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May 2012 Moms
fyziksgirl
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Obsessing about movement
fyziksgirl
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I think I'm just being an obsessive FTM here, but I feel like in the last week or so baby girl's movement has decreased. I'm not sure if it's decreased or just changed in quality because she's so much more squooshed! More stretching/pushing than kicking/dancing, and not big long periods of either like I used to have. I was kind of keeping an eye on it and feeling like it was no big deal, but it's gone on long enough I just wrote my MWs about it, which means I am now freaking out because that made it real. Anyone else experiencing this as they are in term?
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Re: Obsessing about movement
My movements at 38 weeks are almost all stretches and rolling sensations. Sometimes I'll feel a knee or maybe it's a foot sliding across the top of my stomach, but I don't get full in kicks. There is very little change in position other than side to side a bit, and when that happens--whoa!
Tonight I'm paying extra attention because Ive either got food poisoning or a stomach bug and I'm lying in bed next to a comfortably sleeping husband while I wait to see if these saltines stay down!! I was actually hungry and have peed twice so I'm taking that as a positive!
My /Chart; BFP 3/8/11 CP 3/16/11; 7/11 HSG & S/A both clear;
Cycle 12~ 50 mg Clomid=BFP 9/9/11, Beta #1=280 & Beta #2=1513, 6w3d hb=122 bpm/ 8w2d hb=186 bpm/12w2d could not hear hb had a 3rd u/s and got to see the hb. 16w2d heard the hb! 156 bpm. A/S 1/3=girl
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Supposedly, it's common for them to slow down. I haven't had that issue. This guy still moves like a madman. It's down right painful sometimes. Feels like he's trying to burst out of me...like the creature from Alien. When he does go through quiet spells, I can usually nudge him awake by messing with whatever bump or rump I can find. Sometimes, I regret it, as it sends him rolling and punching and balling up and stretching. Calm yourself, kid!
DS #1 born 05/25/2012
BFP#2: 06/12/2013 ---- loss
DS #2 born 4/08/2014
BPF#4: 2/1/2016 --- 2/23/2016 suspected molar pregnancy--- 3/15/2016 D&E - diagnosis MM
BFP#5 - 9/22/2016
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We just got back from L&D for the same reason
. For the last two days he's been acting pretty "sleepy" and when I lay down to do the kick counts he just barely squeezes in the 6 in an hour my OB recommends. And they're not the usual kicks (even usual for the last week or so), they're much much quieter. So after not feeling him move for a few hours, laying down for half an hour and not feeling anything we just went to the hospital. We figured if we got there and heard his heartbeat we could put our minds at ease.
Well, as soon as they hooked me up I felt him move. Little stinker. He is fine. But we did find out that there were a bunch of times he moved and I just didn't feel it, which I thought was really odd.
Don't worry hun, you're not alone! And someone quoted an OB in a post the other day that keeps running through my head, "I'd rather send a woman home happy knowing that her baby is fine than send a woman home who came in too late without her baby." We're allowed to over think everything at this point
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My little boy has been a lot quieter the last week or so also (39 weeks yesterday). I start to worried about it and then he gets the hiccups - he gets the hiccups a lot - so I figure he has to be ok for that to happen. Still, I'll be better when he's on the outside where I can see him!
Anyone know why they tell you to lay on your left side? I've always wondered why it matters.