To ask if you'd be happy with this medical advice? (Pregnancy related)

[Nobhobs]

I have an anterior placenta, I didn't feel any flutters but from 24 weeks I start feeling baby and I had big kicks frequently all of a sudden. In the next five weeks I had two episodes of reduced movements, both times I went in for monitoring and as soon as I got their baby would kick me and I'd be ok.

I'm now 29 weeks and I haven't felt my baby in a week, well, 6 days. Each and every one of these days I've gone in for monitoring on the ward and the CTGs have been fine, shown a good heart rate with regular increases which they say would be movements. I've been told to keep going in daily until I can feel him again, which I'm going to do. They referred me for a scan earlier this week to check and the sonographer said she could see him kicking and the fluid and blood flow was great. I did ask her to check baby wasn't tangled in the cord as someone on here had that happen in a similar situation but she said that they don't check the cord as babies move so frequently it's invalid. She did point out the baby is in extended breech.

The midwives and my consultant aren't worried, they've advised he's moved into an awkward position or back behind the placenta. I just can't seem to find much advice online from people who's anterior placentas stopped being a problem and then started again in the third trimester. It took so long to feel the baby kick but after more than a month of such strong kicks, even visible from my stomach to go back to absolutely nothing just isn't sitting right with me. I'm so anxious I'm going to lose this baby and I don't know if I need to push for more to be done or if they are literally doing all they can.

I read your other post yesterday. Sounds like they are doing everything they can to me, if they can't see anything wrong then the risk of delivering early outweighs the benefit.

It’s always worrying if you can’t feel your baby move but the management you have had sounds great. A baby in an extended breech position is simply not in a position to freely kick and move- get a teddy or similar and see for yourself.

Can you gently nudge your baby from the side of your uterus to provoke movement? Sometimes that is possible.

Fingers crossed the baby moves soon, I think to be honest the anterior placenta is a bit of a red herring.

Thanks guys. I definitely don't want them to deliver anytime before full term, if possible. Hoping it will be! Just wanted some opinions as a few people I spoke to said doing serial CTGs just shows he's okay at that moment, not in general and that something could still be wrong causing me to not feel kicks. Just need to put my trust in the midwives and relax. Hoping he shifts soon and I can feel him again.

Apart from turning the baby by hanging about upside down, you could also try going to an osteopath who does pregnancy, in case you have a pelvic twist or something that's discouraging the baby from going head down as it sounds like that's the position in which you could feel the baby. (Though it's much too early to worry about being breech really, just giving some ideas in case moving the baby helps.)

@Nobhobs it definitely sounds like his limbs are all on the inside, he’ll be battering your organs but with not much feeling on the outside.
I remember looking at the Spinning Babies website - not to turn baby for a vaginal delivery, as we’d already psychologically prepared for a c section, but for a bit of movement and comfort as DDs head was wedged under my ribs.