Hi everyone,our first post here, I’m writing this on behalf of my parter.
she is 25 weeks and 2 days. At just over 20 weeks she started feeling movements and flutters, never nothing strong enough for me to feel but she would feel the baby regularly, through the day and on a night. For close to a week now she hasn’t really felt the baby moving, it’s been very reduced and some days not at all or maybe once.
she saw the midwife at the GP who listened to heartbeat and said not to worry. A day or so later I advised she ring the maternity unit as was still same. They asked us to come in, checked baby’s heart rate which was slightly on the high end but said was fine and that at 25 weeks it’s all they do, they don’t do the other checks until 26 weeks.
I booked a private scan, we had this yesterday, she said baby’s measurements were all as expected, she observed heart beat etc and baby moving slightly in the scan and had no concerns. My partner still feeling no movement though. We called maternity again last night, went in again, same thing just heart rate check. This time they swabbed my partner to check for any infections though. We are awaiting this.
today is still the same, nothing really where as normally he would be fairly active.
im really concerned about this but ringing up they only check the heart rate and until another 4 days wouldn’t hook her up to the proper monitor or scan her until even later along the line. I’m just really worried and don’t know if there’s anything else we can do or different we should be saying. Another thing that worries me is that the baby has been facing the same way since the first scan
(facing away from the belly) . Can anyone relate or offer anything
thank you