Mamas with anterior placentas, a movement ?

[TheDivineMrsM]

My placenta is anterior, and I'm 21 weeks. I barely feel the baby move. I know I'm going to regret this in a few weeks, when I'm being beaten up internally, but I'm going to ask anyway:

When did you start feeling actual kicks? When could your DH/DP/SO feel movement?

[AllyRae]

I could feel movement as early as I could with the other kids (prior to 16 weeks)...however, when I was further along, it was really really hard to do kick counts because her movements were muffled by the anterior placenta. But when she was at a younger gestation, for some reason I felt her just fine. But from 20-30 weeks, I had a lot of trouble...

[Mosaic]

Ditto that. I felt DD2 around 17 weeks, but throughout the rest of the pregnancy, I never got to that "holy smokes what are you DOING in there?!?!" feeling I had with my first DD. I thought for a long time that either something was wrong with DD2 or that she was just veeeery mellow. Now that she's on the outside, she seems perfectly fine and active; I just couldn't feel anything.

[luckiest]

My placenta is anterior, and this is my first. I started feeling "rolling" sensations, but not kicks, around 18 weeks I think. I got little thumps and bumps, that I wasn't 100% sure were baby, around 20 weeks. I didn't feel them that often, not quite everyday and only a few in the evenings. Definite kicks not long after that, like 21 weeks. And DH felt the first kick around then, just a week or so ago at 22 weeks. Now I'm 23 weeks and the baby moves CONSTANTLY, not just at night anymore, pretty much anytime I'm still. They're getting to be hard kicks, you can see my whole belly shake with some of them.

I was getting antsy around 20 weeks when I still wasn't feeling much movement, but I remember reading that it's normal for some women, especially first-timers with anterior placentas, to not feel movement until much later, even up to 23 or 24 weeks. Trust me, you'll start really feeling it soon.

[kimmom]

I am pretty sure I have an anterior placenta though I have not had an us to confirm it.. I am 19.5 weeks and this past week have started getting subtle knocks and nudges, everyday feeling more and more.. Very low down though. Def different from my other pregnancies, except my first which was anterior too..

[nova22]

My placenta is against my back but I still don't feel a lot of movement. I've felt one, maybe two, actual kicks. One was during my MW appointment and I felt it right after I said I've hardly felt any movements. Depending on who you ask, I'm either 20w (according to my LMP alone), 20w6d (according to the ultrasound technician and my fundal height measurement), or 21w2d (according to my NFP chart).

DH has not felt movement yet. I haven't even felt movement from the outside, even when I poke and prod.

I don't think you have anything to worry about right now, honestly. I have had one kid who I swear had nightly parties in the womb with five or six of his closest friends. I never stopped feeling him move. My most recent baby was always incredibly mellow in the womb, and at 16 months, she is still very mellow and quiet. It could be personality more than placenta location. I keep telling myself the same thing, btw - I might want to feel those strong kicks now, but I will regret it the very second this baby discovers my ribs!

[jcregan]

I had an anterior placenta with my first and definately did not have the kicks/movement some people do! She is also a pretty mellow kid so that is part of it I am sure. I felt her stretching more then kicking.

I feel like it might have been 20 weeks before I really felt her and maybe as late as 25-26 before DH felt from the outside? I also had some trouble with kick counts. My water broke with no contractions and they had me do a kick count and I barely felt any - so we went in to get her checked and monitored and they said she was moving a round a lot in there and I just was not really feeling it!

[MaerynPearl]

I felt kicks VERY early, but then, my anterior placenta is very clear now in that it does not extend all the way down in the front, but rather on the side... so I was likely feeling the early kicks below where the placenta was.

then, i did feel kicks still but nowhere near as strong or pronounced as with my other two... even at 33 weeks I can feel strong kicks that can knock the air out of me at times... but if they are where the placenta is its not as bad.

By 26 weeks my DH was able to feel kicks if he put his hand over to the side further than where the placenta was... and now can feel them through the placenta, though not as strongly... and very strongly above or to the side of the placenta.

So really I think more than just being anterior, it matters how it is positioned and how thinned out it has gotten.

[dmpmercury]

I had anterior placentas with all three of my pregnancies. Lucky me. With my dd who was my first I didn't feel movement at all until 23 weeks. When I started feeling it I was able to feel it from the outside. The same with my last 2 pregnancies. I felt movement around 18.5 weeks with my ds and 19 weeks with this baby. When I started feeling it I could feel kicks from the outside. I can feel decent kicks and movements and see my belly move but the best movements are on the sides and on top. I think a lot of the movement gets really muffled and I don't notice much at all during the day if it is a busy day. I know I had u/s with my dd where she was moving all over and I couldn't feel it. They scheduled NSTs for me because I kept going to the triage in panic that I haven't felt movement in a long time.

[Hayeser]

I've had 2 anterior placentas....and really started feeling harder kicks/movement around 24wks. I never had any kicks where I felt like I was getting beat up. My last DD was breech, so she'd step on my bladder, which was uncomfortable, but bearable.

[taffywelsh]

I have an anterior placenta toward the top. I can feel the baby moving around at the bottom, and I have since 16 weeks. However, it was only two days ago that I could feel anything at all above my belly button, and I'm 31 weeks now.
My partner could feel things low down as of 20 weeks or so. I can see my belly moving from time to time.
This baby is very active, with what seems to me like plenty of kicking and flipping...it feels like so much movement, I can't even imagine what it would be like if I didn't have the anterior placenta.
Knowing I have it certainly helps me not be so nervous when I don't feel anything for a while, though.

[neonalee]

I have an anterior placenta toward the top as well. I'm 41+5 now, but I remember at around 20 - 22 weeks (March) I was just starting to barely feel some movement. Mostly little thumps, a little rolling. I was really disappointed because we went on a vacation with my parents and I thought that would be their only chance to feel the baby move (it wasn't. But only because I STILL haven't had the baby!) Movement my DP could feel was probably a solid month later, so 24 - 26 weeks. I think the more obvious movement for me started this past June. It would distract me during meetings In July the party really got started and the last couple weeks seems nearly constant. It's my favorite part of pregnancy, but sometimes I think what ARE you doing in there?! and 'ouch!'

[3boobykins]

I'm pretty sure I had an anterior placenta with DD2. I didn't feel any real movement until over 20 weeks, much later than with my first two pg. With dd1, I felt tickles at 13 weeks, stronger movement a couple weeks later, and actually saw a kick from the outside at just 16 weeks. I think with DD2, it was at least 21/22 weeks, maybe later, before dh felt anything from the outside.