Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You might not hear your baby's heartbeat if it's too early in your pregnancy. A tilted uterus or body fat can make it harder to ...

A new app will allow pregnant women to conduct an ultrasound and receive an accurate fetal heart rate from their mobile phones.

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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 ...

When you’re pregnant, it can be scary to hear your baby has an arrhythmia. But what does this actually mean? An arrhythmia is an irregular heart rate — too fast, too slow, or otherwise outside the ...

Round-the-clock fetal monitoring leads to unnecessary C-sections. But it’s used in nearly every birth because of business and legal concerns, The Times found. Round-the-clock fetal monitoring leads to ...

These baby monitors can provide safety alerts, track your child's sleep habits, allow for multiple users and more.

A normal heart rate for a fetus can range from 110 to 160 beats per minute (BPM). Very early in pregnancy, it is typically around 110 BPM. Fetal heart rate may speed up to 140 to 170 BPM around the ...