Summer Infant Prenatal Heart Listening System Review
The Summer Infant Prenatal Heart Listening System is one of the cheapest baby heart monitors available. It is essentially a microphone, designed to amplify the sound of the baby's heartbeat, and is not a fetal Doppler.
What's in the box?
You will get:
1 x Summer Infant listening device
1 x position belt
2 x headphones
1 x computer cable
Instruction booklet
What are the features of the Summer Infant Prenatal Listening System?
This device is designed to give parents an easy and safe way to listen to their unborn baby's heartbeat, movements and hiccups. The product is recommended for use from 21 weeks pregnant. A computer cable is included so that the sounds can be recorded to a computer as a keepsake or to share with family and friends.
A belt is included to help keep the listening device in position.
What is good about this product?
When it works and the microphone picks up the sound of the baby moving, it can be enjoyable and reassuring to listen to the baby wriggling away.
In comparison to some fetal dopplers, such as the Sonoline B and Hi Bebe BT200, this listening device is very cheap.
What are the negatives?
Unfortunately, the vast majority of customers are unimpressed by the quality of this product, the most common complaint being that it simply does not work. Many people are unable to get it to pick up the sound of their baby's heartbeat, even towards the end of the second trimester when the heartbeat should be easier to detect. Some mothers-to-be could not even get the microphone to pick up their own heartbeat.
Customers who have had a little more success with this product have said that the listening device is slightly more effective in the third trimester. However, for the same price as the Summer Infant Prenatal Listening System you could buy the AngelSounds Fetal Doppler. The AngelSounds baby heart monitor can be used from as early as 10 weeks and most customers rate it extremely highly, so it is a very good value and worthwhile buy in comparison to this one.
What customers have said...
Here is a small selection of comments taken from Amazon:
"Can hardly hear my own heartbeat on it, let alone the baby's!"
"Absolutely useless. Buy the AngelSounds doppler instead".
"By 40 weeks I still couldn't hear anything apart from interference and my stomach rumbling!"
"I finally heard the heartbeat at 21 weeks, [but] don't get me wrong it's only faint."
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