https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 02 May 2026 22:49:44 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/early-active-baby-means-you-will-feel-movement-sooner#post-581775 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:56:47 +0000 Grace 581775@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Cherrybee: I'm glad to hear that! All the girls were talking about their wiggly babies and I was worried, because mine did like yours - moved an arm and that was it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/early-active-baby-means-you-will-feel-movement-sooner#post-581772 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:55:34 +0000 winniebee 581772@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My son was pretty bonkers in the womb....but I didn't feel him til 20 weeks becuase I had an anterior placenta. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/early-active-baby-means-you-will-feel-movement-sooner#post-581768 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:52:13 +0000 Bookish 581768@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have only had one scan, at 8 weeks, and there wasn't much baby to move around lol! I started feeling little belly flops around 18.5 weeks :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/early-active-baby-means-you-will-feel-movement-sooner#post-581746 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:45:13 +0000 MsLipGloss 581746@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My LO was all over the place for every single u/s (the techs called her tumbleweed!). . . the little daredevil also tried to investigate the needle during my amnio! But no, I didn't feel the baby early . . . I felt her right around 19.5 weeks. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/early-active-baby-means-you-will-feel-movement-sooner#post-581648 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 07:25:48 +0000 hellobeeboston 581648@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My LO barely moved at the 11 week appt, but I started to feel him around 16 weeks, which I thought was early -- then he was a crazy man moving the rest of the pregnancy! My co-workers liked to watch my belly shift from across the table!!</p> <p>Hopefully you will feel the babe soon!! It's fun when they are so active! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/early-active-baby-means-you-will-feel-movement-sooner#post-581629 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 07:07:07 +0000 sorrycharlie 581629@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think wives tale :/ it usually depends on placenta position, more so than baby--if placenta is acting as a buffer it'll be longer (til baby is bigger and stronger). Also if baby kicks toward your back vs belly, etc. </p> <p>If it helps, I had an anterior placenta, and my baby slept thru the 12-week scan, but I felt movement as early as 16-17 weeks! Definitive movement 17-18, I just didn't know what it really was earlier on :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/early-active-baby-means-you-will-feel-movement-sooner#post-581594 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 05:12:13 +0000 Cherrybee 581594@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My baby just sat there at my 12 week scan - he /she moved an arm, like, once! DH joked that it is lazy like its mother (charming!). But I started feeling movement early (for a first baby) at 15 and a half wks! I have a lot of tummy fat too which is supposed to mean you feel it later...! </p> <p>There seems to be no rhyme or reason! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/early-active-baby-means-you-will-feel-movement-sooner#post-581322 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 22:21:08 +0000 Mrs Hedgehog 581322@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have heard a bunch that if a baby is really active early on, then you are far more likely to feel movement sooner. At our 12 week sono the tech was getting frustrated with LO because it was moving so darn much! I hadn't had anything to eat in HOURS and even then, it was a bagel, nothing sugary. She said that she has never seen a 12 week baby move quite this much!</p> <p>So, could that mean I could be feeling movement sooner? I would be 150,000% okay with that!</p> <p>Has anybody else ever heard/experienced this? Or is it just another old wives tale? </p>