When Will I Feel The First Movements of My Baby? (FFM)

Kayseri Education and Research Hospital

Status

Completed

Conditions

Early Pregnancy

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02979834

E52332816/53

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to investigate average gestational week in which mothers feel the babies'movements for the first time and maternal-fetal factors affecting this time.

Full description

Most of the obstetricians face the question; "When Will I Feel The First Movements of My Baby?", in daily practice. It becomes a challenge for the obstetrician to answer this question. Because, there is not a sufficient data in the current literature on this issue. A broad range of weeks for fetal quickening are reported as 16th to 20th weeks, in round figures. So, when a woman in the 21st gestational week , asks this question to the obstetrician and informed according to aforementioned literature knowledge, the woman will ask another question immediately after: "What is the problem with my baby?". But, the obstetrician will not be able to give an assuring answer because of the lack of knowledge in the current literature.Thus, to cope with such a clinical situation, the investigators decided to investigate the average week in which pregnant women in a low risk population, felt the babies' movements for the first time and to find out the affects of probable factors which may act on this time.

Enrollment

423 patients

Sex

Female

Ages

18 to 40 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

The study population included spontaneous, singleton pregnancies at first and second-trimester of their pregnancy

Exclusion criteria

Multiple pregnancies, evidence of fetal or maternal infection, hypertensive disorders of gestation, gestational and pregestational diabetes mellitus, maternal drug use, evidence of fetal congenital abnormalities and amniotic fluid abnormalities were stated as the exclusion criteria for the study group.