Im 6 months pregnant and my baby seems to move alot is that normal?

Answer 1

Yep, I'm 22 weeks pregnant, and my baby kicks like crazy! She does it especially when I'm lying down, or have just had something to eat or drink. I think it feels kind of like she is trying to escape. However, this is not the most active your baby will ever be. Your baby's most active period will be between 30 and 32 weeks.

I'm going to include some information on fetal movements from a book of mine that I think you might find interesting.

Your Baby's Movements

The moment you feel your baby move inside you for the first time is a huge thrill - proof that she actually exists. Even though you may have had an ultrasound scan, which showed your baby moving about in the womb, she'll seem much more real when you feel her for yourself. If she's your first baby, you'll probably first notice her movements inside your womb at about 18-20 weeks. If you've already had a child, you may feel movements at 16-18 weeks or even before. The earliest noticeable movements of the baby - known as the quickening - make a delicate sensation that's been likened to the fluttering of wrings. First time mothers other mistake this feeling for indigestion, wind or hunger pangs, but the experienced mother knows what to expect, so is quickerto identify these feleings as movements of her baby.

Why your baby moves:
Your baby stretches and flexes her growing limbs as they develop. This activity is vital to help her muscles grow properly and starts around the eighth week, when she begins making tiny movements of her spine. In those early weeks you might not notice her movements, ut by about the end of the sixteenth week, you may feel the vigorous kicking of the now fully formed limbs, although you might not recognise them.

Your baby will kick, push, punch, squirm and turn somersaults and you'll often see as well as feel her movements. She'll move more and more as she grows and is at her most active between weeks 30 and 32. The typical baby averages 200 movements a day at week 20, rising to 375 a day at week 32, but the number of movements a day can range from 100 to about 700 over a period of several days.

After week 32, it will become harder for your baby to move as she grows to fill the uterus. Although restricted, she'll still be able to give plenty of sharp kicks. When her engaged head bounces on your pelvis floor muscles, you'll feel a jolt.

Changing position and emotional reactions:
Your baby need s to exercise and coordinate her growing muscles, but she also moves around for other reasons.

She may, for instance, shift her position because she feels like a change, or because you're sitting or lying in a position that's uncomfortable for her. OOr she may be trying to find her thumb that she'd ben happily sucking before she moved.

She may also be moving around in response to your emotions. Hormones, such as adrenalin, are released into your bloodstream when you're physically or emotionally stimulated. Pleasure, excitement, anger, stress, anxiety of fear can also stimulate the production of chemicals that will pass acrossthe placenta and into your baby's bloodstream. These hormones affect your baby, so if you get angry or very anxious, she may become agitated and start kicking and squirming. If you can, sit down in a quiet place and practice your relaxation techniques. This will help to calm both you and your baby.

Counting the kicks:
Just like the rest of us, your baby will feel and be more active on some days than on others, but her daily pattern of movements will become more consistent after about week 28. From themn on yu can keep a check on your baby's movements. On average, most women can feel about nine out of every 10 of their baby's movements, although for some women the proportion is only six out of every 10.

Whether you feel a movement or not depends on its direction and strength, and the position your baby is in when she makes it. For instance, if she is facing and kicking in towards your spine, you wont feel the sort of short, sharp jab that you get if she kicks out towards your belly or up towards your ribs. "

I'm also going to include the link to a pregnancy forum that I think you might find handy. It's full of supportive women with boundless knowledge about these issues. I learnt so much there that I doubt I would have learnt otherwise.

Answer 2

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Im 6 months pregnant and my baby seems to move alot is that normal?

Answer 3

When you are 6 months pregnant, you will likely notice a lot of movement!!!! The baby is growing so you are more able to feel the movements, and yet the baby is still small enough so that it is able to move quite freely in your uterus. In later months you will likely notice the movement changing as the baby had less room to move around. Instead of all the summersaults you are feeling now, you will likely feel more kicks and jabs. Often, too, parts like a bum will push out against you!!! It is really neat. Hope you are enjoying these sensations!!!! I really loved this part of being pregnant!!!!

Answer 4

yes! And that's what you want - a healthy moving baby. It's when you don't feel movement that you have to worry.

Just wait until you're really close to the due date. I would sit down in the evening and I felt like my baby was trying to kick her way out - for like 20 minutes. I felt like a punching bag - but from the inside out :D

Answer 5

If my baby quit moving for more than 10minutes I was worried sick. My mom laughed and told me I was in trouble and boy was she right. My lil girl wouldnt sleep more than 10minutes so we called them "Sarah Naps" and she is a BUSY BODY. Won't sit to watch T.V., She could care less about toys she wantss to be on the go exploring and getting into everything and shes a CLIMBER!!!!!!!!!! Dont leave your chairs out b/c up she goes on the desk, table, counter, window seal, etc!!!!!

Answer 6

of course. It will be active untill a week or two before delivery. Its almsot like they rest up for the big event of being born. I know it feels wierd, and can make nasua worse, but just remember the more movement you feel the more assured you can be that the baby is doing fine.

Answer 7

Excellent! Doing fine. Don't get concerned if baby has a rest too.

Answer 8

Sounds weird

Answer 9

6th Month Of Pregnancy

Answer 10

Yes it is normal maybe it will be very active when it is born.