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When your pregnant do you feel the heartbeat, if so where would you feel it? Every day when I lay down I put my hand on my stomach and it like a  or something that I feel...basically I feel things just pumping like a heart.

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Hello, Taylor,

You won't feel the baby's heartbeat. It would run around 150 bpm, so you can time the beat you feel and see if it is your own. There are places on your body where you can feel your own heartbeat. You'd have to be able to touch a baby's body directly to feel his heartbeat.

Have you been to the doctor yet? If not, please go! I hope you are pregnant, because any alternative would frighten me. But you need to make sure.

Take care.

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I can help women with the consideration of their decision, and with resources, and I can share my own experiences as the mother of seven and grandmother of eleven. My approach is to show love and concern, and help women work through the issues, emotional, spiritual, practical. I also help women deal with boyfriend and family issues. I am not a doctor, but I have done extensive medical research, so I may be able to help with information. I am female. When you write, if you are or were pregnant, please tell me how far along you were or are, and if you have had an abortion, please tell me what kind. Thank you.

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