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The first fetal movements occur in the first trimester, but can only be seen on ultrasound and moms will not feel movement until sometime in the second trimester. Moms grown when the baby moves too much, then suddenly, a bit less movement and that's not good either! Physicians ask their moms to check fetal movement regularly once you are feeling the fetal movement. And you are tracking the baby moving, not just rolling movements from your body naturally jostling the baby around, or fluid shift movements. A baby that is moving markedly less is worrisome. Babies that move markedly more are not likely to be abnormal and that is not tracked very often. Exactly how much the baby should move is not really clear, although every obstetrician will tell you that less fetal movement is a sign to be reported.  There are at least four definitions of what normal fetal movement is. 1) feeling 10 movements in 12 hours, or some say 2)the ten movements should be over two hours when you are re...

Fetal Movements Occur every day, most moms don't even realize the baby is moving. And these movements are now classified into 4 states: State 1F is the most quiet, and the baby isn't moving much, and even the heart rate is the calmest. State 4F is the most vigorous of movement, the yes move, the body can move and the heart rate will accelerates. This is the equivalent of being awake after birth, or what I call "play time", and babies spend the most time in 1F or 2F (slightly more awake), and much less time in 4F.  Babies studied with exact counts show that there are approximately 200 movements during the day at 4 and a half months of pregnancy (20 weeks), and by about 32 weeks they move the most: about 575 times a day. By full term babies are slowing down again and they move about 280 times a days based on work done back in 1979 by Sadovsky and coworkers. Once you are far enough along in your pregnancy to detect movements you can begin paying attention to the amo...