt, so it might have been even earlier than that, but I second-guessed her movement for gas. And you’re right, it is an odd, silly competition between women.
I don’t even know lol… I didn’t know I was pregnant until I was 19.5 weeks along lol…
You know, it’s funny, but I don’t really remember. I’m pretty sure I was past the 20 wk point with Lauren….. Will was a little earlier, maybe around 18 weeks.
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