I think I’m going to call triage this morning but just wondered if anyone else had experienced this.
I’m 40+2. Baby has never had much of a pattern with movements. I’ve been in many times for reduced movements and my midwife keeps warning me that they will want to induce if I go in again - I know I can refuse this if it isn’t necessary. Baby has always been fine and no concerns medically. I just can’t seem to feel much of her movements when she’s in certain positions.
The past week I’ve been feeling a lot more movements at night. Last night was particularly excessive to the point where I was in pain and started timing contractions. I was struggling to tell the difference between baby’s wild movements and what could be contraction pain. This went on for a couple of hours then tailed off.
Been awake this morning for a while and have felt nothing from baby yet. I’m getting myself worried that she was in some sort of distress last night. I did mention to my midwife when I saw her this week that I had been experiencing more movement than usual and that’s when she again warned me about induction if I call triage about movements again. I will definitely call if I’m worried but it is a little off-putting to be told that. I should also add that I do have some anxiety around this pregnancy due to a previous loss, and that almost definitely feeds into my worries around movements. Whilst I’m 99% sure she’s fine, I can’t take 1% risk that she isn’t.
Basically, has anyone else had bouts of excessive movements at this stage? Am I right in getting checked out over it? Even if she does go back to normal movements this morning, I feel like a stint on the CTG at least would put my mind at ease. But the thought of having to fight against the recommendation of induction (based solely on episodes of reduced movements and not for a medical reason) is kind of stressing me out.