If you find your doppler gets very crackly or there’s a lot of static, it can be because there’s too much air trapped in the gel and the ultrasound isn’t able to pass effectively to the doppler. Just put a glob of gel on the end of the probe.

Don’t squeeze loads of gel onto your belly, and definitely don’t smear or rub it all over your belly like a moisturising cream. The ultrasound gel provided with your doppler should really last you a couple of months, depending of course on how often you’re using a fetal doppler. Make small changes in the angle of the probe, rather than moving it across your belly 2. Don’t move on til you’re sure you haven’t found it. Find a place nice and low, near your pubic bone, and then methodically change the slant of the probe by small increments (try pointing down towards your feet if you’re early on). So… in this analogy, your belly is the room, the doppler probe is the penlight and your bub’s heart is the keys! Move too fast and you’ll miss the heart altogether. More effective would be to stand in the doorway, and slowly change the direction of the beam so you’re searching methodically.

The best way to find them is not to walk around the room swinging the flashlight beam. Imagine you’re standing at the entrance of a room, armed with a penlight, and you need to find your keys. Moving the doppler probe across the surface of your belly into different areas generally just means you keep passing over your baby’s heart and don’t find it. This would be the most common error that people make when using a fetal doppler at home. Moving the doppler probe around too much, rather than just angling it To try and get you off to a good start, here are our top tips for what not to do when using your doppler: 1. Although we always try to prepare you for it to be a learning curve on the first few goes, we understand that not finding your baby’s heartbeat with your doppler can cause anxiety. Here at Sweet Beats, we’ve worked out over time the most common mistakes that mums and dads-to-be make when using a fetal doppler at home. Top 5 Mistakes Our Customers Make When Using a Fetal Doppler At Home

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