When to start feeling baby kicks
When Do You First Feel Baby Kick? | Kaiser Permanente
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the second trimester is pretty exciting
because most women start feeling their
baby move for the first time most women
will begin to feel movement around week
20 to 22 it's very common but it's also
very intermittent certain factors can
contribute to being sooner or later to
that mark including your weight the
location of the placenta and if you've
had a baby before
so for first-time moms fetal movement is
usually determined at about 20 weeks for
a woman having her second or baby or
beyond that often comes sooner and it
varies a lot from birth of the person
once you hit around 23 24 25 weeks we
would expect you to be feeling the baby
every day it generally feels like
butterflies in your stomach and will
progress to more distinct movements as
the baby becomes larger the first time
you feel it especially if you've never
been pregnant before you might think is
that somebody tapping is that some gas
to have a gas bubble am i hungry
sometimes you're not really sure what
you're feeling so you start feeling it
more consistently and then you can put
it
there so you just sort of sit there and
you're thinking it's that the baby can't
stop the baby moving I think that's just
gas I'm not sure all of a sudden you
just feel this undeniable kick and it's
just the coolest feel because popcorn if
you're like popping what it was like
going off in your stomach it does and
then it just starts getting stronger and
stronger and then it actually feels like
real kicks later on it it's just such a
cool feeling knowing that you know
you're growing this little baby inside
of you it just made it feel like there
is really somebody growing inside of me
it was pretty cool I'm very excited to
fill those first movements but as my
doctor had said you know around 20 weeks
you should start feeling it so any day
now I'm waiting for those to happen
don't really worry about it on a
day-to-day basis later on in pregnancy
we're gonna have you keep track of the
fetal movements and that's when it's
truly important
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