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With my first I had an anterior placenta and I didn't know any better, but looking back, his movement was definitely very muted. As you get further along though, the movement will be noticeable, just not as intense as it was with your first.

Of course, every so often, Xander would kick me in the side around my placenta and those were INTENSE compared to the rest of his kicks! To beware of that when your LO gets bigger.

I've had anterior placentas with all three and felt movement later than most but it was definitely uncomfortable and painful by the end. Mine are little muscle girls and early movers so that's probably why it's so uncomfortable.

I had an anterior placenta. I barely felt movement and never really felt big kicks or anything like that. I mostly felt hiccups. By the end I was doing kick counts every night just to make sure. I went to L&D twice for monitoring and they were like "are you feeling that?" she was moving like crazy but I didn't feel a thing. I think my DH felt her move maybe twice the entire pregnancy.

I just found out that I have an anterior placenta (I am almost 19 weeks now). So these responses make me feel relieved because I too have noticed that I don't feel movements very often and they are quite subtle when I do feel them. The funny thing is, both times I have had an ultrasound, the techs have commented on how my baby has been moving around like crazy, and it was weird that I wasn't feeling it at all. With LO1, I was definitely feeling stronger movement by now.

@Adira: Every so often, I get a kick in a particular spot (seriously only in this one spot) and it shocks me by how strong it is. This makes so much sense now! I had no idea why this was happening.

@catlady: haha, yes! Xander used to kick me in this one spot in my side that was presumably not blocked by my placenta and it was always so intense! And as he got bigger, it just got more intense and was even kind of ticklish to me. He'd kick me there and I'd just start laughing, haha.

It was super hard to tell she moved. I'd say it was still inconsistent until about 30 weeks.

@mfa_lady: yes! I know it's scary though. Everyone kept asking me about movement and I was like uh....kind of?!

Sounds just like my pregnancy. It was a little nerve wracking when everyone in my birth month group was already feeling movement and I felt nothing, but he was fine.

@mfa_lady: Give it a few more weeks and you'll probably be able to feel movement regularly enough to monitor if it's decreasing. Basically, I didn't worry about if I was feeling "enough" movement until I was feeling it on a regular basis.

I'm 24 weeks now with an AP. I didn't feel anything until about 19/20 weeks, just little twitches... and in the last 2 weeks it's more obvious kicks and active times of the day. I actually caught my belly moving on camera today.

I had an anterior placenta. I never saw movement from the outside at all. There was one spot on my side where he liked to push with his feet. I could feel kicks from the outside there, but my husband never did. I could feel flutters and kicks internally, but I wasn't always sure about them.

I didn't realize what I was missing until I went to a baby shower for a friend who was due within a couple of weeks of me. I could see her baby moving from across the table! It was absolutely crazy to me.

This is my first and I'm currently at 24, almost 25, weeks. I also have an anterior placenta that they noticed at my 21 week ultrasound. I don't believe it's made a difference at all! I saw her on ultrasound at 6w, heard heartbeat at 8w, saw her again on ultrasound at 17w, and again at 21. I first felt her probably around 16w. But this was probably more her rolling and hitting the placenta which I felt against my stomach, not actually her but just the reaction of her moving. I usually do have to sit still and/or lie down to really feel her moving. But now at 24 weeks, she kicks hard and there's no mistaking it! I think I still only really feel her when I'm sitting quietly or laying, then running around. But I guess that's also chalked up to the fact that I'm purposefully trying to wait to feel her.