Tag: Pregnancy exercise

For example, your baby may kick, hiccup, roll, turn, or twist . These movements are common and expected. As your baby grows, these movements will get stronger. But sometimes you might feel a movement that surprises you.

Fetal movements in utero are an expression of fetal well-being. However, a sudden increase of fetal movements is a sign of acute fetal distress, such as in cases of cord complications or abruptio placentae .

Abnormal forceful, jerky, and periodic fetal movement can be associated with a fetal seizure. The seizures occur repeatedly, usually involving the whole fetal body, and at a frequency that varies from two movements/second in clonic convulsions to several times/minute in lightening convulsions (2, 3).

Normal fetal movements can be defined as 10 or more fetal movements in 2 hours , felt by a woman when she is lying on her side and focusing on the movement,2–4,6 which may be perceived as ‘any discrete kick, flutter, swish or roll’.