How do I know if I am feeling movement??

Sometimes I feel "flutters" sometimes I feel more like a tapping. Sometimes its on one side, sometimes is on the other. SOmetimes its on both sides, sometimes it alternates sides. Am I feeling these babies move or is it just gas? On the left I feel it close to my pubic bone and on the right its higher up.
People ask me if I am feeling movement and my answer is "I don't know."
Honestly, how do you know when it is? It seems like its too early to be feeling anything - I know most people say they don't feel movement until 17-18 weeks or even later.

Re: How do I know if I am feeling movement??

My first movement was 15w6d. It was further up than you describe. About an inch or two below my belly button. I am 100% sure of it. How far along are you?

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i first felt the baby just before 16 weeks (about 15W and 5 or 6 days).

it never felt like flutters to me, it was more like poking. a few days later i could feel what seemed like gas bubbles rolling around my lower abdomen - i always felt him right above my pubic bone.

you could be feeling something, you are about 15 weeks now right?

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Hmm, I am not sure. It does sound early, even mine was fairly early for a first pg but I don't have the best muscle tone in my ut area so it makes sense for me.

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Sounds like the baby! I still feel mine low and i am 22 weeks, she moves around from one side to the other and it is funny-kicks hard on one side, then i feel her later kicking from the other side. It is light in the beginning and then it will start to pick up and you will have no doubt it is your baby! Mine are getting stronger by the day. The other day she knocked the wind out of me.

It is really funny! I am sure we wont be saying that when it is our organs!!

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I thought I may have felt something a few times around 15 weeks. By 16 weeks, I was definitely feeling strong frequent flutters. You're having twins, right? I don't think you're too early to feel something, especially with two in there. It sounds like you're feeling movement.

To me, the flutters feel like a vibration or twitching. They're almost always on my right side. I usually feel them when I'm sitting or lying down. I mainly feel them at night or when I first wake up.

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it sounds to me like you are feeling the baby! For me over the weeks it has become so much more obvious and so much more frequent. I feel tapping all day long, it doesn't feel like gas to me.

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With my DS, the 1st feeling I had was like a twitching-kinda like an eyebrow twitches (if you've ever had that)...It very well could be movement, esp. w/ 2 in there !