University of Washington researchers built a smartphone app that tracks fetal heart rate as accurately as clinic tools using only the phone's speaker and mic, though it's not ready for release yet.

You can typically hear your baby's heartbeat with a Doppler stethoscope between weeks 9 and 12 of pregnancy. Here are six simple reasons why you might not. One of the most exciting pregnancy ...

Fetal heart monitoring is a common practice used by healthcare providers to examine a baby’s heart rate during the latter stages of pregnancy and throughout labor and delivery. Your healthcare ...

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A group of Polish doctors and scientists have developed a portable fetal heart monitor which allows for examinations to be performed remotely, with data sent to doctors and nurses. Patrycja ...

For expectant parents, knowing their baby's heart is beating at a healthy rate can be deeply reassuring. So it's understandable that a device that allows parents to check their baby's heartbeat — a ...

A new type of fetal heart monitor could save the lives of unborn infants in complicated pregnancies, according to a study published in the International Journal of Engineering Systems Modelling and ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--Tiny fluctuations in a fetus's heartbeat can indicate distress, but currently there is no way to detect such subtle variations except during labor, when it could be too late to ...

A healthy fetal heart rate ranges between 110 and 160 beats per minute. A heart rate that is faster or slower than this may indicate that there is an issue that needs further attention. An arrhythmia, ...