After becoming pregnant, women carefully take care of the sudden addition of this little life every day. I hope the baby can grow up healthy. With the increase of months, the belly is getting bigger day by day, and the desire to hear the baby's fetal movements is becoming increasingly urgent. So, how long can the fetal heartbeat be felt?
Listening to fetal heart rate during each prenatal examination is a direct way to reflect whether the baby is safe. At the same time, the fetal heart is also the earliest functional organ in the overall development of the fetus. Pregnant mothers can feel fetal movement for about three to four weeks at the beginning.
At first, the frequency of fetal movement was relatively slow, about 60-70 times per minute. At this time, the heartbeat of the fetus can be said to be very weak, and it can only be seen on the screen of the ultrasound during the pregnant mother's ultrasound examination.
After 8 weeks of pregnancy, the fetal heart rate of the fetus can reach 180 beats per minute. After 14 weeks of pregnancy, the fetal heart rate gradually begins to decrease, around 140 beats per minute, and then gradually maintains 120 to 160 beats per minute.
Around four months of pregnancy, fetal movement can also be felt through the belly, and as the baby grows and changes in position at different stages, the position of the fetal heart will also change to some extent. Of course, if the pregnant mother is already more than 12 weeks pregnant and still cannot hear the heartbeat of the fetus, she needs to use ultrasound examination for further diagnosis.
