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I felt my first kick at almost 21 weeks. I have an anterior placenta so that's why it took longer. The first ones felt like a soft little nudge and it was unmistakably a kick. I only felt it twice on that first day, and then I started feeling more and more each day. I know a lot of people say their first kicks feel like fluttering or popping, but I never felt that.

I actually started getting Braxton-Hicks contractions several weeks before I felt kicking, and I thought it was the baby moving until I started feeling real kicks.

I have An anterior placenta so I didn't feel kicks until like 21 weeks and by that time they weren't flutters, they felt like full on kicks. I actually think I felt hiccups first because they were very rhythmic and noticeable. Kicks feel like big gas bubbles without the pain and the gas!

What it felt like for me was like when you have an "involuntary muscle spasm" or "twitch" like Tidybee said as well as a "bubble popping sensation" if that makes sense. I didn't feel the "butterflies". I started feeling these around 17 weeks, they only get stronger lol and then you'll know it's baby moving.

I had a posterior placenta and felt the first "bubbles" at around 18 weeks. I didn't feel real kicks until around 20 weeks...and even then they were light and irregular. By 24 weeks they were much stronger and other people could feel them. 19 weeks is still pretty early, I wouldn't worry at all!

i'll be 23 weeks tomorrow, and i still barely feel anything. i've only felt her actually kick me one time. it's more like muscle twitches or waves through my belly. i've decided that she's just graceful and polite, and doesn't like to beat up on mommy.

I started feeling him "maybe" around 16 weeks. Felt like gas bubbles and sorta flutters. Or muscle spasms. I was having a lot of gas but I guess the difference was I would feel a pop then not pass anything described it to my doc and he said it was probably the baby. It became more unmistakeable but still faint and inconsistent around 18 weeks. He developed a pattern and started kicking hard enough for me to feel him on the outside around 22-23 weeks.

Another way I used to describe the early movements was like a goldfish swimming around

I have an anterior placenta and starting feeling waves and "i wonder if" kicks around week 17-18... towards 19 I felt a kick here and there... a few weeks later, i started feeling pretty regular kicks!

I felt my first kick around 18ish weeks. I was laying on my side in bed and felt taps--couldn't have been anything else. They will be lower down than your stomach/intestines and mine were mainly on the side at first. I had been trying/hoping to feel kicks for a week or two beforehand, but that was the first time I was positive about it.