150 bpm

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”:/news/2007/our-little-announcement. 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 Replies to “150 bpm”

  1. 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. 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. 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.

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