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doppler for laboring at home?

ReeseMReeseM member
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My doctor keeps telling me to stay home as long as I can while in labor. I am totally down for that! I would love to roll into the hospital ready to push her out!

So I'm all the sudden wondering if having a doppler to listen to her heart tones would be a good thing to have around while at home for that long.  Or would it maybe cause undue stress? I know that the best way they can tell that you have a rupture is the baby's heartrate, so it would make sense to occasionally monitor that.

 Thoughts? Can't decide if it would help or hinder me!

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  • lorryfachlorryfach
    I wouldn't do it. When I consider that trained medical professionals with a print out of the fetal heart rate correlated with your contractions over a long period of time still erroneously jump to the conclusion that things are going wrong, I really wouldn't put much faith in my own ability to judge some intermittent heart rates I'm reading on my own. That's the whole reason to stay at home, isn't it? To keep from being overly monitored?
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  • DeansGirl0329DeansGirl0329

    imagelorryfach:
    I wouldn't do it. When I consider that trained medical professionals with a print out of the fetal heart rate correlated with your contractions over a long period of time still erroneously jump to the conclusion that things are going wrong, I really wouldn't put much faith in my own ability to judge some intermittent heart rates I'm reading on my own. That's the whole reason to stay at home, isn't it? To keep from being overly monitored?

    I agree. I think I'd go crazy. If it worries you, I'd head on into the hospital.  

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  • papagenapapagena member

    I totally hear you - I'm having similar worries in a way.  I personally won't be doing the dopler, as I personally don't really know what decels/rate increases are 'ok' as opposed to questionable, and I see myself getting paranoid about the fact baby's hr is going down during a contraction (or whatever might be happening) and becoming paranoid, which won't help labor, either. 

    I'll admit - I'll end up going in earlier than I would have otherwise because of the VBAC & wanting some monitoring - however, I'm also GBS+, so that is true for a few reasons.  Part of me wishes my doula was a slight medical professional and could monitor the HR at home.

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