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.
Though there are many words to describe the moment that you first hear your baby's heartbeat, most people use words like galloping to describe how the heart rate sounds. 1  While the heart rate in pregnancy is faster than an adult's heart rate, the truth is that a normal fetal heart rate changes during the stages of pregnancy. How Your Baby's Heart Rate Changes. At about five weeks gestation, your baby's heart begins to beat. At this point, a normal fetal heart rate is about the same heart rate as the mother's: 80 to 85 beats per minute (bpm). From this point, it will increase its rate about three beats per minute per day during that first month.