Innocent heart murmurs during pregnancy

HEART AUSCULTATION:"Note the regularity of the rhythm.

Listen over the aortic, pulmonic, tricuspic, and mitral valve areas for abnormal sounds such as clicks or murmurs.

Any hyperdynamic state, such as pregnancy, leads to increased flow across the heart valves and leads, in many patients, to soft flow murmurs that are not ordinarily heard.

The commonness with which these murmurs are heard during pregnancy should not lull the examiner into assuming all murmurs heard during pregnancy are innocent."

LADIES: during pregnancy did your OB_GYN used to listen to youe heart or only the baby?

When I was pregnant, my doctor would listen to my heart beat, and he would listen to my babies heart beat as well. My doctor would let me listen to my babies heart beat, it was so wonderful, and made me want to cry at the same time.

I was diagnosed as having one day after having the baby. No one has ever heard it before or since. I am not sure what that indicates, if anything. Maybe everyone else who has listened has just missed it.