Doppler Heart Rate???

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Used my doppler for the first time today and when I eventualy found a heart beat it certainly wasn't like 'galloping horses' but more like a steady 4/4 music rhythm.

Is this normal as I expected it to be dead fast??

thank you

 

[Mildly]

You might have found yours instead. Try moving around until you can get two different paced beats

 

[HideiLu]

Yes I found my earlier on, but heard the placenta long before the heart beat (A rythmic whooshing sound in time with HB)

It's sometimes may sound like a train chugging along.

Haven't listened to mine in ages as baby moves each day now, but got it out last night and the battery is dead!

 

[Gemmy]

Try putting it very low down just above the pubic area - I find mine on the right. Its really quite low and not where I was expecting to find it as I am showing quite a lot and thought it would be somewhere nearer my belly button but the doctor found the heart beat straight away very low so when I used my doppler for the first time today I found it easily there too.

I think I have read other people on here have found it fairly low down too.

 

[Chrissy1]

I always find mine just above my pubic bone and that's where the MW found it when I saw her too.

Your own HB should be aroung 70 bpm and the baby's should be about twice as fast at around 140bpm or more.

 

[~*Leanne*~]

Yeah mine is very low down too, when i listen to it it sounds like a train chugging but isnt as fast as i expected it to be, although when i listen to my own heartbeat it is faster than that!