Rare diseases · Sign or symptom
Decreased fetal movement
Less than 10 fetal movements in 12 hours
HP:0001558
What it means
An abnormal reduction in quantity or strength of fetal movements.
Rare diseases that can present with this57
Very common80–99%
9- Autosomal recessive myogenic arthrogryposis multiplex congenita
- De Barsy syndrome
- Fetal Gaucher disease
- Hypotonia-cystinuria syndrome
- Lethal intrauterine growth restriction-cortical malformation-congenital contractures syndrome
- Maternal uniparental disomy of chromosome 9 syndrome
- Restrictive dermopathy
- Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome
- Zebra body myopathy
Common30–79%
17- Autosomal dominant centronuclear myopathy
- Cohen syndrome
- Congenital multicore myopathy with external ophthalmoplegia
- Congenital myasthenic syndrome
- DNA2-related mitochondrial DNA deletion syndrome
- Intermediate nemaline myopathy
- Neu-Laxova syndrome
- Peters plus syndrome
- Prader-Willi syndrome
- Prader-Willi syndrome due to imprinting mutation
- Presynaptic congenital myasthenic syndrome
- Schaaf-Yang syndrome
- Severe congenital nemaline myopathy
- Smith-Magenis syndrome
- Ullrich congenital muscular dystrophy
- X-linked centronuclear myopathy
- X-linked intellectual disability-plagiocephaly syndrome
The range is how often this sign appears among people diagnosed with each disease — it is not a probability of having any of them. Many of these signs also occur in common, non-rare conditions. A sign on this page is a conversation to have with a clinician, not a conclusion.
Part of the broader category
Also called: Decreased fetal activity · Decreased fetal movements · Decreased foetal activity · Decreased foetal movement · Decreased foetal movements · Decreased movement in utero · Dminished fetal movement · Dminished foetal movement
Tracking symptoms like this for someone? Eleplan keeps symptoms, diagnoses, medications and every specialist in one plan.
Start free with EleplanThis page uses the Human Phenotype Ontology (2026-06-23) — Human Phenotype Ontology Consortium, hpo.jax.org. Disease associations from Orphanet (INSERM), CC BY 4.0. Content is educational and is not medical advice.