anterior placenta and movements

[duckyisback]

Please come and tell me about your movements with an anterior placenta.

My first I had an anterior placenta and felt very little movement at all. I kept telling the midwife I couldn't feel her and she kept saying it was due to the placenta. My dd was stillborn at 32+5.

I then had my ds, I had a posterior placenta and felt strong movements from 16 weeks.

I'm pregnant with #3, currently 18 weeks and have only felt very few slight movements. It's starting to worry me as I felt ds so much more so early.

Anyone else had anything similar?

FK my sonographer said at my 16 week scan (5 weeks ago) that she wouldn't expect anyone to really feel anything until about 19/20 weeks. She is a specialist sonographer that only scans high risk women so I would have thought she knows what she is talking about. Obviously not a midwife or doctor though.

Thanks Cake, that's really useful. There's so much clashing information on the internet, it's nice to hear advice from an actual person!

FK - def wouldn't worry until around 20 weeks.

When I had my 20 scan you could see the baby moving on the screen but I still couldn't feel anything. Normal movements don't happen really until around 21-26 weeks. I certainly wouldn't panic at 16 weeks. Like I said, I felt nothing other than tiny 'bubbles' like gas till around 24 weeks and then nothing proper until 26 weeks.

Sorry to drag this thread up as its a good few weeks old but just wanted to offer another experience of anterior placenta.

With my dd I couldn't feel anything. When I had my 20 week scan I felt like the consultant didn't believe I couldn't feel the massive somersaults and at my mw appts they kept asking if the movements had changed. How can they change when they've never been??

I went to get checked out a couple of times but felt like I was wasting everyone's time. In the end I had to be reassured by the hiccups my dd has every day because that was the only thing i could feel from her. She was born healthy and happy.

I'm now pg again and praying to feel more this time and be less anxious every day

Does an anterior placenta ever move out of the way?