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Baby heart rate is high before birth. what could this mean?
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Talk to your Dr.: Fetal tachycardia causes include maternal fever, dehydration or anxiety, maternal ketosis, medications like anticholinergic medications, sympathomimetic medications like terbutaline, fetal movement, preterm fetus, maternal thyrotoxicosis and maternal anaemia. Talk to your Dr.
Answered 9/30/2020
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This is normal: Babies have just rapidly changed environments from a warm bath to a being outside in the cold. Their heart rates increase to get blood or cardiac output to all places of their body.
Answered 10/29/2020
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