How much does your baby move?

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I keep reading posts where women say “my baby moves constantly” - how much is it exactly?
My boy I feel him move at around 6am and sometimes again mid morning. Then I won’t feel him move for most of the day until evening.  The movements aren’t big either, more like squirming and readjusting himself. I know he’s ok in there (I have Doppler and I had a scan today).  Is this normal? Or more on the quiet side?
My daughter didn’t move much either but her placenta was anterior so I thought that’s why I didn’t feel her much but maybe I just make lazy babies?

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My now 2 year old daughter was a squirmer readjuster. Her movements always felt like she was trying to get comfy. She was never super active. My son in he womb now is much more active, bigger movements, but usually only when I’m sitting for a while...at my desk, driving, relaxing on the couch at night, in the bed. If I’m moving and active during the day, I don’t feel him much.
Anyway, I don’t really count kicks because the boy is active enough where I don’t really worry about it. I would only start worrying if I went 12 hours without feeling him and would def contact my doctor if I went 24 hours.

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I have a very active baby. I don’t even really do kick counting anymore because he is almost always wiggling around. When I did my first kick counts at his most active times I would get 10 movements in less than 1 minute. When he’s not as active I can still count 10 movements in less than 5 minutes. But like everyone always says - your baby, body and pregnancy are all unique so as long as movements are consistent for you and your baby it’s a non issue.

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That’s your baby’s pattern and just remember it! Every baby moves differently! If you feel any difference in what you’re usually used to feeling then that’s when you should start questioning etc.

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I feel him pretty constantly. There are times of more movement and times of less movement,  but I'll always feel several movements within an hour (I'd guess at least 15 even for the least active hours).
I usually do my kick counts at 3:00 which isn't a particularly active time normally. My count for the hour is around 30. Occasionally he'll decide to be more active at that time and I'll be around 60.
If I'm focused on other things, I don't notice the smaller movements as much and just the bigger, more uncomfortable ones.

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I first started feeling my baby move around 22 weeks, and at that point I really just felt little boops in the evening when I went to bed. Then she got a little bigger and from like 26-30 weeks  I always felt her in the morning when I first woke up and also in the evening. I’m 32 weeks now and for the past couple of weeks it’s just been pretty constant throughout the day, I just feel her shimmying around, poking her feet up into my ribs - I haven’t even been counting because it happens often enough that I don’t even have a chance to say “hmm, haven’t felt baby in a while”

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My first was mainly active around 5am, 10am, after lunch, and right before bed. This little one is kicking and rolling around most of the day. I haven't bothered doing kick counts, because she doesn't stop moving much. It's like she is doing laps in a kiddie pool. I will feel her rolling around up in my ribcage then a giant kick, and she moves down to play trampoline on my bladder for a bit.

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I have front placenta and only still feel flutter and some bigger kicks but not much. When I'm busy at work I don't feel him. But when I'm relaxed and he moves I feel him a fair bit. 
I read that u should feel around 10 movement (kicks or flutters) within an hr.

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My son has periods where he moves a lot and has big movements, but he moves in between as well just feels like he’s not really awake just shifting

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Baby sleeps when youre more active as the motion of the sway in your belly due to your walking, moving ect rocks baby to sleep. You will feel a more active baby when youre relaxing, have just ate or drank something cold and or sweet or even play them music or speak to them.

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Mine is pretty much moving all the time unless I’m sleeping. Obviously there’s different patters so mid morning and around 10pm she’s most active as in kicks and flips for about an hour straight each time. Other than that she constantly poking her feet out of my right side or sticking her butt in my ribs so I can’t breathe or punching my bladder/cervix/butthole.

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