How unusual is this? Pregnancy question.

[Reya]

I told my OB/GYN that I started feeling kicking at 15 wks 6 days, and she was amazed. I have ALWAYS felt my kids WELL before 20 weeks--in fact, with this one, he kicked hard enough to shift my laptop by 19 weeks! At this point, as 21 weeks, you can sometimes SEE him moving under my skin. My OB/GYN acts as if this is the strangest thing she's ever heard.

 

So....do I have super-babies, or is she just kind of out of touch? When could you first feel your kiddos--especially later ones? When could they first be felt from the outside?

[Melissa in Australia]

I could feel movement at around 10 weeks, My DH could feel movement before me, he felt some of them at 8-9 weeks. Amazing isn't it! I am pretty skinny, not sure if that makes a difference.

[gardenmom5]

I vote for out of touch. I don't remember when I first felt dudeling. He was up against my back (made for difficult US viewing) and I hardly felt him most of my pregnancy.

 

 

(I consider 20 weeks LATE to begin feeling movement.)

[Pippen]

Another vote for out of touch. With one of mine I felt movement so early that I questioned myself, but my OB didn't.

[Lolly]

I even felt my first moving well before 16 weeks. I was high risk and had many early ultrasounds. I was able to see the movement as I felt it during one of those, so I know I wasn't just making it up!

[boscopup]

I felt all of mine before 16 weeks. My 2nd one, I remember feeling his first kick right around 9 weeks. I was on a plane, heading back from visiting my brother in Canada. It was pretty cool! I've felt all of mine earlier than is supposedly "normal", yet we couldn't feel them from the outside for quite a while... over 22 weeks, I believe. I'm a bit fluffy, so there's more stuff in the way. Nothing blocking me from feeling them internally though. :D

[jenL]

Time for a new OB/gyn? :huh: I'm amazed that she is amazed...

 

I would worry about her being out of touch for such a "small" thing - does that mean she's out of touch with major things she should know, like delivery procedures?

[MtnMama]

I felt both of mine way before 16 weeks, and I'm definitely not skinny!

[lavender's green]

I felt mine at about 16 weeks, and my midwife said that sounded like when she would expect it. It was actually on Christmas Eve. :001_wub:

[BigMamaBird]

Pre-16 Weeks to feel it myself. Post 20 weeks to feel it on the outside. I have a bit of "padding" so it takes a bit longer to feel the baby kicking through the insulation! :laugh:

[Parrothead]

Is it bad that I don't remember? I guestimated.

[mom2scouts]

Your OB is out of touch. My dh could feel the babies kicking him when I slept next to him earlier than that!

[higginszoo]

Definitely out of touch. My earliest was actually my second (of 4), who I felt at 11-12 weeks and dh felt from the outside at 13 weeks. She was a bit of a firebrand though, especially as a fetus. I spent a week in the hospital at 33 weeks for kidney bruising ... the only explanation that we could come up with is that she was kicking THAT hard. I was induced at not quite 37 weeks when she did it again.

 

My oldest and youngest I definitely felt at or about 16 weeks, and dh could feel them from the outside by 20-21 weeks.

 

My third is really, really mellow, and has been from the start. I didn't start feeling him until 20 weeks and he couldn't be felt outside for another 6 weeks after. He often had me worried because of his lack of movement, but I was definitely comparing to my previous pregnancies, and he was completely different from his older sister (only 17 mo age difference).

[Word Nerd]

I felt my first DD fluttering for the first time while watching It's a Wonderful Life (which earned her the nickname Zuzu), and that would have been when I was around 4 months along. It was sooner than that for my younger DD, and both had been moving around quite a bit by the time I had the 20-week ultrasound, including movement that could be felt from outside. I think it's weird that the OB would find that unusual. I do remember one know-it-all on the Babycenter birth-month group I was in telling everyone who said they were feeling their babies moving at around 14 weeks that it wasn't possible according to her research. Even though it was her first pregnancy, she knew more than anyone else about everything, including those of us who actually knew what fluttering feels like from previous pregnancies. :glare:

[I.Dup.]

Yes, out of touch. Some I have felt as early as 9 weeks, most I start feeling around 10-11 weeks, very sporadically. Much more regularly by 15 weeks. Dh usually can't feel them until 22 weeks or so (give or take, I can't remember exactly). I'm 17 weeks now and feel him/her move very regularly :001_wub: but it's still very, very light. I'm pretty sure I tend to have an anterior placenta though.

[Veritaserum]

Earliest was ~15 weeks internally. It was always closer to 20 weeks to feel externally.

[Mommy22alyns]

I felt my first at around 16-17 weeks; she felt like a little bug crawling inside of me. By 19 weeks, DH could see her moving.

[Reya]

She was a bit of a firebrand though, especially as a fetus. I spent a week in the hospital at 33 weeks for kidney bruising ... the only explanation that we could come up with is that she was kicking THAT hard.

 

I had bruises visible on the OUTSIDE of my stomach from #2. THAT OB/GYN didn't believe it, either. Thought I was running into things. Uh, no. My baby is beating me up.

[Reya]

Thanks, everybody! I seem to have the WORST luck with idiot OB/GYNs. I've had OB/GYNs who thought that secondary infertility is caused by bad sex. I've had another who honestly thought that foot massages cause miscarriage.

 

My chances of being delivered by this one are pretty much nil. You get whoever is assigned to the hospital at the moment. I'm with an HMO right now because I don't really see the point of spending an extra $4000 not to be this year.