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home doppler + 2 hb rhythms

mariemed11mariemed11 member
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Last night we heard 2 different HBs, or at least 2 different rhythms. We heard (1) whoosh-whoosh, which we always hear except last night and a prior time before then, and (2) the galloping-horses sound. Are these sound the same HB? (DH timed both by counting/12 seconds and both =27beats/12 seconds) At our 6wk 5d sono, the tech sd she saw only one baby. And I've had only one bout of m/s and not showing. I am also a FTM.
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Re: home doppler + 2 hb rhythms

  • 5bears5bears member

    I'm assuming that you and your husband are not medical professionals.  I wonder if you're just hearing something normal and can't tell.  When's your next doctor's appointment?  Maybe they can give you a better idea of what's going on in there.

    That said, I do really wonder if those early ultrasounds can tell if there are identical twins or if sometimes they miss them.

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  • jen-dalejen-dale member
    Does your doppler have a display to show the heart rate? When I listen there are 3 sounds/rhythms. One around 75 which is me, one around 99 which I'm told is blood flow to the placenta and cord, and one at 149 which is the baby. The 2nd sounds gallopy so maybe that's what you heard?
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  • Sullivan1416Sullivan1416 member

    *Coming out of lurkdom*
    I am an OB Nurse.. What your probably hearing is the placenta part of the heartbeat and then the actual babies heartbeat.  The "whoosh, whoosh" is usually the placenta and the sound like "galloping horses" is the baby! Hope that helps, but if it does turn into twins congrats!

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  • mariemed11mariemed11 member
    image5bears:

    I'm assuming that you and your husband are not medical professionals.  I wonder if you're just hearing something normal and can't tell.  When's your next doctor's appointment?  Maybe they can give you a better idea of what's going on in there.

    That said, I do really wonder if those early ultrasounds can tell if there are identical twins or if sometimes they miss them.

    You guessed right! We are not medical professionals, we are people who medical professionals hate--lawyers :) Our next appt is Wed. We recorded the rhythms so we'll play them for the doc and hopefully score an unscheduled u/s out of it. My SIL is a L&D nurse (labor and delivery) and she definitely heard 2 rhythms but doesn't know if they are 2 diff hb or even if the doppler is technical enough to pick up echos. Also, my sis is going to replay the recording to her OB friend and see what she things.
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  • mariemed11mariemed11 member
    imagejen-dale:
    Does your doppler have a display to show the heart rate? When I listen there are 3you sounds/rhythms. One around 75a which is me, one around 9oa which I'm told is blood flow to the placenta and cord, and one at 149a which is the baby. The 9o2nd sounds gallopy so maybe that's what you heard?
    We saw 2 140s--the numbers were never stable, the whoosh-whoosh came from the area closer to my belly button and the galloping-horses sound came from about a half and inch from the whoosh-whoosh, in the direction away from my belly button. DH thinks it is one HB and the whoosh-whoosh sound is the galloping-horses echo.
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  • bbhalphenbbhalphen member
    I get two different sounds that seems to both be baby.  It's just like you described, the 'whoosh whoosh' and the galloping horse.  The OB nurse that commented said it was placenta.  My placenta is in front and sounds like wind going through trees, but I know I could be hearing the hb from it because of it being in front.  (So if you can hear the placenta hb, but don't pick up the baby hb, does that mean the baby DOES have a hb and is just hiding or something, if the placenta has a hb too?)  I've always thought it's the way the baby is positioning itself, too, why I'm picking up two different sounds.  I have NO idea but I know there's just one baby in there.  I did a youtube search because I was curious about this a few weeks ago and I've watched videos where other women have picked up both sounds.
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  • andreabeth913andreabeth913
    I always get 3 distinctly different sounds on mine, the woosh woosh of the placenta or blood flow, my heartbeat and then the galloping horses of the babies heartbeat.  The sounds are definitely different between the 3.
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