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Anterior Placentas/Movement? XP

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Good Morning ladies!! I hope that everyone is doing well, and that your Monday didn't come too early! Tongue Tied

At my a/s last week, I was told that both of my girls' placentas are anterior. The tech kind of poo-pooh'd when I asked if that was why I wasn't feeling tons of movement, and said that it would prohibit DH from feeling them for a few more weeks, but shouldn't really effect my ability to feel them move. Well...that scares me! I DO feel them move, but not the way I remember feeling my DS & DD move... it is definitley baby girl movement, and sometimes I even feel them both at the same time, but it still doesn't seem very regular, or as "emphatic", as I remember with my older two children. Would anterior placentas (they are both front and center against my belly) effect my ability to feel the babies move more frequently? It makes sense to me that they would, but the tech was pretty certain that it didn't make a difference. Any advice?

 
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  • macchiattomacchiatto member
    I wonder if the tech was off; I have always heard that you are likely to feel movement later if you have anterior placentas. I had one anterior and one partly anterior placenta and I didn't feel anything till 19w.
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  • sugacatteysugacattey member

    My doc did mention that with the two anterior placentas that I may feel less/less pronounced movement in the early stages.

    Then again, your twins might just not be on the same schedule of kicks as your first two so might just be still gearing up for the big show - every pregnancy is different.

    I would also think that A is receiving some of B's blows and vice-versa - I haven't heard this from a doc but it makes sense to me! :)

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  • yinyang124yinyang124 member
    I have an anterior placenta that lays right over baby B. I was still able to feel him move at 20 weeks, and my partner could feel him by 22 weeks. At 26 weeks, his kicks are stronger than A's (and he's the little guy!). I guess I'm trying to say that maybe it doesn't matter as much as you might think.
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  • yinyang124yinyang124 member
    imagesugacattey:

    My doc did mention that with the two anterior placentas that I may feel less/less pronounced movement in the early stages.

    Then again, your twins might just not be on the same schedule of kicks as your first two so might just be still gearing up for the big show - every pregnancy is different.

    I would also think that A is receiving some of B's blows and vice-versa - I haven't heard this from a doc but it makes sense to me! :)

     This is true! I have witnessed it at many of my u/s appts. :P

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  • jquirke9881jquirke9881 member
    I have one anterior placenta and one posterior and I certainly feel the anterior placenta baby less often than the other.  I just started feeling him more regularly in the last week or so, whereas I have been feeling her for a long time. 
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  • mrsemily08mrsemily08
    Both of our girls had anterior placentas and the amount of movement you could feel from the outside was really minimal.
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  • s0ulchickens0ulchicken member
    Thank you everyone! I feel so much better after reading your comments!!
     
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  • BabyCarryingVesselBabyCarryingVessel member

    imagejquirke9881:
    I have one anterior placenta and one posterior and I certainly feel the anterior placenta baby less often than the other.  I just started feeling him more regularly in the last week or so, whereas I have been feeling her for a long time. 

    This is me exactly. Now at 31 weeks I can feel my Baby A, who has the anterior, much more, but around 20-26 weeks, I just didn't feel much from her compared to Baby B.

     

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  • icedcoffeeluvicedcoffeeluv member

    I think that maybe the tech was a bit off with saying that. I was actually told yesterday by a doctor doing an ultrasound that one of the babies has an anterior placenta and that can make the movements less strong. How she explained it was that your uterus doesn't have nerves so the kicks you are feeling are from them kicking and then you feel it with the nerves in your stomach. So if they are kicking into the placenta and the kicks aren't strong enough to push any further you won't feel as much.

    It made sense when she explained it. Maybe not so much when I am trying to repeat her explanation!

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  • turtle_1278turtle_1278
    I had an anterior placenta (thought to be 2 at first but at the end they couldn't tell).  I didn't feel them as early as I did in my first pregnancy and DH couldn't feel them for a while.  I felt baby b all the time.  Funny thing is that now, she is way more active than her sister (who is super laid back) so I think in utero it was just her personality beginning to show!  I can't remember when I started feeling them regularly but I know it was well after 20 weeks!
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