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Some women may only feel movement after 21 weeks. It felt a bit like a feather tickling me, but from the inside. At first, I wasn t sure it was baby, but a few days later there was another flutter, and then another, and another, and I just knew, Kuhle Mthembu, recalls of her son s first movements inside her belly at just 17 weeks.
He was right on schedule, according to Dr Deon van Zyl, an obstetrician/gynaecologist practising from Mediclinic Panorama in Cape Town: Most women start feeling flutters – or butterflies – from around 16 weeks.
Dr Van Zyl says it s not necessarily a cause for concern if you re beyond 16 weeks and you haven t felt movement yet, as proper movements are only really felt from about 21 weeks. Like Leanne Farish, 31, who didn t feel any movement until she was 20 weeks.