has anyone else ever felt their stomach pulsating in like second trimester? like a real heart beat in my stomach, that you can physically see on the outside of your belly. I have it on camera, but I just wonder what it could be...
I'm not in the 2nd anymore but I did feel/see that today
It's the pulse of the placenta. I asked my nurse about it because I noticed it when I would lay on my back. It's the extra blood flow from the uterus to the placenta.
That happens to me too! I always wonder what it was or if I was just imagining stuff smh lol
Haha you're good, I just looked it up and it says the blood flow through the placenta and there's an artery that runs through your abdomen also. If you listen on a fetal Doppler you can pick up a rate from your own heart, baby's, and the placenta
@makayleigh, not to sound dumb. but what could the placenta be doing? lol #ftm
Yeah hiccups, and I've also heard that it could be the placenta
that's what I thought. but everyone says I'm wrong @santanaanna
I've heard that's what baby's hiccup feel like, I've yet to feel it though
@makayleigh, is absolutely right I have a Doppler and always pic up the placenta especially since I have two