Fetal pulse
With the beginning of pregnancy, the mother begins to calculate the weeks and months in anticipation of feeling the first fetal blows and movement within her womb, and while waiting around her family members, especially the husband to feel the blows of the newborn son through their constant sensitivity to the mother’s belly when these strikes, The strikes and their number between each period of pregnancy. In this article, we will show when the fetal heart starts beating.
When the heart of the fetus begins to pulse
The heart of the fetus begins to pulse at an early age. The doctor and the parents can monitor the fetus’s heart. It is contracted and spread in the second month of pregnancy, specifically in the fifth or sixth week of the embryo, through vaginal imaging. It can also be observed more clearly in the seventh week of gestation. During abdominal imaging.
The fetal heart rate at this early stage is very weak and may reach 100 beats per minute making it difficult to hear, but its strength begins to increase and stabilize with the arrival of the twelfth week of pregnancy.
The doctor can monitor the development of the heart of the fetus through periodic examination through the sonar device, and with the strength of the heartbeat of the fetus, the doctor and parents at the beginning of the twentieth week of pregnancy can hear the fetal heartbeat clearly by the medical device and can be displayed on the loudspeaker connected to the sonar, However, the doctor may be unable to identify and hear the heartbeat of the fetus during this period due to several factors, including the thickness of the wall of the uterus and the accumulation of fat around the abdomen, or the doctor’s meager experience.
Weak fetal heartbeat
In some cases, there is a marked weakness in the fetal heart rate. In these cases, the mother must take some measures to improve the fetus’s condition and health, including attention to healthy nutrition and careful intake of vitamins and other supplements recommended by the doctor, Sufficient oxygen and be careful to lie on one side of the body when you want to sleep or take a period of rest.
Doctors also advise some pregnant women to remain in the hospital for a period of time, in order to subject the fetus to control and perform the necessary tests, which may reveal any defect or problem in the heart muscle, and take immediate remedial measures that contribute to the preservation of the fetus’s life and improve its health.