Fetal Heart Tones: The baby's heartbeat. Normal range is 120 to 160 beats per minute.
(FHT)
Involution: The process of the shrinking of the uterus to its pre-pregnant size. This process takes approximately six weeks.
Fetal Heart Tone abnormalities are more likely in the healthy, term fetus after amniotomy. If the ability to cope with stress is already compromised, adverse effects on Fetal Heart Tones are likely to be more common and more severe.
Fetal heart tones are difficult to hear during the first trimester; so hearing the heartbeat will have to wait until the second trimester.
1. Fetal heart tones should have been documented for 20 weeks by nonelectronic fetoscope or for 30 weeks by Doppler.
2. It has been 36 weeks since a positive serum or urine chorionic gonadotropin pregnancy test was performed by a reliable laboratory.
3. Listen to fetal heart tones from one to three minutes before beginning the procedure, so that you will be able to quickly identify any variation of heart rate during the version.
Auscultation of the fetal heart tones is not a reliable method of assessing fetal position as they may be heard through the baby's chest as well as through his back.
The simple non-stress test, a non-invasive evaluation of fetal heart tones, has tipped off obstetricians to babies in otherwise unnoticed jeopardy for life-saving intervention.
A monitrice, on the other hand, is a doula who also provides some medical care such as taking blood pressures, monitoring fetal heart tones and doing internal exams. A monitrice is generally an RN whereas a doula need not be medically credentialed.
Additionally, hearing fetal heart tones or seeing a fetus on a sonogram are also conclusive signs of pregnancy at age 50.
Vaginal bleeding
Blood tests reveal unusually high hCG levels
Absent fetal heart tones
Grape-like clusters are seen in the uterus by an ultrasound ...
Using a Doppler ultrasound, you should be able to hear your fetus's heartbeat as early as weeks 10 to 12. By the 20th week, the fetal heart tone is strong enough to hear with a specialized stethoscope (fetoscope).
Additional testing ...
Somewhere between 9-12 weeks of pregnancy, the baby's heartbeat can be heard with a special device called a doppler. The fetal heart tones, once identified, are recorded at each visit.
Some symptoms of molar pregnancy are vaginal bleeding, high level of HCG in blood test, absence of fetal heart tones. If you perform an ultrasound test you can find grape-like clusters in the uterus.
My doctors have been monitoring the baby very closely, along with the fetal heart tones to be sure the meds I'm on isn't hurting baby in any way. So far, everything looks fantastic.
 See also: Pregnancy, Pregnant, Ultrasound, Gestation, Uterus
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