Hearing baby's heartbeat with stethoscope?

meyemn28

How early was everyone able to do this?  I googled it and am pretty much reading that around 20 weeks is the right time.  I was visiting my friend this weekend who just passed her state exam to be an RN, and she thought maybe we would be able to hear the baby's heartbeat with her stethoscope.  We tried, but weren't able to hear it.  I know it's probably early, but I heard it at the Dr's office on the doppler really early (9w6d) so was kinda hoping I might be able to hear with with the stethoscope at 19w.  I'm feeling movement, so not too worried, just kinda disappointed that I didn't hear it and curious how early others were able to pick it up with a regular stethoscope (not a fetoscope).

beth thacker

I have a stethoscope because i'm going to school for medical assisting and i've been playing with it a lot and I think I found it yesterday but I can't say for sure. I hear other peoples heartbeat fine on it but I have trouble finding my own or the babys. It's harder than I thought.

I'm interested in seeing the answers to this.

emaria

dh was premed and has a regulation stethoscope. ?i can hear this fast, constant swishing sound (although it's very faint) on the lower right side of my abdomen that i think might be baby's heartbeat but i'm not even sure to be honest. ?hope i'm right!?

beth thacker

emaria:

dh was premed and has a regulation stethoscope.  i can hear this fast, constant swishing sound (although it's very faint) on the lower right side of my abdomen that i think might be baby's heartbeat but i'm not even sure to be honest.  hope i'm right!

the lower right side is where my babys hb always is and everytime I put the stethoscope there I too hear a really fast but faint swish and it sounds like a hb but its so faint that I feel like i'm just hearing myself holding the stethoscope or something. lol

emaria

bethiex3:

emaria:

dh was premed and has a regulation stethoscope. ?i can hear this fast, constant swishing sound (although it's very faint) on the lower right side of my abdomen that i think might be baby's heartbeat but i'm not even sure to be honest. ?hope i'm right!

the lower right side is where my babys hb always is and everytime I put the stethoscope there I too hear a really fast but faint swish and it sounds like a hb but its so faint that I feel like i'm just hearing myself holding the stethoscope or something. lol

oh so maybe i was right lol! ?i'm hearing the same thing you are so maybe we can just pretend at the very least ?

AngelLuver_02

I could be wrong, but I thought I had read at one point in time you could hear with a stethoscope around 25-27 weeks. I could def. be wrong though.

tiannalee

emaria:

bethiex3:

emaria:

dh was premed and has a regulation stethoscope. ?i can hear this fast, constant swishing sound (although it's very faint) on the lower right side of my abdomen that i think might be baby's heartbeat but i'm not even sure to be honest. ?hope i'm right!

the lower right side is where my babys hb always is and everytime I put the stethoscope there I too hear a really fast but faint swish and it sounds like a hb but its so faint that I feel like i'm just hearing myself holding the stethoscope or something. lol

oh so maybe i was right lol! ?i'm hearing the same thing you are so maybe we can just pretend at the very least ?

?

On my last OB appointment, the midwife told me that the swishing sounds you hear with the doppler are just sounds of things moving around within your placenta and sac. ??