When the fetus begins to move
The gestational phase of pregnancy begins from the first day of the last date of the menstrual cycle, lasts for 40 weeks, and is divided into three periods, The first period lasts until the thirteenth week, during which time the heartbeat of the fetus can be heard. The second period starts from the 14th week until the 27th week. It is characteristic that the mother can feel the movement of the fetus within her. Twenty-eighth to the week Forty, is the occurrence of contractions are called Braxton Hicks contractions, which is the beginning of preparation for the birth.
Feeling fetal movement
The fetal movement begins to appear during the 18th week. If this is the mother’s first pregnancy, you may not realize that these clicks you feel are fetal movement, called inactivation, whereas in fact the fetus here has started to move, From the seventh or eighth month, but the mother does not feel these movements; because it does not last for more than two seconds, and is a process of transition of the fetus from one place to another only.
It is normal to develop fetal movements with the growth in the womb of his mother, when the arrival of the fetus to the age of the ninth week, and the fetus of the so-called Hzouqp, where he starts moving limbs, and develops movement in the tenth week, to be able to move his hands and open his mouth and yawning, 14, so that he has been able to open his eyes, but that does not mean that the fetus stays awake all the time, because it needs to sleep and rest also, and sleep the fetus for 45 minutes in the womb of his mother to wake up and so on.
The fetal movement continues to develop, and the pregnant woman increases her sense. As the weeks pass, the movement can be reduced due to the limited amount of space available to the fetus as it grows. As the last weeks of childbirth approach, the fetus begins to take the position of somnolence, where the head of the fetus is at the bottom of the mother’s abdomen, so that it is ready to give birth easier, and at this stage the movement of the fetus is kicks from his hands and legs, In this stage, the fetus may have learned to suck its thumb. If the mother feels sudden, rapid pulsations, these tendons result from the loss of the fetus to its thumb, and its attempt to find and restore it.