9 months pregnant, strong fetal movement at night

At nine months of pregnancy, it is already the late stage of pregnancy. In the later stages of pregnancy, fetal movements are generally more frequent. After 38 weeks of pregnancy, fetal movements will gradually decrease, that is, they will become less and less after ten weeks. Therefore, when you are pregnant with nine months, frequent fetal movements are considered normal. This article will explain in detail whether it is normal for a woman to have frequent fetal movements in the ninth month of pregnancy.

By the ninth month of pregnancy, the baby may have curled up with its head down, in the position it was born in. If this is your first baby, your uterine and abdominal muscles will be tighter, and they can help the baby maintain this position. The movements you can feel now are mainly the baby poking your abdomen with its arms and calves. Sometimes, this little baby may even kick your ribs and make you feel painful.

If this isn't your first pregnancy, your abdominal muscles may not be as strong and muscular, so your baby may continue to change positions and postures until you are due.

In the late pregnancy, fetal movements are frequent, that is, the baby's fetal movements are more than 30 times/12 hours or more than 4 times/hour, which is also normal. Pregnant mothers do not need to worry too much at this time. In fact, normal pregnant women should begin to actively feel fetal movements at the 20th week of pregnancy. As the pregnancy weeks increase, the fetal movements will gradually increase, and there will be a peak at 32-34 weeks of pregnancy. However, it should be noted that after the 38th week of pregnancy, the fetal movements will gradually decrease. Because there are individual differences in fetuses, some fetuses move about 100 times in 12 hours, but less than 20 times means that the fetus has intrauterine hypoxia.

Generally speaking, fetal movements are more frequent at night and less frequent in the morning. Especially before going to bed at night, the fetus moves the most, because the fetus is more energetic at this time. Therefore, when pregnant mothers measure the number of fetal movements, they should calculate the number of fetal movements in the morning, noon, and evening respectively, one hour each time, and then multiply the sum of the three counts by 4, which is the frequency of the baby's fetal movement in 12 hours.

The article explains in detail whether frequent fetal movements during the ninth month of pregnancy are normal. As a pregnant woman, you'd better refer to the content in the article carefully. If you find that the fetal movement is abnormal, you must actively find out the cause of the abnormal fetal movement, so that your baby can grow more safely.