heartbeat?

[RayJackson]

I'm 8w 1d pregnant and my fiance and I both think when we put our hands on my lower stomach we feel a steady heart beat. are we actually feeling our babies heart beat?

[AnnieBrooke]

You're feeling a big vein of your own.  That is why it is always in the same place.  The baby is not only super small, but it is floating around in a sac of water, not sitting at the edge holding his heart up against the wall of the amniotic sac.  It's your pulse.

[RayJackson]

that's what I figured was it was just our pulse we are feeling but it just seems so fast and steady and always in the same place

[titan_nation]

Baby's heartbeat is going to be very fast (mine averages at 158) and baby is a literal jelly bean right now. I had my first ultrasound at 10+3 and she was a literal jelly bean they had to zoom in on. It's not likely at this stage, but not entirely impossible? You're more likely picking up your own pulse.