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  1. #1
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    Jul 2008
    summer street
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    Anterior placenta and movements

    This is third baby for me but first with anterior placenta. I'm 14 weeks and have barely felt a thing. When I lie on my side I think I've felt little squiggles but not for a week now and I'm starting to stress. Baby is fine though and midwife appt on Saturday showed good heartbeat and growth.

    I know anterior placentas make movement harder to feel, so I just wanted to hear when you felt consistent movement with an anterior placenta.

    With ds I was feeling constant movt by 14 weeks so this is a weird experience. Dd was my first so it was later at 18 weeks.

    Anyway, some experiences would be nice.

  2. #2
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    Dec 2007
    Sunny Qld
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    I've had 4 anterior placentas.

    All the girls I felt between 22-24 weeks. This one I felt at 18 weeks.

    Ds I felt at 17 weeks and he was the only pregnancy I had a posterior placenta with.

    I am fat though so that might make it harder to feel movement LOL

  3. #3
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    Oct 2010
    Gold Coast
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    I had anterior for both and felt tiny tiny squiggles from 18 weeks and consistent movements from 20weeks

  4. #4
    Registered User

    Jun 2011
    1,105

    I had an anterior placenta and didn't feel movement really until I was into my 20th week from memory. I recall feeling a few flutters around 18 weeks but wasn't sure if it was gas or not. I never experienced huge movement throughout the entire pregnancy. It use to worry me, especially when you hear others talk about their super wiggly babies.

  5. #5
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    Oct 2007
    Middle Victoria
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    24 weeks for DD with an anterior placenta, also my first. This bub also has an anterior placenta.

  6. #6
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    Jul 2007
    melb
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    I have had 2 anterior placentas and didn't feel movements with DS1 until 26 weeks and DS2 until 24 weeks.
    DS1 was low lying at 20 week scan so needed a re scan at 34 weeks when it confirmed had moved.

  7. #7
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    Sep 2011
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    I had an anterior placenta with my first pregnancy and didn't feel anything till 20-21 weeks although in hindsight there were probably very subtle movements at 18-19. It was weird seeing how much baby moved on my 20wk scan yet how little I could feel.

  8. #8
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    Jul 2010
    Melbourne
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    This was my first pregnancy and I felt movement at 18 weeks with an anterior placenta. Definite movements at 20 weeks.

  9. #9
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    Jun 2009
    vic
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    DD- anterior placenta: movement felt from about 12 weeks, regular about 14
    DS- didn't have one so felt regular movement early on.
    Current pregnancy- anterior placenta: regular movement from about 22weeks, very stressful!