Fortunately in many instances these can be completely benign.
Baby born with irregular heartbeat.
Hearing a developing baby s heartbeat is one of the milestones of pregnancy.
Both premature atrial contractions and premature ventricular contractions are relatively common in children.
The most common cause of an irregular heartbeat in children is isolated premature beats.
Obstetrics gynecology an irregular fetal heartbeat typically does not indicate long term issues.
Fetal arrhythmia is a term that refers to any abnormality in the heart rate of your baby.
These can include tachycardia an increased heart rate or bradycardia which is a slowed heartbeat.
In most cases an irregular heartbeat is abnormal.
As long as extrasystole doesn t occur too often even as many as several skipped beats per minute and there s no congenital heart disease it s not a big deal.