Baby Heartbeat Monitor for fetal heart beat monitoring

An expectant mother can now listen to, monitor, and record for future memory, the heartbeat, hiccups, kicks and blows of her unborn baby with the aid of the ultrasonic fetal doppler Baby Heartbeat Monitor. This serves as a way of establishing a special bond between mum and baby prior to birth. Using the baby doppler can offer expecting mothers some reassurance and is also an important part of prenatal care, especially it helps in the early detection of pregnancy complication. Listening to the foetal heartbeat during an appointment with the GP or midwife is a magical experience that brings parents and the baby closer together and with the invention of the home fetal doppler, mums can now reproduce this experience in the comfort and privacy of her home.

Most of these ultrasonic fetal heartbeat monitors could detect the unborn babys heartbeat from as early as the eighth- to -twelfth week of pregnancy. In addition to providing the audio sound of the unborn baby, some baby heart beat monitors provide a display and digital readout of the foetal heartrate in beats per minute. There is also the ability to record your little ones heartbeat to a storage device in computer or CD and email this to your doctor or other close relatives. Some fetal dopplers even allow the ability to record and save the mothers heartbeat, which can be played later on to soothe the newborn after birth.

There are quite a few popular fetal heart monitors available for mothers to use at home, notably the ones by Angelsounds and HiBebe. Generally, to use a baby heartbeat monitor, an ultrasound transmission gel is applied on the pregnancy bump, and the fetal doppler probe is then placed upon the bump to transmit ultrasound waves. The ultrasonic waves will then bounce back once they detect the baby and are picked up once again by the Doppler probe. The waves would thereafter be channelled to the Fetal Doppler’s speaker to produce audible sound of the movement and heartbeat of the baby

The baby heartbeat monitor has been in use for over 40 years now and has proven thus far to be safe. Like in other hi-tech areas, continuous research are still been carried out by Government agencies and manufacturers to maintain and improve on this technology.