“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, 32, 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
