The heartbeat of a normal fetus cannot be felt. Some pregnant women can observe fetal activity because of their thinness and thin abdomen. The fetal heartbeat can be monitored by a Doppler fetal heart rate monitor, or assessed by ultrasound or fetal heart monitoring. It is generally impossible to feel the fetal heartbeat without the help of any instrument. What a pregnant woman touches with her hand is her own abdominal aortic pulsation, not the fetal heartbeat. The abdominal aorta beats in response to the heartbeat, so the number of beats per minute of the abdominal aorta is consistent with the heartbeat, but the fetal heartbeat will be significantly faster. The fetal heartbeat can usually be seen with ultrasound in the 7th week of pregnancy. The fetal heartbeat can be detected with a Doppler fetal heart rate monitor around 12 weeks of pregnancy. At 17-20 weeks of pregnancy, the fetal heartbeat can be heard on the abdominal wall of the pregnant woman with an ordinary stethoscope. You cannot feel the fetal heartbeat during pregnancy, but you can feel the fetal movement. Normal fetal movement is not less than 3-5 times in an hour, and the number of obvious fetal movements is more than 30-40 times in 12 hours, but due to the large individual differences in fetuses, some fetuses can move about 100 times in 12 hours, as long as the fetal movements are regular, rhythmic and do not vary much, it means that the fetal development is normal.