I am 12 weeks pregnant and i wanted to know is it possible to feel or hear the baby's heartbeat? I all ready heard it a the doctor but i just wanted to know could i feel or hear it without going back.
2006-11-04 10:02:11 · 5 answers · asked by Terril 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
nope, sorry. It's just to faint to hear without something like a doppler or an ultrasound. They do make moniters you place on your belly to hear the heart beat, but you will have to wait till you are a little further long, I believe 24 weeks is the earliest. They sell these at walmart and target. Also, I've heard around the same time that you can hear the heart beat with a simple stethoscope... I personally have never tried it. The good news is you will probably feel the baby kicking and squirming before that or at least around the same time, and then you will have an almost constant reminder that he or she is alive and well in there.
2006-11-04 10:06:01 · answer #1 · answered by manderstwin1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's amazing, isn't it!!
You need the fetal heart monitor (doppler) to hear the baby's heart beat. Imagine the distance from the baby's heart to the skin on your abdomen...that's a lot of layers!! Even with the doppler, you have to be sure it is positioned just in the right place to hear it.
In a 5 to 6 weeks you should be able to feel your baby move, and farther along in the pregnancy you will feel lots of movement!!
2006-11-04 10:09:06 · answer #2 · answered by seaelen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only with a specialized equipment, called Doppler or ultrasound. I think it costs several hundred dollars. Trained midwifes and drs can do it with a stethoscope but I think only when the baby is really large towards the end of the pregnancy and it also has to be in a right position.
2006-11-04 10:09:54 · answer #3 · answered by Olga S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not until 20 weeks when you can hear it with a normal stethescope, UNLESS you buy or rent a doppler machine for home. Even those home listening devices you can't hear anything on it until20-25 weeks depending on the baby's position.
2006-11-04 10:06:46 · answer #4 · answered by Angela A 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
scientifically speaking, a fetus's heart should start beating by day 23, or the 4th week. i know this because i studied embryology. I don't know however when you can physically hear it, because i've never been pregnant.
2006-11-04 10:11:27 · answer #5 · answered by Jeffrey W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋