Anterior placenta

[Pregnantagain7]

I'm 20+4 with my fourth baby and have been a bit concerned with how few movements I'm feeling with this pregnancy. I know it can be totally normal not to feel movement until 22 weeks or more but because it's my fourth I was expecting to feel more than I have I've felt all the others from about 16 weeks.
I had my 20 week scan this morning and the sonographer confirmed my suspicion that I have an anterior placenta. I've never had this with any of my other pregnancies does anyone know when I am likely to feel proper movements? Feel like I'm missing out a bit!! :)

Hiya I also have azn anterior placenta, my movements were hit and miss from 17 to 22-23 ish weeks, I'm now 27 + 3 days and tbh the movements are stronger but still hit and miss!I had posterior placenta last time and feel like I'm missing out to! Bit depressing! But if I'm busy then I feel nothing but if I'm led down then I feel tons!

I have an anterior placenta as well - it's my first baby and I don't really know how much I'm missing out/have missed out on, but I'm now feeling quite strong movements at 22+6 and they're getting more frequent and predictable

Also just to add, if I lie down for a couple of minutes on my right hand side I tend to get a good kicking!

Thanks frankie looks like I'll just have to be patient! I feel like everyone else is getting movements and I'm not! I will probably be regretting saying all this by the time I'm 36 weeks and being kicked to death from the inside!

Ooh good petite that gives me hope! At the mo every few days a get a little flutter very low down would love a bit more action!

I have an anterior placenta. I'm having my first, which probably means I didn't know exactly what I was 'looking' for with movements, but I didn't feel anything at all until 20+5, and even then I had to be lying on my back and really concentrating. It was another couple of weeks after that before the movements were strong enough for DP to feel them through my stomach.

I guess it depends on the position of the anterior placenta. My first DS was anterior and didn't feel him till 20 weeks, this one is also anterior but I felt movement from 16 weeks and quite strong to. They usually just put anterior high or low but if it's very high, aka, literally like a "roof" over the baby, then that might explain why some women with anterior's don't feel any less kicking whereas women that have it lying at the front might not feel anything at all for a while. Try not to worry :-)

I have a 'high anterior placenta' apparently. Baby also seems to prefer the breech position, so I still get to feel quite a lot of movement. Mostly in the direction of my bladder. Means that boyfriend hasn't been able to feel any kicking yet though, which is a shame.

Both my last pg have been anterior placentas. With DC1 I hardly felt anything other than hiccups. With DC2 I would often feel more from the outside - so with hand on bump - than from the inside. You'll soon adjust to what's normal for this baby.

downstairs mine is slap bang in the middle of my bump so I guess that's why I can't feel anything. Baby was moving loads at the scan yesterday so know it's ok, I just hope that as time goes on a feel a more regular pattern because if I don't how would I know if I have reduced movements
Think maybe I need to relax about it a bit. I've had three mcs so I think sometimes send my brain into overdrive a bit!!
hubba did you not feel anything all the way through or did you feel more as it got bigger?
goats it's really frustrating when you can feel all this stuff going on inside but your oh can't! Hopefully their time will come

I'm sure at 20 + 4 it can still move! Mine was anterior high at the 20 week scan and she said it can still shift! I'm convinced it has as i feel kicks quite high up now so feel like it's shifted backwards, maybe yours will do that to :-)

Really? Are you sure? I thought it would've had to be pretty firmly attached by then - is it not placental abruption if it detaches???

I did ask the sonographer about the chances of it moving and she said that they don't move but as you get bigger they can be pushed higher up as your uterus expands which is why sometimes when you have a low lying placenta at 20 weeks it can sometimes move. However it won't move say to the left or right it will stay anterior for the rest of the pregnancy. :)

Ahhh. That makes more sense

Pregnant I started to feel regular movement with DC1 at about 25/6 weeks but it wasn't ever much - even a cold drink wouldn't shift him! We hoped it might mean he was a chilled baby how wrong we were

He he hubba it never works out how you hope does it! This one is really active on the screen I just can't feel it:(
I'm having extra scans this time as I actually gave birth to a giant last time rather than a baby (10 lb 8!) so hopefully that will help put my mind at rest. :)

I have an anterior placenta, 1st pregnancy so I don't have any comparison, but I can feel him move so much I can't imagine how strong it must be otherwise! I think mine is quite a low one though, the doctor kind of touched my lower belly below the belly button during scan and said it was there. I feel him kicking my bladder and my sides, an above the belly button.

No it doesn't move on it's own, but that did make me thinking about it! It's where the uterus gets bigger it doesn't so much move it gets pushed around by the growth, in my case, I defintely feel like as my womb has got bigger, it seems to being pushed upwards over the top!

Hello, just found out my placenta is anterior last week although I wouldn't have guessed because I have been feeling movements for a while now. Does anyone know if this has implications for delivery? Or would she have mentioned that in my scan (I got a very not chatty sonographer!)

Hi Ruth no it doesn't cause any problems with delivery, everyone seems to have different experiences but it can cause you not to feel movementsas much as is it acts as a cushion between baby and your the wall of your tummy. But other than that it causes no problems at all it's just where it's attached pot luck really :)