Placenta & movement

[Aprilxxx]

Hi ladies,

I’m 26+5 with an anterior placenta. I feel my baby everyday, which i obviously love. My baby has always been very low and has sat more in my pelvic area than my tummy. He’s always been so low that at my 20 week scan I had to pull down my pants and get scanned down there as baby was not high in my tummy yet. Anyway, so I’ve always felt nice strong kicks constantly well below my belly button...and
they’ve been strong.

Baby has moved up now. Kicks are still there but they feel more muffled and I can often miss them now if I’m busy. I feel him roll/flip more often tho. Anyway I always thought as baby got bigger kicks would be more obvious but I feel like we’ve gone abit backwards!! Any other mums out there felt like this with an anterior placenta?

Xxx

 

[WinterWolf]

Yes, it's normal. An anterior placenta sits right over your bellybutton so if baby is kicking there it will seem weak. I couldn't feel anything aound there until 34 weeks. I think at 26 weeks my bub was standing lol I felt all the kicks on my cervix at that point! x

 

[Aprilxxx]

Yes, it's normal. An anterior placenta sits right over your bellybutton so if baby is kicking there it will seem weak. I couldn't feel anything aound there until 34 weeks. I think at 26 weeks my bub was standing lol I felt all the kicks on my cervix at that point! x

That’s really helpful thanks winterwolf xxxx

 

[Kitana]

It also took a long time for me to feel DD's kicks, it was hard to catch them when looking at my bump too.
I felt them well when she started kicking my ribs when she was head down. She also often stretched a foot against my ribs, and it would squish my muscles or fatty tissue or something, it felt like a constant poke and sometimes had to catch my breath due to the pain! Anterior placenta sucks though... The good thing about it is that it's harder to get worried about reduced movements since you can't really feel them for quite a while.
Good luck hun, once they get bigger, you will be wondering why you wanted to feel all those kicks waking you up in the middle of the night!

 

[Aprilxxx]

It also took a long time for me to feel DD's kicks, it was hard to catch them when looking at my bump too.
I felt them well when she started kicking my ribs when she was head down. She also often stretched a foot against my ribs, and it would squish my muscles or fatty tissue or something, it felt like a constant poke and sometimes had to catch my breath due to the pain! Anterior placenta sucks though... The good thing about it is that it's harder to get worried about reduced movements since you can't really feel them for quite a while.
Good luck hun, once they get bigger, you will be wondering why you wanted to feel all those kicks waking you up in the middle of the night!

Well this is my problem I’ve felt kicks and movement from 18 weeks because he was so low but now he’s bigger (almost 27 weeks) they’re getting harder to feel. Twists and turns...fine but kicks I can miss now xx

 

[WinterWolf]

Well this is my problem I’ve felt kicks and movement from 18 weeks because he was so low but now he’s bigger (almost 27 weeks) they’re getting harder to feel. Twists and turns...fine but kicks I can miss now xx

This is partly because be won't be kicking as much now as he's rapidly running out of leg room. They mostly roll and punch in trimester 3, not as many kicks. x

 

[eriLinda]

good things to know

 

[Abi88]

Could also be that he's flipped from feet down so kicking you where you can feel it to head down so kicking where you can't feel it so well. Mine got head down from 24 weeks and stayed there until he was out!