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  | ALittleLoopy   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Topic: Anyone have a doppler they can lend me?? Posted: 04 April 2010 at 5:43pm
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   Hi everyone, i just turned 18weeks and have only heard our beans heartbeat ONCE!!  I cant really afford to buy a doppler and my stethescope wont work for weeks yet, so does anyone have one they could lend me? Id be willing to pay a little hireage fee and postage...   THANKS a bunch! | 
 
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  | Hopes   Senior Member
 
   
   
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   Hope you find one. At 18 weeks I'd only heard Bubs heartbeat at one MW app, I think that's pretty standard. 
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  | ALittleLoopy   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 04 April 2010 at 5:50pm | 
 
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   Thanks darl, iv heard that most people hear it more than once weve only heard it once at 14 weeks and had one scan at 12 weeks but they dont play the sound. Congrats on the lil man btw | 
 
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  | Hopes   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 04 April 2010 at 5:53pm | 
 
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   Thanks    Yea, they didn't turn the sound on for me, either. I just heard it with the MWs doppler. 
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  | Emmi_   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 04 April 2010 at 8:57pm | 
 
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   Nic your MW will listen to it every appointment so you will hear it plenty over the next few months!
 GL finding one though    | 
 
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  | ALittleLoopy   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 04 April 2010 at 9:14pm | 
 
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   id really like one but have read that i may be able use my medical stethescope FROM 21weeks but im not sure how accurate it really would be   | 
 
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  | Emmi_   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 04 April 2010 at 9:16pm | 
 
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   I take it youve looked on TM?  They are pretty cheap...
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  | ALittleLoopy   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 04 April 2010 at 9:17pm | 
 
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   thats not that cheap to me lol i can import once from hong kong for about $40US
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  | MindyW   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 05 April 2010 at 11:28am | 
 
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   Kmart here in palmy have them but I cant guarentee the quality of them at that price $50, I wanted one but knew I would panic if I couldnt hear the heartbeat so decided not to go there. I recorded my babys heartbeat at one of my midwife appts onto my cellphone for DH cos he couldnt make it to the appt, so I listen to that all the time- best sound in the world. Also I can feel baby moving. You can always ask the sonographer if they will turn the sound on for you so you can hear it! Mine has done it for me.
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     My Beautiful Little Emily
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  | ALittleLoopy   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 05 April 2010 at 3:17pm | 
 
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   good tip mindy, might ask them to for the gender one in a few weeks as i have my dad and nana coming and my nana has never heard it or seen a scan before!!
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  | MindyW   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 05 April 2010 at 11:36pm | 
 
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   She will love it then! Will be really nice for her to see that!   I recorder heartbeat at midwife appt from doppler
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     My Beautiful Little Emily
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  | lostAmber   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 06 April 2010 at 6:07pm | 
 
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   aww Nic, 18wks already, time sure flies huh!  I so can't wait to hear what you're having!  Has your m/s resided?  How fast/slow did those 6wks go between your 12wk scan and now?
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  | ALittleLoopy   Senior Member
 
   
   
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 06 April 2010 at 7:23pm | 
 
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   MS is gone aye, by about 14 weeks it was gone completely, feels like forever since I was chucking everyday but time has flow since 12 weeks i tell ya, second tri is going to be the quickst i rekon as apparently the third drags while your waiting for bubs to finish cooking lol
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  | Caro07   Senior Member
 
   
 
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 |  Post Options  Thanks(0)  Quote  Reply  Posted: 06 April 2010 at 8:13pm | 
 
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   We started to be able to hear HB with a stethoscope around 26 weeks (and that is with a high quality scope as DH is a doctor). We also heard it around 26 weeks with DS too. We did try before that but can be really hard to locate. Still takes us a while sometimes as there is so much otehr noise going on in there!!!!
 Guess what I am saying is you might want to get a doppler  depending on how long you can wait    | 
 
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     Caroline, SAHM to 2 boys, S (4 years old) and J (2 years old)   | 
 
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