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A member asked:

I got a doppler where do you find the baby's heartbeat?

A doctor has provided 1 answer
Dr. Dean Giannone answered

Don't be cavalier..: you should find it over the abdomen, but please let an unbiased professional perform the doppler for you.

Dr Foster agreed

Answered 9/5/2014

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Just brought a home doppler to listen to my baby heartbeat, the same one they use at the doctor office. Is it safe to use it everyday? Once a week?

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At my 16 week appointment,doctor was using fetal doppler to look for baby heart.She took awhile than she said she heard my heartbeat but few seconds later she said she found baby heartbeat at 140bpm.Is it possible she mistaked my heartbeat with baby?

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My baby's heartbeat was found on pubic area by my Home Doppler, I heard heartbeat lower than few weeks ago when I heard him close to belly button. I have low placenta at 17 weeks, is my baby safe? Why did baby went lower?

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Can a doctor mistake baby's heartbeat with mom's when using a fetal Doppler? Or does that normally not happen. I am 14 weeks & It a took a minute to find my baby's heart rate which was 140bpm?

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I am 13 weeks 5 days can I hear baby's heart beat on a Doppler at my drs appointment today?

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