# I think my unborn baby had the hiccups this morning **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 27, 2012, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-my-unborn-baby-had-the-hiccups-this-morning/626485 "2012-06-27T17:20:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-my-unborn-baby-had-the-hiccups-this-morning/626485/21 "2012-06-28T01:17:46Z")
Mine had hiccups all the time and now that she’s out and about, she thinks it’s a riot to hear how she had them in my belly. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-my-unborn-baby-had-the-hiccups-this-morning/626485/22 "2012-06-28T01:23:43Z")
My daughter did this a number of times. The first time Laura and I were walking in the mall and she stopped, put her hand on her stomach, and, while grabbing my hand said in a tone that matched the joyful wonder on her face, “I think she has the hiccups! Feel!” ---
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-my-unborn-baby-had-the-hiccups-this-morning/626485/23 "2012-06-28T02:41:44Z")
I LOVED when baby #2 had the hiccups … nobody else could feel them but me and it was fun to have a special little secret between just the two of us. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-my-unborn-baby-had-the-hiccups-this-morning/626485/24 "2012-06-29T01:37:48Z")
Darn… I feel cheated. Neither of mine had hiccups. Have to ask my daughter and daughter-in-law if the grandboys had them. And in private happy news, I get to see both grandboys together in one week! SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEE!! ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-my-unborn-baby-had-the-hiccups-this-morning/626485/25 "2012-06-29T01:52:14Z")
> [@Anne\_Neville](#): > > I’m 33 weeks pregnant. I was feeling frequent, small movements, happening with a frequency that wouldn’t be totally abnormal for hiccups when I get them. Is that what it probably was? Probably. When Dendarii Dame was pregnant with little Dendarii Dude, he got the hiccups from time to time. ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-my-unborn-baby-had-the-hiccups-this-morning/626485/26 "2012-06-29T12:48:26Z")
I looked at this thread title before my coffee just now and thought you were talking about your unicorn baby. I was about to be overcome with envy. Applying coffee, now. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-my-unborn-baby-had-the-hiccups-this-morning/626485/27 "2012-06-29T13:17:40Z")
> [@Merneith](#): > > I looked at this thread title before my coffee just now and thought you were talking about your unicorn baby. I was about to be overcome with envy. I’m pretty sure she’s not a unicorn. I think that’s the sort of thing that would show up on ultrasound. > [@](#): > > Applying coffee, now. Now I’M overcome with envy. I have found the restrictions on caffeine to be far and away the most difficult thing about pregnancy so far. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-my-unborn-baby-had-the-hiccups-this-morning/626485/28 "2012-06-29T13:27:15Z")
Anne, I quit coffee and booze for 3 years (pregnancy and breastfeeding). I think that by the end of it I was ready to bathe in coffee. And about unborns’ hiccups: Mine had hiccups nearly every time I ate at the end of the pregnancy. Since I am a short woman, and mine was a very large baby (born by emergency c-section at 36 weeks and nearly 12 lb) the last weeks her hiccups were pretty obvious, even from the outside. She is now almost 7 and still very hiccupy. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-my-unborn-baby-had-the-hiccups-this-morning/626485/29 "2012-06-29T13:45:43Z")
> [@Mighty\_Girl](#): > > Anne, I quit coffee and booze for 3 years (pregnancy and breastfeeding). I think that by the end of it I was ready to bathe in coffee. I didn’t quit caffeine entirely, I don’t think I could do that. I certainly don’t think I could do that and hold down a job, or keep any kind of schedule that is compatible with a normal human lifestyle. When I am finished breastfeeding, I am going to get the biggest most caffeinated coffee drink I can find. May God have mercy on anyone who tries to stop me, because you can be sure I won’t have mercy on them. I’m not planning to do extended breastfeeding, because I’m already sick of not feeling like a human being for half the day. I know it is like living in a polar bear enclosure for Mr. Neville, too, and I feel very sorry for him. Later, I will get some booze. Also some sushi, the good kind that has too much mercury. But the caffeine is _way_ more important. ---
**Author:** ![Zjestika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/8edcca/32.png) [@Zjestika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zjestika)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-my-unborn-baby-had-the-hiccups-this-morning/626485/30 "2012-06-29T15:45:32Z")
My little lady had hiccups all the time when she was in me, and it was the only time my husband could feel her. She was very uncooperative when it came to kicking- the minute I tried to get someone to feel she would stop all gymnastics. She still gets the hiccups at least once a day at 2 months. WRT caffeine I didn’t give it up entirely while pregnant but I have while breastfeeding because I think it keeps her up in the afternoon. And I’ll have a half a beer or glass of wine even though I’m breastfeeding. [The current research](http://kellymom.com/bf/can-i-breastfeed/lifestyle/alcohol/) says you don’t have to pump and dump- just don’t breastfeed while feeling tipsy. I’ll admit to having the odd glass of wine during my pregnancy, too. The thing I miss most that I can never do again is smoking. But it’s for the best, I guess. Stupid ritualistic habit that I loved. ---
**Author:** ![eclectic\_wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ac91a4/32.png) [@eclectic\_wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eclectic_wench)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-my-unborn-baby-had-the-hiccups-this-morning/626485/31 "2012-06-29T16:04:40Z")
Mine used to get the hiccups fairly regularly, which was sweet unless it was 3am and she was keeping me awake. Now she’s almost three. Since she was born, she gets the hiccups every time she has a huge fit of laughter, and that’s pretty much it. I know she couldn’t laugh in the womb, but I still have this mental image of her cracking herself up in there until she got the hiccups. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-my-unborn-baby-had-the-hiccups-this-morning/626485.md?page=1)