I am 6 1/2 months pregnant with a baby girl and when using the doppler to find her heartbeat, I have had 2 doctors tell me that I have a "very active baby" because she moves around the womb so much. I don't remember my son being this active. Just wondering if anyone else had doctors tell them this and what their baby turned out to be like. Hope this doesn't mean she will be hyper.
My daughter was very active in the womb. It was quite an experience!
She's 20 now, junior in college, 4.0 and no health issues.
Our son slept during the day but at night he kicked so much he kicked my husband out of bed!
While in labor, they had to adjust the fetal monitor every 30 min (over 36 hrs) - he kept wagging his butt over to one side of my belly and back over to the other side again.
He's a perfectly fine non-hyper kid who's in 11th grade and a straight A student!
my younger son battered me relentlessly in the womb. wore me right out.
he was the most peaceful, mellow baby ever. strong-willed but very low drama.
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My son was extremely active in the womb. He was so active and so crazy at times I thought maybe there was something wrong with him! He was a very energetic and extremely bright toddler...he spoke very early and people always thought he was older than he was. He was super coordinated and learned to ride a bike, scooter, and do all kinds of bike tricks at a very young age. In fact he was obsessed with this up until recently. He could not sit long at the table so going to restaurants meant one of us was eventually taking him for a walk outside (in planes it was walking up and down the aisle). He did not sleep well as a baby and was up a lot every night. He was the baby who was up 6-8 times a night...even at age 1. He is 11 now. He's not hyper but he likes to be constantly doing something. He is very talented academically but he is very strong willed and very quick to anger or get upset (mercurial). But he is 11 now and he sits and eats fine. He is getting more mature and reasonable. He was tested and moved to an advanced academics center for his school and that fits him well. He is also very sensitive and emotional. Compared to my other child he has been much harder, more exhausting, more difficult and has given me many grey hairs! He does not have ADHD though as far as we know.
My oldest was super active in the womb. She was a precarious baby- toddler. She is what I would call a sensory seeker. She tends to bounce off the world as she moves through it. Very smart, reading fluently at age 4.
My first was like this. She never stopped moving and I never once worried because I couldn't feel her moving unlike my 3rd child who used to scare me frequently. When my 1st was born, the doctor asked me if she was very active in the womb because he never saw a umbilical cord so long. He said she must have stretched it with all her movement.
Today my daughter is 17 and is very calm, cool and collected. She was an easy baby and toddler. I saw no correlation between her activeness pre-birth to hyperness after birth.
Well, you asked, so I'll share. My son was extremely active and was even kicking me while being born! He didn't stop moving. A 24/7 mover and shaker, unlike our daughter, who followed what they said to expect, with stretches of little to no movement while sleeping. Our son has extreme ADHD-combined type (inattentive and hyper). He was an early walker and extremely active the second he could move -- I spent my days grabbing him when he'd jump on the sofa, protecting him from jumping off stairs, grabbing him when he'd try to climb the counters. Energizer Bunny! He didn't even get tired out going to parks, jumping on trampolines, anything (although I'd be wiped out!). Very different from his neurotypical sister.
Sorry, it's not what you wanted to hear, but you asked, so I figured I'd be honest. Hopefully others will have the opposite story to share.
My firstborn was that way in the womb. At our 20 week ultrasound she was doing somersaults and kicking like crazy. She was a very active infant/toddler and to this day, at 13 years old she has a lot of energy, plays a lot of sports, and is very fidgety. She has to be doing something all of the time, and gets bored easily.
Good luck!
My second was extremely active in the womb, especially compared to my first. I actually got in a fight with my OB over it...she wanted to send me to the hospital for monitoring because she kept getting bad readings on an NST. The bad readings were from a 9lb baby doing cartwheels in utero and shoving the monitors all over the place! He is much more physical than my first born. He walked at 8 months and is always bouncing to the beat, either anything that is playing or the one in his head! He is almost 5 and not ADHD as far as we know. And I wouldn't call him hyper, he just tends to occupy a lot of space, if that makes sense. I would bet that she will be active, but that doesn't have to be scary :)
My youngest was The Little Drummer Boy. Honest to goodness, I thought he'd never stop kicking or stretching. I wished so much he'd be born a few weeks early, but NO. On the day he was due. (I tried to keep from birthing his older brother early, but NO. He had to come 3 weeks early.) Drummer Boy had trouble sleeping after he was born, but according to the doctor, he wasn't a "settled baby" and what it took to get him settled was to let him sleep on his stomach. He's 20 years old now and fine.
