Sun, Sep 23, 2007

150 bpm

Posted in Audio, Babies at 10:20 pm by Jon

Just a little tidbit of a post here, nothing spectacular — nothing spectacular, that is, if it’s not amazing to be able to hear the beat of a 14-week-old fetus’s heart.

That’s the sound of our little wiggler, due March 27, 2008. For those keeping score, we could see from the spectrogram that it’s clocking a solid 150 beats per minute.

150 bpm

Toward the end, you can hear Ann’s lower, slower heartbeat fade in as Baby wiggled away and we lost the recording. Go, Baby!

6 Comments »

  1. Nicole Wetzel said,

    September 24, 2007, at 8:59 am

    Thank you so much for sharing that. What a beautiful sound! I miss hearing little Gwenna.

    Hmmmm 150 could it be another girl? But then Naomi was always in the 150s
    and Gwenna started about 150 and then was consistently 139.

    Enjoy those beautiful sounds.

  2. katrina said,

    September 24, 2007, at 4:32 pm

    I think we are bad parents, we went to our “heart beat appointment” and they record it and all for you and then you are to bring the tape every time. We told them not to bother…is that bad? We are happy that it is good and strong always at 145…but the pictures are what we live for.

    I think you might be having a girl…if you believe all of the myths…faster the beat it is a girl…GO GIRL POWER!!

  3. Nicole said,

    September 24, 2007, at 6:03 pm

    My kids both had heart rates in the 170’s for my 12 week visit (170 for Benjamin, 174 for Ella). They both slowed down a bit before birth, but were still in the 160’s.

    Katrina – we didn’t get recordings of their heart beats either, although we do have video of the ultrasound which has the heart beat.

  4. Nicole Wetzel said,

    September 24, 2007, at 10:19 pm

    Katrina,

    I was never offered a recording. And although this is a beautiful sound I am not sure I would want it recorded.

  5. kriss said,

    September 25, 2007, at 9:17 am

    Hooray hooray hooray hooray!

  6. Jon said,

    September 25, 2007, at 1:34 pm

    This recording, by the way, we made ourselves using a rented Doppler fetal monitor from Stork Radio (patched into a Mac to record).

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