Simply place the stethoscope on your belly and listen.
Unborn baby heartbeat sound.
Studies have shown the sound of a fetal heartbeat can help baby to sleep.
If you are less than seven weeks pregnant it s unlikely to find a heartbeat by ultrasound.
Using a transvaginal ultrasound a developing baby s heartbeat should be clearly visible by the time a woman is seven weeks pregnant.
Abdominal ultrasound is considerably less sensitive so it can take longer for the heartbeat to become visible.
A basic stethoscope is one of the easiest ways to listen to the fetal heartbeat at home.
The sound of a fetal heartbeat is the sound baby.
Hearing the whooshing sound of your developing baby s heartbeat is the best part of a prenatal appointment and a heartbeat on an early scan is one of the strongest indications that your baby is doing well.
When you are between 18 and 20 weeks pregnant the heartbeat should be strong enough for you to listen to with this method.
It s a type of ultrasound that uses a handheld device to detect changes in movement that are translated as sound.
Some sounds you may hear when using the babybeat fetal doppler.
And if baby sleeps you sleep.