do babies fart in utero?

[simitude]

:p weird question, maybe. but i am 31 weeks and i swear sometimes i can feel my baby farting. it feels like... well like a tiny fart making air bubbles. i only feel it if my hand is on my stomach and it freaks me out a little bit. wdyt?

[LotusMum]

Noooo, babies cant fart in utero, small thing about lack of actual breathing and digestion there that stops that from happening.

[simitude]

:laughing: oh duh. but thats exactly what it feels like!! i wonder what it is then...

[mandypiee]

I would say it might be the baby hiccuping.. google it, it's very common. My little one does it at least 4 times a day :)

[Hollywood]

Or maybe bub is just tickling the inside of the uterus with their fingers?

[swizzlestick]

Or maybe bub is just tickling the inside of the uterus with their fingers?

I'd say it is this! I used to get tiny little tickles that felt like bubbles, and saw on one of his scans that he was opening and closing his hand about where I could feel the bubbles!

[Mahjong]

Talk about the ultimate 'dutch oven' if it were possible :laughing:

[mishh]

Talk about the ultimate 'dutch oven' if it were possible :laughing:

HAHAHA best call!

[simitude]

Or maybe bub is just tickling the inside of the uterus with their fingers?
that must be it. i can feel his hiccups but they are in a different spot/different feel. thanks for the replys to my silly question :D

[SixtiesChild]

:p weird question, maybe. but i am 31 weeks and i swear sometimes i can feel my baby farting. it feels like... well like a tiny fart making air bubbles. i only feel it if my hand is on my stomach and it freaks me out a little bit. wdyt?

LOL....:laughing: not a fart......Your baby may be crying.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi-01eITZaU

[Gothel]

i used to feel something, hard to describe, like a whole heap of little wobbles or a series of little taps or put-put-put, very fast but distinct, maybe 12 over 3 seconds. Could never work out what it was. Does it sound like your 'farting'??!! Dh would be so proud if he found out it was! :laughing:

[simitude]

yeah! you described it better :laughing: but thats exactly what it felt like.

[Hollywood]

LOL....:laughing: not a fart......Your baby may be crying.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi-01eITZaU

wow, that's quite amazing! It really does look like the baby is crying in utero!

[simitude]

I told DP that maybe it was the baby crying, he got really concerned and said "why? why would the baby be crying? what happened?" :p

[mimsie]

mine does it too, definitely a different thing to hiccups which he tends to get 5+ times a day. It is so weird!