Recent research that measured fetal movements in pregnant women has found that higher frequencies were strongly linked to greater maternal attachment. Paying conscious attention to these signals may ...

Expert advice on how to understand your baby's movements during pregnancy – and when to seek medical advice if anything changes. One of the most exciting parts of pregnancy is feeling your baby move.

Engineers and obstetricians at Monash University have invented a wearable Band-Aid-like patch to track a baby's movements through the mother's abdomen, offering a new way to support safer pregnancies ...

How do you know when something isn't right? Jane Barry, Midwife and Child Health Nurse is here to help. One of the most special things about pregnancy is to feel our baby moving. At first, those tiny ...

Spontaneous, random baby movements aid the development of their sensorimotor system, according to new research led by the University of Tokyo. Detailed motion capture of newborns and infants was ...

When Fernanda Sheridan was 38 weeks pregnant with her daughter Natalie, she noticed that Natalie started jerking a lot. “I didn’t think much of it. I thought that she was going to be a soccer player,” ...

Jane Barry, Midwife and Child Health Nurse, explains why kick charts are no longer the standard for keeping track of foetal activity, and what you should pay attention to instead. From around 16 weeks ...

Medical professionals have issued an urgent warning to all expectant mothers following revised guidance on foetal movements. During pregnancy, sensing their baby's movement is one of the primary ways ...