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delino
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Doppler question...baby or artery?
delino
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I was SO excited to receive my doppler today from a bumpie that I of course had to put it to the test right away knowing that there's a great chance of not finding it.
Well, I have no clue if I found baby or not. I knew anything below 120 was either my heartbeat or arteries. So I poked and prodded and angled and moved slowily and finally got a reading around 160! Problem is that it was near my hip, where I was expecting to be more centered. I could hear my heartbeat as well as a faster beat in the background. I was leaning towards dismissing this as not baby, but the reading of 160 throws me for a loop. Could an artery be that high of a reading? Was it reading my heartbeat and the faster heartbeat making it an even higher reading? Thoughts?
3 ectopic pregnancies (EDD's 1/30/12-tube removed, 6/2/12-methotrexate and 10/2/12-methotrexate)
IVF and Natural FET resulted in BFN's and a hole in our wallets
Natural BFP #4 on 9/7/12 gave us our miracle on 5/18/13
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Re: Doppler question...baby or artery?
Positive for HLA-B27, I'm a mutant
Testing - Me ok, gluten issue? DH - borderline count, low motility
4/28/11 IUI#1 = BFP!(5/25), EDD 2/2/12 - m/c 5w3d
7/3, 7/31, 9/25 - IUI#2-4=BFN
IVF#1 - 1 blast = BFP!! (12/30), EDD 9/9/12, confirmed c/p 4w2d
FET#1 3/2/12 - 2 blasts =BFP!! EDD 11/18/12, us#1 = twins! Confirmed m/c 5w6d
4/20-surprise BFP and another c/p 4w2d
FET#2 7/16/12 - 2 blasts = BFN
FET#3 8/20/12 - 1 blast - BFP!! Beta #1-2=177, 354
1st u/s 5w6d, one beautiful little HB
baby girl born 5/10/13
TTC#2 since 12/17/2014, Cycle 8
Repeat Testing...FSH=12, AMH=3.8, AFC=28.
IUI#5 5/10/15- c/p?
IVF#2 8/19/15 - cancelled due to cysts
IVF#2 take two 10/2015 - 5 blasts frozen
FET#4 12/11/2015 - BFN - 4 blasts remaining
FET#5 2/18/16 - BFP!!! Beta1-3, 126, 250, 745!!
Tons of love and ((hugs)) to my IF sister NMscubagirl
I have no idea I am just in complete awe that you are already finding a possible hb with a doppler. I'm so excited for you and your sweet little ute baby.
BFP 12/19/08- DS born 8/25/09 9lbs2oz via Zavanelli Maneuver
BFP 8/26/11- Missed miscarriage discovered 10/19/11 at 11w2d, measured at 9 weeks gestation w/ no HB. D&C 10/21/11
BFP 3/17/12 at 12dpo CP 3/21/12
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Our little man is getting bigger every day!
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I don't think 160 could be you (unless you just ran a few miles or something!).
Was it the doppler counting the 160 or your own count? We've found our doppler doesn't seem very good at counting the beats. We usually don't pay attention to the doppler's count (or do our own actually).
We can tell my heartbeat from the baby's almost immediately now just by hearing the beats. I also often check myself by trying to do a "1 Mississippi, 2 Mississippi" type count. If I'm about even with the beats it is my heartbeat; if there are more than 2+ beats in the time it takes me to say "1 Mississippi" it's the baby. Usually we find my heartbeat first and then the baby's so the difference in how fast they are makes it really obvious.
I know the feeling of confusion though! When I was pregnant with twins we tried to use the doppler in the 1st trimester and eventually managed to find a heartbeat on each side of my pelvis, though strangely far to the sides and not where I expected the babies to be. We were first so happy to find them and only after we put the doppler away did my wife say "wait a minute, why was the beat so slow? they should be much faster heartbeats than an adults!" We panicked for a minute and then realized we didn't find two baby's heartbeats-we found my heartbeat in the femoral artery on both sides of my uterus.
BFP #2 7/11/12. EDD 3/23/13. Ada Alice born 3/20/13.
BFP#2 2.5.11 (EDD 10.15.11) DS born 9.28.11
BFP#4 8.27.13 (EDD 5.6.14) DD born 4.23.14
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The readings on my doppler weren't correct until the muppet was ~15 weeks, I used the stop watch on my phone until then. I went more by the sound than the read out. He was super super low and near my pelvic bone on my left side. I did have 3 distinct different noises and his was the one that sounded like a muffled chugging choo choo train. Muppet was 160-175 bpm until he was 20 weeks and now sits around 145 at 30 weeks. It is a bit of a higher hb, but not totallly out of the question so it could be your LO!
The readout picks up when you move the probe against your skin even so go real, real, real slow.
You will get good at it in no time!!!
#1 BFP 1/10/11; missed m/c discovered 7w5d
IF Dx: Endo, hetero MTHFR mutation, poor morphology
#1 IUI: 1/18/12 = BFN
#1 IVF/ICSI 4/2/12 = 2 x 7-cell and 1 x 5-cell transferred (3dt) = BFP!!
H was born at 41w2d on 12/29/12 - be still my heart!
#2 IVF/ICSI 1/19/14 = 2 x 8 cells transferred (3dt) = BFP!! EDD 10/09/14
M&W born at 37 weeks on 9/18/14 - I am the momma of 3 boys!!!
DD#2: 9/15/09
Natural M/C: 7/22/11
Missed M/C: 11/30/11
DS#1: 3/19/13
This. We don't even look at the numbers anymore, we know by the sound. It is our morning ritual to listen just before we get out if bed. It is so comforting!