How To Count Kicks With An Anterior Placenta

I m keeping a record of the times of active periods often coinciding with when i m trying to get to sleep or in the middle of the night and trying not to focus on counting the kicks as much.

How to count kicks with an anterior placenta. Tumbles kicks and punches all count no matter how subtle. If you have an anterior placenta try and focus on your sides and lower down as this is where you re more likely to feel movement. I m finding exactly the same with a low anterior placenta. If you have an anterior placenta baby s movements may be less noticeable.

Although feeling movement can be trickier for anterior placenta mums your baby should still develop regularity to their movement. Hi ladies i m 28 4 and i just visited my ob last week who never told me to count my kicks but instead that sometimes the baby will be turned around and will be kicking my back which i can t feel so not to worry if i don t feel anything for a bit. Anyway everywhere else is constantly saying that you should feel 10 movements in at. I m currently 26 weeks and have already been to the hospital twice with reduced movements.

But if you have an anterior placenta you may feel these 1st movements a bit later than those who have a placenta elsewhere. Kick counting is really simple and it s just what it sounds like. You re counting baby s kicks and movements to monitor how he or she is doing. If i have anterior placenta when will i feel my baby s first kicks.

Most of us tend to feel our baby s 1st movements sometime between 16 and 24 weeks of pregnancy more likely after 20 weeks if it s our 1st pregnancy.