Pregnant mothers buy fetal monitors and monitor them at home. Is it beneficial or harmful?

As we all know, fetal heart rate is also the heartbeat of fetus. If it is too fast and too slow, it is the manifestation of fetal hypoxia in uterus, which requires high vigilance and improvement measures. Generally, in hospitals, doctors will monitor the fetal heart of pregnant women, which is an important means to ensure fetal safety.

Also, pregnant women have undergone external fetal inversion to correct fetal position, or have undergone amniocentesis in the third trimester. Or it's past the due date. Including those who had died of intrauterine fetal death in the third trimester before, the way is to start fetal heart monitoring at the 28th week of pregnancy. Keep abreast of the fetus and make sure it is safe.

Generally, fetal heart monitoring is done by medical staff in hospitals. Without instruments and operators, pregnant women cannot monitor themselves. To be on the safe side, some pregnant women buy fetal monitors online and do fetal heart monitoring at home.

This kind of practice is theoretically possible, but only by mastering the essentials of fetal heart monitoring in advance can we accurately monitor fetal heart. To avoid accidents.

Doctors or nurses only listen for 1-2 minutes and only once in several weeks during the hospital check-up. Monitor manufacturers recommend listening once a week in the third trimester. Compared with listening to fetal heart rate, in fact, counting fetal movements carefully every day can more accurately predict the adverse outcome in fetus.

Even in hospitals, doctors' judgment of fetal intrauterine conditions requires comprehensive diagnosis, including counting fetal movements, listening to fetal heart rate, monitoring fetal heart rate, making B-ultrasound biophysical score, etc. It is meaningless for pregnant women to simply listen to fetal heart rate at home. On the contrary, there will be damage, which will do more harm than good.

At present, some hospitals have remote fetal heart monitoring, and pregnant women are at home, wearing fetal monitoring instruments, which can be connected with the obstetrics and gynecology department of the hospital and monitored by doctors, which is more professional and safe.