well ive missed my period and have been vomiting some, craving pickles,lemons, and cheese. i dont know if im pregnant or not but whenever im laying down it feels like a heartbeat in my stomach and its different that my regular heartbeat and my husband listened to my stomach and he could hear it. is it possible to hear a baby's heartbeat? and if so, how soon?
2007-01-15 05:30:48 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
well sometimes it does feel like its moving around. how early do they start moving in there? are there any other symptoms that u could tell me that i could see if i relate to?
2007-01-15 05:41:36 · update #1
Hi. It's really not possible for you to hear the baby's heartbeat by just listening using your ear. And you can't feel it inside either (the heartbeat) . You can hear the baby's heartbeat using a doppler instrument. It amplifies the sound of the heartbeat at the age of 3 months in your womb. It can be heard using a stethoscope at the age of 5 months but it is a little tricky and hard to find if you are not a doctor or nurse. You have to place it precisely at the back of your child, and press it so you can hear it. You can feel your child moving in your womb as early as 6-7 months. Try buying a home pregnancy test kit and visit your doctor. it is never to early to have a prenatal check up to make sure that you and the baby will be well until he/she is born. Goodluck
2007-01-15 05:43:51 · answer #1 · answered by aleondra_iris 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You can't feel/hear the heartbeat...you need a monitor for that. And you can feel the baby moving (for 1st time prenancies) around the 18th week or so.
If you are saying you missed your period and don't know if you're pregnant then you must be in the very early stages...a couple weeks pregnant at the most. That early you are unable to feel the baby or the heartbeat.
I am 21 weeks and only my Dr's doppler monitor can pick up on the baby's heartbeat.
2007-01-15 08:33:21 · answer #2 · answered by LittleRoo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, not in the beginning. If you can't fel movement, you can't feel the heartbeat.
But you can feel the heartbeat around the 3rd trimester...i have with both of mine. Too early yet for this one (19 weeks)
Why don't you get a pregnancy test to be sure.
Sometimes if you have a strong h/b you can feel it through your veins or muscles.
When i'm in my last month of pregnancy you can see a heartbeat through my skin, it's really annoying after a while but cool at the same time. but this early, no, that wuold be your heartbeat or a twitch...congrats if you are pregnant though.
2007-01-15 05:41:32 · answer #3 · answered by Kat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a baby's heartbeat cant be picked up until around the 12th week and then only by a special stethoscope. I highly doubt anyone could hear it with a bare ear. You are just feeling your own pulse. Take a pregnancy test and also make an appointment with your OB/GYN.
2007-01-15 05:42:53 · answer #4 · answered by shelle007 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no; more than likely what you felt is your own pulse from the inferior vena cava and what your husband heard was probably an echo of your own heartbeat passing through the intestine. you can't really hear a baby's heart beat until you are roughly 4-5 months pregnant unless you have a medical doptone. then it can be heard as early as 9weeks. good luck!! hope everything works out for you.
2007-01-15 05:37:26 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would not think it is possible to hear your baby's heartbeat so early in a pregnancy. However having had three children I know the sound you are referring too. It is your stomach making those noises. Good luck to you and yours sounds like your pregnant!!!
2007-01-15 05:35:13 · answer #6 · answered by love me despite it all 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, especially not in that early. A monitor cannot even detect a baby's heartbeat until 6-8 weeks in. I would see a doctor.
2007-01-15 05:35:12 · answer #7 · answered by Jamie J 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your having a baby, how sweet. I think you can feel the baby's heartbeat anytime. But just to make sure that your pregnant I'd see a doctor, he can tell you when you can feel a heartbeat better than anyone here.
2007-01-15 05:34:32 · answer #8 · answered by sillyshas 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, the heart is too small. You can only feel movement, and that's much later. You need instrumentation in order to hear the baby's heart. Pregnancy, or just the stress from wondering if you are pregnant, can get your intestines all noisy and you swear there's something moving in there.
You can feel the baby move any time after 4 months.
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2007-01-15 05:34:05 · answer #9 · answered by Kacky 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No that soon! You should get tested to see. You can normally feel hic ups but that is later on and you would definately notice the tummy change. Heartbeat is usually heard only with a stethescope placed on our tummy, later in pregnancy.
You might be hearing bowel sounds - yours.
Only to know if you are preg or not is to get tested and soon.
2007-01-15 05:35:20 · answer #10 · answered by Coda2 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋