Anyway, just wanted to give you a pre-Doppler heads-up — with my first son, we couldn’t hear the heartbeat with the Doppler until 15 weeks, and then only fleetingly. We had tried at 9 weeks and also at 13 weeks. I left the office and cried all the way home that time, although the midwife assured me that everything was “probably” still okay, and that it wasn’t uncommon not to be able to hear it even at 13 weeks. (Of course, everything I had read said that it should be able to be heard by 10-11 weeks.) Anyway, everything was completely fine — he was just running away from the Doppler!
So, you’ll probably hear the baby’s heartbeat this Friday, but if you don’t, that doesn’t mean something is wrong!!
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