Still waiting to feel bubs move...

I'm 20 weeks today, and still haven't felt bubs move. I've read so many different timeframes for feeling first movements for a first baby, and they seem to range anywhere from 16 weeks to 24 weeks.

Logically I know that everything is fine, but I'm starting to get really down about not having felt movement. Everytime I see my Mum or friends, they keep asking "Have you felt movement yet?" and I keep having to say no :( - it doesn't exactly help.

Please, please can someone tell me this is normal???

very very normal. can be coz of the position of bub or the position of the placenta. it will be just fine sweety.. u will feel bub move, just give it time.

ditto to what Hollye Said!
I think I was like 21-22 weeks when I felt movements..
It will happen and you will be wrapped!!

kate

Do you have an anterior placenta? Cos I had one with DD and didn't really feel anything till about 21-22 weeks, whereas with DS I felt movement at 17 weeks.

I wouldn't worry - you may just have a gentle mover in there - your ribs will be thankful!!

I haven't been told I have an anterior placenta, so I'm assuming I don't.
I know that he moves around, cause on our 19 week scan he was squirming around the entire time. I'm just so desperate (and desperately impatient to feel movement). DH always tells me how impatient I am. :redface:

Hey hun dont worry about things you will feel bubs when he is ready for you to i stil only feel bronson when i am sitting down i can not feel from outside either i gather when he wants himself to be known then he will. could not feel Josh until i was about 26 weeks if i remember correctly (6 yr ago) i am a cuddly women so i dont expect to be able to feel things early :lol:

For what its worth - I only found out I had an anterior placenta because I looked at the report from our 18 week scan. Have a read of it, see if it says it there :)

And I can understand the impatience - I had to wait an extra 4 weeks with the second pregnancy - drove myself crazy!!!!

Maybe there is a bit of movement there, it's just differnet to what you are expecting to feel????? If you are feeling anxious hiring a Doppler might be a good idea although you will definately be feeling movements in the next few weeks so it could be a bit of a waste of money but if it makes you happy go for it, have a look online if you want to go that way.
Good luck and it will happen soon.;)

Hang in there gorgeous you will feel your gorgeous little one move soon but it does suck doesn't it?. All you want is to feel your little precious one move and when you do it will blow your mind. It's amazing and worth every second of waiting. I didn't feel Olivia move until roughly 23 weeks. Little munchkin then would freeze whenever my DH went near my belly to feel her move.

Everyone is so different and i agree if you don't ask where your placenta is sitting they generally won't even tell you or discuss it with you, they certainly know because they have to for the impending birth. My first DS i don't know where the placenta was sitting but i didn't fell anything really before 23 - 24 wks and this time although it is sitting what i was told transverse, which is laying across the front of my belly i have been feeling lots of movement from the 18 wk mark. This one is much more active though, i told DP the other night that i hate to think how the kicks will be in another 10+ wks because they are very strong now and i had one the other night that almost hurt!

Just relax and enjoy.

I havent felt anything much well nothing i can say yes thats baby. I dont know about placenta and all but when i read sonographers notes it said something about unstable lie, at least i think thats what it said wasnt writing more just scribble! So maybe thats why im not feeling much yet, but its still early so im not getting too worried about it yet

I was around 21-22 weeks before I felt my first baby move & apparently I have an anterior placenta this time and no movements felt here (only wind!) yet at 15 weeks. I'm really impatient about it too. :)

Well.... I think (though I can't be 100% sure as this is my first pregnancy) that I felt bubs move last night!!! :dance: Well, not so much move as kick!!! That was the first time I've felt pretty confident in thinking that it was bubs - but now, thinking back, I've probably felt bubs move a few times before, just never anything that definite. So happy and excited - I can't wait for another kick!!!

Yay! I didn't get a kick with DD until 22 weeks and that was the first time I felt anything. This time around I have felt wriggles from early on but no kicks yet. I know I have an anterior placenta at the moment so I'm not expecting anything soon.

Yay so exciting. It felt much different to what I expected, it felt like a muscle twitch. No flutterings or anything. Maybe you are feeling bubs move but just think it is something else. Oh, it also felt like gas bubbles, you know when you are about to fart? haha.

Yeah, I think that was the main thing - that it felt so different to how I was expecting. I kept reading all these descriptions of it feeling butterflies fluttering, etc. It didn't really feel like that to me. I can't really describe how it feels... all I know is that I want to feel it again and again!!!

its hard when people keep asking you 'have you felt movements yet', you start to feel paranoid