Comments on: Can you pick up your own heartbeat on a prenatal heart listener?

By: Due 4/23/09

Due 4/23/09 — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 08:37:14 +0000

I have one and I couldn’t pick up my baby’s heartbeat until I was 17 weeks pregnant. The companies even say that you can’t hear it with them until 5 months.

By: motherof1#2due07/04/2009

motherof1#2due07/04/2009 — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 08:37:14 +0000

yes you can, yours would be the slower one and your baby’s would be the faster one. it should make a fast whooshing sound, and a slower sound for you.

By: cattyj309

cattyj309 — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 08:37:14 +0000

How fast is the heartbeat you’re hearing? That’s one way to tell what you’re picking up. Your heartbeat will be much slower than the baby’s. Good luck, enjoy!

By: Betina, Lily's mommy!

Betina, Lily's mommy! — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 08:37:14 +0000

I’m 39 weeks and I STILL can’t hear the baby’s heartbeat with one of the store-bought fetal heartbeat listener things. I can hear my own heartbeat and I can hear the baby moving around, I just can’t hear her heartbeat. I think either those things just don’t work or you have to buy an expensive one to work.

By: sizzlingtree

sizzlingtree — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 08:37:14 +0000

I bought a cheap $ 30 one from Target and it picks up my heartbeat just fine but has difficulty finding my baby’s heartbeat. I know my baby is fine because I just had an appointment yesterday and heard the baby’s heart loud and clear. I guess you get what you pay for

By: Audrey A

Audrey A — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 08:37:14 +0000

You definately can pick up your own heartbeat. Time the beat. Your baby’s should be somewhere between 120 and 160 beats per minute (perhaps even a little higher). Yours will be slower.

Honestly, I don’t believe in home fetal monitors. There’s no better way to freak out a pregnant woman than her not being able to find her baby’s heartbeat on one of those things.

By: Jill

Jill — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 08:37:14 +0000

Unless you bought your fetal doppler from a medical supply company, you aren’t going to have a good quality device that would pick up your baby’s heart beat this early. You’ll be lucky to hear it near the end of your pregnancy if you have a retail bought model.

Not only that, most women don’t know how to find what they are looking for, nor do they know what it is they are hearing.

If you hear a steady whooshing pulse that is less than 100 beats per minute, that is your own pulse. A baby would be higher than 110, but more like 120-160 beats per minute. At 12 weeks you’d have to have the monitor digging behind your pelvis bone, right above your pubic hair. Good luck, you’ll need it!

Congrats!

By: escape.unscathed

escape.unscathed — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 08:37:13 +0000

It could definitely be your own. Time it and see how many beats per minute you’re hearing. Baby will likely have a much faster heart rate than you. Also, you can check your pulse somewhere else on your body (wrist, neck, whatever), and see if it’s the same speed at the heartbeat you’re hearing.