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[quote=Anonymous]LJ - Oct 3 - 10 
Sepi - Oct 8 
Raspberry Oct 8 
Poppy - Oct 20 
Peanut - Oct 21 
JinDC - Oct 25 
Pumpkin - Oct 31

Guess who is OCD and keeps putting them in chronological order? Pumpkin! :)

So, with my first, I felt movement around 15.5 weeks, which is on the early side, especially for a FTM. But there is apparently a huge range.

I would describe the feeling as being like cupping a small goldfish in your hand. It's a fluttering / flopping feeling, like rapid movement in a confined space. Less like bubbles associated with gas, and more like a fluttery, rapid tapping from the inside out. That said, it is not [u]completely[/u] unlike gas feelings, so at first you can definitely be mistaken. I wasn't absolutely sure it was baby I was feeling last time (though I was pretty convinced it was) until i felt the fluttering during an u/s and I could feel in my tummy what baby was doing on the screen. I was in my OB's office and was like "OMG, i totally felt that!" and my OB laughed and said "it's not unheard of to feel baby this early, but it's early, but there was definitely a big movement there."

I will say there have been a few times that I feel like I MIGHT have felt baby. But, when we got that ultrasound, baby was moving like bananas and I felt exactly nothing, so maybe not! The early days can be kind of uncertain, but you eventually just "know" what you are feeling is the baby. It's really, really, really, really, really, really, really awesome.

What is less awesome: when baby delivers those cute little kicks square to your cervix. I was pretty sure my first was trying to kick his way out starting around 18 weeks. :shock: 
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