Are you counting your baby's kicks?
This is something that's important to do starting in the third trimester. Keeping track of baby's usual kicks and movements can help you to recognize if anything changes. Fetal movements that slow down over time can be an early indication that your baby is in distress and should be checked out by your doctor or midwife. The Kick Counts app is an excellent life saving app for doing this easily. Just download it to your phone, settle in with your baby at a time of day when your baby is usually pretty active and wait for them to kick. Every time they kick or do a big movement, tap the button in the app. (Hiccups don't count). When you get to 10 movements the app will ask you to evaluate the strength of the movements and record the time it took to get to ten. You'll repeat it each day and the app will let you know if it's seeing an increase in the time you're taking to get to ten and when to see your provider. It's really normal for babies to make more movements at certain times of day over others so picking a similar time each day can be really helpful. It's also really usual for babies to be more active at night when you're still and aren't walking around rocking them to sleep in utero.
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AuthorEmma is a childbirth educator, prenatal birth and postpartum massage therapist, doula and overall pregnancy and childbirth junkie living and working in Seattle WA. She's British too which is where the tea bit come from. In England, if you want to have a chat with your friend about anything really, someone puts the kettle on for a nice cup of tea. It doesn't matter what the topic is, a nice cup of tea relaxes everyone, makes the conversation flow easier and generally makes everyone feel good. So you're invited to brew a cup of your favorite herbal tea, pull up a chair around Emma's kitchen table and let's have a good chat, (or chinwag as we say in the UK), about birthy stuff. Archives
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