It means that you don't really respond to outside stimulus with very much emotion or with the same behaviorisms that most other people would in the same situation. Let me try to give you an example. Say someone tells you that the sky is blue. Normal affect would be baseline, meaning your usual facial expression.
The fetusâ heart begins to beat at 5 weeks gestation, at around 80-85 beats per minute. This rate increases about 3 beats per minute per day during the first month. When the fetus heart is first developed it resembles that of a tube. As the fetus begins to grow, so does the heart. Due to lack of room, that tube begins to bend and twist, beginning to take on the shape of a normal human heart.
When will I be able to hear my baby's heartbeat? At around 10 weeks, a Doppler ultrasound will allow you to hear your baby's heartbeat for the first timeâbut her heartbeat will already be visible on ultrasound by the time you are about six weeks pregnant. (To see what your baby's heartbeat looks like at six weeks, check out Drs. Doubilet and Benson's site: yourdevelopingbaby.com.) The first detection of the baby's heartbeat has both medical and emotional significance, says Dr. Doubilet.