Feeling the fetal movement seems to be the first communication between mother and child, which also makes women start to feel motherhood for the first time, so mothers-to-be will look forward to the subtle feeling of “fetal movement” after pregnancy. But the initial fetal movement is not the kind of “punching and kicking” that we imagine. That’s why many pregnant mothers ask me during their 4th trimester checkups, “What does it feel like to have a baby moving?” Many pregnant mothers in their 5th month of pregnancy ask me, “I can’t figure out if this is a fetal movement ……” Normally, most pregnant women will feel fetal movement from 17 weeks to 22 weeks, but there are individual differences, and it is common for women who are pregnant to feel the first fetal movement slightly earlier. The first fetal movement will be felt a little earlier, while those pregnant mothers with thick abdominal wall fat will be a little later, which may still be related to the abdominal wall fat buffering the fetal movement, making the first fetal movement more difficult to be detected. The feeling of fetal movement at the beginning is very slight and subtle, it is difficult to quantify with specific criteria, here are a few mothers’ descriptions of the initial fetal movement: “It’s like little fish swimming, whooshing ……” “It’s like someone is spitting bubbles in my belly, very light. my tummy spitting bubbles, very, very light bubbles that rise up and then burst ……” “At first I thought it was my indigestion or gas in my intestines, but then I realized it wasn’t.” ”It’s like someone is scratching my uterus, gently, one at a time ……” Such fetal movement sensations become progressively more pronounced after the twentieth week of pregnancy, until the fist-pumping or mountains on the belly that pregnant mothers have described occur. The first thing you need to do is to get a good idea of what you’re doing.