Pregnancy Auscultation

Anyone have any experience auscultating a pregnant woman? Seems to me that would be pretty fun if I’m the auscultater. I’d want her to be topless & I’d move the stethoscope around her back, her belly & her chest.

I’ve done it and is nice but difficult to hear too much in the belly.

I have done it to several including my daughter. It was a lovely, touching experience.

SouthernAnn,

I don’t know if I’d be comfortable doing auscultation with family members, but that’s just me. You may be good at compartmentalizing.

@Southern Ann--when you stethed your pregnant daughter, did you just listen to her belly to hear the baby's heart, or did you also listen to her heart? I recently had the pleasure of stething a 20 year old who is 7 months pregnant, listened to her heart and also palpated and stethed her belly and listened to the baby's heart.

It was an innocent, wonderfully, touching experience, I was listening to the first signs of life of my grand child, the same as I did when I was pregnant with my daughter.

@Shane73. This is the person that I gave birth too, fed her, changed her nappy, cuddled her when she broke up with boyfriends and we bathed and showered together. It was simply an extension of the close bond we have.

Southern Ann, I totally understand. I know in the back of my mind that auscultation isn’t inherently sexual. It’s only erotic when we want it to be.

I seem to recall listening to my wife's belly to pick up the baby's heartbeat when she was pregnant. Foggy memories from 35 years ago!!

GWHAP,

And placed it on her bare skin, right?

GWHAP,

And placed it on her bare skin, right?

Yes - I believe it was just before or just after an ultrasound.

It was an innocent, wonderfully, touching experience, I was listening to the first signs of life of my grand child, the same as I did when I was pregnant with my daughter.

@Shane73. This is the person that I gave birth too, fed her, changed her nappy, cuddled her when she broke up with boyfriends and we bathed and showered together. It was simply an extension of the close bond we have.

I sure hope it was a beneficial experience to your relationship. A mother hearing her daughter's heart is a very sweet thing knowing you brought this person into the world and are hearing a heart you helped raise. I hope your daughter feels the same way. 😃

It was a lovely experience, and I was there at the birth too. The birth would have been overwhelming anyway, but she had trouble conceiving and had gone through IVF and it was the last session she could have.