At 28 weeks of pregnancy, your baby is practising life skills like blinking and switching between REM and non-REM sleep. During the third trimester, the foetus spends 90% of its time in a sleep state.

Fetal movements provide an accessible and non-invasive window into intrauterine well-being. A reduction or alteration in the frequency, strength or pattern of movements may herald placental ...

Research measured fetal movements in 51 pregnant women and found that higher frequencies were strongly linked to greater maternal attachment. Paying conscious attention to these signals may be a ...