Decreased Fetal Movement
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Hi ! First you should not start counting kicks until later around 30 weeks! If you are unsure best thingvis go to the near labor and delivery hospital and have thme check your baby!! This happened to me exactly at my 24 weeks i felt strong kicks and next days she disappeared completely! I went crazy so i had to go to hospital to make sure she was fine! It was the very stressful experience but she was well!! Now I am in my 29 weeks and i am feeling more regular kicks and movements!!! It also depends on the position of your placenta! Mine is anterior so i ts harder to feel stronger kicks but as baby growing you will feel them more and more!!!!
I didn’t feel kicking until around 28 weeks. So I wouldn’t worry just yet. You could try drinking orange juice and laying on your back right after that was recommended to me to get the baby kicking. Again it is early to be feeling kicking so don’t get discouraged if you don’t.
You won’t necessarily have your track until 30 weeks I believe
If your ever unsure just go to triage, ngl sometimes it can be embarrassing because when u get there and they put you onto monitor baby moves but better to be aafe!
@Eloise i agree with you!!
Even when you're tracking movement after 28 weeks, they say to look for 10 kicks, taps, wiggles, rolls etc within one to two hours if you're concerned movement has decreased. At 23 weeks babies are still so small and haven't developed a pattern yet, so I wouldn't be too concerned. The fact you're already feeling so much movement is good! Where I am located, they wouldn't usually put a monitor on baby until approx 27 weeks because interpreting them before that gestation when they don't yet have a pattern can usually be unreliable, but they may fetal doppler you if you were to present feeling super concerned.
I went to the hospital at 24 weeks and as people have said above, I was advised baby is too small for a real pattern of movement yet. They can easily move and change positions which make it more difficult to feel. After 28-30 it should be more obvious and easier to keep track. Of course if you’re worried then go up x
My third baby at 26 weeks went ‘quiet’ so I called my midwife and she seen me down my GP’s, had a feel on his position and listened in to his heart rate, she said baby is still actually really small so they do have a lot of room still to move around, the reassurance was great though x
I have a very active baby but have noticed when I am more active doing more throughout the day the kicks dramatic decrease. I think the Amina of kicks varies each day
Thank you everyone! This helps a lot ❤️❤️
Its a bit early for kick counts, as she's still got a lot of room to move around. She may have just moved away. Google says start counting kicks at 28 weeks, which is the beginning of the 3rd trimester. As early as 26 weeks if you're high risk