Anyone else in the same boat?

[cupcakedreamer]

I'm currently starting my third trimester of pregnancy, and have already had 3 episodes of reduced movement. Each time has turned out fine, however I'm now considered high risk and can't give birth where I originally planned, which honestly I'm not that bothered about.

However, had a long chat with the antenatal team and they have suggested that if after I reach 30 weeks and baby keeps having reduced movement, they may well just induce me and I have baby early. Of course I want to do whatever is best for baby, but instead of having 12 weeks to go it could be as little as two weeks.

I guess what I'm really asking is has anyone else gone through this? Did it turn out okay? How do you cope with there being such a huge window of time when your baby could potentially been born? How did you feel about not going to any of the antenatal classes?

The OH and I have been on a huge online shopping binge trying to get all the last bits but it's been a bit of a shock, and I'm just really hoping to hear from others who have been in this position.

I’m quite surprised they would consider inducing at 30 weeks when all has been fine with monitoring. Especially as most babies don’t develop a pattern with their movements until the third trimester anyway. I don’t think I’d have been able to identify ‘reduced movements’ pre 28 weeks with any of mine as movements varied a lot depending on babies position.
I wouldn’t worry too much about antenatal classes, I didn’t learn anything I couldn’t have read online (just did them to make friends really!).
As long as your baby has somewhere safe to sleep then it will be fine equipment wise. If the baby comes at 30 weeks then you should expect a stretch in NICU (my best friend has recently had hers at 31 weeks and despite no health issues they had to wait until he could feed reliably before discharge) so you’d still have time to get things ordered/delivered before you go home.
Best of luck!