Baby Movement During Labour?

Im just curious, when you went into labour or before you went into labour did your babys movements change? Like did they go quiet or stay the same etc?

Oh yep, I guess it would be a bit of a worry if they went totally still!
Caden has been issueing some HUGE kicks today lol! Little bugger, it hurts lol

So if when Im in labour and Im still at home, cadens movements slow down quite a bit its best I ring my midwife and let her know?

sheena, i don't remember Vincent moving heaps at all during the labour. but i had been told the same thing, at least 10 in a day,

I believe if your movements slow down that you should be contacting your midwife.

About a week before I went into labour Lucy went absolutely nuts. I had pretty much non-stop movement all afternoon and I would estimate there were probably 2000 movements there. It was crazy. She was always a pretty active bub in utero but I never had that many movements at any other time. Aside from that one day it was pretty much normal movement though.

slowed down , right down , BUT i was my friends partner when she was in labour and her baby was moving all through the labour , so some babies movements get more frequent

Michaela was a big mover all through my pregnancy then she all but stopped when I was in labour. I did have meconium in my waters so don't know if that's related (since she's my first I've always assumd it was normal that she stopped moving). Anyway the midwife wasn't too worried, her heartbeat was still strong on the doppler and once I got to hospital and was hooked up she showed up fine on the foetal monitor.

Mine kept moving right thru labour altho with the gremlins it was impossible to tell which one was moving with all the pushing and shoving going on as we tried to get Sienna out.

I had a big kick that felt like it broke my waters....not sure if its a coincedence or not.

To be honest, my labour was very quick (2.5 hours) and very intense and i can even remember feeling the baby move at all....i was so overwhelmed by trying to cope with the contractions.

I have heard it is quite common for the baby to slow down movements when labour is approaching...and for others, the movements stay the same.

I think there is a chart in your midwife book (the one she writes in) where you can track the movements if you need.

Don't mean to be the one with the scary story, but definately alert your midwife if he's unusually quiet. Eden was a disco dancer and a contortionist all throughout my pregnancy, but right at the end she quietend right down.

I ended up in hospital being monitored wheich showed decelerations in her heart rate... Turned out she had very little foetal liquor surrounding her (ideally they like to see at least 2cm, I only had .5cm in some parts, others 1cm... wasn't leaking waters, so don't know how that happens!) so I ended up having an emergency c-section before she became distressed.

When she was delivered, her cord was wrapped round her legs twice, bungy style, so that, combined with reduced liquor contributed to the decelerations and reduced movement.

So in a nutshell, I'd let your midwife know... I'm so so glad that my midwife continued asking me that day if I was feeling her moving, otherwise who knows what may''ve happened