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I am 17 weeks as well and have been feeling kicks and flutters for a bit over a week. This is baby #2 for me and I can't remember when I first felt anything with my first

there are a ton of great old HB threads on this that I read through a couple months ago looking for answers to your question (I'm 27 weeks now with my first)--I found them by googling, actually, I couldn't find them by rooting around on the website.

anyway, I felt a few flickers that I *think* were movement but couldn't be sure in weeks 15-16--that felt like a shifting that seemed almost like gas, but wasn't. I felt it for certain, and with daily frequency, the day I started week 18, and by then it felt like a tiny goldfish flopping around out of water, except it would only flop one time now I feel him moving around constantly, like every hour or two for a few minutes at a time.

ETA if you are at your NT or anatomy scan they can tell you where your placenta is--if it's posterior (mine is) you will probably feel something a little sooner than if it's anterior.

Probably not for SURE until 19ish weeks. Now 28 weeks and he moves a ton! I sometimes wonder if people can see it during meetings at work, haha.

It was around 20 weeks, but I can't remember exactly when.

A couple days before 18w! I wrote it down

Definitely feels like gas. There are some days now (my LO is 10 months old and I'm def not pregnant!) where I have gas and automatically move my hand to my belly because it feels so much like a kick.

With H, 14 weeks. With this one, I swear I felt some movement at 9 weeks, but not definitive movement until about 13 weeks.

I'm midway through 14 weeks and I just felt the first movement yesterday! It was around 9 pm after I'd had some cherry pie. I was sitting in bed, leaning forward and resting on my elbows (terrible posture, prob not good for baby!) when I felt what felt exactly like muscle twitches, 3 distinct twitches in a row just above my pubic bone. If you've ever had an eyelid twitch, or a back muscle, or a stomach muscle twitch, you know what it feels like. I sat up and leaned back and quickly grabbed my doppler, and sure enough, the twitches corresponded with the movement of the baby. So cool! Did not think I'd feel anything so soon! I've felt the twitches today too. Normally I wouldn't have noticed, but since I have the doppler, I know for sure what it was. I also know what gas feels like and sounds like in the doppler, and this wasn't gas. It's possible others feel it sooner too but don't recognize it. Either the baby likes cherry pie, or didn't like the position I was in.

17 weeks. Felt like a hamster doing somersaults.

I was almost 16 weeks when I felt the strangest little sensation - the same feeling as my eyelid involuntarily twitching, but in my uterus.

That little whisper of a twitch turned into the kickiest baby that would have me doubled over and wincing all the time in my second and third trimesters! Haha and at 7 months old his powerhouse legs are still giving me bruises!

@Goldengirl: I felt the baby kick at 18 weeks, which is surprising because I had anterior placenta. I would say it felt like jellyfish fluttering in my belly. Or water bubbling if that makes sense. Like a watery pop.