I’m not sure if anyone here happened to see my post yesterday, but in a nutshell.. my last pregnancy was high risk which gave me anxiety during this pregnancy as well and I hate myself for it, but I’m ALWAYS thinking the worst. That being said, I’m 17 weeks today, and went for a check up. The nurse didn’t do anything but listen for a heart beat, no ultrasound, no mini ultra sound (where you can see the baby on the little monitor) just listening for heart beat. It took her FOREVER to find it.. I may be exaggerating, but normally I hear the heartbeat fast and wooshing in like 10 seconds this had to be at least 2 minutes. I was so scared, I thought she was about to tell me there was no heartbeat. But she ended up finding it and said “sometimes it’s hard to hear this early” and “baby’s just gotta low baseline but that’s ok” but 17 weeks isn’t early is it? Like heartbeats shouldn’t be hard to find that’s more for like & weeks. And a low baseline isn’t good? That means the heartbeat is slow right? And I’m super sensitive. That was enough to sort of send me into depression for the next 4 weeks until my next appointment, and I mean that. Bc now all I can think about is... is the baby’s heart rate too low? Is it gradually stopping? Just wanted to know if any of you ladies had babies with “low baselines” and how “normal” is it really?