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Listening to Your Heart. Your doctor will use a stethoscope to hear your heartbeat. The opening and closing of your heart's valves make a lub dub noise. The doctor can check your heart and valve health and hear your heart's rate and rhythm by listening to those sounds.
Throughout a woman's pregnancy, her doctor will typically begin a prenatal exam with listening to the baby's heartbeat. Although a Doppler instrument is most frequently used, a fetoscope, a type of stethoscope, can be used after 20 weeks to hear a baby's heartbeat. A baby's heartbeat is checked often to monitor how the baby is developing and coping with the stress of the pregnancy and labor.