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Any Condition Any Condition. See all 9 - All listings for this product. Use one before then, and you'll likely be met with silence, the sound of air moving through your GI tract, or the whoosh of blood flowing through your own arteries instead of a steady fetal heartbeat.
That, in turn, can increase worry unnecessarily instead of putting it to rest. And over-the-counter fetal Dopplers can't always pick up what you're looking for even if you try them later in your pregnancy. Or you may pick up the sound of blood flowing through the placenta and mistake it for a heartbeat.
That's especially true for stand-alone apps that use your phone's microphone to pick up on your baby's heartbeat, which are notoriously unreliable, even in the third trimester. If you do manage to pick up your baby's heartbeat, you may have trouble interpreting the readings. Or the readings might be different enough from the ones you're used to getting at your practitioner visits, which can cause undue concern.
But your best bet is to sit tight for a few more months rather than springing for a home fetal Doppler you can use yourself. The educational health content on What To Expect is reviewed by our medical review board and team of experts to be up-to-date and in line with the latest evidence-based medical information and accepted health guidelines, including the medically reviewed What to Expect books by Heidi Murkoff.
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