Anterior placenta - movement at 25 weeks

[Rochyella84]

Hi ladies,

I am 25 weeks along with baby number 2 and have an anterior placenta.

First baby placenta was posterior - I felt movement at 15 weeks, and by 25 weeks the movement was constant. I felt the baby pretty much every hour, sometimes more frequent, great big rolling movements, visible from the outside - really reassuring.

This time around I began to get very faint movements around 19-20 weeks. They are now a bit stronger but they are so infrequent - I felt baby around 6am this morning and it is now 1pm and I haven't felt baby move since then. There is no pattern to the movements. Some days I get a bit more but often its hours and hours, then a tiny prod, then nothing again.

Anyone else with experience of this? I don't really know whats normal or when I should worry though obviously this is very minimal compared to my last pregnancy. It is really disconcerting.

I had this with my DD. Go lie on your left side for an hour, very still. If you feel nothing after an hour, contact your midwife.

If you have an anterior placenta, it’s hard to feel movement at the front of your belly. Lying on your side makes it easier to feel little movements down the sides of your belly. Xx

I’m 27 weeks with an AP. Some days I can feel the baby all lots, but the movement is at the sides and top and bottom. No real pattern yet. Some days can be hours between movements. Some days it feels constant. I’m thinking it’s because they sometimes hide up behind the placenta. At times I can feel faint movements deep inside. But miss them if I am busy. I agree lying on your side if you are worried. It is hard not to worry. I had an AP last time and it’s a nightmare.

Hi, I would say that is very normal I had an anterior placenta with my baby and he was and is my first dc. I felt upset I couldn’t feel him at first as this big placenta was in the way blocking me feeling my baby. Everybody would ask about the movement and I could have just cried as I couldn’t feel anything. As I got further along I finally felt him and when I got that first kick it felt so much more special because I’d waited so long to feel it. I never got the flutters at the start and only began to get sensations around the time you are (I think they were the baby and not gas as it started so faintly.) Once I passed the 30 week mark my little man was moving and kicking so much and sometimes in he ribs (ouch) I wished I could have gone back to the early days! If I have a second baby I hope I have a posterior because I would like to experience all of it next time.

Like pp said movement was around the sides and no two days were the same. It always depends on position of the baby and whether moving out way of placenta or not.

I had one with my first pregnancy and only really felt movements top left and bottom right, it was all quite subtle.

I had this too and I did go in at 25+6 as I was worried about movements. It's only now that I'm over 30 weeks I'm really feeling a lot of movement. I think it's quote normal to feel sporadic movements at that gestation and with an anterior placenta, but do understand how nerve wracking it is. Ultimately if you're worried I would always go in. X

I had an AP with my first and I must say as compared to this one there was a crazy difference!! I only really would feel the occasional jab and hiccups (she was also breech in my ribs so never got the big kicks either). It was very normal for me to hardly feel anything and I just really worked to learn her norm and then base it on that. Sometimes I would lay down drink something super cold and give her a good old prod to try help reassure myself. It was a little stressful I must admit and I'm not a big worrier. I always say it must be much harder if it's a subsequent pregnancy and you have already felt what babies movements should be! Just get to know what's the norm for you best you can and find what works in getting little one moving a bit for when you worry! Hope you get on ok and you definitely have my sympathy with this and hope you don't have to many problems!

I ended up at the hospital yesterday as I was really worried about the movements.. After an hour on the ctg monitor all was fine and baby's heartbeat was strong. Also had an ultrasound where doc told me she could see baby move - I didn't feel it! But honestly they couldn't have been more friendly or reassuring so if your worried at all just phone midwife or go in! They did also tell me though that if you haven't been eating or drinking enough it can affect baby's movements so maybe try facing something to eat and drink and then lie down on left side like others have said...

Thanks so much for all the lovely responses. I definitely think having had a posterior placenta last time my worry is heightened because it is so minimal in comparison. I will try the lying on the left side trick - though I have felt some lovely kicks in the last hour which is nice. Its just so sporadic and random. Hopefully as I get closer to 30 weeks it will get a bit more consistent!

My first had an anterior placenta and I didn't feel anything at all until maybe 22 or 23 weeks, certainly well after the 20 week scan.

Mine is anterior - I still worry at 33 weeks although I feel a lot more now. It's a total pain!!!

I read somewhere that there is a theory that where the placenta implants/baby grows depends on your sleep position the night you conceive. No idea if it's true or garbage but I thought it was interesting!!

I used to always sleep on my front and had an anterior placenta...hmmm interesting.

Here's a link to the study!

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/11799817/