Anyone else with a quiet baby?

[DearDinah]

I'm hoping someone can reassure me quiet babies exist?
Mine has never moved a lot the whole pregnancy, I'm now 35 + 4 and rarely feel much movement at all, I was so worried a week ago I went to get checked, got hooked up to the monitor & there she was like a bucking bronco!
Went for another scan on Friday and everything's showing normal except her position which is extended/frank breech.
Tonight we've had a busy night, been out for a curry & to a noisy pub home at midnight and I'm lying awake waiting to feel something but nothing, well maybe one kick but I thought she might be more active.
Am I just being paranoid, do some babies really not move that much inside.
The midwife says if the movements are different to what I'm used to to get checked, but if she's never moved much anyway is that just normal for her? This is my first, so I've nothing to compare it to, but friends always say their babies kick the hell out of them, especially now, is her position perhaps the problem?

Do you know where your placenta is?
With my first I had posterior placenta and I didn't feel DS much. Sometimes up to two days nothing.
Now with this one I have an anterior placenta and I'm 28 weeks and I can say that sometimes her kicks can be very painful. Very different experience this time..

But if you feel something is wrong please go in and get checked out.. My doctor always says "better be safe then sorry"

My last baby (3rd) was very quiet to the point where I ended up going in to be monitored a few times... and she is asleep beside me now (4 months) and is still a great sleeper and just a very sunny, calm and contented girl (so lucky I know!). My hospital were very encouraging about going in for monitoring if you had any worries at any point which was very reassuring.

The current guidance is to get monitored for a change of movement:
countthekicks.org.uk/mums/your-babys-movements/

They actually talk about pregnancies like yours in their 'why you don't count to 10' page countthekicks.org.uk/mums/your-babys-movements/why-not-use-count-to-ten/ i.e. some people feel WAY more than others. I feel about 11-13 bouts of movement a day so should go by that as my average for example. If someone feels less than 10, that's their average.

Having said that, you are also fully entitled to raise this as a concern and ask for movement monitoring if it is a worry to you: they'll probably show you the baby is kicking the placenta or gentle but healthy, and this can reassure you that your 'normal' pattern is Ok for you. Ring your MW: this must monitor anyone worried about movement.

I could have written this myself. I've a extended breech baby (at last scan) and also an anterior placenta. However this is DC2 and with DC1 I had a posterior placenta and felt lots of movements. This time I haven't so much, quite quiet but when I do feel movements they are either quite small or very hard. I got monitered during the week and they said any time baby is quiet for you, go in. They don't advocate the count 10 anymore as every woman and baby is different x

Thank you for the guidance, I don't know she must just sleep at nighttime! She's moved this morning quite a bit, I can see them more than feel them so I'll just have to sit around it the nude when I'm worried!
Thanks everyone x

My baby almost never moved at night. Everyone else said their babies moved all night long, but mine was quiet all night. I'd get up in the night and drink cold drinks to try and make him move, he'd shove me and then probably go back to sleep. I ended up having four sets of monitoring because I got so anxious, and he was always entirely fine. I did find that very deep breathing often helped to get him moving, and it calmed me down.

However, I would still advise you to go to be checked if you feel worried. I think some of my anxiety came from a good friend who had had a stillbirth the year previously. I was never made to feel silly or neurotic (even though I felt it), and was generally home an hour later.