OT - sort of - pregnancy question

I'm freakin out a little.  I'm about 7 months pregnant and my CD is doing relatively well.  I do have about a 4 in narrowing at the resection site and had a partial obstruction at about 3-4 months along (cleared up on it's own, just had some kind of "safe" pain meds to get me through).  Anyway, I'm freaking out a little because I the child inside me once in a great while (maybe 3 times now) has like "spazzed" out inside of me.  It feels like it's whole little body is writhing back and forth quickly for about 20 seconds.  The little research I've done on the internet, most pages say other women experienced similar feelings and their doctors told them not to worry.  However, the only published articles I've seen on the subject (from Korea) say these episodes are febrile tonic colonic seizures.  It also says that if the child is having these seizures in the womb the prognosis is grim. 

Is there any chance any of your Crohnie ladies out there have had similar feelings with healthy children??  This is not my first pregnancy and I've NEVER felt anything like this in the past.  I have been sick almost this whole pregnancy (respiratory - Dr. refused to treat, long story) and I have chalked up any strange symptoms to either the narrowing in my intestine, respiratory issues or pregnancy hormones. 

Please help.

Laura

if you are worried please see you health professional whether it is a midwife, GP or specialist - it is really important you don't fret and if you need intervention better sooner than later :)

to cheer you up ..my second preganancy was the worst experience of my life - so sick I actually lost weight and the baby moved quite differently to my first - frantic bouts of movement then completely quiet for long spells. It was really worrying and I am sure I nearly drove my GP insane, She was fantatstic and told me to think of the baby as a parasite and although my health went truly downhill I delivered at healthy boy weighing in at 10lb 4 oz. Now 23 and hardly had a sick day in his life. I wasn;t able to breast feed as straight after delivering him I was whisked awayand had my gall bladder removed. I also passed kidney stone in labout - the baby was fine - miracles happen.

{{{good luck to you both }}}

I had something very similar happen when I was pregnant with my daughter, I would basically feel seizure like activity and it was very hard to explain to the dr's and my ob that sometimes I would feel these very fast vibrations coming from my belly (vibrations is the only word I could really come up with). They checked me out and then they called it an inutero moro reflex. Which basically means that when the baby moves hard it vibrates the amniotic fluid or placenta and it causes a ripple like effect which can feel like vibrations. I did watch her closely after she was born and she's never had any seizures.

However, please do get checked still. I don't want to frighten you, but one of my friends was feeling the same type of thing, and after he was born he had a stroke and lots of seizures, and was in the hospital for a month before they figured out what was causing all his problems. I don't remember what the exact diagnosis was, but it did have something to do with hyper para thyroid. He's 2 1/2 now and has a few learning disabilities due to his early stroke.

Good luck and keep us updated

Have you seen your OB yet? Hope you heard some reassuring news.