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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.
Question: How early can a doctor hear the babyâs heartbeat? Answer: Before the age of radar and sonar as applied medically, it was the olâ stethoscope that was used most often to listen to the baby. Unfortunately this meant an audience of one â the one who sat between the earpieces of the stethoscope.