Increased movements sign of labour?

[daydreamdaisy]

37 weeks, have been in for reduced movements before but just had to go in for increased movements?!

Rang up my unit just for advice and said that baby had been moving every couple of mins for about 4 hours which usually it is quite active but would normally have a 20-30 minute break every now and then. No breaks all evening as far as I can tell.

I was surprised that they did actually want me in, they did a CTG and said all looked absolutely fine. Just got back home now.!

Baby still hasn't stopped moving and is still going with a kick or wiggle every 2 or 3 minutes!

I'm still a bit freaked out by it and hoping all is ok.

Anyone had anything similar? Could it be a sign of labour soon?

Morning, last week at 36 weeks I has 3 full days of what felt like never ending movement. It was all day and night and actually quite painful. I had a midwife appointment on Monday and all was fine, heartbeat normal. I’m now 37 weeks and movement is back to normal. No sign of labour though. The midwife said he was quite low though so perhaps moving into his final position?
Not much longer to wait now 😀🍼

Any change in movement needs to be assessed

As the pp stated, any change in pattern

• movement either decline or increase needs assessing/investigating. Please contact your midwife/pregnancy unit

I did - I had just got back from monitoring when I posted, they said all was fine. I'm back in again now as baby is quiet today and again all looks fine. Just a really strange baby! No labour signs either which I was secretly hoping for!

I saw the midwife the other day and she said a change in movement, be it more or less is a common myth That labour is starting and it doesn't actually mean this. She stressed to me that if there is any change in movement, more or less, to call them to make sure everything is ok x

Op they were probably just moving down or turning round to get into a good position for labour, that's what all the movement was probably about x