an introduction
Listening to the baby’s heartbeat for the first time is an exciting and exciting moment, and listening to it gives doctors important information about the general health of the child, as well as ensuring the child’s safety and proper and proper development; There are many ways to listen to the heartbeat of the fetus. The most common steps are to see your doctor. You can also listen to them at home. Here are some steps to follow:
How to hear fetal heartbeat at home
- Using a stethoscope: The basic stethoscope is one of the easiest ways to listen to the fetal heartbeat at home. When a woman is between 18 and 20 weeks of gestation, the heartbeat must be strong enough to be able to listen to it. Simply put the stethoscope on the mother’s belly to listen and be patient; the mother may have to move it slightly to find the heartbeat.
- Download a fetal heartbeat application or program: The new technology can make it very easy to hear the heartbeat of a child from anywhere and anytime. There are many different applications that can be purchased and downloaded on your smartphone to listen to the heartbeat, some of which offer the ability to record Audio so that the mother can listen to it later or send it to friends and family.
- Get access to the monitor: You can buy relatively inexpensive screens to hear and see the fetus’s heart and use it at home, and this is effective for mothers at risk of abortion, so that they can listen to the heartbeat and reassurance in the period between each visit to the doctor. But you should know that these devices are not as effective and good as those in the doctor’s office, and the sound will be clear and pure only if the pregnancy in the fifth month.
- Identify the factors that affect the sound: Even when using the right tools, there are many reasons that may affect the possibility of detecting the heartbeat of the fetus at home, it is important to know some things such as the location and weight of the child. If the mother feels that there is cause for concern, she should make sure to contact her own doctor immediately.
- The husband put his head on his wife’s stomach: sometimes the husband can hear the fetal pulse, especially if the pregnancy is ahead, by placing his ear on the belly of the wife and feel the pulse and listen to it.