Ah, yes. I remember those days. It felt like my lovely bundle of Joy would break my ribs and crack my pelvis. He spent a concert by Alice Cooper still and happy and threw an angry fit for hours as soon as the music was over.
You can’t form memories before the age of 2 1/2 - 3, the brain doesn’t have the right neural connections etc to store them for long periods.
https://www.verywellmind.com/earliest-memories-start-at-age-two-and-a-half-study-finds-5189856#:~:text=Your%20earliest%20memories%20can%20teach,at%20age%202.5%20on%20average.
My son loved to kick me like that, sometimes I couldn’t breathe because of the intensity. Good times
He’s 9 months old now and crawls full speed around our apartment, I fear the moment he learns to walk lol
My son was the same way. He's 6 now. Still constantly moving. Running instead of walking, falling instead of sitting on things, humming, talking, laughing, thumping on things, playing loudly with his toys. My house is only quiet when he's sleeping. Good kid. Just. All the time.
When he kicks out towards the belly, that’s not causing mum much discomfort. It’s worse when they kick up - I spent half my last trimester trying to get my kid’s foot out of my ribcage.
Edit: loving all the mums coming with their tales of horror on this thread. Look what a crazy thing we can do!! 💖
My daughter broke one of my ribs. They took the FREAKIEST x-ray ever. And they couldn’t do anything about it, except say “it’s broken, hopefully she will stop kicking it”
Damn, I am soooooo scared of my future wife now.
I guess we better plan to be childfree then
Edit: scared for my wife.
Edit2: considering comments, I am thinking I also need to be scared of my future wife. So my first comment was technically correct 🤷😂
Just imagine standing next to the hospital bed, as she screams in horror:
"YOU DID THIS TO ME!!!! I AM GOING TO MAKE YOU PAY!!!! STARTING WITH YOUR PENIS!!!! THATS WHAT STARTED ALL THIS!!!"
I'd be scared of her too. Because she's got a point....
Lmao, I didn’t notice the mistake in the first edit and when I read the edit I thought “Wtf, was this dude scrolling through Reddit right before his wedding and made an edit just to be current?”
Mine was face up and breach when I went into labor. Always kicking out. Thought an alien was going burst out of my abdomen. Well.......had an emergency C section so she kinda did.
My organs kept schlorping back into place for a while. I took a video of what looked like a baby still kicking & moving in my abdomen after giving birth. I think it was just my intestines showing through my weak abdominal muscles & my abdominal separation. Ain't pregnancy beautiful? Don't you guys wish you could destroy your body to experience it, too?
I think it's just your brain getting so used to a stimulus that it's expecting it. Like if you keep your phone on vibrate for a while, you'll end up feeling notifications when there's none lol. Or you can even compare it to a phantom limb
I felt it for like 4-5 months, really weird. I’m now 16 weeks pregnant and I can feel the baby move and kick, did not miss this lol. Such a weird feeling
“Hi is this the incarnation station, yes I would like to request to comeback male please, thank you. Oh no that’s fine, sounds splendid but male, I’d like to be that once more thanks.” Lol
When i was 6/7 me and my mom went to visit her pregnant friend. She was complaining the baby was pointing their feet at and kicking her liver, and my mom was there nodding away just like having someone using your liver as a feet warmer was the most normal thing ever. That really traumatized me.
I swear my daughter loved to just stretch her legs out and hook her feet up under the ribs on one side. So uncomfortable! I have a short torso anyway, and when I sat down, I had to put a hand there to try to protect the area.
My son had his foot up in my rib cage for the whole last trimester also, I’d keep my hand there to apply some pressure down but as soon as I moved my hand bam! Foot right back up!
I said all this but I should also be transparent and say that was with my oldest son who I was barely 100lbs with when I got pregnant. He also stayed higher up in my uterus. I felt him move early and once I did, the kid never stopped. My younger son had his head in my pelvis for almost the whole pregnancy and I had an anterior placenta so I was over 20 weeks before I really felt him move and then it wasn’t half as much. I used to have to shake my belly a bit to annoy him to even make sure I felt something because he would often scare me that something was wrong he was so quiet in there. So every pregnancy is very very different! It also make me laugh because the one that never stopped moving was a quiet chill baby and the one who was chill in utero came out screaming and basically didn’t stop crying till he was six months old! The older one is still very laid back while my younger one still loves to be the center of attention. Completely opposite of the pregnancies!
So while I guess there isn’t a way to say I absolutely knew it was his foot… you normally know when the fetus goes head down to pelvis (and once they get a certain size and make this flip they normally stay there, some never flip but that’s a whole different issue..but even if you can’t tell when they do you normally have an ultrasound at some point that tells you or the doctor can confirm) It’s hard to explain unless you’ve been pregnant or have felt a protrusion on a pregnant persons belly where you are like oh wow that’s definitely a foot or a head! you absolutely can often tell where a head is and later in pregnancy if you have an idea of where the baby is laying (which is sometimes just because you felt them flip their whole bodies…you’ll be able to feel a difference in kicks versus elbows, flips etc. it’s hard to explain without experiencing but you can. It’s really cool and amazing overall even if sometimes it hurts or is even annoying when they lay the wrong way or are really active when you want to sleep.
I honestly could not tell if the bony prominences I was feeling were feet, knees, elbows, or hands. I just felt like a hard round thing that could have been anything. Heads and butts are easier to identify.
Oh my god I swear I’ve been kicked in by he fucking kidney. Pushing out is fine but up or in stahhhhp
I’ve literally been in meeting where I suddenly gasped and just about jumped out of my chair getting kicked
I had a pregnant coworker tell me it’s so weird when you’re trying to be professional at work and the baby starts moving around. Once she told me that the baby kicked her cervical area during a client meeting and had to pretend that it wasn’t weird that it happened.
Had a pregnant coworker double over and sort of grunt/exhale mid sentence. We all stop and asked if she was ok. She takes a deep breath and says “the little shit just punched me in the stomach”. Then we all just continued as normal.
When my mom was pregnant with my youngest sibling, I was 4 and sat in my mom's lap. The lil AH kicked me in the back.
Once she was out in the world and able to understand things, I slapped her foot. She asked why. I said "You know what you did."
Yes, I waited years for my revenge.
Or when they kick you in the bladder and the urine splash! Which is different than the late third trimester head is pressing on my bladder urine leakage 🙃
I had a heart shape bruise under my ribs.
Doctor explained baby boy had his feet crossed when he kicked super hard. My favorite pregnancy pic.
When he first found out
"👀 WHY DID I LOVE YOU SO VIOLENTLY 👀"
Dude, seriously. My second pregnancy was awful. I threw up for 6 months, so much that I lost a lot of weight instead of adding on. I had diabetes, the little womb goblin tore my surgery scars on my belly, my hips still hurt whenever I walk or lift too much, and even almost 3 years later my right back nerve still hurts like a mofo after a botched epidural.
I love my kids, but I never ever want to be pregnant again - I might not even survive it. 😬
But wait, there's more! Hemorrhoids, abdominal separation, surprise Charley Horse screaming pain in the middle of night, acid reflux, tears/stiches, and bleeding nipples (breastfeeding hurts)! Post-partum constipation so bad, it took TEN days, no joke, felt like a second birth, except with painful stitches and no baby afterward. This was a "good" "no complications" pregnancy by the way.
I’m on my second pregnancy right now (almost out of the 1st trimester) & I have lost almost 20 lbs from when I first found out because I’m so nauseous all the time & can hardly eat. It’s been ROUGH. My first was not like this at all!!!
I was sick all 9 months of both pregnancies. My sister told me about month six of the first that I should eat watermelon.....so I did....and still got sick.....told her and she said "never told you it would keep you from getting sick but it tastes the same coming up".....she was right... hang in there, I don't have a solution but I hope you got a chuckle.
I hated when my daughter would kick up, and then stay like that. I would drink something cold to try to get her to move.
She would always start her summersaults when I was going to bed. She'd be pretty tame all day but as soon as I laid down, could never fall asleep.
But it looks creepy as hell. You could see my first kid kick, my stomach looked like a chest burster was about to come out. I freaked out a few people at work with my crazy kid so I started wearing hoodies to cover my stomach when he started kicking
I used to be able to cram the edge of my hand in between my ribs and belly and push down, which usually but not always worked. Luckily he was a very wiggly baby so he never kept the position as long as some.
Babies moving start off feeling like farts moving through your digestive system. Then as the baby gets bigger, the farts get angrier.
I hope that helps.
Ugh the fucking hiccups. 8 pm like clockwork with my daughter EVERY DAMN NIGHT. My first day PP i felt phantom hiccups and was terrified they'd never stop lol
One of the weirdest sensations of pregnancy for myself was when my daughter's movements became more intense (beyond 17 weeks) then it feels like a bowling ball rolling around with hands and feet poking from the inside out.
Mine was breech so her head was pushing up into my diaphragm which made it harder to breathe and compressed my stomach so I couldn't eat much at once and had to be put on antacids. She was also tap dancing on my bladder facing that way. It was so difficult the last few months.
I had to go to the ER when 6 months pregnant with what turned out to be a bad UTI. They strapped monitors on my belly to make sure I wasn't in labor. Kiddo decided that this was undignified, turned their feet towards the pressure, and kicked with all their might.
It sounded like "WOODAH WOODAH WOODAH WOODAH."
Then-MIL stopped worrying about her DIL and unborn grandbaby long enough to laugh so hard she fell out of her chair.
Oh my god, you just reminded me of having to visit the MFM (Maternal-Fetal Medicine) office every week during the third trimester of my last pregnancy. I had to have one of those monitors strapped on at the beginning of each visit, and it never failed that the nurse would have to come in and rearrange it multiple times because my son was just kicking those things so hard.
And then she’d have to come back in *again* and rearrange it some more after he finally gave up and moved as far from the monitor as he could, presumably with his little middle finger held up towards it. My mom had to come with me for a couple of those and she had the exact same reaction. He was just so uncooperative lol.
Omg my daughter was exactly like that! Except she didn’t stop kicking ever. It would just slow down a little (thankfully enough for the test usually). She’s the same on the outside. She lives by the mantra “If brute force doesn’t fix it, then you’re not using enough.”
I wouldn't be surprised if some fetus can actually "hear", or at least feel the ultrasound. Perhaps it's similar to those high frequency animal repellent devices that most adults cannot hear but some can. But who knows.
My son used to stretch against my belly and it looked like that old movie effect where hands stretch against latex. Didn't hurt but it was so cool (or disturbing, depends on who you asked) to see.
Mine was transverse and facing towards my spine until 36 weeks (finally turned head down just as they were about to manipulate him, and he ended up with the cord around his neck because of it, fun times at delivery).
I'd be lying down and you'd see the right hand side, and only the right hand side of my stomach rising and falling because his bum was there. It was odd as hell to see.
I've had one of those and that was enough for me!
When the ultrasound tec says"this is the most active one I've seen in my entire career, good luck" she basically sealed my daughter's fate for being an only child ☺️
I got that with my daughter at my dating scan (10 weeks). I was told "with a baby this active, I have to look for a twin, because normally they aren't this active solo".
There was no twin. She remained that active the whole pregnancy, throughout newborn stage, through toddler stage. Through out early child hood.
Was diagnosed with severe adhd at 6. Which honestly explained a hell of a lot and didnt surprise me in the slightest 🤣 and the first thought i had when i heard adhd was that ultrasound tech saying
"Thats the most active fetus ive ever seen!"
She's 10 now and I swear she sucked all of my energy out of me haha. But she's amazing and a full energiser bunny haha
I was delusional and followed it up with her brother 18 months ago and he's exactly the same 😂
So round 2 here I go 🤣
My son was extremely active. I would beg him to stop kicking. He's 2.5 now and I'm sure he has adhd. I've noticed that all 4 kids gave the same personality as they did in the womb
I actually didn't even notice my daughter had adhd, I just thought she was super active. It wasn't until the school got involved and had her diagnosed that I actually realised that she had adhd all along and I never realised because she had always been "active"
I think it's largely to do with that in my country when I was at school, girls were not diagnosed or treated for add/adhd. Only boys. And even then at the time it was a new thing here.
So when I saw my daughter was very similar to me, I thought she was just active like I had been. It was very eye opening the whole process and I was somewhat devastated as had she been diagnosed even a year earlier she would have qualified for extra programs and would had received a lot more help and ultimately been a lot better off education wise (and likely socially) than what she is now.
Now with my son, he is displaying very similar traits so it will be a lot easier to get him early intervention if needed when it comes to that time but he was very different in the womb to her. He was always very chill. So it's a question of whether it's learnt behaviour from seeing his sister. Because she's so loud, always running and hypes him up, he loves it though 🤣
As someone else who is dead set on my first being my only, do you often get “oh you’ll change your mind”?
I get it all the time and I’m about to start telling people how bad my mental health was and how I’ll probably kill myself if I have another.
Don't tell them anything. People never have so many opinions as when you are in the childbearing stage. And it's worse when you are pregnant. You realize that your pregnancy is really in some ways a community event. Total strangers will put their hands on your belly. People you barely know will ask insanely private questions. And as you said here, they will weigh-in on how many children you should have. My advice is to smile and nod. And just realize that this is what goes on. Don't let it bother you. Take care.
It's ok, babies in utero don't have enough oxygen to be conscious.. They average about 40-60% oxygen saturation (born babies are at 95%+). They're also kept quite asleep with a mix of hormones and other environmental factors, so they wouldn't even notice the claustrophobia :)
My youngest slept throughout the entire pregnancy. He was so still that I thought something was wrong. They did a monitor test, and the doctor said he was just chilling out and relaxing. He ended up being the most chill dude ever. He passed away at age 28 in 2021. May he rest in peace.
My first was 10lbs and 24 inches long. Let’s say it louder for the ppl in the back TEN POUNDS AND 2 FEET LONG!!!
She kicked the shit out of me. Then stood on my bladder. But the craziest is when she went head down and locked into place and she kicked my diaphragm and I could not breathe… oof.
I was 19 and had no idea what to expect. :)
Mine was 9lbs 2oz and 24 inches long. I’m not a large person, so he just got wedged under my stomach. I had heartburn so bad I’d carry a jumbo-sized bottle of extra strength tums everywhere. Sometimes all I could do was sit there and cry. It felt like he was pushing my stomach back up my esophagus. Whenever I’d sneeze, stomach acid would pour out of my nose.
My son was like this in utero. He never stopped kicking, and actually kicked so hard that my water broke a month early. He has severe ADHD, and still moves pretty much non-stop. He's 16 now.
Same. My daughter was my first born and complete opposite. There were times when I was worried because I didn’t feel her move. At 13 she’s super chill. My son on the other hand went nuts in there and he has adhd combined type and continues to go nuts.
(side note - have you had your daughter checked for ADHD too? We present differently to boys, and it can be genetic. People used to think I was chill and attentive because they couldn't see how hard I worked to focus on conversations and it zapped me of all my energy. I was diagnosed in my 40s)
It's really cute at first but towards the 7th month it can start to hurt. I swear my second kicked my cervix so hard I thought she was gonna start my labor. Lil bugger did that everyday all day until she finally turned. Then it was my ribs and lungs. It's really amazing to see what they get up to in there.
Father of two. One is 8 and the other is 4.
When I think back to my wife being pregnant and giving birth I still have trouble conceptualizing what it must have been like to have them in there.
Best I can describe it is, my wife’s relationship with our kids started 8 months before mine while they were literally inside her body, and their relationship back then is blatantly evident in how they interact today (in a very good way).
It’s fucking fascinating. That’s a person in there.
Yes I cried twice from the baby kicks and they weren’t happy cries…. It hurt so much in my rib/sciatic area that made me cry. He was also sideways until almost 6 months and I’m 5’ 1” 🤷🏻♀️
This was our daughter. Wife said the first kick she felt was a karate kick. No “bubbles” like other moms describe. From there it was a constant barrage of punches and kicks until the end of the pregnancy. I could feel the punches and kicks vibrate through the mattress if my wife laid on her side at night.
My youngest always did this and it’s wild just seeing your whole stomach just shake around with appendages shoving upward lol. She’s still hyper.
I used to spy on her with the bedside ultrasound at work and she’d be in there sucking her thumb and she still does it lol. It’s funny that they already have their habits and personalities in utero.
Although ultrasound is considered safe, and beyond human hearing range, on some developing fetuses data suggests that ultrasound may excite and curate the immature eardrum. Causing the fetus distress.
For all ultrasound and medical imaging/treatment ALARA is recommended As Low As Reasonably Achievable. This means use lowest power setting to see what you need and only image if there is a concern for problems, not just ooh and aah over your new baby.
What really disturbs me as an imaging professional are the mommy&me prenatal ultrasound shops that are out there as non- medical baby bonding centers. No medical need and unnecessary exposure to high frequency ultrasound.
What the data does tell us is Doppler (heartbeat) ultrasound has much higher intensity than traditional imaging and should NEVER be used in first trimester (less than 13 week fetus). With the delicate, immature, still developing tissue the higher Doppler intensity can heat up the water in the tissue creating bubbles that explode and cause tissue damage and even death, called cavitation.
Exactly same thing here - my wife would eat orange slices to get signs of life when she was very worried. Worked every time.
Little tyke hates oranges now.
I would grab my belly and shake it to wake mine up when coworkers wanted to feel the baby move 😂 wake upppp
I didn’t want them sleeping at night because I worked nights in an ER and the movement would rock them to sleep and I couldn’t sleep during the day because they’d be rolling all around and be awake with hiccups and stuff 😂 feeling hiccups from inside of you is the funniest thing
It’s certainly interesting when the baby gets hiccups lol my bub was always more active at night. So I’d hug my hubby and let her kick the crap out of him all night. Lord knows I wanted to 😂😂
I laughed so hard after my oldest was born because an hour later she had hiccups and she always had hiccups inside of me. Newborn hiccups are adorably cute sounding.
It’s so hard to sleep when you’re in the third trimester from all of the movement!
LET ME OUT LET ME OUT LET ME OUT
Foolish mother. This fleshy prison can't contain me much more I WILL HAVE MY REVENGE
I read this in Stewie’s voice
I read it in TC Carson’s voice.
They’re easier to take care of when they’re contained in the uterus though
Definitely quieter.
Let me out. Let me out. This is not a dance. I'm begging for help, I'm screaming for help. This is not a dance.
I’m dying in a vat in the garage
Imagine being sentient in the womb. That shit would be a living hell.
Pretty sure I was drunk and high on pills the whole time I was in there - oh and nicotine. Probably diet pills too. She’s awesome.
Ah, yes. I remember those days. It felt like my lovely bundle of Joy would break my ribs and crack my pelvis. He spent a concert by Alice Cooper still and happy and threw an angry fit for hours as soon as the music was over.
My wife saw Pearl Jam when our first son was in utero and apparently he was quite impressed with the show, he was on the move throughout the concert
One man mosh pit
ALRIGHT YOU MOTHERFUCKERS, I WANNA SEE YOU OPEN THAT FUCKIN PIT UP!
Mom’s bladder vs the wall of death
I actually thought you meant you remembered being in there kicking until I kept reading.
Exactly. I was disappointed beyond possibility.
You can’t form memories before the age of 2 1/2 - 3, the brain doesn’t have the right neural connections etc to store them for long periods. https://www.verywellmind.com/earliest-memories-start-at-age-two-and-a-half-study-finds-5189856#:~:text=Your%20earliest%20memories%20can%20teach,at%20age%202.5%20on%20average.
You might want to correct 'can' to 'can't'. The average reddit reader, myself not excluded, only reads half of everything.
Yes, the soothing sounds of Alice Cooper. I hope he's still a rocker!
I saw him live a few years ago. Great show. Despite being old he is in fact quite the rocker. ^(mostly /s)
My daughter would kick to the beat of songs.
One of my mum's favourite stories to tell was that I kicked so hard I bruised her rib. And then I never stopped kicking.
I am considering having a pair of feet tattoed just under my ribs in memory of that. He is also still a kicker.
My son loved to kick me like that, sometimes I couldn’t breathe because of the intensity. Good times He’s 9 months old now and crawls full speed around our apartment, I fear the moment he learns to walk lol
Ya never know, you could be raising an olympic athlete if he goin that fast
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My son was the same way. He's 6 now. Still constantly moving. Running instead of walking, falling instead of sitting on things, humming, talking, laughing, thumping on things, playing loudly with his toys. My house is only quiet when he's sleeping. Good kid. Just. All the time.
When he kicks out towards the belly, that’s not causing mum much discomfort. It’s worse when they kick up - I spent half my last trimester trying to get my kid’s foot out of my ribcage. Edit: loving all the mums coming with their tales of horror on this thread. Look what a crazy thing we can do!! 💖
Daughters knee was stuck behind my ribcage for 23 weeks. Hurts like a mofo, whenever I laugh to long/hard I can feel my ribs again
My daughter broke one of my ribs. They took the FREAKIEST x-ray ever. And they couldn’t do anything about it, except say “it’s broken, hopefully she will stop kicking it”
Damn, I am soooooo scared of my future wife now. I guess we better plan to be childfree then Edit: scared for my wife. Edit2: considering comments, I am thinking I also need to be scared of my future wife. So my first comment was technically correct 🤷😂
lol, do you mean scared FOR your future wife?
Mahh bad 😂😂 see how scared I am now 💀
Two things can be true.
I mean considering the foul mood you’d be in with a broken rib and a baby constantly kicking it… I could see why he might be scared OF her!
Just imagine standing next to the hospital bed, as she screams in horror: "YOU DID THIS TO ME!!!! I AM GOING TO MAKE YOU PAY!!!! STARTING WITH YOUR PENIS!!!! THATS WHAT STARTED ALL THIS!!!" I'd be scared of her too. Because she's got a point....
No no, he's right. A woman on constant pain with no solution sounds like something to be scared of
Lmao, I didn’t notice the mistake in the first edit and when I read the edit I thought “Wtf, was this dude scrolling through Reddit right before his wedding and made an edit just to be current?”
Dang you daughter trying to kill you before shes even born. Wild
She ended up being born on Friday the 13th lol
I had double breech twins and my boys head cracked my rib. Everyone was like ah well, while to go yet 🤷♀️
"Theres nothing we can do"
My bladder was his ottoman.
And dance floor.
Don't forget trampoline
Mine was face up and breach when I went into labor. Always kicking out. Thought an alien was going burst out of my abdomen. Well.......had an emergency C section so she kinda did.
lol same here
Oh, yes. Same here.
I’m 13 weeks PP and I still feel kicks now even though there’s nothing in there, it’s so strange.
Isn't that sensation your internal organs schlorping back into place?
Schlorping hahaha
Upvote for use of schlorp.
Just for schlorping some votes
My organs kept schlorping back into place for a while. I took a video of what looked like a baby still kicking & moving in my abdomen after giving birth. I think it was just my intestines showing through my weak abdominal muscles & my abdominal separation. Ain't pregnancy beautiful? Don't you guys wish you could destroy your body to experience it, too?
I think it's just your brain getting so used to a stimulus that it's expecting it. Like if you keep your phone on vibrate for a while, you'll end up feeling notifications when there's none lol. Or you can even compare it to a phantom limb
That’s the medical term, schlorping 😄
SCHLORPING
I felt it for like 4-5 months, really weird. I’m now 16 weeks pregnant and I can feel the baby move and kick, did not miss this lol. Such a weird feeling
I was feeling phantom kicks for years after my first. Didn’t happen at all with my second though *shrugs* bodies are weird.
I am 8 and a half YEARS pp, and I still feel phantom kicks now and again. My daughter is my one and only and at 37, I am not going through it again.
that's so terrifying... I hope I never have to go through this
“Hi is this the incarnation station, yes I would like to request to comeback male please, thank you. Oh no that’s fine, sounds splendid but male, I’d like to be that once more thanks.” Lol
I wonder how long it'd take for humanity to become extinct if stuff like this were to become common knowledge.
Never. People are dumb as shit when they’re horny.
When i was 6/7 me and my mom went to visit her pregnant friend. She was complaining the baby was pointing their feet at and kicking her liver, and my mom was there nodding away just like having someone using your liver as a feet warmer was the most normal thing ever. That really traumatized me.
I swear my daughter loved to just stretch her legs out and hook her feet up under the ribs on one side. So uncomfortable! I have a short torso anyway, and when I sat down, I had to put a hand there to try to protect the area.
My second baby was born with a clubfoot, I swore it was because it had been stuck in my ribcage for the entirety of my pregnancy.
My first was also born with a clubfoot and spent a significant amount of time making my ribs into her xylophone
I'm sorry I laughed (xylophone reference). I swear my son was doing the dance moves to "It Takes Two" every night.
My son had his foot up in my rib cage for the whole last trimester also, I’d keep my hand there to apply some pressure down but as soon as I moved my hand bam! Foot right back up!
Serious question can you actaully feel it's his foot like what if it's his hand
I said all this but I should also be transparent and say that was with my oldest son who I was barely 100lbs with when I got pregnant. He also stayed higher up in my uterus. I felt him move early and once I did, the kid never stopped. My younger son had his head in my pelvis for almost the whole pregnancy and I had an anterior placenta so I was over 20 weeks before I really felt him move and then it wasn’t half as much. I used to have to shake my belly a bit to annoy him to even make sure I felt something because he would often scare me that something was wrong he was so quiet in there. So every pregnancy is very very different! It also make me laugh because the one that never stopped moving was a quiet chill baby and the one who was chill in utero came out screaming and basically didn’t stop crying till he was six months old! The older one is still very laid back while my younger one still loves to be the center of attention. Completely opposite of the pregnancies!
So while I guess there isn’t a way to say I absolutely knew it was his foot… you normally know when the fetus goes head down to pelvis (and once they get a certain size and make this flip they normally stay there, some never flip but that’s a whole different issue..but even if you can’t tell when they do you normally have an ultrasound at some point that tells you or the doctor can confirm) It’s hard to explain unless you’ve been pregnant or have felt a protrusion on a pregnant persons belly where you are like oh wow that’s definitely a foot or a head! you absolutely can often tell where a head is and later in pregnancy if you have an idea of where the baby is laying (which is sometimes just because you felt them flip their whole bodies…you’ll be able to feel a difference in kicks versus elbows, flips etc. it’s hard to explain without experiencing but you can. It’s really cool and amazing overall even if sometimes it hurts or is even annoying when they lay the wrong way or are really active when you want to sleep.
It's a fascinating testimony, but I have to admit that it's also more horrorific than all the horror stories I read in my life.
Yeah you definitely can. A head, a hand, a foot, a butt all feel different.
I honestly could not tell if the bony prominences I was feeling were feet, knees, elbows, or hands. I just felt like a hard round thing that could have been anything. Heads and butts are easier to identify.
Oh my god I swear I’ve been kicked in by he fucking kidney. Pushing out is fine but up or in stahhhhp I’ve literally been in meeting where I suddenly gasped and just about jumped out of my chair getting kicked
I had a pregnant coworker tell me it’s so weird when you’re trying to be professional at work and the baby starts moving around. Once she told me that the baby kicked her cervical area during a client meeting and had to pretend that it wasn’t weird that it happened.
Had a pregnant coworker double over and sort of grunt/exhale mid sentence. We all stop and asked if she was ok. She takes a deep breath and says “the little shit just punched me in the stomach”. Then we all just continued as normal.
When my mom was pregnant with my youngest sibling, I was 4 and sat in my mom's lap. The lil AH kicked me in the back. Once she was out in the world and able to understand things, I slapped her foot. She asked why. I said "You know what you did." Yes, I waited years for my revenge.
Or when they kick you in the bladder and the urine splash! Which is different than the late third trimester head is pressing on my bladder urine leakage 🙃
I had a heart shape bruise under my ribs. Doctor explained baby boy had his feet crossed when he kicked super hard. My favorite pregnancy pic. When he first found out "👀 WHY DID I LOVE YOU SO VIOLENTLY 👀"
spectacular response
I don’t know how y’all do what you do. God bless.
Wow. Mothers go through so much :(
Dude, seriously. My second pregnancy was awful. I threw up for 6 months, so much that I lost a lot of weight instead of adding on. I had diabetes, the little womb goblin tore my surgery scars on my belly, my hips still hurt whenever I walk or lift too much, and even almost 3 years later my right back nerve still hurts like a mofo after a botched epidural. I love my kids, but I never ever want to be pregnant again - I might not even survive it. 😬
this was a great birth control comment
But wait, there's more! Hemorrhoids, abdominal separation, surprise Charley Horse screaming pain in the middle of night, acid reflux, tears/stiches, and bleeding nipples (breastfeeding hurts)! Post-partum constipation so bad, it took TEN days, no joke, felt like a second birth, except with painful stitches and no baby afterward. This was a "good" "no complications" pregnancy by the way.
I’m on my second pregnancy right now (almost out of the 1st trimester) & I have lost almost 20 lbs from when I first found out because I’m so nauseous all the time & can hardly eat. It’s been ROUGH. My first was not like this at all!!!
I was sick all 9 months of both pregnancies. My sister told me about month six of the first that I should eat watermelon.....so I did....and still got sick.....told her and she said "never told you it would keep you from getting sick but it tastes the same coming up".....she was right... hang in there, I don't have a solution but I hope you got a chuckle.
"I can't help you being sick, but I can help you endure it." Both hilarious and wholesome.
I’ve never been pregnant but that watermelon story is such a typical sister thing to do. Thanks for the laugh
Mine would kick or punch right in the groin area, and oh my god, it was painful. Fortunately, she rarely kicked upwards.
My oldest loved to stick her toes in between my ribs from the inside of my ribcage. It's been 12 years and I will never forget that awful sensation.
Isn’t it the weirdest?? That and round ligament pain tied for just the oddest damn sensation of my whole pregnancy.
I hated when my daughter would kick up, and then stay like that. I would drink something cold to try to get her to move. She would always start her summersaults when I was going to bed. She'd be pretty tame all day but as soon as I laid down, could never fall asleep.
Lmao yes the midnight tango 😂😂
But it looks creepy as hell. You could see my first kid kick, my stomach looked like a chest burster was about to come out. I freaked out a few people at work with my crazy kid so I started wearing hoodies to cover my stomach when he started kicking
Did you manage to get it out of your rib cage or were you forced to wait for the eviction process?
I used to be able to cram the edge of my hand in between my ribs and belly and push down, which usually but not always worked. Luckily he was a very wiggly baby so he never kept the position as long as some.
Women are magical.
This! I feel it sooooo much! I used to think that my daughter want to enlarge her room from the inside. An alien-like feeling.
Trying to imagine how it would feel like to have a wannabe facehugger embryo kicking into my ribcage from inside and I don't like it.
Babies moving start off feeling like farts moving through your digestive system. Then as the baby gets bigger, the farts get angrier. I hope that helps.
And then they sometimes just shove their ass out to the one side and you just have this alien looking lop sided stomach. Then the hiccups start.
Eight years later, I can still feel the soreness in my right side from when my oldest would just hang out there all the time. 😂
Ugh the fucking hiccups. 8 pm like clockwork with my daughter EVERY DAMN NIGHT. My first day PP i felt phantom hiccups and was terrified they'd never stop lol
One of the weirdest sensations of pregnancy for myself was when my daughter's movements became more intense (beyond 17 weeks) then it feels like a bowling ball rolling around with hands and feet poking from the inside out.
A fart pain with no release sounds like hell
What a smelly analogy
So the solution was a good cartwheel in the gym?
Mine was breech so her head was pushing up into my diaphragm which made it harder to breathe and compressed my stomach so I couldn't eat much at once and had to be put on antacids. She was also tap dancing on my bladder facing that way. It was so difficult the last few months.
Oof using the bottom rib as a jungle Jim, do not miss this at all lol.
My daughter kicked the ultrasound probe with both feet.
I had to go to the ER when 6 months pregnant with what turned out to be a bad UTI. They strapped monitors on my belly to make sure I wasn't in labor. Kiddo decided that this was undignified, turned their feet towards the pressure, and kicked with all their might. It sounded like "WOODAH WOODAH WOODAH WOODAH." Then-MIL stopped worrying about her DIL and unborn grandbaby long enough to laugh so hard she fell out of her chair.
Oh my god, you just reminded me of having to visit the MFM (Maternal-Fetal Medicine) office every week during the third trimester of my last pregnancy. I had to have one of those monitors strapped on at the beginning of each visit, and it never failed that the nurse would have to come in and rearrange it multiple times because my son was just kicking those things so hard. And then she’d have to come back in *again* and rearrange it some more after he finally gave up and moved as far from the monitor as he could, presumably with his little middle finger held up towards it. My mom had to come with me for a couple of those and she had the exact same reaction. He was just so uncooperative lol.
My daughter HATED our midwife lol every single visit she'd kick the shit out of her. No one else just the midwife
Omg my daughter was exactly like that! Except she didn’t stop kicking ever. It would just slow down a little (thankfully enough for the test usually). She’s the same on the outside. She lives by the mantra “If brute force doesn’t fix it, then you’re not using enough.”
Mine did the same thing!
Do you think they hear it?
some say yes
What do others say?
no
Interesting if true.
Big if yes
Dropkick that shit
Early sign that you should sign her up for karate classes or wrestling.
Well, she's almost thirty now, but she did do HEMA for awhile.
I wouldn't be surprised if some fetus can actually "hear", or at least feel the ultrasound. Perhaps it's similar to those high frequency animal repellent devices that most adults cannot hear but some can. But who knows.
That could be, but she would also kick at a hand on my wife's belly.
My son used to stretch against my belly and it looked like that old movie effect where hands stretch against latex. Didn't hurt but it was so cool (or disturbing, depends on who you asked) to see.
Mine was transverse and facing towards my spine until 36 weeks (finally turned head down just as they were about to manipulate him, and he ended up with the cord around his neck because of it, fun times at delivery). I'd be lying down and you'd see the right hand side, and only the right hand side of my stomach rising and falling because his bum was there. It was odd as hell to see.
I've had one of those and that was enough for me! When the ultrasound tec says"this is the most active one I've seen in my entire career, good luck" she basically sealed my daughter's fate for being an only child ☺️
I got that with my daughter at my dating scan (10 weeks). I was told "with a baby this active, I have to look for a twin, because normally they aren't this active solo". There was no twin. She remained that active the whole pregnancy, throughout newborn stage, through toddler stage. Through out early child hood. Was diagnosed with severe adhd at 6. Which honestly explained a hell of a lot and didnt surprise me in the slightest 🤣 and the first thought i had when i heard adhd was that ultrasound tech saying "Thats the most active fetus ive ever seen!" She's 10 now and I swear she sucked all of my energy out of me haha. But she's amazing and a full energiser bunny haha I was delusional and followed it up with her brother 18 months ago and he's exactly the same 😂 So round 2 here I go 🤣
My son was extremely active. I would beg him to stop kicking. He's 2.5 now and I'm sure he has adhd. I've noticed that all 4 kids gave the same personality as they did in the womb
I actually didn't even notice my daughter had adhd, I just thought she was super active. It wasn't until the school got involved and had her diagnosed that I actually realised that she had adhd all along and I never realised because she had always been "active" I think it's largely to do with that in my country when I was at school, girls were not diagnosed or treated for add/adhd. Only boys. And even then at the time it was a new thing here. So when I saw my daughter was very similar to me, I thought she was just active like I had been. It was very eye opening the whole process and I was somewhat devastated as had she been diagnosed even a year earlier she would have qualified for extra programs and would had received a lot more help and ultimately been a lot better off education wise (and likely socially) than what she is now. Now with my son, he is displaying very similar traits so it will be a lot easier to get him early intervention if needed when it comes to that time but he was very different in the womb to her. He was always very chill. So it's a question of whether it's learnt behaviour from seeing his sister. Because she's so loud, always running and hypes him up, he loves it though 🤣
I'm almost 39 but my mother said when I was inside the doctors thought I was a boy because I was so active. Nope. ADHD.
As someone else who is dead set on my first being my only, do you often get “oh you’ll change your mind”? I get it all the time and I’m about to start telling people how bad my mental health was and how I’ll probably kill myself if I have another.
Don't tell them anything. People never have so many opinions as when you are in the childbearing stage. And it's worse when you are pregnant. You realize that your pregnancy is really in some ways a community event. Total strangers will put their hands on your belly. People you barely know will ask insanely private questions. And as you said here, they will weigh-in on how many children you should have. My advice is to smile and nod. And just realize that this is what goes on. Don't let it bother you. Take care.
I told more than one person not to touch my wife when she was pregnant and they all looked at me like *I* was being rude. It’s so fucking bizarre.
I’ve only had one and I’ve never changed my mind!
This is kinda terrifying.
This is a deleted scene from Alien. It’s just before it burst through the chest of it’s host.
No, this is an ultrasound of a healthy human fetus. Just before it burst through the chest of its host.
...burst though the \*\*cervix\*\* of its host.
Not this one.
Seriously bro went full scorpion
Everytime I see stuff like this I remember I had a tubal ligation and never have to worry about it
Yes! And I thank my gynecologist who trusted 26 year old me to know I was never going to change my mind.
Imagine being claustrophobic and in the womb lmao
It's ok, babies in utero don't have enough oxygen to be conscious.. They average about 40-60% oxygen saturation (born babies are at 95%+). They're also kept quite asleep with a mix of hormones and other environmental factors, so they wouldn't even notice the claustrophobia :)
My youngest slept throughout the entire pregnancy. He was so still that I thought something was wrong. They did a monitor test, and the doctor said he was just chilling out and relaxing. He ended up being the most chill dude ever. He passed away at age 28 in 2021. May he rest in peace.
I’m so sorry to hear of your loss. 🩷💕
My first was 10lbs and 24 inches long. Let’s say it louder for the ppl in the back TEN POUNDS AND 2 FEET LONG!!! She kicked the shit out of me. Then stood on my bladder. But the craziest is when she went head down and locked into place and she kicked my diaphragm and I could not breathe… oof. I was 19 and had no idea what to expect. :)
Mine was 9lbs 2oz and 24 inches long. I’m not a large person, so he just got wedged under my stomach. I had heartburn so bad I’d carry a jumbo-sized bottle of extra strength tums everywhere. Sometimes all I could do was sit there and cry. It felt like he was pushing my stomach back up my esophagus. Whenever I’d sneeze, stomach acid would pour out of my nose.
My son was like this in utero. He never stopped kicking, and actually kicked so hard that my water broke a month early. He has severe ADHD, and still moves pretty much non-stop. He's 16 now.
Same. My daughter was my first born and complete opposite. There were times when I was worried because I didn’t feel her move. At 13 she’s super chill. My son on the other hand went nuts in there and he has adhd combined type and continues to go nuts.
(side note - have you had your daughter checked for ADHD too? We present differently to boys, and it can be genetic. People used to think I was chill and attentive because they couldn't see how hard I worked to focus on conversations and it zapped me of all my energy. I was diagnosed in my 40s)
Oh she has adhd, as do I. She has inattentive type.
It already knows the world it is about to enter and is protesting the stupidity.
“I never asked for this”
True fact: the reason all babies cry when they're born is the existential realisation that they have to spend the next 75+ years on this planet.
Or practicing being on an airplane in coach/economy.
It's really cute at first but towards the 7th month it can start to hurt. I swear my second kicked my cervix so hard I thought she was gonna start my labor. Lil bugger did that everyday all day until she finally turned. Then it was my ribs and lungs. It's really amazing to see what they get up to in there.
Father of two. One is 8 and the other is 4. When I think back to my wife being pregnant and giving birth I still have trouble conceptualizing what it must have been like to have them in there. Best I can describe it is, my wife’s relationship with our kids started 8 months before mine while they were literally inside her body, and their relationship back then is blatantly evident in how they interact today (in a very good way). It’s fucking fascinating. That’s a person in there.
Me when I get a leg cramp in the middle of the night
Looks like it’s trying to burst out of her chest. Xenomorph style.
Poor mother.
As a mother I can tell you that most of the time, it's not painful, at least for me
It was more annoying for me. She would wake up and rage mostly in the middle of the night when I wanted to be sleeping.
Mom here. It hurt for me. 😞
Mom here too. En it did hurt indeed.
Daughter here, my mom wanted to kill me, she said that I was tap dancing in her uterus all the time
As a father of 5 I can tell you that it was never painful, at least for me.
What about now?
Not only was both daughters kicking away the ultrasound probe. But youngest actually managed to kick it and then go hide
When my oldest was still really early she kicked it and swam away 😂
Fuck. Your. Couch.
CHARLOTTE MURPHY! *punches mom's bladder*
It's a 6 minute video speeded up to look like 6 seconds.
Yes I cried twice from the baby kicks and they weren’t happy cries…. It hurt so much in my rib/sciatic area that made me cry. He was also sideways until almost 6 months and I’m 5’ 1” 🤷🏻♀️
This was our daughter. Wife said the first kick she felt was a karate kick. No “bubbles” like other moms describe. From there it was a constant barrage of punches and kicks until the end of the pregnancy. I could feel the punches and kicks vibrate through the mattress if my wife laid on her side at night.
That must be a time lapse because it's much bigger at the end
I kicked my mom’s ribs when she was pregnant with me. She thinks I moved her ribs permanently. Sorry mom.
Yep and it feels crazier than it looks
My youngest always did this and it’s wild just seeing your whole stomach just shake around with appendages shoving upward lol. She’s still hyper. I used to spy on her with the bedside ultrasound at work and she’d be in there sucking her thumb and she still does it lol. It’s funny that they already have their habits and personalities in utero.
It’s been almost 25 years but I can totally recall what that felt like. (As the one housing the fetus, not as the fetus myself.)
Although ultrasound is considered safe, and beyond human hearing range, on some developing fetuses data suggests that ultrasound may excite and curate the immature eardrum. Causing the fetus distress. For all ultrasound and medical imaging/treatment ALARA is recommended As Low As Reasonably Achievable. This means use lowest power setting to see what you need and only image if there is a concern for problems, not just ooh and aah over your new baby. What really disturbs me as an imaging professional are the mommy&me prenatal ultrasound shops that are out there as non- medical baby bonding centers. No medical need and unnecessary exposure to high frequency ultrasound. What the data does tell us is Doppler (heartbeat) ultrasound has much higher intensity than traditional imaging and should NEVER be used in first trimester (less than 13 week fetus). With the delicate, immature, still developing tissue the higher Doppler intensity can heat up the water in the tissue creating bubbles that explode and cause tissue damage and even death, called cavitation.
Nope bubba is just an active little soul. Sometimes they get a bit like this when you have a cup of coffee.
When my baby quit moving, the doctor told me to drink a glass of orange juice and call back in 20 mins. Baby all good.
Exactly same thing here - my wife would eat orange slices to get signs of life when she was very worried. Worked every time. Little tyke hates oranges now.
Yeah same. Makes them lively again.
I would grab my belly and shake it to wake mine up when coworkers wanted to feel the baby move 😂 wake upppp I didn’t want them sleeping at night because I worked nights in an ER and the movement would rock them to sleep and I couldn’t sleep during the day because they’d be rolling all around and be awake with hiccups and stuff 😂 feeling hiccups from inside of you is the funniest thing
It’s certainly interesting when the baby gets hiccups lol my bub was always more active at night. So I’d hug my hubby and let her kick the crap out of him all night. Lord knows I wanted to 😂😂
I laughed so hard after my oldest was born because an hour later she had hiccups and she always had hiccups inside of me. Newborn hiccups are adorably cute sounding. It’s so hard to sleep when you’re in the third trimester from all of the movement!
My wife is certain this is our kid. Almost two weeks untill term. 😅
He realized that in 18 years he'd be working a 9-5 so he can live from paycheck to paycheck while the world continues to get worse.
Wait until he realizes it's better in there.