When will we stop encouraging awareness of fetal movements?

In 1989, Adrian Grant and co-workers published a multinational, prospective study investigating the effect of the mother actively counting fetal movements.1 Despite randomly assigning 68 000 women in the study, no difference regarding the rate of stillbirth to women assigned as controls was found. The result was rather surprising as women who have had stillbirth are more likely, in hindsight, to report preceding experience of reduced fetal...