Listening to your baby’s heart beat can be one of the most comforting things you can experience.
One of the best purchases we have made during this pregnancy is our home fetal heart monitor. I can’t tell you how many times it has saved us from paranoid trips to the emergency room out of fear that something was wrong with the baby.
From what I understand, it works similar to a sonogram. The machine sends sound waves into your tummy which bounce off of whatever they hit. It measures how long it takes the waves to bounce back and plays the result as sound.
When the heart is beating, the machine detects the pulses and plays them. Early in the pregnancy, it sounds like a little whoosh-shoosh-whoosh sound. If you get the same model we have, it has a small digital display that shows the heart rate in numbers. You’ll find that the baby’s heart rate is Continue reading ‘Expecting: Home Fetal Heart Monitor (Doppler)’