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Q: What Does This Mean???????
asked by: ftmommy201 on August 1st, 2004
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When have some of you first felt flutter's?? If I am already feeling them could I be further along than I thought?? I know it's not gas, I have never felt this before in my life!!!! I am just unsure on when you begin to feel these?? Not to mention that my belly is alot bigger than the week's that my doctor said! Family and friend's are beginning to see the difference and I am already in maternity clothes. I haven't ate that much and I have been watching my weight. It just keep's growing and growing..Lol.....But I was just wondering when it was normal to first feel flutter's?? Could some mother's out there help me out? When did most of you begin to show and what not? And begin maturnity stuff? I have heard that it is very rare to begin all that at 2-month's and that most women don't begin to show until mid-of 3rd month to end of 4th month?
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KissyBai912
replied on August 1st, 2004
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How far along are you??? I felt flutters about 17 weeks.....I thought I had at 12 but it was just gas. Haha. Gas feels different when your pregnant. At least it did to me.
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ftmommy201
replied on August 1st, 2004
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According...
If I conceieved when I "know" I did I would be beginning the 15th week, baby at 12week's...Doc say's I am 12weeks..Give or take 7day's, making baby either 10 or 11, that's why I think I am further along. I have had "alot" of gas...Lol.....But this feeling is totally different!!! It is hard to explain!! I laugh every time, cause it's something I am not used to, gas on the other hand..Lol...I don't laugh too much..Hehe....I have heard that my baby might be a few cm's smaller than normal, causing date's to be off. I deffinetly have a pregnant bump also!!!!
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yakeenmami
replied on August 1st, 2004
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I felt it at about 17 weeks. I knew what it was b/c I kept feeling it. Now I am 35 weeks and what used to be little flutters feel like the baby is trying to bust right through my stomach
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ftmommy201
replied on August 1st, 2004
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Lol...
I can't wait until I get to that point!!!! I can only imagine! The flutter's are awesome so I can't wait to actually feel the real movement :d
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groomer23
replied on August 2nd, 2004
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Hmm...
Have you thought about the possiblity of twins? That would cause you to be showing more quickly!
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Jane Down
replied on August 2nd, 2004
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I didn't feel proper movements and 'flutters' until 20-21 weeks. But it is definitely true that gas feels different when you are pregnant, presumably because as the uterus grows and fills up more space it alters the position of other organs and bits of intestine! I felt bubbling and rippling and things that felt like it could be baby movements from as early as 12 weeks but once I felt the "real thing" I realised that the previous feelings were gas. So whilst yours may be very early movements it wouldn't suprise me if they were actually just gas at this stage. I started to get a bloated abdomen as early as 8 weeks and to me it was obvious I was pregnant but to anyone who didn't know me they would never have noticed. The real bump started to look really obvious at about 15-16 weeks when it seemed to pop out over night! Now at 24 weeks I look really pregnant!
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ftmommy201
replied on August 2nd, 2004
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Well..lol...ummm Twins
Twins run on both his and my family..Ahhhhhhhh...Lol.......I have had women come up to me in places such as a grocery store and ask when I was due and also had friend's visit who all talk about my cute belly..Lol...But other people at my parent's church and old work places have deffinetely noticed the "bump".

They did an ultrasound that showed only one fetus..Is it possible that they can overlook another one?? I am deffinetly popping out and as far as constipation I have no problem's with that and take stuff doctor's told me to so I don't have that problem. But twins are a possibilty but I have only seen one baby?!!
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sb
replied on August 2nd, 2004
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Hey I say you probably are just intuned with your body. Some peole just notice things alot more. So just go with the flow. Your little one could be just very active. But just enjoy it because there is nothing else in the world that feels as amazing as feeling your baby move. :p
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linuxChique
replied on August 2nd, 2004
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I felt it for the first time at 17 weeks. It felt like someone touched me from the inside. More recently I have felt it again. This time it felt like a twitch, but I could tell that my muscles didn't move or twitch.
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ftmommy201
replied on August 2nd, 2004
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Thank's Guy's
Laughing thank you for all the input!! I am so excited, I can't wait until the time the baby get's here!!! I hope everyone elses pregnancy goes ok!!
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Kit
replied on August 3rd, 2004
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With my second child I was in maternity clothes at 6 weeks, and I wasn't "heavy". I was definately showing. Sometimes your uterus just knows where to go, but this is usually in subsequent pregnancies; but we are all different. I felt movement with both my second and third child at 11-12 weeks, and I knew the difference between gas and movement by then!!! It was faint, but it was there!! I don't think you are losing your mind.
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