Week 18
About the size ofa carrot
The kicking is getting stronger. Perhaps you can already feel the first movements. Your baby is now 20 cm and 200 grams.
For the first time it is now possible to feel your little one move. The muscles of the arms and legs are now so well developed that they are strong enough to give a kick you can feel. At first you may wonder whether you are really feeling anything. The “pops”, as most women experience them, feel a lot like the rumbling of your bowels. But as your little one grows, the movements will become stronger and easier to feel. The moment you first feel the pops lies between 18 and 24 weeks and depends on your baby’s position, the thickness of your abdominal wall and the position of the placenta.