what encourages your baby to move?

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19+3 days here and still no movement. I'm getting round ligament pain but nothing that indicates baby. I have a Doppler and check it regularly until my next OB so far it's worked like a charm because they get the same reading I do, so at least I know it's alive.
Funny/scary story: so I really want this baby to start kicking because it's making me nervous and restless. I read that you could beam a flashlight for a few minutes around your stomach to wake it up and also place your phone speaker straight on your stomach so I did. Like 10 minutes of trying I gave up and just sat still to see if I can be in tune and I got an intense cramp all over my uterus it was horrifying like all my lower abdomen cramped up. Not sure if that was baby or what the hell but I'm not doing that again learned my lesson, I'll just be patient.
What do you do to get it moving?

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Baby only moves when my husband is right next to me.  I also have an anterior placenta so actual kicks are difficult to feel. I just feel pressure against the front of my stomach.

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I play music to my belly she seems to like "you and I" by one direction or I lay flat on my back or drink pure orange juice xx

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My baby has an anterior placenta I have been feeling flutters from 13 weeks, I still feel it now but it's light taps when I eat or drink or just relaxing laying on my back. I'm now 18weeks2days I don't feel it all the time but at least once a day, sometimes more it's very light taps though, this is my second child my first child her placenta was posterior and god he kicks were strong at this stage, it all depends on position of placenta and your baby could be kicking your back? So you won't feel it as much xxxxxx

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I'm 19 weeks and 2 days, I feel him move here and there throughout the day. Some days I feel him more, some days I just thinks he's being a lazy butt lol. I can really feel him if my bladder is completely full.

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Ice cold water always does the trick to get my little one going especially when you first get up so there's nothing on your stomach.

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19 weeks 2 days 2nd baby. My baby moves when I eat, when I need to pee in the morning and sometimes he/she just kicks depending on how I'm sitting...

With my first I didn't feel him til after 20 weeks tho it may have been 21 almost 22 weeks

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I am 18w1d pregnant with di/di twins.

Baby B is my boy and he's always been super active on ultrasounds - he's higher up in my belly and I am 18w1d and in the last week started feeling flutters up high. He has a posterior placenta, so nearest to my back, allowing me to feel him in my belly.

Baby A is my girl and she's lower, and closest to my cervix. She's not as active - BUT she has an anterior placenta, so closest to my belly, that acts like a cushion between her and my ability to feel anything from her. My doc said I won't feel her for another few months due to the positioning of her placenta. Maybe your babe has an anterior placenta like my girly does :)

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I tried drinking juice (oj) to make my baby move so our ultra sound 2 days ago and was scolded by my doctor - he said stay away from juices. Waaaaaay too much sugar.  As I now send my husband out for bagels.... lol

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Your baby IS moving, you just can't feel it yet. I don't think there's anything you can do to change that - you'll feel it when you can feel it. Probably in the next couple weeks!

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i was the same ....i thought i was feeling kicks etc but they were not often at all but im now 20+1 and litterally just one evening 3 days ago ish that was when i just started feeling proper kicks and could feel the baby "tumbling" (was only feeling what i thought was movement until that point) and now it seems to be nearly all day im feeling the kicks and movements ...im not exactly of small stature either so i can actually feel them with my hand when laying on my back but still feel them when im not but just cant feel them with my hand sitting up or standing up yet but ive not really got a baby belly yet ...so you could just randomly start feeling it like me out of the blue

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