anterior placenta

[Bre1105]

Last month my midwife informed me that I have an anterior placenta,  which will take longer for me to feel the baby kicks. I'm 26 weeks and I feel like I'm being robbed from my pregnancy experience of not feeling the baby move and it scares me because I still need to rely on the baby's heart beat to make sure everything is ok. Is anyone else going through this experience?

[Bre1105]

Thanks for sharing your experience,  makes me feel a little better. Hopefully soon I'll get to feel him, and it's also my 1st pregnancy

[Kjens12]

I have an anterior placenta as well. At 20 weeks he started kicking down, so I could feel him on my bladder. At 23 weeks I could see kicks outside if I laid on my side (he kicks mostly left side). I'm 30 weeks, still anterior placenta according to my ultrasound yesterday.  Sometimes I can see my belly move but not feel it (such a weird concept to me) but little man gives some strong kicks so I definitely feel him. As your baby gets stronger you'll feel it more, I feel him most when I lie down on my sides.

[Bigapplefamily]

I had anterior with my first. I could still feel her pretty soon though as I have a small frame but I couldn't feel her as soon from the outside. It did eventually move around to the back though. Now I'm pregnant with my second and was shocked when I felt this baby so much sooner and my husband could feel from the outside at 16 weeks. Don't worry, you will feel baby soon I bet! Do you do yoga or Pilates? It can encourage the placenta to move around.

[hdavis16]

I had the same thing in early pregnancy around my 20 weeks mark..it corrected its self!  I started feeling kicks and seeing them out the outside by the of 24-25 weeks