17 weeks. Felt baby moving now dont

[Mummytono2]

Hi I'm 17 weeks today and for the last week I've felt baby moving however today and yesterday I haven't felt much. In fact today I'm not sure if I've felt anything.

Anyone experience anything similar?

Call your midwife straightaway - they will probably ask you to either pop to the hospital or midwife unit to have a listen to baby's heartbeat & just check everything is OK.

17 weeks is still very early to feel big movements, so I would try not to worry. It never hurts to get things checked out though, for your own peace of mind if nothing else .

Completely normal. At 17 weeks the baby is small enough to move into a position where you can't feel them at all. I felt movement very early with both dc but knew that in those days of early movements, it was normal to have periods where they moved into a corner and hid for a bit.

Of course if you're worried, you must seek help but they don't at all expect regular patterns of movement this early.

I would also err on the side of caution and ring your midwife or epu
Hope all is ok

Call your midwife for reassurance - that's what they're there for, they can have a quick listen to the baby's heartbeat so that you can relax.

However, the same thing happened to me. For a couple of days I felt proper kicks from my baby at 16 weeks. My DH could even feel them when he put his hand on my tummy. The baby then changed positions (I think) and it was ten days or so before I felt proper movements again. I went to get checked out when that happened and no one minded me doing that at all. It's almost certainly completely fine but you don't need to be left worrying.

Yes I had this. Do call the midwife for reassurance: this is a good habit to get into because you'll always get a huge variety of advice online. Even respected sites don't tend to have 'milestones' - just to monitor movement - as they vary from woman to woman, but this can make for anxiety.

Once you hear it from a midwife it should reassure you.

When I had a day with no movement at about 18 weeks, I called my specialist recurrent miscarriage midwife (just in case anyone thinks she was 'off the ball') and she really, really wasn't concerned. She actually laughed (in a nice way).
She said before 20 weeks, many women feel nothing and a lot depends on baby's position. You may well not feel something for 24 hr. She had a bit of a rant about the internet and people half-reading movement monitoring and maternal anxiety. She gave me the following guidelines:
-week 14-23, most women feel their first movement (it varies wildly) and may not feel it every day
-week 22-28, movement becomes stronger and is felt every day, but is just settling into a pattern and cannot be monitored more closely than every day
-week 28 onward, be aware of patterns and kicks, although be aware some babies are more erratic than others.

She did not ask me to go in (bearing in mind I have been called in for mild spotting after constipation and various other tiny little things). This was reassuring.

Santas 17 weeks is relatively early to feel anything and big movements would be very rare.

I don't think I felt anything at 17 wks, it was a week or 2 later before I did. So although you might want to call your mw, I wouldn't worry too much:-)

Hi I'm also 17 weeks with my 2nd and I've been exactly the same felt jabs here and there and very small movements then nothing I'm not worried at all xx think its def normal xx

Hi, I wasn't feeling a lot of movement at that point, but have found an NHS factsheet on fetal movement that's quite reassuring.

www.uhsm.nhs.uk/maternity/Antenatal/Your%20Baby%27s%20Movements.pdf

You could try some of the things suggested (I've heard anecdotally that sometimes lying on your left side for two hours having had a sugary cold drink can get a baby moving but I'd follow the leaflet not my advice!)

And I am sure that your midwife wouldn't mind a call if you need reassurance, you won't be the first or last pregnant woman who needs this.

ive noticed our lil man goes sprt of quiet for a couple of days when hes on a growth spurt, had me so worried as he started to engage and his movent slowed right down last week but now hes turned back around amd back to his usual bummings in me tum i wpnt wprry so much mxt time x

Call your midwife for reassurance but at this stage it is common for movements to be irregular or for quiet/active days.
It would also depend on whether you have an anterior placenta or not. If you do baby might be moving but you can't feel it.
You don't need to worry about counting the kicks til week 28.

Boogles I have found this too. When I get round ligament pain (indicating a bit 'spurt' in my bump) my baby goes quiet for a couple of days, then back to normal.