Baby Not Moving in Womb

some days they do just sleep more. especially in the end. They say to count flutters and kicks as movements. If she hasnt felt anything all day, she may not have laid quiet enough. I was always told to drink Orange Juice or soda. That will wake up the baby.

Good luck, most likely shes just nervous and every thing is fine. Better safe than sorry.

Usually they will tell you to drink a sugary drink and wait 20 - 30 minutes. But yes, I've freaked out once when I was pregnant with my first. After a minor car accident with my brother. Drank something and it didn't work....so went into the hospital to find a happy baby.

Near the end of a pregnancy, babies do tend to move a lot less. They just don't have the room!

But if your sister is noticing this as a drastic difference, she is smart to head to the doctor.

I pray she and the baby are both just fine.

My daughter did the same thing. My normally hyper, move all the time baby, went still one day. I went in for monitoring and everything. I was hooked up for three hours and they still couldn't get her to move like they wanted. Her heartbeat was still there and everything was fine.

I think they have days where they just don't feel like doing anything, just like we do. :)

This happened to me too. My baby very rarely moved in the last 4 weeks. I was constantly prodding and rubbing my belly to get her to move. Her heartbeat was always there when I got hooked up though. I was told that there is obviously less room = less movement. Good Luck. :0)

I am SO glad that they are taking this seriously and went to the doctor.

Not to scare you, but when I was 36.5 wks along with my first child, I woke up in the morning and realized I hadn't felt him move all night. We went to the doctor, they gave me candy and some orange juice, and tried to get him to wake up. After about 30 min of being on the monitors, with them poking at my belly with the ultrasound probe, they decided they had to get him out of there. Good thing they did, as the cord was wrapped around his neck and he was nearly dead (a fact no one told me until he was about a month old).

Prayers for them all! I hope it is not the cord, and that the baby is just sleepy, but with what we went through, I take any instance of low fetal movement very seriously.

It gets crowded in there during the last few weeks. My kiddos both got much less active during the final stretch and they were fine.

Its 9:30 here so how long could it possibly be? I am hyper, my kids are hyper but there were times when they didn't appear to move for a while. I popped open a Pepsi and that usually did the trick. :)

Part of the appearance of the baby not moving is you are moving yourself so unless they wallop you you don't feel it. The other is patterns, like my older daughter always woke me up in the morning. If she didn't wake me up I would panic yet she was just having a lie in, perhaps practicing for her teen years, who knows. Pepsi always did the trick.

This is fairly common. Usually a doctor will ask if you've felt movement in the last 24 hours. With my first, I rarely felt movement, so we rented a baby doppler to hear the heart beat. My placenta was in the front, so that muffled the movements -whenever I got worried, I got out the baby doppler and found the heart beat, so it put my mind at ease.

I freaked out once with my first because one day after lunch I realized I hadn't felt her move that day and I couldn't GET her to move when I pushed on her, which was very unusual. I mean, I FREAKED OUT. And I'm not one to call the doctor about every little thing. In fact, his nurse reminded me several times that I could call if I had questions... I just take most things as they come. The baby not moving? That's a whole different story.

I also think I was about as far along as your sister is.

I went into the doctor's office, they hooked me up (they were SURE everything was fine, they were really just doing it to reassure me), and she was fine. It took about 45 minutes and me changing positions to get her to move a little, but it finally happened (they thought they'd have me out of the office in 15! - she was stubborn that day).

They suggested she was just sleeping. At that stage they're growing by leaps and bounds and they need to sleep, too.

Try to reassure your sister, but also be there for her. You never really know exactly what's going on in there until you get to the doctor.

I never felt my son move much at all.
But my husband felt him every night.
I was sound asleep snuggling up to my husband.
He'd feel a nudge and move over.
Next thing he knows he's falling out of bed and I wake up trying to figure what's going on.
Our son loves the story how he pushed Dad out of bed before he was born!
During the day my movement would rock him to sleep.
During the night while I was sleeping he was using me as a bounce house.

Really???? Odds are the baby is fine. Yes, sometimes things go wrong, but I figure there is nothing anyone can do about it anyway.

My first baby didn't move the entire last week I was pregnant with him. I told no one. I didn't want anyone stressing me out. I'm very logical, not as emotional as most women. I figured I'd have to deliver a baby one way or another. He was born at home, 8# 12oz....healthy as anything.

What happened? Please update us. We are worried for you and your sister!
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She is doing the right thing to get monitored. While the baby does slow down at the end (my 8lbs baby was REALLY squished), she should feel the baby some.

Right near the end, I had to drink a soda and then lay very very still to see if I could feel DD. I did call the OB and they said if that didn't do the trick, they'd do what they're doing for your sister - hook me up for a non-stress test.

Friend of mine's youngest son didn't move much after a while and they realized at the doctor's office that he'd run of fluid. He was an emergency c-section that afternoon. He's fine now, but they were glad they got in to be checked out.

Odds are, baby's fine. And if not, she's in the right place.

I'm not a doctor so I don't know.

If the baby hasn't moved after eating...it is possible that the baby died in-utero. Sometimes it happens. Even this late in pregnancy. My girlfriend noticed decreased movement - went to her OB/GYM - they picked up lower fetal heart rate and did a sono - found the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck - they delivered her immediately - she was 32 weeks - she now has a beautiful 2 year old. It was scary.

Just be there for her. Hopefully, all is well.

i hope your niece/nephew is ok

She is doing the right thing.

Everything is probably fine - toward the end the baby does not move as much - but there is a very small chance that something could be very wrong.

The best thing is that she is at the doctor's office, but it could just be that she is dehydrated. If Mom becomes dehydrated, the fluids in the belly become low.

have her drink some orange juice... this is how I always got my baby to move... they are running out of room by this stage...
Praying everything is alright...

Please let us know what happens. I hope everything turns out okay.