Reduced movements

[cassi]

Not much movement in past few days compared to usual. Just occasional gentle flutters. Anyone else experienced this (27+3) xx

 

[millielaura]

It's probably all fine but always go in to be checked to be on the safe side. Baby is still fairly small so could be you just aren't feeling everything xx

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[millielaura]

Still go in though xx

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[Eryinera]

Any reduced movement should be taken seriously hun x phone the number on your notes and get put on a trace it will reassure you too x x

 

[JulyBug]

My LO has very quiet days, I have an anterior placenta so it's always difficult to feel the little movements! I phoned the triage midwife and she said to try drinking something cold or eat something sugary! I started to really panic when norhing worked but that evening out of nowhere he decided to start kicking me constantly! lol.. I still don't feel regular movement due to the placenta but I'm happy as long I feel him on a daily basis xx

 

[nikkix86]

i went in to be monitored about the same time. everything was fine but its better to reassure you otherwise you will only worry

 

[cassi]

Sorry for replying so late. Movements started to increase that day. They've been a lot lighter but also much lower and further back so I think she may have turned around. They've been steadily getting stronger over the past day or so. I think she may be moving back now. I don't usually worry too much about quiet days as I know they'll happen but it went on too long! I check HR too and all good at 140, left it on there a while to check it wasn't irregular. I won't tellMW that though, I know they hate it!! I did have this once before though and was getting migraines and leg cramps too so worried it was PE. Dr checked HB and ended up listening to the placenta 'whoosh' and telling me it was her HB and it was quite slow. So glad I knew otherwise from using my own Doppler or think I'd of broken down!!! Didn't have the heart to tell her she was listening to the wrong thing

 

[kumber]

Just bear in mind chick that a heartbeat isn't indicative of a safe baby. The machines on maternity wards pump sound waves into your uterus which cause a healthy baby to move, and they use that with the heartbeat to make sure baby's ok. Please go in with any reduced movements, it's a pain but worth it to make sure baby is ok!

 

[Browneyed Girl]

Agree that a heartbeat doesn't tell the full story and it shouldn't be a regular beats per minute, there should be highs and lows showing baby is active. A trace should show a good range from 100-180 over the course of 30 mins or so x

 

[millielaura]

Yeah 100% agree a healthy heartbeat is the variability. If you go in for monitoring thats what they look for. I'm sure all is okay for you but when Imogens heart rate was flat on the trace meaning no variability they got a few diff doctors to look, considered keeping me in and scan etc and were worried. She must just of been having a much longer than 'normal' sleep though as it went back to normal after a few hours hooked up to monitors. There's no way of knowing without being trained what their heartbeat shows, that's why the midwives don't like you using them. I've seen a poster before saying how if you saw someone passed out on the street, you would call an ambulance, you wouldn't just check their pulse and walk on and it should be the same for your baby too. A heartbeat doesn't mean they are okay and once there is no heartbeat then it's too late. It's always better to just go in and be on the safe side xxx

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[cassi]

Hi thanks for all replies. I didn't go in As she became very archive that day, I'd checked the HB that morning as an extra precaution but was still planning on going in if movements didn't increase but they did were just lighter but from really far back so she'd obviously moved into an odd position I would've still gone in regardless of HB if the movements hadn't increased

 

[Bythesea]

I've had a similar issue over the past week. Movements have appeared to be less, and definitely less forceful. I had the midwife on Thursday and I'm measuring slightly small, so wants to see me again sooner than scheduled, but has also told me to keep an extra eye on movements so I'm now more paranoid! Since yesterday evening it's moved loads though, so I think it may have just changed position to something less obvious to feel, but I'm going in later on to get checked over anyway. I suffer with anxiety and I can see myself being a weekly visitor until this baby comes....but who cares, I'd never be able to live with myself if I just assumed everything would be ok then something terrible happened. I've been told to never use a doppler as this isn't an indicator alone that everything is indeed ok, so I would always go in on the safe side.

 

[millielaura]

I've had a similar issue over the past week. Movements have appeared to be less, and definitely less forceful. I had the midwife on Thursday and I'm measuring slightly small, so wants to see me again sooner than scheduled, but has also told me to keep an extra eye on movements so I'm now more paranoid! Since yesterday evening it's moved loads though, so I think it may have just changed position to something less obvious to feel, but I'm going in later on to get checked over anyway. I suffer with anxiety and I can see myself being a weekly visitor until this baby comes....but who cares, I'd never be able to live with myself if I just assumed everything would be ok then something terrible happened. I've been told to never use a doppler as this isn't an indicator alone that everything is indeed ok, so I would always go in on the safe side.

I was a weekly visitor lol then daily monitoring at the end! She was a nightmare with having total silent days! She was always fine but I was induced at 39 weeks for it in the end as they like to be on the safe side and she's had 15 episodes of reduced movements. Sometimes I felt silly as I had literally been in like the day before but I always thought to myself it's 10000% better to check xxx