when is your first movement?

[VickiR]

Hi i was wondering how many weeks you are when your fell your baby first move? this is my third pregnancy but my youngest child is 7 amd i can not remember when she first moved but i think it was about 20 weeks i was just wondering if anyone due in April felt the baby move yet or knows about when the first movement is about?

[SamLB]

I'm 16w6d pg and have felt the baby for about the last 10 days now...it started off so light - a tiny, almost undetectable ligh flutter - and in the last couple of days has become a little stronger. This is my 2nd and I can't remember whaen I started to feel my little girl in my last pregnancy, but they do say that with subsequent pregnancies you often feel 'movements' (if you can call them that) earlier than in a first pregnancy...

[Glenda306]

I'm currently 14w3d pg with my 4th baby.  I know I felt movement earlier with each child--mostly because I was more familiar with the feeling each time.  I honestly think I felt a little flutter of movement 2 weeks ago at 12w3d, but the dr thought I was nuts.  Even if you do feel movements very early, they are very infrequent.  The experts say that you usually feel the first movements from 16-20w, but there are a lot of variables (mom's weight, # of pgs, etc.).  I've heard of people saying they felt movement at 8-9w, but I find that unlikely.

[momof2with1onway]

this is my 3rd pregnancy and i felt the baby for the first time at 15wks i am now 17wks. with my first child it was around 20 wks and my second was around 17/18wks. my doc told me that it may be because im small im only 5'3 and before i got preggo i weighed 98 now i weigh 101!!!! well good luck!!!

[JamieLee_cherokeemommy]

With my first,my son I felt him move at around 16/18 weeks, with this baby I started to feel him/her move around 16 weeks (I am now 17 1/2 weeks). I describe it as a 'rolling feeling', to me it doesn't, never has, felt like 'butterflies'. My doctor said when you feel your baby move depends on how active you are, your body porportion and how active he/she is. I am 5'6 and originally  118 lbs., now 122 :).  Good luck! :)

[cminamyer]

I'm just now 16 weeks and I am pretty sure I felt the baby move for the first time about 2 days ago.  The reason I say I'm pretty sure is because everyone says it's really early... I started feeling my DD move at arond 17 weeks and the Dr. told me it was to early.  But I'm very tall and thin, this is me second pregnancy and my daughter will only be 2 on Nov. 11 so maybe it's easier for me to feel it because it hasn't been that long since I was pregnant... I've had gas pains and stuff like that before but this was differant.  Hope I helped, I've heard it takes a while for some women and there are some on here that say they felt the baby move at 10 or 13 weeks.