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Anyone else had experience of anterior placenta?

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notmuchofaclue · 28/01/2015 14:09

So at 22 weeks I feel very little movement still, and found out at the scan that I have an anterior placenta which cushions most of baby's movements. I didn't have this with my first so it's a bit unnerving as I go most days feeling little or nothing. Does anyone else who's had this know if it's likely to be like this all the way through now? Don't get me wrong, I'm happy not to be kept awake all night by kicks and punches, but I can often forget there's anything in there and it doesn't help with my whole sense of denial of what's due to come in 4 months!!

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Pinkrach · 28/01/2015 14:16

I have an anterior placenta. I didn't really start feeling movements until around 22/23 weeks. I am now 37 weeks and feel movements, big shuffles and poking limbs, regularly xx

cosmicglittergirl · 28/01/2015 14:19

Same here, 24-25 weeks before I really felt anything. Can feel loads now.

pocketsized · 28/01/2015 14:22

Ditto what pp said - didn't feel anything until 22-24 weeks, but now feel plenty. I do have a bit of a "blind" spot though where the placenta is, if baby turns a particular way and is kicking that area I definitely don't feel as much, I can feel the kicks from the outside though!

MissHobart · 28/01/2015 14:27

I'm 26 weeks today and don't feel much at all, makes me paranoid!

MissHobart · 28/01/2015 14:29

Sorry, I've got an anterior placenta too! First baby so have no idea if everything is normal or not!

blackwidow74 · 28/01/2015 14:41

Anterior here too and still have times where I feel nothing ... Most movement is either low in pelvis or in my sides though I'm now getting wriggles at top of bump ... If I'm worried I laid on my back with my mobile on belly and would watch it move ... strange as I couldn't feel the movement but could see it ... had trace done at 26+3 and baby was break dancing ... I felt 2 movements of the 25 odd kicks she gave ... 28 weeks today and feel something every day although she has a 5 hr period here and there where I feel nothing ... she's tucked up behind the placenta when that happens :)

blackwidow74 · 28/01/2015 14:41

Meant to say movement was very hit and miss till 24 weeks :)

geekymommy · 28/01/2015 14:51

I had an anterior placenta with DD. Never got woken up by kicks, and was never able to put my hand on my belly and feel kicking. I did feel kicking, but not until later than many women do.

WrappedInABlankie · 28/01/2015 15:00

With my son i had it didn't feel a thing to around 25-27 weeks! I was a size 18 and a lot of tummy fat

missingpinotgrigio · 28/01/2015 15:30

I have a high anterior placenta, felt very little movement until 26ish weeks...am now 37+4 and get internally beaten up quite regularly :)

GingerCuddleMonster · 28/01/2015 15:55

I had a large(above average) anterior placenta, hardly felt DS all the way through, was constantly monitored for reduced movements, the monitor said he was kicking but I felt nothing the only time I really felt him was if he rolled or really kicked hard, mostly though just hiccups is all I felt.

cuphat · 28/01/2015 16:07

I had an anterior placenta during my last pregnancy and mine was so bad that I didn't feel much movement throughout. I felt less than 10 individual movements a day (when they said you should feel 4-100 an hr!) and there certainly wasn't any pattern of movement so the whole pregnancy was quite worrying for me.

Unfortunately I have an anterior placenta again this time, I'm just hoping it isn't as bad.

FluffyTheEvilOne · 28/01/2015 16:26

I had an anterior placenta, and felt almost nothing till about 24 weeks. Movements gradually became more noticeable from then, as she got stronger, till I was getting very powerful kicks at term; I dread to think what they'd have felt like without the placenta to cushion them!

It is unnerving, and I had times when I was very worried as everyone else I knew had felt movements by 20 weeks and I was getting nothing. Eventually I was regularly kept awake by a nocturnal baby doing dance routines/gymnastics/kickboxing, like most other mothers.

Even if the movements are fainter than usual, you will get used to the pattern of normal movement for your baby.

MrsMarigold · 28/01/2015 16:27

I had one with my DS didn't feel him until the day before he was born, also had one with DD but felt her from about 20 weeks. Both born with excellent muscle tone and very wriggly.

Butterpuff · 28/01/2015 16:45

Another one here who felt movements quite late. But now the little cherub is trying to fight it's way out with limbs pointing in all directions (though mostly into my ribs). The amount of movement startled my DH last night.

We are now 36 weeks.

Egog · 28/01/2015 16:50

I had an anterior placenta and a breech baby- the only place I could feel movement was on my cervix, quite late on. She would really boot away from inside but you could barely feel anything in my belly- disappointing for bump-gropers!

stickygotstuck · 28/01/2015 17:13

I had this. Like some other posters, I hardly every felt DD move at all. As I got bigger I started to worry more and more, and once I went to surgery in a panic (and then to hospital) for monitoring once, when I felt no movement for over 24 hrs.

Doctor suggested that I spend 10 mins after lunch and dinner every day (apparently, they tend to move more after you eat), lying on my back and watching my bump like a hawk. This saved my sanity. I could see her move, but could not feel a thing. Very odd!

Jenni2legs · 28/01/2015 19:41

I was scanned to make sure I didn't have an anterior placenta before my c-section as it can make the operation more difficult. Something to mention if your taken to surgery (although hopefully they will see it in your notes).

bananapickle84 · 28/01/2015 19:47

I had this with my first and I hardly felt anything all the way through. My DH never felt her move :-(
She was fine but it was very unnerving as I really would only feel the odd movement every now and again. Actually the most I felt her was when she had hiccups.
With my second however it was a whole different story, I felt him move at 24 weeks and he didn't stop!!
I hope it is different for you and you start to feel more movements.

BlinkAndMiss · 28/01/2015 20:06

One of the implications with my first was that I had a back to back labour which can be more likely to have complications. It's also resorted to be more painful but I think this is not always the case, lots of people have said it was no more painful that their other labours. The result of baby being back to back is that the wrong part of the head hits the cervix which can lead to ineffective contractions (all the pain, no dilation) which is what happened to me. I ended up with a drug to increase contractions but with an epidural. It was a longer labour but once I'd had the epidural it was fine, no further interventions were necessary.

I have an anterior placenta this time too :/. My midwife said I could discuss having a section if this was found to be the case but reading this thread it seems that a section would probably not be straight forward either.

It doesn't always mean anything, some people have an anterior placenta and nothing is an issue.

WrappedInABlankie · 28/01/2015 20:35

I had back to back as well If that's were his nose is pointing up to the ceiling lol. and i did have a emcs

I don't have one now though as far as i'm aware

MeganBacon · 28/01/2015 20:47

Another one here who felt virtually nothing throughout the entire pregnancy - about three of four episodes of kicking in total. Felt (and saw) the hiccups every day after lunch in third trimester though.

LizzyBennet1813 · 28/01/2015 21:06

I'm 21+4 today and went to hospital today cos I was freaking out about not feeling anything. Turns out I have a high anterior placenta too. Nice to know your not alone isn't it! x

JsOtherHalf · 28/01/2015 21:17

I rarely felt much with DS due to an anterior placenta.
I slept all night right up to my due date.
He would react to my getting up in the morning, around lunchtime at my desk, and when I went to bed.

I had to have a CS due to having gestational diabetes, and induction didn't work.

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