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If you can't here the heart rate then it's likely the doppler is not giving an actual heart rate reading and is falsifying a number. This is what makes dopplers so dangerous for home use. I'm a midwife so have spend a lot of time using a doppler. I have put gel onto hospital grade dopplers, turned it on and then laid them on a bench to assess fetal position and the doppler has told me a heart rate. I've put a doppler on myself and it's given me a false heart rate reading of 200bpm while I'm sitting in a computer chair. This is not a fault of the doppler, it's just the way the equipment is made to add a number to anything it might think is a fetal heart. At work I would never believe the number the doppler says and always assess fetal heart rate independently.
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Je
If you can’t hear the heartbeat then the Doppler isn’t correctly identifying the heartbeat x
mi
What if the number that’s showing on my Doppler is accurate to the same heartbeat that I see during an ultrasound, my ultrasounds always say between 138-146 (5 ultrasounds done till date) and can’t heart a heartbeat on the Doppler but the number that it picks up is always in between the range of the ultrasounds
Yes same here, I’m 13 weeks + 1 day
Ka
It’s so frustrating because the heartbeat will be showing and the Doppler will be making whooshing sounds because of the placenta but i can’t hear my babies heart beat. I guess it’s still a good sign i can at least hear the placenta and see the heart rate tho. I’m 13 + 5
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