So, I'm 35 weeks, third baby. I'm unwell myself (not sure if this has any impact) and have an anterior placenta. Since Monday the babies movements have reduced significantly in frequency and intensity, I'm still getting 'flickers' of movement but more like what you would feel in early pregnancy and yesterday I hardly had any of those. Overnight I lay for hours (can't sleep!) and waited to feel something but nothing.
So I phoned maternity assessment this morning expecting to be told to come in (which has been the case in previous pregnancies and on an earlier occasion in this one) but the midwife said 'the royal college of midwives guidelines say you should go and lie down for two hours and count the movements and call back'. I explained I'd been doing this overnight with no movement at all and wasn't sure it was worth doing all that again. She said 'well what do you want to do then?' and I said I was hoping she could recommend a course of action, which is why I was phoning, to which she said 'well I've given you the guidelines but it's up to you to interpret them, I can't tell you what to do'. I just felt totally fobbed off so got off the phone.
Surely this isn't right? As a back story I've presented once before with reduced movement and twice for bleeding in the last six weeks, never was I made to feel like I had to decide the best course of action/treatment myself and the midwives and doctors couldn't have been more helpful.
Movement has been slightly more today to be fair but I still feel uneasy and am not sure if I've done the wrong thing by not going in?