Pregnant women should not be unfamiliar with listening to fetal heart rate and fetal heart rate monitoring, but if they are pregnant for the first time, they may not be very clear about these. Most mothers, when they don't understand, think that fetal heart rate and fetal heart rate monitoring are one examination item, but in fact, there are differences between the two. So is listening to fetal heart rate the same as doing fetal heart rate monitoring?
Listening to fetal heart rate and fetal heart rate monitoring are different. Fetal heart rate monitoring can reflect changes in fetal heart rate during fetal movement, to see if there are any variations in fetal heart rate monitoring, and whether the baseline in fetal heart rate monitoring is within the normal range. Listening to fetal heart rate can only reflect the current situation, not the overall condition of the fetus. If there is a low fetal heart rate when listening to fetal heart rate, it should be noted.
Listening to fetal heart rate is using a stethoscope to listen to real-time fetal heart rate and determine whether the fetal heart rate is normal. It can only be heard at the location of the fetal heart, usually auscultation takes about 1 minute. Due to subjective factors, there may be a certain degree of error. Fetal heart rate monitoring is the use of a fetal heart rate monitor to monitor changes in fetal heart rate during uterine contractions and fetal movements, which can evaluate whether there is hypoxia or intrauterine distress in the fetus.
It can also evaluate the reserve capacity of the fetus in the uterine cavity, as it monitors the fetal heart rate over a period of time, and the monitoring results are relatively accurate. Since fetal heart monitoring is done with instruments, the results will be more objective, while listening to fetal heart rate may be influenced by subjective factors of doctors, so the results are still based on fetal heart rate monitoring.
