FTM - "muscle twitches" in bump @ 15+ but anterior placenta?

[labgal]

Hi ladies,

This is my first so I have no idea what baby movements are suppose to feel like. I was running around at work all morning then finally sat down for a minute. As soon as I sat down I started to feel this noticable "twitching" in my bump - kind of like muscle spasms/eyelid twitch type feeling? It felt kind of "deep" so to speak, maybe an inch below my belly button and a bit to the left. The twitches seemed to move around a bit and lasted probably a solid five minutes. Gone now. Definately not any type of gas/bowel thing, at least that I've ever felt before.

I'm 15+ and generally in tune with my body, but Doc said because I have an anterior placenta I likely wouldn't feel any movement until 20-22. Was this movement, or maybe stretching?

 

[cncem]

Yes, that is your baby I have an anterior placenta too and felt these early twiches but no real definite kicks until 18 plus weeks or so. I feel rolls and movements now, but still not as strong and often as I did in my previous pregnancies when I didn't have an anterior placenta. My husband felt a tiny kick from deep down on my tummy last night for the first time. I would have thought he had just felt my pulse or something, but I felt a kick inside at the same time as he felt it on the outside. I thought it was going to be longer until he could feel kicks too.

 

[SteffieLee]

It definitely sounds like movement from baby, however, your 15 wks pregnant and said you felt it about an inch below your belly button? That's too high to be baby IMO. At 15 wks, the top of your uterus is more 3-4 inches below your belly button on avg. I'm 18 wks with 3rd baby and my uterus is just now 1 inch below my belly button. I'm feeling regular movements but they are very low along my pants line.

 

[labgal]

Yes, an inch, maybe two. My doc did say that my uterus is extremely high - at my 12 week check she couldn't find the baby's HB with the doppler so she pulled out the portable u/s machine, but then she discovered it was because she had the doppler down near my pants line and my uterus had already risen to just about my belly button. She laughed and said she had never really seen it so high so early but not to be worried...

My uterus was also tilted back pre pregnancy, and had righted itself by that point so I'm not sure if that's part of it?

I'm an anatomical weirdo...

 

[cookette]

I also have anterior placenta, and up until recently, was always weeks ahead on how high the uterus was. It is absolutely entirely possible for yours to be ahead of schedule and higher than "normal."

Really sounds like you're feeling baby. I was inthe 15 week range when I first felt movement also.

 

[labgal]

Thank you ladies!

 

[mandaa1220]

Def sounds like movement

 

[junbait]

Hi ladies,

This is my first so I have no idea what baby movements are suppose to feel like. I was running around at work all morning then finally sat down for a minute. As soon as I sat down I started to feel this noticable "twitching" in my bump - kind of like muscle spasms/eyelid twitch type feeling? It felt kind of "deep" so to speak, maybe an inch below my belly button and a bit to the left. The twitches seemed to move around a bit and lasted probably a solid five minutes. Gone now. Definately not any type of gas/bowel thing, at least that I've ever felt before.

I'm 15+ and generally in tune with my body, but Doc said because I have an anterior placenta I likely wouldn't feel any movement until 20-22. Was this movement, or maybe stretching?

Sounds like movement to me. I also have an anterior placenta and I'm also FTM. My first movements felt like muscle twitches around 16 weeks or so.

 

[Brightxeyes]

If it was repetitive twitches could have been baby hiccups! They're hard to mistake for anything else! Where as those early kicks can be a bit of a guessing game! And hiccups seem to make my whole belly twitch now he's bigger!