Baby movements when busy / stressed

[teamseashore]

Does anyone else feel like their baby moves a lot less when they are busy or feeling stressed? I always still feel my baby throughout the day, but the movements don't feel as noticeable - usually until I get home, relax and put my feet up and then baby has a bit of a party! I think part of this must just be because I am concentrating on other things, but they do genuinely feel gentler. Today I've had a relaxing day, sitting down a lot, and I feel like baby has been doing somersaults all day!! Do you think baby can tell when you are busy and it affects what they do? X

I get this too! Am on my feet and rushing around all day at work and don't feel her at all. When I sit down on my lunch break or I get home, then she starts moving around a lot.

Yep. Baby moves less when we are moving as we are almost rocking/swaying them to sleep with our movements. Then once we relax, they know and start moving lots! Mine does it a lot now - I'm 36+3 so lots more wriggling then kicking now! X

This is def a thing.. I think it’s a combination of you not being as tuned in to every movement and moving around rocking them to sleep! At the weekend when I’m busy running around after my toddler, I can go all day just noticing the occasional jab and jiggle. In the evening, baby has a party! But I’m sure baby moved plenty during the day, I was just crawling through softplay and chasing my toddler through the park (which frankly looks comical at 38 weeks pregnant, my two year old is way quicker than me 😂)

If you are ever worried though, always get checked out. I’ve had a couple high stress days at work & felt like I hadn’t felt baby move much. I went in on both those days for monitoring as I felt anxious. Baby had a party on the monitor