Burping sound in stomach during pregnancy

Pregnancy is… pretty weird sometimes. Whether it’s your ears making more wax or your joints getting loosey-goosey, it causes all kinds of odd bodily changes.

Have you experienced that mysterious popping sound and feeling during pregnancy? Not all women do, but some say they hear a *pop* noise, or feel a snap of some kind inside their bump.

Gurgling stomach pregnancy second trimester boy or girl

So, what the heck is it, and should you worry if it happens to you?

If you’ve heard or felt this mysterious pop and tried your own Google search, you probably found lots of discussion forums on sites like Trimester Talk and Baby Center, with entries from women who had the same experience.

But no one seems to know exactly what the cause is.

“Patients will rarely ask about it; it’s not necessarily something commonly asked about,” says Abigail Burns, M.D., OB-GYN at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, in an interview with Romper.

“There are a few theories about what it is, but all of them are benign, so we don’t worry about it when women notice it.” And those theories are dependent

bubbles in belly when pregnant

bubbles in your belly when pregnant