Can you feel the baby's heartbeat with your hand? I think I can but maybe I'm imagining it

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Am 33 weeks. This morning my hand was on my bump low down on the right hand side and I could have sworn I could feel the baby's heartbeat. DH said he could too. Or do we just have a pulse in our hand we were feeling?

Probably more likely to be your own heartbeat through the placenta?

Dh could hear our babies heartbeats when I was hugely pg.

i think it's highly unlikely tbh

anyway you'd be able to tell because baby's heartbeat will be a lot faster than your own.

it's more likely you could feel your own pulse

Apparently your partner can sometimes hear it through your abdomen if he puts his ear to it - mine has never been able to find it though.

I'm 22 weeks with an anterior placenta and have yet to feel any movement, so I keep pressing my hand down there to see what I can feel!! However, whenever I press my hand on my tummy all I can feel is pulsing - I'm pretty sure there's a pulse in your hand, -try pressing somewhere else on your body and you'll probably still feel it. I get excited to begin with until I realise it's my own pulse! lol. I think you would need one of those specialist machines that you can buy- otherwise they wouldn't sell them.

I asked a midwife this once. She said it's almost certainly your pulse and the sheer volume of blood being pumped around and supplying the placenta (a massive organ) means that your pulse is actually easy to feel when you touch your bump. And she said if you could feel the baby's pulse it wouldn't feel like a pulse to you, more a thrum.

No idea really but your post reminded me of something I heard once.

If you hand a baby to a woman she will, as a rule, pat the baby's back or bottom as she holds him/her.

A man won't, as a rule do the patting and, I was told this is because the last thing baby feels before beginning the birth process is the mothers heart beating on his/her back.

I've no idea if this is fact or fiction but it's a lovely idea

Are you sure it wasn't hiccups you were feeling? I guess it would be slower but I can feel hiccups a lot.

Def not hiccups - too fast for that, but very likely my own pulse.

I think it's probably your pulse.. I can feel this too when I put my hand on lower belly but I am only 16 weeks with anterior placenta so very much doubt I could feel babies pulse.

Can't wait to be able to feel movement though!

Having said that you are 33 weeks though OP but as others have said I suppose it depends on the speed.

Think it's your pulse too. Unlikely you could feel babies heart through your stomach muscles and all that amniotic fluid.

I thought this is what I was feeling as well. I asked the midwife and she it was more likely to be my own pulse. For me it was on my left handside.

I'm 27 weeks pregnant - first baby. My last MW appointment was at 21 weeks and I have my next one at 29 weeks. I feel like I'm maybe missing something. I don't know how big baby is or weight or what my placenta is doing, I'm worried I might be getting too much sugar in my diet (I'm controlling that now but worried if I could have developed something) havent had any blood tests yet. Will I get all this info get more in depth from 30 weeks onwards? Thanks x