Today I was sitting waiting for a client and felt the same thing. Not bloated today, this is early morning so the belly is still in reasonable deflated mode. I went and stood with my back against the wall and gently held the spot where the feeling was. Exact same thing, happening a few times in a row. A strange, somewhat uncomfortable sensation of something being dragged across the inside of my belly.
I've read just about every description I can find about what it feels like when the baby moves. The majority agree that it feels like either a butterfly flutter or very consistent gas bubbles. If we go with the gas bubble theory, I could buy that someone would mistake this for gas. It's slightly uncomfortable like gas bubbles, in the right general area. I guess I won't know until I get to that point where there is no doubt. So I suppose right now I'm at the stage of maybe it's baby, or maybe I have a lot of interesting gas. Only time will tell.
Tomorrow marks another prenatal visit with the nurse practitioner. Sean is taking the afternoon off to attend this one. Thus far my visits have been super easy. Pee in a cup, blood pressure, weight, 'how are you feeling', and the happy moment where they pull out the doppler and we hear the baby's heartbeat. That's it. If I have a lot of questions, the appointment takes some time, if I have none, then I'm out of there. They don't feel me for swelling in the boobs, don't measure the belly, don't press to find the fundus (top of the uterus placement). I haven't been ....invaded.... personally yet by anyone. That's been a bonus! I still wax my legs each month in case my luck in that department runs out. Which is kind of funny, because I imagine by the time I will be getting invaded routinely, I certainly won't be able to contort into the required positions to wax my own legs anymore. Plus it will be winter, so really the doctors will have to expect some European legs.
This visit is a bit exciting because of two things. First - it will be the first time Sean gets to hear the baby's heartbeat. Secondly, it will be the appointment where we get the ultrasound requisition to go for the 20 week ultrasound. The 20 week is for lots of good preventative health measures and checking up on baby. Serious stuff. But for the parents to be, all we think about is this is the one where we find out if we are having a boy or girl! With any luck I will be able to schedule it on the 13th of August. Then we shall know. The sexing of baby has got me panicked about picking names and picking names NOW. I am convinced baby is a boy, so much so that if the tech said to me 'congrats, you are having a girl' I would be shocked and tell her to double check. In order to avoid embarrassing myself if this is the news we hear, I've been in a whirlwind of trying to come up with girl names I like. If I can practice thinking of baby as a girl for a couple weeks (along with an acceptable name), then I think I can make a happy face at the tech if she gives me 'girl child' news. My only response if they say 'boy' will be to say I told you so. I'm pretty convinced.
We're open to hearing name suggestions from everyone. What would you like for a girl name?