heartrate comment

So I got the same midwife that told me last time, I must be having another girl as I was having the same sort of nausea this time round again(!)
Well today I got told this - "the heart sounds really fast! (154 bpm) What do you already have again??" Then a smile. Then "oh well its a bit too early for that still."
I took pleasure in telling her how another midwife was completely wrong when I was in labour with dd3, telling me that she doubted baby was a girl!! Obviously she waa 100% girl!
I know it's rubbish but it's things like that that really annoy me. I didn't ask at the scan what baby was for fear of gd and then I keep getting comments about baby being a girl. My MIL even said there will be 5 girls soon - wtf??!! My mum keeps suggesting girl names to me!!!
I feel like deliberately not letting them know when it's born for AGES lol!!

I wouldn't read to much into heart rates, I read somewhere that baby's heart rates has to do with size meaning it's faster in the first weeks and slows as baby grows and also it has do to with baby's movement, if baby's sleeping or kicking much like our own heart rates I guess. My ds had a heart rate of 148 at 28 weeks if that's any consolation.

It super annoys me too when it comes from health care professionals, especially!!! Grrr.

FWIW my daughter had the lowest heartrate of my 5, even at the end of my pregnancy (the only time that there is any data that suggests there may be the tiniest difference is the last week of pregnancy ONLY and not at any other point of pregnancy). I was actually concerned about it becuase it was so much slower than my boys' were.

My elder son had a traditionally "girly" heart rate. Of course he was also my super surprise that even the U/S tech and my doc's multiple scans all missed his bits... Entire latter half of my pregnancy spent buying girl stuff and calling him by a girl name only to be told at birth "You had a boy!"

Here's hoping you have a contrary boy that likes to prove midwives wrong ;)

DS had the "girl" hB and DD has the "boy" You have to take into account several factors. Were you both just waking up or sedentary? Did you have something sweet, cold, or caffinated before? Plus the babys size has a lot to do with it and it changes throughout gestation. This was from a study done in the 80s but its my favorite one to break out :) No clean split between genders.Attachment 23289

I'd drank a bottle of Fanta just before lol baby is between small and average aparently. Also, heartrate was slower last time I heard it at 16 +6

Just thought I'd mention for fun that out of my boy girl twins the boy has a much higher heart rate (155 for the boy, 144 for the girl). I jokingly asked the tech if she was sure the baby was a girl since she had the slower heart rate and she told me heart rates didn't matter at all.

just to put the numbers on it, some of my boys consistently had heart rates as high as 160-170 range, the others were all in 150's. My daughter was usually in 130's and sometimes as low as 120's and I'd be like OMG she's dying LOL

(and while I laugh about it now, at the time I was really super scared because none of my boys EVER had low heartrates. never ever!!)