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Any suggestions to encourage some kicks?

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Biscuitsandtea · 12/12/2011 09:45

Hi,

I'm 24+5 and haven't felt any real kicks since yesterday afternoon. I've felt gentle flutters, but not any proper pokes or kicks.

I have an anterior placenta so it was quite a long time before I felt some proper kicks but I have generally been feeling something 'proper' every day for a few weeks.

So, I have phoned the MWs and the PAU this morning. MWs said monitor today and call back tomorrow if still worried. PAU said monitor this morning and call back about 1 or 2 if still nothing.

So I wondered if anyone had any tips to encourage some kicks?

Sorry if any typos, on phone and can't read back through message - thanks in advance though.

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Crosshair · 12/12/2011 09:49

Cold water, sweet food?

PotteringAlong · 12/12/2011 09:51

Lie on your left, if in doubt call your midwife!

PotteringAlong · 12/12/2011 09:53

Sorry, just realised you've rung your MW.

Ice cold drinks too should help.

fuckityfuckfuckfuck · 12/12/2011 09:55

Yep, cold drinks and do as little as possible. I don't notice kicks at all if I'm busy.

MrsHuxtable · 12/12/2011 09:56

Lie on your left and drinka very sugary fizzy drink.

user59457812 · 12/12/2011 10:06

I'm now 26 weeks and go through what you are describing every few days, and my placenta is posteria and high, so there's nothing in the way!

I've never found anything that encourages kicks really apart from lying down totally quietly for about an hour with my hands on my tummy. Eventually I'll feel something, even if it's quite gentle. At 24 weeks it's way too early to count kicks as baby is still quite small, so as long as you feel something it's most likely all good (but do report back to midwife).

I think what is happening in my case is that bub turns around so he/she is kicking into my organs which I can't feel as well, if you see what I mean, rather than towards the outside which is easier to feel. I get myself into a proper state, but then the quiet days tend to follow what feel like really busy days, where I assume what I'm feeling is bub tumbling into a new, more tucked away position.

Sure you'll feel LO swimming around soon, but I'm with you, it's worrying!

Selky · 12/12/2011 10:10

When I (foolishly) drank a mocha frappicino, my DS would go on spin. Sugar & Caffiene & Ice cold = Wheeeee!

You could see it through my clothes, I kid you not.

kiki22 · 12/12/2011 10:16

play some loud music into your belly get bubs going i swear it worked for me.

ciwi · 12/12/2011 10:41

I am 26+3 and have quiet days too, i can always feel him but sometimes they are gentle movements rather than big kicks. I am going for a scan and consultant appointment later so will mention it to him and let you know what he says. hotpink I am glad you said the same, I stress out when he has a quiet day too and I also have a posterior high placenta. I also thought maybe he was facing inwards.
Lying on my back and drinking a cold, fizzy drink works for me as well as stretching (like when you wake up in the morning)

brettgirl2 · 12/12/2011 10:47

It is always really difficult to know if there is anything to worry about. I had a bleed at 25 weeks and was told to monitor movements but at that stage what you can feel depends on the position of the baby. MW told me to sit down at regular time each day and count 10 within an hour, which I did find worked.

Hotpotpie · 12/12/2011 11:17

Im glad to be reading this post, Im 21 and a bit weeks and I have an anterior placenta, Ive not felt more than three or four kicks full stop, but I get lots of flutters on and off, I seem to have lots of quiet days and then a very active one, I must admit Ive been starting to wonder at what point you should get a bit concerned? I was working on the principle that so long as I could feel flutters it was probably ok?

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Biscuitsandtea · 12/12/2011 11:36

Right, I'm on the sofa with a magnum, lucozade and a mars bar for good measure!!! If im not back in an hour I might be in a sugar induced coma....

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morethemerrier · 12/12/2011 12:03

I have also got an anterior placenta, which I knew before my 20 week scan as I had not felt the same level/frequency of movements that I had with my other three pregnancies!

I have noticed that I have alternate days when I get very strong high kicks, and then softer bumps the next! I pressume baby has turned outwards on quiet days,facing my back with its back cushioned against the placenta.

With my first I spent a lot of weeks in hospital due to pre eclampsia and was always given iced water to get baby moving! But sugar albeit not as healthy does seem to get babies jiggling as well.

If at all worried though,insist on being monitored.

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Biscuitsandtea · 12/12/2011 12:12

Getting a few more flickers. Would really like a nice big poke or a boot, but getting a few wriggles possibly.

Yes - I guess the sugar ain't a great lunch . Thank goodness DS isn't here to witness it! Not sure i'd be able fob him off with a sandwich and a banana....

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Biscuitsandtea · 12/12/2011 12:20

Thank you for all your help though - still waiting for a mega boot.

ciwi good luck this afternoon - will be interesting to see what they say.

It's hard because I know I'm still at that early stage of not necessarily getting much movement, but don't want to miss something that I should be taking note of iyswim?

Now come on baby, make the most of mummy wanting you to kick me - you won't get away with it once you're out....

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Dillydollydaydream · 12/12/2011 12:23

My dc used to do crazy if I had a bath. They'd have a big wriggle.

user59457812 · 12/12/2011 12:24

Bless - sure he/she is fine in there! I understand that any type of movement should be counted, not only kicks, so wriggles are a good indication all is well. You'll probably get a huge boot once you've given up and are doing something else, always seems to happen that way with me.

I do now think that the words my baby is going to be most familiar when it comes out are 'come on, kick for mummy!'. As you say, not so appropriate once LO emerges and can give me a proper one!

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Biscuitsandtea · 12/12/2011 12:31

Yes I always struggle with what exactly to count. I've heard that if there is a problem (heaven forbid) they can still float around so flutters etc don't count. Kicks and pokes are good but then there's that while grey area in the middle of what is actually a wriggle?

Ha! The postman just came and had to knock to deliver a package - I saw him see me through the front window - lying on the sofa and watching tv. Then he said 'oh, sorry to disturb you...'. I felt like saying 'I'm doing a sort of medical experiment involving ice cream and lying down'

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CGall · 12/12/2011 12:47

I have been worrying about this off and on for a few weeks. I had felt plenty of movement around 21 weeks because it seemed to be out the way and since then most of the things ive felt have been niggles and twitches and they have all been internal. I do know I have an anterior placenta so tried not to take too much notice, then worried that i should be starting to feel more out the way at 24 weeks. I content myself when i feel lots of twitches, then i get wind and think its not the baby at all, just my gut. And the pushing internally on my organs i decided had to be the baby.
But as i was brushing all these feelings aside i decided to lie down last night and suck on an ice cube and I got the largest judder/kick/shove so far, my whole belly seemed to ripple from the effect.
Poor baby was pushing around for about 5 minutes after.
I think I got the reaction I was looking for, but then felt guilty for shocking the por baby into such activity

morethemerrier · 12/12/2011 12:55

Oh Biscuit I didn't mean to sound so condescending about your choice of 'kick starter' menu!

I am just extra careful on my sugar intake as I usually start to get traces in my samples later in pregnancy, I ended up with four GTT (Glucose Tolerance Tests) in my 2nd pregnancy and it was a real bore!

It was decided by my 3rd pregnancy that as it never really develops into Gestational diabetes that I must just process it differently in pregnancy?!?

Enjoy your kicks! And your ice cream!

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Biscuitsandtea · 12/12/2011 13:06

Ah Morethemerrier - don't worry no offence taken

I do eat too much sugar anyway and it worries me that it would lead to GTT .

Anyway I would say I've definitely had some 'wriggles' now rather than just flutters. Not sure whether they count on the chart thing . So am going to pry myself off the sofa and do something productive.

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stripeyZ · 12/12/2011 13:51

I'm 24 week with an anterior placenta too. I've been able to feel the baby move from 13 weeks but it tailed off once my uterus moved up. From 19 weeks ish it's much more sporadic. Sometimes lots of big tumbles & kicks, other days just flutters really low down. I'm guessing it positional.

I fine quietly lying on my left side I'm aware if him more & after I've eaten but that probably as I have to sit quietly for 30 mins to stop from puking!

Does worry me some days that he doesn't move much. I can't wait for him to get a bit bigger as I really want my DH to feel him move!

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