Kick baby Kick!

Best nyer if dapat satu kick camni! Gambar dari Google ye, not mine.

In my earlier post i dah cite yg kene buat baby fetal movement kan. Okay camni. Baby fetal movement is when you count the number of kicks/jabs in a certain allocated time. I started counting on 30th April at 28 weeks. Nurse to kate i have to start early. Jgn tanya kenapa, maybe because ive got GD.

 

Memula confuse jugak what counts as a kick and kene ikut the exact time yg diorg bagi ke (which is 10 counts from 9am to 9pm) boleh start earlier ke. Ni pun masalah gak kalau kene ikut time yg diorg bagi coz my baby leh start rase dia sgt active pagi time subuh. So 6.30am camtu mmg dah leh rase dia lasak gile! And if i start kul 9, sure kiraan tu tak cukup pasal baby nyer timing, time pagi, then ptg sgt sgt kurang, then time lewat malam dalam kul 12 midnight onwards. Ni mmg regular time dia dari start leh rasa kicking tu.

 

Ada skali tu punya lah risau psl 2 hari baby macam tak active cam biasa. Ada lah rasa baby gerak, tapi rasa cam wiggle sikit2 je.. Hari kedua, bila rasa risau tu dah membuak2, terus gi check kat UMRA and buat scan. Phew~ Alhamdulillah.. Heartbeat baby normal and bila scan leh nampak dia terkebil2 mata and mulut bukak tutup, bukak tutup. Alhamdulillah.. Hilang semua risau.

 

Knapa baby tak active? Ntah lah. Its his lazy days kott. Esok nya, hamik ko! Lasak smp kita pun tak tahan asyik nk gi pee je. Hahahahaa. nakal ni.

 

Okay.. Camna nak kira count tu? Ni apa yg doctor cakap:

 

1. Wiggles don't count as kicks/movements

Secara logic nya, when a baby is dead in-utero, sometimes kit amasih rasa macam die brush against us and kita ingat dia tgh gerak. Ni sebab baby masih ada ruang nak move and air ketuban tu bantu dia move around. So if nak kira tu, please kira those hard ones. Make sure yg kita sendiri pun yakin its a jab or a kick.

 

2. A series of movements at one time is counted as 1

Bila baby bergerak, dia akan buat satu set pergerakkan, dia akan kick, pastu move kaki dia or change position badan dia, so kita akan rasa mcm byk je movement tu. Jgn salah kira and count eacj and every movement. That whole set tu kira as 1 count. Slalu nya, on average, time period between one set to the other is around 1 hour or so.

 

3. Time kat buku merah tu leh diawalkan

Takyah nk ikut time 9am - 9pm tu. Leh awalkan especially if baby mmg start his morning early.

 

4. Ikut rasa hati

Mmg kite akan rasa gegile risau bila baby tak kick as per expected. Nurse and doctor pun dah ingatkan, if counts tu tak complete at the given time, pls go to the hospital to make sure baby's fine. Tapikan, ikut hati, if baru satu hari, jgn panic sgt (this was what happened to me), coz mmg sometimes baby tgh lazy. Just monitor je, make sure esok nyer dia back to his active self. Ingat tau.. setiap pregnancy tu berbeza, so bila org cakap "Alaaa.. Takde pape lah tu. Ko rilek je, esok die gerak lah.." boleh amik advise diorg, tp kalo hati dah buak2 kata something is not right, just go check. At least dapat redakan hati kita yg risau kan? Stress tu sungguhlah tak perlu time2 camni.

 

Soklan berikutnya... Kalo mmg dah tau baby ada kala sgt active gerak, ada kala tak, and bende ni seriously stresses you out, 

 

WHY COUNT??

 

Kita tak tau if baby is in distress. Yelah, bukannyer kita ada Doppler ke, u/s machine ke kat umah kan. Punca2 baby facing distress or baby dah tak bernyawa semasa dalam tummy:

 

1. Tali pusat terbelit kat leher

Baby ada selaput Vernix Carseosa masa dia dalam perut. So kebiasaanya, this selaput it what helps the tali pusat glide over the baby bila dia tengah bz ber-sommersaults. Tapi sometimes, because of some unforseen circumstances, this selaput tak cukup or kering or tali pusat dah  berbelit kaw2, takleh nk untanggle, ni yg buat baby boleh lemah due to oxegen deprivation and mati.

 

2. Something wrong with baby's development

Ni sometimes tak diguga. Fetal development yg tak smpurna can cause baby to die in-utero. It could be the lungs or heart not functioning etc. So if we tau early, MAYBE something could be done before birth or doctor could advice us on what's the next best course of action.

 

3. Mummies with high-risk pregnancy

Okay.. Banyak yg taktau that GD leh cause fetal malformation or fetal death at 8 months. Sebab tu i have to start doing the kickcounts awal (actually bila tau je ada GD terus kene start). Mummies yg ada high-risk pregnancies like high/low blood pressure, GD etc mmg high-risk. And because of these complications, boleh cause distress to baby causing fetal death.