I had my 24 week appointment on Friday, my 4th appointment in this perfectly healthy pregnancy so far, and the midwife went to check her heartbeat per usual. Well she tried for a while with the doppler and baby was flipping alot, and she couldn't get the heartbeat so she pulls in the rolling ultrasound machine. I was so excited to see the baby again. When she turned it on to look for the heartbeat, she did find it, but babies heartbeat was in the 80's. 🥺 She zoomed in really close to the heart, and you could see how slow it was pumping, almost for about 25 seconds we watched and I watched her face scrunched up with worry. She said that was way too slow. After the 25 seconds or so, babies heartbeat started to speed up, and finally hit the normal range of about 150-158 and it stayed there consistently for the 3 minutes after that that she monitored it & watched it closely. 🤷 It never went below 150. She said it was nothing to really be concerned with after that, because she had monitored it and the heartbeat stayed consistent after the short period it wasn't.

Well I haven't been sleeping well the last 3 nights. I've been having constant nightmares and I'm tossing and turning and waking up feeling emotionally disturbed. I wake up on my right side or back sometimes and feel like I'm laying on the umbilical cord, or starving her of oxegyn somehow, and then can't get back to sleep. I just lay there and worry her heart is beating at 80bpm again and she's dying 😭 Or there's a knot in her cord or my placenta is breaking down and I have no idea she's struggling

I've listened to her heartbeat since with my doppler and each time it's in the 150s for long periods of time. Has this ever happened to anyone? I've never had this happen with any of my boys during the pregnancy.

Maybe it will just help to get my feelings out. I'm just so nervous now that something is wrong with her heart or cord. 😓💔