Baby movements before 28 weeks..

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I had my 16 week appointment with the midwife today & she was discussing movement monitoring etc.. she mentioned that once I feel regular movement from about 20 weeks-ish, to keep an eye I’ve felt baby during the day but unlikely any pattern so early on. All fine. But she also said if I noticed reduced or no movement between 20-28 weeks to call a certain number as they treat it differently to post-28 weeks when they get you in to maternity assessment for monitoring ..

What do they do differently?! Just tell you to wait & see or will there still be some form of assessment?

I’m dreading the whole movement thing again, my daughter never got into a decent pattern. She was so sporadic. She’d keep me awake all night one night, then the next one be completely still I was in assessment constantly!

Before 28 weeks a ctg (the machine that has belts that go on your stomach) are not very accurate.
So before 28 weeks there likely just listen in with a doppler and or might do an ultrasound.

You should always have some form of assesment. It may just be they do your basic obs and listening in with a Doppler.

Later on in pregnancy they will hook you up to a CTG machine and go from there.

I went in for reduced movement at 26 weeks, the hooked me up to the ctg machine because of being quite slim so it's more accurate but said this wasn't the norm at this stage. You should always be seen by someone who will listen with a Doppler though at least.

I have been in a couple of times now. Pre 28 weeks (25 & 27 weeks) it was a Doppler and post 28 weeks was the CTG (I assume didn't know it was called that!) machine. Each time the midwives were lovely and didn't treat me as being neurotic or silly for going in.