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No movements....

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HitTheRoadJack · 29/10/2011 21:06

Evening all,
I'm 36 weeks with dc2. This one has been a little wriggler, 2 nights ago the baby moved (a big move felt like a flip over) and was wriggling all yesterday. I've just had supper and realised I haven't felt any movements for what I think is all day. I've been taking it easy today (feet up) as my blood pressure is always low and I get quite weak knees quite easily.

Went to the freezer for an ice lolly to see if that would help but my bloody freezer has defrosted itself (new one coming this week). Currently drinking some water but not too sure what it is I should be doing.

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HitTheRoadJack · 29/10/2011 21:10

Somebody?

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HitTheRoadJack · 29/10/2011 21:11

It's all ok. Just got a boot in my cervix.

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ObviouslyOblivious · 29/10/2011 21:12

Call the midwife?

banana87 · 29/10/2011 21:12

Eat something sweet, drink something cold and lay down. If movements are no different call labour ward and get in for monitoring.

ObviouslyOblivious · 29/10/2011 21:12

Good :o

IwishIwasmoreorganised · 29/10/2011 21:12

If you're at all worried call your mw or delivery suite.

kiki22 · 29/10/2011 21:13

This is a bit random but try doing the downward facing dog position works for me. i think coz it turns baby upside down n makes the blood rush to your head then back when you move. or play loud music right into your bump. If that doesn't work phone midwife / mat assesment.

JackiePaper · 29/10/2011 21:13

phew :-) glad all ok
if you notice a decrease or change in baby's movements again best thing to do is call delivery suite and go in to get monitored. better safe than sorry. xx

latrucha · 29/10/2011 21:13

I second that.

fuckityfuckfuckfuck · 29/10/2011 21:13

If movements are reduced then you need to go in for monitoring. Not to scare you but i have a friend who noticed her baby was quiet at about this stage, went in and was taken straight for a section there and then. If she'd waited longer they both could have been in big trouble.

RandomMess · 29/10/2011 21:13

If the movements have changed significantly to normal go the hospital and get checked out. A change of movements can be the only indicator that things aren't okay.

countthekicks.org.uk/

PenguinsAreThePoint · 29/10/2011 21:15

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musttidyupmusttidyup · 29/10/2011 21:16

If it doesn't feel right to you get it checked. Just do.

Kayzr · 29/10/2011 21:24

I'd get it checked anyway. Give the midwife a ring and ask her if you should go in.

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HitTheRoadJack · 29/10/2011 21:30

I've just read the count the kicks thread on the archive. Monitoring myself until 10pm then I'll make a decision (have an 18 mo in bed so will need dh to come with me and call my mum to babysit).

I rang the ward and they said sometimes you can "just not notice the movements".

Saw midwife yesterday, she said the head is down and engaged so likelihood of it moving it slim to none...?

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RandomMess · 29/10/2011 21:32

yes it's true that sometimes you can't feel them but it can been something more significant.

Don't take the risk go and get checked out, the big flip and then nothing for ages when you usually have a wriggler is a big change.

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HitTheRoadJack · 29/10/2011 21:39

Not avoiding "going" but my MW also said because it's a large baby the movements will decrease as the baby can't really move around as much. I just don't want to make a big fuss if I'm honest.

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plupervert · 29/10/2011 21:42

I went into hospital yesterday for just this reason (now 34 weeks). I could still feel movement, but it was so much more sluggish than it had been. I was on a monitor for about an hour, and the heart rate sounded fine, but movements were still reduced until I had a pitcher of ice-water (literally loaded with ice). The baby seems to have been woken up again by this, and has resumed a much more normal level of activity.

Dehydration could also have been a factor.

However, before I was discharged, the doctor said to me that there were a lot of false positives (people coming in with reduced movements, yet producing healthy babies), but that with many of the "worse outcomes" (the phrase makes me shudder), there was some indication in the form of reduced movements or some other, similar sign. And even though the monitor had picked up movements, I couldn't feel them, and because I knew this baby best, it was best to let me raise the alarm as often as needed.

Kayzr · 29/10/2011 21:44

I don't want to scare you or anything but making a small fuss could be the difference.

I remember my mum losing my brother this way as she just thought he was having a rest

RandomMess · 29/10/2011 21:44

I had huge babies, they all kicked and moved lots the whole way through, my tummy skin is knackered as a result

Honestly sometimes I was in agony at the end as they moved but they managed it.

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HitTheRoadJack · 29/10/2011 21:48

Yes the past fortnight I've had quite forceful movements that are quite painful as I feel my organs literally moving about.

Had 16 movements since the first one.

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MoTeaVate · 29/10/2011 21:49

Please go and get checked. A false alarm is SO much better than the other way round.

KatAndKit · 30/10/2011 08:44

Never worry about "making a fuss". The health service are there to make sure you are ok.

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HitTheRoadJack · 30/10/2011 10:48

Morning. Had lots of movements last night...the midwife unit at the hospital said to leave it until the morning...the baby has definitely shifted into a different position, right at the top of my midriff, which might be restricting its movements.

Woken up this morning and had no movements so am in the process of ringing the midwife to see if she can come out and examine me.

Feel quite sick with nerves :(

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pozzled · 30/10/2011 11:48

If you're not feeling movements, please go into the hospital and get checked out. If you go in they can scan you or monitor you much more closely than a MW doing a home visit could.

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