How to listen to fetal heartbeat at home

Many women are interested in, whether it is possible to hear the fetal heartbeat at home and how long. If mommy will be applied to the abdomen hand, she will not feel the heart beats of the child at any period of pregnancy. Even if there is a pulsation in the abdomen, you should not take it for the heart rate of the fetus. Rather, it suggests that in the aorta increased pressure due to hormonal changes in a woman's body in pregnancy.

To listen to the heartbeat of the unborn child in several ways, but in home conditions are difficult. As you know, heart rate appear on the fifth week, but at this period would need an ultrasound. To hear the heartbeat of the baby can be at home at a later date, but without special equipment to make it easy. Fortunately, today is not a problem to buy such devices for home use.

Learn more about heartbeat in the fetus is possible from this article.

Fetal Doppler

This machine can be used from 12 weeks. It is sold in a drugstore or specialty store. Produce different models of doplerom: more simple for listening to the heartbeat with headphones and such, who count the number of heartbeats. They can vary in appearance, quality, display, feature set. The main components of most devices:

• Display. They come in different size and often in color. In the simplest models it is not, there is only the sound speaker.
• Speaker. Sound quality differs depending on the sensor and signal processing.
• Battery. Enables the device to operate continuously from 3 to 15 hours depending on the model.

Before purchasing such a device for many parents, the question arises, not whether they will hurt the unborn baby if they occasionally listen to the sound of his heart. The ultrasonic device is considered harmless, but it is possible that the fruit of his feels and can move in the other direction when you try to listen. In this case it is better not to torment the baby and to wait for the time when he is calm. To the fetus no stress, no need to listen to his heartbeat for a long time. Doctors recommend not to delay the procedure any longer than ten minutes.

How to work a camera

In the early stages is very difficult at home to check the fetal heartbeat. Start listening to it with 12 weeks. During this period, the sensor is placed in the lower abdomen, right at the pubic bone. With the growth of the fetus listening position will shift in the direction of the navel.

If the heartbeat is not audible

There are cases that the mother hears heartbeat of the fetus. Ahead of time no need to panic. Reasonscan be several:

• completeness – if there is fat listening is difficult;
• the chorion is attached on the rear wall (if it is located on the front, listen to the heartbeat much easier);
• the fruit changes its location, so finding the heartbeat difficult even in the absence of excess weight.

Obstetric stethoscope or phonendoscope

On the one hand, this method is available to all: buy this in any drugstore for little money. On the other hand, to count heart rate with using this tool at home is not easy. For this you need a helper, because one can not cope. However, he must possess skills, which he more often than not. Moreover, to hear the tones you need at certain points. Correctly count the number of beats will be disturbed by extraneous noise (mother's heartbeat, the contraction of the muscles of the intestinal walls and other sounds that need to learn to distinguish from the heartbeat of the fetus.