Hello everyone. I am sorry, this is going to be long, but I want to include as much information as possible. I am currently 30+5 weeks pregnant and my main concern is that my baby boy isn't moving. He has never been a big mover anyway, I felt first movement at 18 weeks for about a week, then baby went quiet from 19 weeks until week 22. I would go days without any movement, but I had scans in between which revealed that everything is fine with the baby. I would feel baby wriggle one week and have the baby "sleep" the second week.
Placenta is posterior, so I should be feeling something. My baby wouldn't move his legs, I never got a kick in this pregnancy, just movement like swimming...Baby have active (with moving his head and reacting to sweets and food), I would get loads of episodes of movement. Then baby not moving at all. For the last week baby hardly moves...
No episodes....I have went to the hospital to get monitored, midwife was touching and pressing the baby so she could rule out what position he was at..and baby didn't move, AT ALL. She put me on the CTG machine and left. Machine kept beeping and beeping (I heard could be due not being connected right or problems with babies heartbeat), babies heartbeat had a large variation, it dropped to 112 once. When baby moved, heartbeat didn't accelerate....Doctor looked at the results and said they were fine, however she said that baby wasn't even moving much at CTG machine, baby just done small movements...They had scan performed then...Baby wouldn't move much...she said yes, not much movement there. She even wrote: occasional subtle fetal movement. Baby is growing OK at the moment. I was sent home and told to come back if movements not improve. Well, they haven't. Hardly feel a thing....no kicks, no swimming...no episodes....few pokes there and then a day and feeling his head move. He isn't moving at night. I have a very bad sleep, so I wake up throughout the night - and no movement. Sweets, coke - don't work. AT ALL. He just lies there like a big rock. He is head down. His feet are somewhere on my side, since movement is never above the belly button...It is strange, how such a large baby have enough room in there? Like there is an empty space between my belly button and ribs....
Of course I am thinking the worst. Not feeling my baby move..at almost 31 weeks pregnant. I am looking for advice. They perform a scan at the admissions, but scanners are really bad so there isn't much to see...I keep thinking maybe he is wrapped up in cord so cannot move? Maybe there is something wrong with his wee legs, so he can't move them? At my anomaly scan, baby wouldn't cooperate, so basically they never checked his skeleton and never told me to come back. I am just feeling so down and upset. I will be going to the hospital again, should I demand a good scan where everything can be visualised...should I go private and get a 4d scan to see if there is cord issues, to see if his legs and arms look ok? :(
They said because baby is growing OK, they can't do anything...Not even a doppler scan. :( So worried and lost...Also, protein was found in my urine on two occasions...when I went to admissions my blood pressure was 144/90 or something like this. Midwife just wrote it down and that's it. When I had a scan at 24 weeks in my home country (I am from Latvia), I have asked the lady - is my baby even moving? She said - well, you obviously feeling it aren't you. But nope, I wasn't. But scan reports state that baby movements are visible....So lost and upset...sorry for such a long post, just wanted to give you as much information as possible.
The fact that at the very start of pregnancy, at 6weeks+3days there wasn't heartbeat and just gestational sac measuring 4 weeks (2 weeks behind) doesn't help either. Makes me think that baby may have serious genetic issues and maybe that is why he isn't moving. Again, please any advice would be appreciated. Sorry.