Do movements inside the womb correspond to how baby moves after birth?

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I'm not sure how to phrase this question! But, for those of you who have been pregnant before, do you think the movements you felt in the womb predicted how wriggly your baby was when they arrived?

I have a very wriggly fetus! She also does a lot of stretching out - so I can feel her feet on one side and her hands on the other. She always has done - in fact, we saw her doing this on the 12 week scan, long before I felt her doing it. Is this going to be a thing of hers after she's born too?

Just interested!

Dd was a real mover in the womb, and even though she has calmed down now (4.5yrs old) she was a very active toddler and walking at 10months. She always slept well.

DS who is still cooking, is very active in the afternoon and evening. Sometimes it’s as if he is on a trampoline! I hope he is as equally good at sleeping through the night!

My ds had hiccups a lot when I was pregnant and he had them all the time for about 7/8 months, he also had his arm up over his face in loads of scan pics, he sleeps that way now, he’s 3!

Only have one DC but she was extremely active in the womb and has been on the go ever since! Every night at 10pm when I was pregnant she would go into boogie party mode with my belly bulging out crazily from side to side. When she did her regular 10pm boogie during labour the midwives wouldn't believe me that that level of movement was normal for her, and put me on a saline drip because they were worried about dehydration.

DS1 never stopped bloody wriggling about, day and (especially) night. He was a very chilled baby once he arrived though and 13 years later he seems to find it hard to get out of bed most days

I was so worried with DS2 as he didn't move anywhere near as much as DS1 did in utero. I was at the hospital several times being checked as he'd not moved all day. He more than made up for it though, let's just say he was a 'lively' baby, and his teacher recently asked me if he ever stopped moving around for two seconds... So I'm going to say you really can't tell, sorry.

I'm two for two so far. 12 week scan for dc1, the sonographer really struggled to get measurements as he was bouncing around like a frog. Things didn't improve and he's currently trampolining on the sofa behind me aged 4. Dc2 used to like waiting til I went to bed and then kicking me in the bladder and pelvis all night. She's currently napping and getting ready for a night of keeping mummy awake aged 11 months. On the plus side, I can keep her feet away from my bladder now.

Dm thought I was going to be a footballer as I kicked constantly. I hated football but I find it very hard to stay still.

For me definitely - constant moving and hiccups and still the same now !

Yes. I had an anterior placenta meaning I apparently felt less movements yet it felt like he was continually on the move and moved way more than my other pregnant friends. I even phoned triage to ask if there was such a thing as too much movement. He's now nearly 12 weeks and is such a wriggle bum even when he's feeding or sleeping, at the baby classes I'm the mum whose baby is waving his arms and legs constantly, looking around, smiling at everything and the other babies are so much more placid and happy just lying there ... Baby massage class was a nightmare!!

I was breech (knees around my ears) and I loved to sit all crunched up as a child. Still do, actually, just can't do that very easily right now at 36 weeks!

This one (my first) is a massive wriggler - I've felt so many movements despite an anterior placenta. I am expecting her to be a 'stretcher' once out if her movements now are anything to go by! She also gets the hiccups and has a bit of a wild jittery phase at least once a day. So fascinated to find out if that correlates at all to her as a baby / child.

My mam would strongly agree with the theory of correlation! Apparently I was absurdly active in the womb, so much so she went to the doctor to make sure nothing was wrong. Once born, I was running by nine months and it kind of matches my personality if you look at it a certain way I suppose. The next two were a lot less active, my brother to the extent that after having me, she thought something was wrong with him to cause him not to move much! Sure enough, he is incredibly laid back and chilled out in many ways- by far the most in the family. I'm ten weeks today so a way to go before I feel anything yet, but I'll be interested and reading too much into it I'm sure!

Anecdotally yes! DD (22 weeks) wriggled all over the place at every ultrasound and later in the third trimester I neved had to do movement counting (10 movements in 2 hours) because she moved 10 times in 2 minutes. She was very fidgety as a baby, hated being a newborn because she had no control over movements and became much happier the moment she could hold her neck up and look at things. Started rolling back to front at 3.5 months and front to back at 4 months.

Though it wasn‘t all good news, she was very unsettled and colicky the first 3 months and I was trapped inside the house which contributed to PPD. She improved hugely around 16-18weeks and currently loves taking off her own socks and stuffing them in her mouth.

Yes! My dd was super wiggly - kicking and stretching loads from around 17weeks pregnant. She is now 8months old and is not a chilled baby - incredibly active and on the go! Sorry!

Ds was a quiet baby in the womb. From when he came out he was 100 miles an hour. He crawled early, walked early and never slept.

DD was so active but she's the most chilled baby outside the womb.