When did your partner/other people feel your baby move?

[earth_99]

I felt bub at about 20 weeks, and DH felt at about 22. I expect to go to the inlaws tonight with them expecting to feel bub moving too! Hopefully he puts on a show.

[Serenitylee]

Have you tried laying on our back when bub is kicking and letting your partner try and feel bub move? I find that is the best way and you can feel all the movement really well on your back. It has been the only way my parnter has felt bub move.

[me83]

I felt my baby move at 19 weeks and that same day DH had his hand on my stomach while we watched TV. He said that if I hadn't told him what it was he would have assumed it was digestion because the movement wasn't easy to detect. My placenta is anterior.

Now the baby is very active and today it rolled over and i could see my belly moving.

I think in the end it comes down to timing. Other days he has tried to feel it and the baby stopped moving every time he put his hand on my belly.

[Rhia]

This is my first pg and I felt bub move when I was around 15-16 weeks, DP felt him move at about 18 weeks, family felt him kick when I was 20 weeks It started off that he was only active in the late afternoon, but now he is active most of the day.
I agree its all about timing. Most of the time bubs only kicks when Im by myself and when someone eventually goes to feel him, he will stop lol

[sloane]

this is my first & i felt some movements around 15 weeks. i didn't feel proper kicks until closer to 20 weeks & it's only been in the last couple of weeks that DP has been able to feel anything (too much padding on my tummy!). for a while i would feel kicking & as soon as i'd tell DP, the kicking would stop but now it's different & if he pushes on my belly then the baby will usually kick back.

no one else has felt anything yet - mostly because i haven't offered! i feel a bit weird about offering to other people to see if they can feel (not sure if they'd want to!) and i don't think i'm the sort of person that other people feel they can just touch (which is fine by me! ).

[~Trish~]

With my first bub, I didn't feel him move internally until I was about 21 weeks. DH felt him move from the outside a couple of weeks later. It seems first babies can take longer to be felt!

This time with bub #3, DH has been able to feel him/her move since 18 weeks. Much earlier than the first time around

Don't worry, your DH will get to feel lots of gorgeous kicks really soon and will do so for the rest of your pregnancy. It won't be long now!

[Chow]

I felt peanut around 16 weeks, and DH felt it a couple of weeks after that. I also have a posterior placenta so I think that really helps with other people feeling it, we can also see movements too. When I feel peanut kicking I always get DH to press on the spot but a lot of the time it stops.... this weekend we discoverd the best trick which now keeps us well entertained!!! I was leaning a glass of ice water on my tummy while lounging around on the couch, it must have been right on peanut as it started kicking lots and you could see the glass and the water moving up and down. Now when i eat ice we get nice big kicks, I always wait until I know where Peanut is get DH ready then eat! Give it a go!!!