Very active baby

[Herewegoagain56]

Does anyone have experience of having a very very active baby in the womb? At every scan and midwife appointment they say how active the baby is. He is constantly wriggling, a very different experience from my first pregnancy! Whilst it’s reassuring that the baby is doing ok in there I’m starting to worry that when he comes out he will never sleep as he doesn’t seem to sleep much at the moment! In your experience does a very busy baby in the womb equal a very active/non-sleeper baby on the outside?!

Can’t help with what he’ll be like out of the womb but I also have a very wriggly baby!

I’m hoping he’s wearing himself out and will be an easy baby deluded

Mine is a wriggler too! Not so much kicks, but constant rustling and rolling in there. I have the same fear, does this mean he will never sleep?!

My DS was insanely wriggly, not so much kicks though - the midwife even said she thought he'd kicked a hole in my waters (fortunately at 38 weeks!!) with all his wriggling.

He's 2 1/2 now and honestly he is never ever still, he fidgets all the time. Even as a little baby he was always moving and from the moment he could stand he wouldn't sit still.

But he is an amazing sleeper and always has been (I think he wears himself out fidgeting!) A couple of brief sleep regressions aside he's slept really well from birth. And touch wood it continues!

When he was tiny he did need to be swaddled because he would wake himself up fidgeting or flinging his arm around. And I found the grosnug the best because every other swaddle he would just wriggle out of. Then we moved on to grobags until fairly recently.

There is no correlation. My DD was a mover but has been far more chilled since being born. She is however very alert.

My mind was blown at my 12 wk scan with DD, as she was repeatedly doing back flips, swallowing fluid, crazily active, and the pregnancy continued that way. She regularly woke me in the night pummelling me. Sorry to say that she has been a dreadful sleeper - such a high energy girl in every respect and doesn’t need a lot of sleep, stopped napping before she was 2 and still wakes most nights at nearly 3.

About to give birth to DD2, who has never once woken me with movement, tends to be asleep when I wake for a pee, always sedate in scans - so you can imagine I am hoping for a better sleeper based on this!