Am i suppose to put alot of utrasound jelly for the fetal doppler to hear my babys heart beat good?
Friday, January 20th, 2012 at
1:12 am
I bought a fetal doppler and I’m trying to hear his hers heart beat am I suppose to put a lot of gel on to heart it or a little bit?
(I’m 7 weeks pregnat)
Filed under: Fetal Doppler FAQs
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Because you are mentioning gel, I am assuming it’s a real fetal doppler. When I was pregnant with my son, I bought one off of Amazon. Please remember that this is a form of ultrasound, and too much exposure is never a good thing. You should only use it for a few minutes at a time, and ideally no more than once a week. You do want to use a decent amount of gel. I usually put enough on to where it would slide easily. If there’s not enough, it will catch on your skin. However, you probably won’t be able to hear a heartbeat until you are at least 12 weeks. Before that time, it is simply not loud enough to be picked up by the machine you have.
I have a heartbeat monitor I bought for my first pregnancy and it didn’t require gel. Your way to early to hear anything right now but possibly your own heartbeat. Your ob has the best dopplers around and they cannot hear your heartbeat over your belly this soon.. They have to do it vaginally to detect a heartbeat. You have at least a good 7-10 more weeks to go before you will ever pick up anything over your belly hun.
just a little bit. i would say about the size of a dollar bill.