With pregnancy, there is so much uncertainty. So much beyond our control. For a control freak like me, that has been hard to deal with. What has been particularly hard is not knowing, minute to minute, how the baby is doing. Especially in the first trimester when so many things can go wrong, and you hear so many horrible stories. Its hard to reconcile that fact with the fact that you don't get to check in to see how everything is going in there as often as we mothers-to-be would like.
I feel that home dopplers help to fill the gaps between scheduled prenatal appointments and ultrasounds. Still though, there is a period of time between when you find out you are pregnant and when you can hear the heartbeat on the home doppler, that seems to stretch on forever. For me that period of time was an anxiety inducing 7 weeks! I didn't hear it myself until I was 11 1/2 weeks along. It was especially nerve wracking to go into my 10 week prenatal appointment and have the doctor not even be able to find the heartbeat. That was super stressful.
Now that I have passed that nerve wracking phase though, I absolutely love the peace of mind and bonding assistance that the doppler provides. Whenever I feel any doubt, read a horrible story, or just want to check in, my son's racing heartbeat is only a click of a button away. Granted, I don't use it too often as there are a lot of fear-mongering stories about dopplers out there (though not supported by evidence, I would just rather be safe than sorry); just enough to get peace of mind every now and again. Though not for everyone, I highly recommend home dopplers for all of the nervous nellies like me out there!
I feel that home dopplers help to fill the gaps between scheduled prenatal appointments and ultrasounds. Still though, there is a period of time between when you find out you are pregnant and when you can hear the heartbeat on the home doppler, that seems to stretch on forever. For me that period of time was an anxiety inducing 7 weeks! I didn't hear it myself until I was 11 1/2 weeks along. It was especially nerve wracking to go into my 10 week prenatal appointment and have the doctor not even be able to find the heartbeat. That was super stressful.
Now that I have passed that nerve wracking phase though, I absolutely love the peace of mind and bonding assistance that the doppler provides. Whenever I feel any doubt, read a horrible story, or just want to check in, my son's racing heartbeat is only a click of a button away. Granted, I don't use it too often as there are a lot of fear-mongering stories about dopplers out there (though not supported by evidence, I would just rather be safe than sorry); just enough to get peace of mind every now and again. Though not for everyone, I highly recommend home dopplers for all of the nervous nellies like me out there!
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