YOGYAKARTA The fetal heart rate can be an indicator to assess the health of the fetus in the womb. Slow or too fast fetal heart rate can induce fetal problems. No wonder many pregnant women are looking for ways to find out the fetal heartbeat with their hands.
So, can this practice be done empty-handed? Compiled from various sources to find out the answer, let's see the review below.
The above has been mentioned that the fetal heartbeat can be used as an indicator to assess the health of the baby who is still in the womb. Unfortunately, the fetal heart rate cannot be felt empty-handed.
This is because the fetus is protected by fluid and thick uterine walls, so the heart rate is not strong enough to be felt through the surface of the mother's stomach skin.
Another reason is that the fetal heart size is still very small, making it difficult to detect physically. Thus, fetal heartbeat examination can only be done with medical devices, such as dropple, ultrasound, and cadiotokography stethoscopes.
For information, the fetal heart will generally begin to form at a gestational age of five weeks. At that time, a heartbeat began to appear, which was around 80-85 bpm (beats per minute/denyut per minute). This figure can change in line with fetal growth.
Well, to make the fetal heartbeat, here are some ways you can do:
Auscultation is a method of examining fetal heart rate using a special stethoscope. With the help of this tool, obstetricians can listen to the sound of fetal heartbeats in the uterus and assess the fetal heart condition in a descent manner.
The second way to monitor fetal heart rate is with an electronic monitoring device. This tool is usually used during pregnancy until the birth of the baby.
Related to this, there are two ways to use electronic monitoring tools, namely external monitoring and internal monitoring.
External monitoring is carried out with a soundwave device (ultrasound) dropper to check whether the fetal heartbeat is too fast or too slow.
When pregnant women want to give birth, the doctor can also use a cardiotokograph (CTG) to find out the fetal heartbeat and contraction pattern of the uterus.
While internal monitoring can only be done if the bag is broken. This method is done by inserting a censored cable into the uterus through the vagina. This cable will later be attached to the fetal head to determine the heartbeat.
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The rate of fetal heartbeat can change along with fetal growth. The following is the rate of normal fetal heartbeat based on gestational age.
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