Comments on: 11 or 12 weeks Pregnant, couldnt heat fetal heart tones on doppler?

By: Alyssa

Alyssa — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:49:05 +0000

Heartbeats can be difficult to hear on the doppler at your stage in the pregnancy, they are much easier when you’re further along. See if they will give you an ultrasound to check the baby’s status.

By: Dani

Dani — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:49:05 +0000

Sometimes it’s just hard to hear it with certain pregnancies. You’re still in your first trimester so I wouldn’t worry too much. Maybe you can get an ultrasound done. I bet it would help if you saw the baby.

By: greatbigsky

greatbigsky — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:49:05 +0000

Did she order an ultrasound? Or is she going to try again in a day or two?

I wouldn’t worry too much just yet. Most (not all, but most) of the time when a patient comes to me because the doctor couldn’t hear a heartbeat, we pick it up just fine on ultrasound. It can be due to any number of reasons, baby isn’t as far along as you thought, an anterior placenta, a retroverted uterus, or mom just has some extra weight around the middle. Any of those factors can make it hard to pick up a heartbeat on doppler. So I wouldn’t worry too much yet, just make sure she follows it up somehow. Best wishes.

By: ~~RYLEE HANNA DUE 3.18.10~~

~*~RYLEE HANNA DUE 3.18.10~*~ — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:49:05 +0000

My doctor’s office didn’t even try to hear the heartbeat until I was 16 weeks. At my first appointment at 8 weeks they just got a medical history on me & my second appointment at 12 weeks they did a quick ultrasound in the office and they saw baby & her heartbeat & then at 16 weeks they used the doppler to listen to her heartbeat. They said before that it would have been to hard to pick up.

By: angel

angel — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:49:05 +0000