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What Causes Trouble In Listening Fetal Heart Beat?
i am almost 4 months preg and every time they look for the heart beat they have trouble but when they use the ultra sound thing it finds it easy and i asked why and the doc said my uterus is upside down or backwards or ssomething like that. whats that mean?
Tue, 14 Oct 2014
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normally fetal heart beat with stethoscope is heard at around 20 weeks...
sometimes excessive fat, excessive amniotic fluid or improper placement might be the reasons that fetal heart rate cant be heard....
so dont worry...if heart rate is present, then baby is oky...
thanks
normally fetal heart beat with stethoscope is heard at around 20 weeks...
sometimes excessive fat, excessive amniotic fluid or improper placement might be the reasons that fetal heart rate cant be heard....
so dont worry...if heart rate is present, then baby is oky...
thanks
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