fetal heart rate

[caraf]

I am 9 weeks pg and I have been able to find the baby's heart beat at home for a few days but my cheap little doppler is showing the heart rate to only be 104.  I feel like that is too low and I hope that it is just not picking it up all the way?  As soon as I can figure out the stop watch on my phone I'm going to count it myself but has anyone had any experiences with a low fetal heart rate?

[amy8702]

Are you sure its not your heart rate that you're finding?

[ms_feb]

I agree with Amy..sometimes it can be mistaken in our own hr so make sure.

[caraf]

Can you find your own heart rate that low in your abdomen?  I don't think so because I will hear absolutely nothing but then when I move it to the right spot (and the same spot everyday) I can hear the heartbeat.  Unless maybe there is a major artery or something that I'm finding. I was able to get the stopwatch to work and counted the beats per minute several times and it was in the 120s like from 121 to 126 each time so i feel a little better about that but it still seems low.  

[trying43]

The cheap dopplers are very unreliable.  U probably found yours.  The babys heartbeat will sound very fast like a little galloping horse and at nine weeks it will be right at your pubic bone usually in the middle.  Good luck.

[lisa1905]

i would not worry about it , those dopplesr are usually wrong , i have one and i can not even heard my own hb , and abot 104 hb rate , my baby at 8 weeks was 115  , :)

[cjappert]

9 Weeks is pretty early to find the heart beat on a doppler.its your heart beat that you're picking up. in a few Weeks you'll  be able to get your hb and the Babys at the same time, its pretty neat!

[lilbit_17]

I wouldn't worry. It's probably just he quality of the Doppler :) I don't own one personally, but at my dr appt at 9 weeks her heartbeat was 184. Now at almost 23 weeks it's at 148.

[caraf]

I'm going to test it next time i do it and get my own heart beat on my chest and compare it to what I am hearing in my tummy.  Thanks ladies, as long as I can hear it I feel reassured, i need to quit looking for problems!!

[Serrah712]

Nine weeks is a little too early to hear the heartbeat on a doppler. Usually they wait until 12 weeks. So you probably are picking up your own heartbeat

[Lesley27]

i just wanted to say that you can absolutely 100% easily be picking up your own pulse... especially now that you have so much more blood flow down in that region, i have found my pulse lots before finding the babies so i know for a fact its possible...and yes there are major veins running all through your body...

[ms_feb]

u can find ur heart rate Lower in the abdomen happen to me last week when the nurse is looking for my baby's HR & I said oh there u go she said no that's ur HR that's how I found out & then she found the babys HR way faster than mine so yeh...well good luck & congrats!

[ms_feb]

http://community.****.com/post/a20866845/feeling_a_pulse_in_stomach
Heres a site u might find interesting

[caraf]

hmm so how do you know the difference? Just the babies is faster than mine? I have an appointment on Thursday when I am 10 weeks exactly to find it, hopefully after they find it there I will be able to find the right one.  

[Lesley27]

yes yours is slower, but if you hear one, feel for your pulse and see if it matches..

[Serrah712]

It's WAY faster and like I said normally 12 weeks