Explain to me flutters and kicks....

So what does flutters and kicks feel like?

Where on your belly do you 1st feel it? Its under your belly button area right?

How many weeks were you when you 1st felt a flutter and felt a kick?

Durning what time of the day do you feel them?

Anything you eat or drink make your little one move more?

About a week ago I swore I felt a flutter on my right side under my belly button. It felt like popcorn popping. Haven't felt it since. I'm 16 weeks 5 days.

I'm dieing to feel more movement!

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I have an anteria placenta so it took a little longer for me to feel the flutters. I was maybe 19 to 20 weeks when I was getting that "butterfly" feeling in my lower belly. Just sporadically. Now I'm 28 weeks and feel kicks. You'll know the difference. No more tingly feeling... justa straight out kick that you can actually see if you watch my belly. Kinda funny.
Usually when I drink something the baby moves more.

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for no reason other than just my luck...i didn't start feeling little angel until rather recently...

maybe 2 weeks ago i had that popcorn feeling...also feels like a fish swimming...just an 'unnatural feeling' if you know what i mean, NOTHING like i've ever felt before....

now i'm feeling her more and more...i'm trying to think of how to best describe it...i feel like she's doing tumblesaults in my stomach sometimes....like a circling motion...and at other times i feel direct kicks...just now i felt motion at BOTH ends of my belly - that was just STRANGE (i'm guessing arms and legs)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She knows i'm talking about her!

Dave still can't feel her yet - but we'll get there!!!!!!!!!!!

More and more lately, i feel her during the day - but normally, i only feel her at night!

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More and more lately, i feel her during the day - but normally, i only feel her at night!

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I started feeling the butterfly feeling around 16.5 weeks. then around 18 weeks i noticed that i was getting these jabbs in my cervix and it was him. Then each week they were getting stronger, and most of the kicks were below my belly button. Now at 21 weeks they have moved up around my belly button but sometimes they are lower. Some times when i eat chocolate he kicks more, and when i drink something.

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When I was the same time as you, around 16 1/2 weeks, I started feeling "flutters", like the popcorn popping, goldfish wagging its tail feeling. And it was very sporadic so at first I was not 100% sure until it got more regular and consistantly the same feeling so I knew it wasn't gas. That was way down low below my belly button.

Then in a couple weeks, it got more wiggly of a feeling. Like an 8-10 inch baby in my belly, squirming around. Kind of like if you were laying on top of the covers and your little chihuahua was squirming to get out from under the covers feeling. It would be a few second wiggle at a time and would go on for a few minutes. Like the baby is rolling around inside.

Now, at 21 1/2 weeks, I still feel the wiggling along with single little "pops". And when I lay in bed at night or just relax in reclined position, I can swear I feel from the outside but I think it's a combination of the inside feeling and me mentally wanting to feel it. But it's never enough for me to even get to call DH to put his hand there. It's still below my belly button and more to the right and center. has been mostly on my right side since our level II last Monday! I have no appendix... maybe likes the emptiness over there!!!

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For the past 2 weeks or so I have been getting the "goldfish wiggling" very low in my belly. I tend to feel it more at night or when I am lying down. And I think the baby tends to be more active if I have fruit or juice. I will be 16 weeks tomorrow

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Hey Tara,

I'm due the day before you and I started feeling the "flutters" at around 14 weeks. But they were really few and far between. Now, at 17 weeks, I feel him/her everyday. Mostly in the late mornings before I've eaten anything when I'm laying in bed. Also sometimes late at night when I lay down or sit on the couch for a long time.

It feels like popcorn popping or a little swimmy feeling in my belly and its located on the left side of my belly a little underneath my belly button. Sometimes its followed by Braxton Hicks contractions (or what feels like it at least).