So, yeah. It's freak out time for me. I knew it would happen eventually. Fetal movement has really changed over the past few days. It's getting more difficult to feel the kid kick, and I have read that this isn't uncommon simply because he is getting bigger and running out of space in there. At my appointment on Thursday, I had to stay on the monitor for two solid hours because he wasn't moving! The heart beat was fine, but movement, no. The nurses would keep coming in to check the progress and give me these vague, "Hmmm... must be sleeping" comments with a certain tone in their voice that said, "must not upset the pregnant lady". He did eventually give them some movement, but not as much as usual. The doctor checked for breathing on the ultrasound, and that was good. He just told me to keep good track of my kick counts until my next appointment on Tuesday. The thing is, kick counts are getting more and more difficult because he's not moving as much as before. Yesterday morning was no movement at all, with a few wiggles coming in by late afternoon. I finally got some stronger movements around 10:00pm last night. Now it's Saturday afternoon, and he finally gave me a tiny wiggle a minute or two ago, after much stress. I even ate some vegan caramels to see if the sugar would wake him up, though of course I'm not supposed to eat sweets with the diabeetus. I'm just not feeling him move enough to not be completely worried.
The internet tubes are clogged full of frantic women posting on various pregnancy websites about decreased fetal movement around 36 weeks. Many folks say, "Oh, this happened to me too, it's fine!" While others are all "OMG, stillborn!". So let's just say Dr. Google is not my friend right now.
I'm gonna go now and drink more water, poke my belly and try not to go insane before eventually calling the nurse line.
No comments:
Post a Comment