Can you detect more then one fetal heart rate from same baby?
I went to L&D last night for slight early contractions. I am 23 weeks along and have a problem with preterm labor. I am on meds and I do see an extra doc for it also. Ok so when the nurse was looking for him with the monitor she kept saying the one she found was the placenta. But it was loud and strong like a heartbeat. My nurse I have said its a slow swish sound, which this was not. The after trying for 30 min to get it she got another nurse to try. She she came in and found a heartbeat in lower right side of my tummy, where as the other nurse found what sounds like a beat at top left.
Hope this was not to long. But could that be an extra baby or can you hear the baby heart in 2 different parts of the tummy, that are not close at all. Thank you!!
Also the first heart rate it picked up at the top was 143-152, the second one at the bottom was 145-155.
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Baby boy due March 7, 2010 on Jan 22, 2010 at 8:38 am
I was having the same thing the last two days when I tried to find my babies heartbeat but I was able to find both really quick. I think when the baby gets big enough it echo or people told me it could be from the umbilical cord. When I heard mine one was on the right side of my stomach and the other was on the left and they weren't close.
peridot_... on Jan 23, 2010 at 8:38 am
When the doctor was looking for my baby's heartbeat at my check-up last month, she heard two but told me that the faster, louder heartbeat was my own.
Have had an ultrasound since and yes, there is only ONE BABY in there, LOL. She kind of had me wondering.
Good luck to you.
penelope... on Jan 24, 2010 at 8:38 am
The 'placenta' heartbeat is your own heartbeat, pumpung blood through the placenta. They always pick thàt heart beat up too. It's YOUR heàrtbeat, the other is the babys.
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