Brief 167 hmm on a doppler. Is it a baby?

[lazymum]

I think a am about 9 weeks. I got Sonoline B yesterday but could not get anything for about 45 min or something. The highest reading I got was 146 which is probably the blood flow in my uterus. Even my own heartbeat I can only get for a second and than it is gone. I am trying to be slow but it all appears just momentarily. Today I had about 15 min free ( hurray) and gave it another go. I put much more gel today and could briefly for a second or two get 167 reading and than it went to 157 and than disappeared. Was it a baby? I guess only baby heart can get such a high reading. Or is it just a machine gives me some random high reading?
I know I am way early for a doppler but could not resist….

 

[FeLynn]

I'm not sure I know we can't hear our own or our uterus I don't know if it's too early for a home Doppler I do know a lot of women have this problem until they are further.

 

[Celesse]

Completely ignore the read out. With my children I could find them at 9 weeks and hear them clearly but quietly. It took until mid second trimester or more for the numbers to register. You can get a high reading just from wiggling the doppler about a bit.

 

[lazymum]

Yeah, but I was "wriggling" my doppler for much longer and never got even close to today reading…May be you are right…I just want to believe this was my baby

 

[MissingBubs]

You very possibly did, but there are so many loud noises in that area it can be difficult to define which one you want. I tend not to use the screen until I've homed in on the right sound. Some of my bowel sounds give off readings on the screen of 150+!!
I would advise looking on YouTube for some tutorials on using a Doppler in week 9. Then you can find the sound that you are looking for. There is no other sound like it. I find my own heartbeat in multiple places and then I will find the placenta whooshing sound and bowel sounds too. But baby is like nothing else. Horse galloping or train is the best way to describe baby's heartbeat.

 

[lazymum]

This is the thing all of this tutorials show people listening for ages for various sounds. For me the only consistent sound is the swooshing sound. I don't think I heard any heartbeat, may be sometime on the background but for a second or so. The only thing that is changing is flickering heart symbol and numbers on the screen. I brief, my stomach goes up and down I guess this is enough for the probe to be unsteady. I am very slim but probably the baby is so small that even a slightest movement looses him. I had another go for 15 min or so and briefly caught beating at 157 and I don't thing it is bowels as the heart symbol dose not show up with just any sound. I tried moving probe very quickly but the digits never go more than 120. With swotting sound it only come to 140. So I guess 167 that I saw was a baby.