I am bad at this! I'm 30 weeks and besides kicks and hiccups I have no idea what the baby is doing. Especially when it feels like a shark wave across my stomach! Is he turning??
This is really just for fun - but can you tell what movements your little one is making in utero? If so, can you describe what they feel like?
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pear / 1930 posts
I could. I could even tell kicks from punches. That's how I could tell when she flipped from breech. One morning I woke up and punches were low.
wonderful olive / 19353 posts
Nope! I just knew the baby moved or he hiccuped. I didn't even know it was a hiccup till he did it at one of my visits and the OB goes, oh! He just hiccuped! I was like that's what it is?! lol
persimmon / 1179 posts
I could! I could also tell body parts, I had a posterior baby with my first and was trying to prevent it with my second, both of those made be do a lot of research and be hyper aware of their movements b
hostess / papaya / 10219 posts
Not really. I can tell hiccups because they are rhythmic and full body flops. I can only tell punches from kicks because I know how he is positioned right now.
pomelo / 5524 posts
I can tell where his head is based on where I feel his hiccups. I also know his feet are off to my right side, because I feel a small round ball kicking rather than a full movement across my stomach. I know that's his butt or head. I do feel flicks every once in a while and I assume those are his hands, but not sure!
When my whole stomach moves in sort of a shock wave, I can only assume that it's him flipping or trying to flip.
pear / 1837 posts
I can tell kicks (just because I know baby's position) and can feel punches- can feel it's tiny fist! Love the kicks and punches at the same time. Other times, it's just a wave of movement and I have no idea what's going on in there.
pomelo / 5084 posts
Haha I love these responses! I wish we had xray vision just once in awhile. 
grapefruit / 4455 posts
I can tell some but only because at my 34 week scan the tech told me that the large bump was his butt and where I was feeling jabs was where the limbs were... I assume the stuff in my ribs are feet because I know he is head down at least as of a week or so ago and based on hiccups being really low I'm pretty sure he's still head down at least for now. Before that scan I really didn't have a clue about any of it! And this is baby #2!
pomelo / 5573 posts
I used to see something round pressing out of my stomach high up. The midwife had been saying for weeks that he was head down, in position, all good to go, so we assumed it was the baby's butt and used to poke him in the butt. I remember my husband saying "I don't understand how that's his bum, it's so hard!" Found out at 39w the baby was breech so we'd actually been poking the poor kid in the head for weeks. So no, I had no idea what was going on in there last time and I don't imagine I'm going to be any better this time.
pomegranate / 3411 posts
not at all. i just felt and saw movement and never even tried to guess!
persimmon / 1043 posts
No, DS was super active but I could never really tell what he was doing in there lol.
wonderful cherry / 21504 posts
Hiccups I could tell because they are rhythmic.
Last time towards the end the midwife showed me how to feel for position, head vs back vs butt. Once she was head down she pretty much stayed in the same place so I knew the big jabs on my right ribs were kicks and the smaller jabs lower down must be punches. Every once it a while she would turn so her back and butt were on the right side and I could tell. But until that part was obvious, nope, just moves.
26 weeks now and aside from hiccups it's all just baby moving around. I imagine she has more room since her big sister stretched it all out for her.
pomegranate / 3438 posts
Nope, I could never tell! Towards the end I knew he was sticking his butt out my right side only because my stomach was so lopsided!
pomelo / 5607 posts
Both my babies stayed in the exact same position (head down, Barack (really phone?- back!) along right side, butt in my right ribs), so I kind of knew based on that. But I really could only be sure about hiccups and shoving her butt harder into my ribs. I never really knew what she was doing otherwise.
grapefruit / 4584 posts
I could, but it's hard to describe them -
DD1 would push her bum up to be rubbed/patted. You could see the bump, it had much more surface area than an elbow/knee/foot, and it felt like a cat headbutting me.
DD2 did lots of figity leg crossing/uncrossing, and arm flaying. The arms felt like windshield wiper movement, and the leg crossing was a twisty, knotty, and not very comfortable feeling. Kind of like how it looks when you do a "wheels on the bus" or "roll it" (from Patty Cake) motions with your hands.
haha how's that for descriptive?
For what its worth, I could identify some of these motions better AFTER DDs were born and I saw them still doing the motions I'd felt in utero.
grapefruit / 4355 posts
Nope – with my anterior placenta, everything was much more muted. I could feel movement but nothing to distin nope – with my anterior placenta, everything was much more muted. I could feel movement but nothing to distinguish one type of movement from another. in one type of movement from another.
persimmon / 1461 posts
This pregnancy I can definitely tell whats going on in there, placenta is at the back and movement is more obvious. I have an ultrasound at my OB's office every time I visit him, so I say what position I think the baby is in, and then we check. Babe has been head down for the last 8ish weeks, and I can feel hiccups down low, as well as hands/elbows poking me on either side of my pelvis/hip area. Baby then tends to lean on my left hand side and do big kicks on the right hand side of my tummy.
pea / 9 posts
I'm 27 weeks with an anterior placenta.
Right now I can tell that baby is transverse with her legs on the left, because all the kicks are there. That's pretty much it. Sometimes I feel weird movements on both sides that feel like she's trying to stretch herself out or something.
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