Since early in my pregnancy I have been feeling very strong "kicks" I know it is unrealistic to think a 14 week old baby can make such a strong sensation but I don't know what else it could be. What's more often the kicks were high so even less likly it is the baby but I never had this feeling pre-pregnancy or with my first pregnancy. They only way I know how to describe it is a STRONG I can't help but say WOW "kick" type feeling. Anyone else had this? P.S. I asked my doc and she just said it was probalby gas....It is not gas
14 weeks is when I first started feeling kicks with my second pregnancy too, and I think feeling them high up that early is the baby kicking on the top of the uterus and you feeling the kick higher. Enjoy this amazing time!
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I'm curious to see if you ever found out what it was. I'm 14 weeks pregnant and have felt about 6 very strong kicks that have made me jump and yell in surprise (not pain). With my first, I didn't feel kicks until 20 weeks. These are VERY strong kicks. I can't believe it, but it feels EXACTLY like a baby kick. It seems too early.
pfft to the doctors lol they act like they know everything :)
I've heard that they come out stronger the 2nd time around because the uterine wall is more lax. You have to remember that no same pregnancy is the same, and you're carrying another child with a different personality than your 1st.
congratulations on getting pregnant. its most cool.
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I remember that with my second pregnancy too. My doctor explained that your uterine muscles are more flexible on the second and subsequent time around and that you do indeed feel more earlier and it feels stronger.
I felt kicks way early with my second pregnancy too. It very well could be kicks. It is likely you did feel it first pregnancy but just didn't recognize what it was , this time around you know what it feels like so you're going to feel it earlier.
I have 3 boys and last a girl; the difference I've noticed is that the boys kick was felt early on while with my daughter I was 5 months preg when I felt the first kick. I was worried because I hadn't experienced any kicks. With the boys I felt their kick/movement at around 10 weeks. Maybe it's a boy.
My oldest will be 25 yrs old in Oct, next son will be 21 in June, last son will be 18 in Nov and my daughter will be 12 in Sept.
Why don't you get a second opinion? This way you feel better and enjoy this happy part of your life
Well, consider that the 14-week old fetus is only about 3 inches crown to rump, and that the limbs are disproportionately tiny. (Compared to a newborn.)
4-D images of a 14-week fetus
http://www.ehd.org/prenatal-images.php?thum_id=433
Is it possible that you are further along than you thought? And you also said the sensation is high up. How does that compare to where you had your ultrasounds? I recall they were *very* low - I kept saying "He's way down there? That's my bladder!"
And you said you've been feeling this for "a while"? I totally can't believe that someone could truly feel the "kick" of a 10-week fetus, as someone mentioned in their post. No offense - I'm sure they felt *something*, but look at the size of a 10-week fetus! Two inches TOTAL and the "legs" are just miniscule stumps! Maybe it was a hiccup. Seriously! The torso is sooo much larger than the legs that it's CONCEIVABLE that the mother could feel a single hiccup.
4-D images of a 10-week fetus
http://www.ehd.org/prenatal-images.php?img_id=79
When I was pregnant I felt all kinds of things, but I never was certain it was "baby movement" until I felt a recurring hiccup. (It was around 5 months.)But since it was recurring, it was a dead givaway.
Thinner moms often feel their babies moving earlier and more strongly.
