Can having too many ultrasounds in pregnancy cause a baby to be born mentally challenged or brain damaged? I have had to have several ultrasounds (several level 2) since I have had some issues with this pregnancy. I also use a fetal doppler to monitor the little one. I only use the doppler a few times a week for about 2 minutes each time. Could I have hurt my baby or caused it to have brain damage from all of the ultrasounds and the doppler. Help!

I am so upset and could really use some advice. I just got back from my monthly dr.’s appt. and this time I saw a another dr. in the practice, whom I had not met before. She had a nurse in training in the room with her, which kind of made me uncomfortable but I figured it wasn’t a huge deal. Anyways, I have never felt so belittled and terrible by a person. I came in there with questions that have been bothering me for awhile. The one question I asked her made me bawl my eyes out. I told her I purchased I fetal doppler early in my pregnancy and have been using it for awhile. Before I could finish my sentence, she told me to get rid of it right away and get my money back. She stated that I am not a trained professional and should have never purchased it and that I could be doing so much harm to my baby. She made me feel like a terrible mother! Is she right? Can fetal dopplers cause harm to my baby?

I have read that using a fetal heart doppler a lot can hurt the baby and the umbilical cord, is this true?!?! I listen to my babies heart beat once a week, if that, and then of course during my OB appts. If anyone has heard of this or knows anything please lemme know…Thanks!!!

I don’t know why…I guess because I’ve always wanted a son and now I’m almost 20 weeks with one. I’ve seen him 3 times on sonograms, most recently on the 18th, and he’s active and has a heartbeat of 156-160 all the time. I’ve never been told anything is wrong at the sonogram. He’s measuring 3 days behind (not a big deal right?) and always hear his heartbeat and movement with the fetal doppler at home. I’ve felt him move for 6 weeks now…but still, how do you get over it. I’d hate to lose him…

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I am 16 weeks 3 days pregnant with my first child and cannot stop worrying! I always feel like something could be wrong with my baby or something happened to him/her. I am always afraid of having a miscarriage. I know that the risk of having a miscarriage at this point is low, I even asked my doctor and she said that it is less than 1% chance but "anything can happen." That made me even more worried when she said that! I use a fetal doppler every other day and hear a very strong heartbeat everytime. Should I be so worried? Is this normal? Do I have a good chance of delivering a healthy baby? Help!

I use a fetal doppler with my baby about every other day just to make sure that everything is ok. I read recently that a doppler is very loud in the womb, as loud as a helicopter hovering over a house. Could this cause my baby to go deaf? I feel like I am using it too much and may have done damage yet I have also read other women using their dopplers every day and sometimes several times a day!

I have had a scan at 7 weeks and 10 weeks and the babys heart beat was between 147 and 161. I go and have another scan and babys heartbeat is 135 is this okay?

and when can you here a babys heartbeat through a doppler?

Im 15w2d, first baby. I havent had an ultrasound done since 9w and then went back to doc at 12w and heard a strong heartbeat w doppler. ( Ive heard the heartbeat since 6 weeks on ultrasound ) My friend lost her baby at 16, was told it only grew until 14w. Im nervous now bc I don’t go back until 19w and that is when we find out what we are having. I do however own an at home fetal doppler so Im lucky enough to listen to my babys heartbeat everyday and it still sounds strong. Should I be worried?? I called my doc to see if I could have an ultrasound done next week when I go for a normal OB check but they havent returned my call yet.
So if I hear a strong heart beat every day at home that means the baby is growing on track correct??
So if her baby was only 14 when it should have been 16 does that mean they couldnt find a heart beat? That is just stopped growing?? I wish I could ask her but I dont want to push the subject at the moment. Thanks for all the help ladies! Im a worry freak so this all helps

We were thinking of renting one and wanted to know how it worked for other people.

My first ultrasound was at the hospital an i found out i was 2-3 weeks along. the tech saw the sac but couldn’t see the baby so the doctor determined that i was very early in my pregnancy…very weird considering the home pregnancy test showed up positive, an i thought you has to be like 4 weeks for anything to register on a home test.. anyways. my next ultrasound was about 3 weeks later at my doctors office..where we found out i was 8 weeks an 3 days.. how that adds up i have NO IDEA.. but i am now 18 weeks an wayy bigger than i was with my daughter. i couldn’t eat barley at all during my first trimester due to nausea, an now that i am able to eat(EVERYTHING) I’m still NOT gaining weight..but still getting bigger. i also bought a home fetal doppler that works really well and my mother in law an myself heard 2 different heartbeats the other day..but when i went to my doctor 3 days later an told him he swears that there is only one baby.. here was my 8wk ultrasound.. WHAT DO YOU GUYS THINK??
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i know for a fact that it wasn’t my heartbeat cause mine is much slower. like 85 an these heartbeats were around 135 and 160-165.. that’s a big difference.

I am currently 16 weeks pregnant. Ever since I found out I am pregnant, I swear I have been stressing over something every single day. I have had several screaming and crying arguments with my husband and I have been freaking out over every little thing that relates to pregnancy, like contracting listeria or toxoplasmosis. I was so afriad of contracting toxoplasmosis that I had a blood test done and freaked out and stressed for days before I got my results (they were negative for toxo). I am super worried I am causing my baby to slowly die or that my stress could kill my baby. I use a fetal doppler every few days to check the baby’s heart beat and always feel better when I hear it. Could my stressing kill my baby? I read in "what to expect when you’re expecting" that emotional stress cannot cause a miscarriage. Is this true?

my wife is 12 week pregnant and she has all the pregnancy pains heavily and she is worrying about this all the time.last week when she went to hosptl doc shows her the heartbeat of the fetal and she hears the heartbeat. when explaining these to me that night she was very happy and forgot the pain.so i decide to gift her a fetal doppler to make her happy all the time.where can i get it in chennai?please help me!

I’m 14 weeks pregnant and I’ve had 3 ultrasounds (6 wks, 8 wks, 10 wks) and there was a heartbeat and my baby was kicking but they haven’t used a doppler yet. When I went in for a checkup at 10 weeks they said it was too early to hear a heartbeat so they didn’t do it, but I’ve read of people hearing it really early on? I have an appointment tomorrow, will they listen for a heartbeat then? I’m really excited to hear it cause I’ve never heard a fetal heartbeat before.

Ok, before I went in to my ultra sound at 18 weeks I had spotted slightly. When I went in for the ultrasound the tech tried to evaluate the heart of the baby and she kept saying…"Oh! She moved! And she was having difficulty obtaining it because the heartbeat would stop. I followed her to the exam room and she was whispering to the doctor and that had me concerned. First of all does the babies movement affect the techs analysis of the heart? The doctor then did the exam and listened to the fetal heartbeat with a doppler and it would beat fast slow stop for a second and beat fast again. Anyone else have this problem? This doctor has always been vague and I was afraid to ask questions in fear of getting a horrible answer all he said was that I will have another exam in two weeks. That was a week ago. I have spotted again today a very small amount but I keep assuring myself that I feel fetal movement. But I’m not sure if it is or just muscle spasms. I feel them throughout my body and its similar to what I think is the fetal movement. Its rapid so unless she can kick like a ninja I’m afraid to put false hope in this movement. So my question is has anyone had the heartbeat problem before with very slight spotting and what did it mean? And also if the rapid movement in the uterus area is fetal movement or a spasm?

I am currently 14 weeks pregnant.I went to my doctor’s last week for my monthly checkup. While I was there, I figured I would ask him about my fetal doppler I purchased a few weeks ago, a Sonoline C1 doppler. I asked him if it is dangerous in any way. The only thing he told me was to "not go crazy with it." Now I am starting to feel nervous about what he meant by that. Are fetal dopplers actually dangerous to the baby? Can they kill it like causing it’s heart to stop beating? I’m super worried and could use some advice. Are dopplers actually dangerous and do you think my doctor meant to say that? Help!

I’m 8w 2d and I have a fetal doppler that I bought during my first pregnancy?

Should I be able to hear the heartbeat yet?

Just a little nervous because I had a miscarriage last time.

Thanks!

Last week, I purchased a Sonoline fetal doppler. I am currently almost 12 weeks along. For the past couple of days, I have been listening to my baby’s heart beat, at least, I think it is my baby’s heart beat. I can hear mine sometimes and it is slow and when I think I hear my baby’s, it is very fast- almost twice as fast as mine. Is this the baby’s heart beat or is it the placenta? Would the planceta be pumping blood as fast as the baby’s heart? I’m just confused!

My sister is about 13 weeks pregnant and wants to buy a fetal heart rate monitor, we need to know what the best FDA approved monitor, within reason price-wise for quality and reliability would be?
Thank you!
We just want to hear the babies heart beat. We don’t need a reason for that, I would only like real answers naming the brand of doppler please!

Hi ladies, im 18 weeks pregnant and really want to hire a fetal doppler, anyone have any recommendations?

Thank you x

I am 9 weeks 5 days pregnant and have recently acquired a fetal doppler it is FDA approved, i was wondering though how long is too long to use the doppler at one time. for instance yesterday i found the heartbeat for the first time within 10 mins today i wanted to check to see if i had heard correctly yesterday, i used it for 10 mins found nothing went away for 30mins came back bladder fuller, tried for 10 mins nothing, rested then tried again for like 5 mins and found the heartbeat, is this too much? will it harm my baby or myself i notice i have small cramps when i am finished but i think that would just be from pressing on my belly, i had bleeding at 8wks so i am more worried thats why i wanted to check,

I have a sonoline 3 mhz fetal doppler that i use and it picks up the baby’s heart rate every time, now what i’m wondering, am I hearing kicks because I hear like this loud noise it sounds like it does kick it because then the little fella moves away and I have to move the probe to find him again.

I am 13 weeks pregnant plus a few days and I am worrying! I keep hearing that the risk of miscarriage at this point in pregnancy is very low. How low is it? I have a fetal doppler at home and used it yesterday morning and heard the heartbeat which always puts a huge smile on my face and gives me great relief! So it is true what they say? Is the risk of miscarriage very low now for me?

I went for what I thought was a routine appointment with my doctor. When he was checking my baby’s heartbeat with the doppler, he noticed that the heartbeat sounded irregular (As in it skipped a couple times) He sent me for an ultrasound because he wanted to check and see if they could detect what he was hearing, and sure enough, they detected an irregular heartbeat as well. He said that the irregular heartbeat could be caused by a number of things, but the main reason he gave is if I had too much caffeine. And I admit, I splurged on the iced tea a little too much over the weekend and had a small cup of coffee (as in I fill up my mug with about 1/4 cup of coffee and fill the rest with water to dilute it). He seems to think that it could have been caused by the caffeine. He wants me to lay off the caffeine and go for a follow-up ultrasound tomorrow morning and depending on results of that, may have me and my husband talk with a fetal abnormality counselor. Only thjing is that tomorrow is ONLY and ultrasound, and I don’t see my doctor again until next Tuesday for another ultrasound and my follow up appointment… I’m really scared!! Even though the ultrasound from yesterday showed no sign of heart abnormalities, I just feel guilty thinking that I could have caused harm to the baby.

THEN not thinking this morning (I was crying all night and felt slumpy this morning) I ate a chocolate covered donut, and I knwo that chocolate has SOME caffeine in it

I’m really freaking out and stressing myself out… Anyone ever had this happen?? Any words of encouragement to help me get through the next 24 hours and 7 days ?!?!
Even the ultrasound tech asked me before we started if I had caffeine earlier in the day, and she’s seen it too where if there’s a lot of caffeine in the system that it can cause the heartbeat to be irregular. There have been no decreases in movement with my little one and everything else is perfectly healthy with my baby. They even told me she has a head full of hair and weighs approx 4lbs 13oz

i got a good while to get things sorted but i think my consultant will allow me to go to edd but not a day over.

he wants me to have another section but i really want to avoid it.

i had 1st section on march 9th 2007 with dd due to ftp and fetal distress. (i was 15 days over due and had a failed induction)

2nd was on march 9th 2009 with ds because consultant refused to let me go any further and would not allow induction.

i had a very bad experience with that 2nd section. they performed it on a 30 minute epi and my son got stuck and needed forceps so by the time they started sewing me up it had worn off and i could feel everything.

what i am thinking is if i do my research well before the birth and by some miracle i go into natural labour, would i be ok to stay at home as long as possible?

if i went straight into hospital they would only let me have a trial of labour for 4 hours but if i stayed at home till contractions were thick and fast i’d have more chance of delivering normally.

i know there are some danger of me rupturing my scar but i also know that a temperature will be present before that happened so if i kept an eye on my temp should be ok

also i would hire a professional doppler and monitor foetal hb to look for any dropped or raised heartbeat for foetal destress.

if i really load myself with all the facts what do you think?

i know there are dangers i know i could injure my wound i know all of this but i also know i could bleed to death on the theatre table and i know i could get hit by a bus when crossing the road.

the hospital are happy to give a trial of labour so its obviously not that dangerous.
just me- i am grateful for your opinion and i will not rise to the comment made about me just thinking of myself. whatever i don’t feel the need to ustify myself to you or anybody else. i suppose my consultant is the only opinion that counts. so thanks for your advice. but sorry to disappoint you if you wanted me to have a war of words. tbh i can’t be bothered