Who to call about reduced movements?!

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Morning Ladies!

I am at a loss as to who to call this morning for reduced movements for baby. I am 22+3 weeks and I am based in a different borough to where my hospital is. I don't have a specific midwife and nothing has been put on my notes about who I need to contact. There is numbers on there for EPU and MFAU but these both are only operational on weekdays. The only other contact number is labour ward. My community midwives I have only seen once for 5 minutes at a midwife clinic my doctors have on a Monday.

Who am I supposed to call?! I am worried about babies movements and it's starting to really stress me out. I have felt him since around 16 weeks (3rd baby) and he is pretty strong with movements and regular with when he likes to wriggle. I haven't really felt anything of much since midday yesterday. He had a little wriggle last night but nothing like usual. I've tried all I can to get him moving but the odd very weak movement is all I'm getting and I'm starting to really worry.

Any ladies here been in a similar situation?!

You need to contact the maternity day assessment of your nearest hospital.

If you can’t find the number on Google ring the labour ward an they’ll transfer you.

Good luck 💐

After 20 weeks it's the maternity day assessment - if closed then you call the labour ward and then they'll ask to bring you in.

Thank you for your replies Ladies!

I can't see anything about a day unit on Google or on my hospitals website. I'm assuming I will have to contact labour ward and go from there. I hate feeling like I'm over reacting but I'm just getting really worried now.

You are absolutely not overreacting!

I had to visit day assessment every other day in the last few weeks of my last pregnancy due to preeclampsia and I was constantly overhearing the midwives telling pregnant women they should have come in earlier/the day before where reduced movements were concerned.

And even if you were overreacting - they’d rather you check to be safe than sorry!

Is there a number for maternity triage? Call that number if so. If not, ring EPU (or any number on your notes/Google) explain and ask to be put through to the right department. When you get there remind them to put their direct number on the front of your notes! Hope all is well. xx

(That being said, thinking back to my pregnancies, I think they'd told me to not worry about movement until either 24 or 26 weeks, which is daft when I could feel them move daily since 17 weeks!)

I work on the labour and delivery. They will direct you to the right place. If there is no day unit open on a Sunday they will invite you to labour and delivery. They won't be able to monitor you in the ctg as you're not 28 weeks but they will do all your kbs and have a good listen in to reassure you.

They would rather you ring 100 times and get checked out than not ring honestly.

I literally just posted this on another thread:

100% get checked, please. I've been in for regular monitoring recently due to reduced movements and the midwives could not be clearer that every incidence of RFM needs to be checked out. And the walls of the maternity unit are plastered with posters saying the same thing. They would always rather make sure that everything is ok than have you worrying.

Sorry OP just to manage expectations less than about 28 weeks most places won't see you for reduced movement especially below the 24 week viability cut off. The baby is still very very small and regular patterns of movements won't be established for several weeks yet - the baby has likely just shifted position l.

Yes they will, they use the Doppler for heartbeat rather than CTG tracing.