The motor activity of the fetus in the womb begins to be felt by pregnant women at various times, but not earlier than the 18-20th week of pregnancy. From that moment on, the expectant mother feels tremors inside her body every day, and from the 30th week of pregnancy, fetal movements intensify. You need to closely monitor these aftershocks. If the baby began to move less often, weaker, or his movements stopped altogether, this is an extremely unfavorable sign.
The number of fetal movements per day has its own rate - approximately 10 times (10 series of tremors). A few days before childbirth, the number of perturbations decreases, because the baby fills with itself almost the entire uterine cavity, and there is not enough room for movement. Fetal tremors are noted more often at night than during the day: during the day, the child mostly sleeps, lulled by the movements of the mother. If you do not feel the baby moving for three to four hours, there is no reason to worry: the baby is just resting. To test this, hold your breath for a few seconds. This will reduce the supply of oxygen to the fetal blood, it will get worried, and you will immediately feel a jolt in the abdomen. But if the fetal movements, which were previously active, suddenly for no apparent reason become sluggish, rare, if you do not feel them for more than 12 hours, urgently contact to the doctor! Decrease, especially the complete cessation of movements, is first a sign of fetal hypoxia (oxygen deficiency), and if urgent measures are not taken, it can become a sign of a frozen pregnancy. The reasons for the development of fetal hypoxia are varied: the mother is in a stuffy room, her diseases, congenital malformations of the child, and etc. The doctor establishes the diagnosis of fetal hypoxia by counting the frequency of its heartbeats by listening with a stethoscope through the abdominal wall of the mother. Normally, the fetal heart beats at a rate of 120-160 beats per minute. Decrease or increased heart rate is an indicator of the development of hypoxia. A more accurate method for assessing heart rate is CTG - cardiotocography. If during a medical examination and CTG it turns out that fetal movements are rare or absent, that its heart beats too often or too rarely, that the heart rate has become monotonous, the question arises of terminating the pregnancy until it becomes frozen, i.e. a number of reasons can lead to the development of a frozen pregnancy: acute and chronic infectious diseases of a pregnant woman (chlamydia, herpes, toxoplasmosis), hormonal disorders in her body, chromosomal abnormalities of the fetus, etc. But most often it leads to fetal death mother's alcoholism, drug addiction or smoking abuse. A frozen pregnancy can develop at any time, but more often in the first trimester. Lead a healthy lifestyle if you want to give birth to a healthy baby, and watch his movements carefully!
