Movement Anxiety - Which Baby is it?

oughtonk · March 2014

I'm just wondering if anyone has experienced this...both placentas are posterior so the doctor of course said that makes it great for feeling movement but they are also very close to each other. Baby boy was feet down at the last appointment on my right side and baby girl was head down nicely cozied up to her brother. I get worried because I feel a lot of movement but I can never tell which baby is actually doing it. The few twin mom's I know always talk about how they could always tell what baby was moving...I can't, but maybe it's still early? Just curious if any of you ladies had a hard time differentiating which baby is moving and if it was temporary or the duration of your pregnancy? I'm always panicked that it's just one of them and something is wrong with the second because it's primarily always to the right of my belly button but both low and high.

My last appointment was 2 weeks ago and she was a couple of days behind him but both were measuring where they should be.

JTA2426 · March 2014

I couldn't ever tell which was which of my mono/di twins. Sometimes right after an ultrasound I could make educated guesses. Maybe I'm just not in tune with my body?

Odebdo · March 2014

I have anterior placentas, and I have a hard time, but right now my baby girl is to the left and low, and baby boy is transverse, with his feet normally to the left...so I get lots of left side action...not a lot of right, but here and there I get it.

I can normally tell if it is lower it is her, and if it is higher up, him...but with two, it is hard...

I also think they spend a lot of time kicking each other....where I do not feel...

I just get comforted because there is a lot of disco baby going on in there now...enough that I know it is both of them moving around.

Palan · March 2014

Mine are both transverse, with heads towards the left, I imagine them in little bunk beds. Baby brother is on top, little sister on the bottom. So movement up top I assume is brother below is sister.

LegallyBlonde217 · March 2014

I could never really tell until toward the end when they weren't changing positions much anymore. I had a better idea after each ultrasound when I knew where each of them was, but usually once I went to the next ultrasound I found out they'd moved and I was wrong. Haha

dmurrie · March 2014

Sometimes I can tell who is moving... sometimes I can't. I just know it us someone in there. I also know that sometimes they're beating up on each other instead of me (how kind), because we witnessed it first-hand during ultrasound!

twinmom1121 · March 2014

I wasn't ever completely sure who was kicking since I felt it all over. The ultrasounds usually helped figure out which one I had been feeling because then I knew which positions they were in. One time later on in my pregnancy I wasn't feeling as much movement on one side like I always had and I was starting to get worried. I had an ultrasound a few days later and turns out my baby b had flipped around to transverse so he was kicking in the same spot as baby a and not kicking where he usually did. It's hard to tell who is kicking but I think if you are feeling plenty of movement throughout the day then there's no need to worry!

StacyH0507 · March 2014

Now at 29 weeks I usually have no idea who is moving! They are both breech now so when they kick I don't know who is doing it at all.

Labyrinth3000 · March 2014

I'm with you on this! I obsessed about fetal movement during the third trimester. The more cramped they became the harder it got to tell who was kicking. One baby liked to squirm and was pretty quiet while the other would have some hard jerky kicks. It was stressful.

bunny731 · March 2014

I do not believe I had one day during my pregnancy that I could tell which one was moving, or whether both we're moving. And toward the end there was a lot less activity from both. Between u/s there was always a tinge of nervousness. Each u/s would bring about a day of relief.

Sindorella · March 2014

I really just BARELY started to be able to tell some of the time which one was moving, and I am 32w in a few days and they are a lot bigger than they were at 23w. I have a feeling that pretty soon, they are going to be so big that I won't be able to tell again just because they will be so squished it will be hard! I am definitely excited that I am starting the NST and BPP appointments next week just so I can actually see that they are both okay in there!

LegalLadyBug · March 2014

Both my placentas are in the back, but I only felt baby A up until a few weeks ago. I know it was her because she has been really low, like still in my pelvis, since the very start and I was constantly getting kicked in the butt, cervix, and bladder. Lately Baby B has started moving more, or turned so she is facing out so I can feel her more. For the longest time she was kicking into my back/her placenta so I never felt anything. Now that they are both moving and bigger I have no idea who is who. If I feel something really high and on my left I can make an educated guess that it is B, if it's low and on the right it's probably A. I honestly don't know how anybody could know for sure which baby it is once they get bigger, I wouldn't worry about it.

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