Trying to decide about getting a home doppler?

I have been wanting to buy a home fetal heart doppler so I can listen to baby's heartbeat whenever i want and hopefully help ease my mind between appts. I talked to my OB about it and she said she has had patients use them before. She was pretty supportive either way, but said to check baby's heartbeat in the morning instead of at night so if I couldn't find the heartbeat or had concerns I could call her office.
I think I will feel better and more at ease once I can feel the baby move. But it will probably be awhile before that happens and in the meantime I would love to hear the HB! Although I don't want it to become something that causes me more stress and anxiety.
What are your thoughts? I know I've read that some of you have them...
THanks!

I am beginning to have mixed feelings on why I bought one. I bought it with my last pregnancy with my daughter. I was able to hear her HB as early as 13 weeks and through out my whole pregnancy which gave me a lot of comfort. I started using it this pregnancy last week at 15 weeks and I could not find a HB for the life of me. I was in panic mode until my OB appointment yesterday when they found a HB in seconds. I was like, Whew! All of that worrying for nothing. I'll admit I became a heart beat monitor junkie since my last pregnancy. Not all babies cooperate or they just don't pick up as well with home monitors because of the way they are laying. Not sure I will be using my home one again because the worrying was enough to cause a panic attack. I have had too many miscarriages and my son was born at 22 weeks back in 1998. I need to just stay more relaxed and know that God is in control and my High risk OB is on top of things.

It's nice that your doc is supportive of them.  Many aren't because they aren't always accurate and sometimes using them on yourself you can't always find the heart beat and then you freak yourself out only to run into the office or ER and find all is ok.

It's a hard decision.  The comfort of hearing the HB is so reassuring!
Good luck with the decision!

I agree with both previous posts although I don't know if I could live without mine. I like the fact that I can drop in and listen whenever I feel like it. It is so reassuring once you figure out what you are listening too (so many sounds in there between baby, you, placenta, bowels, etc) It doesn't take long at all to distinguish between sounds, but it is noisy, no wonder babies sleep alot when they are born...LOL I pushed DH into getting a doppler and if not I would be going insane. Last month at my ob visit, the midwife student couldn't find the HB (even though I listened to it just before I went at home) it kinda freaks you out especially when no one else even tried. They got it yesterday though and said everything sounds good. I have the sonoline b and it is great. I was able to pick up and record the HB at exactly 12 weeks. Good luck on your decision and if you get one don't freak out if you don't get it right away (the HB) there are a few tricks and I would share them with you in a HB. Just ask!!! I am still on the plus side and had a tough time at first but once I learned the tricks, now it is immpossible for Squirmy to get away!!! LOL

I was glad to have one but I didn't use it very often once I could feel the baby moving.  I got it at about 16 weeks and used it consistently until about 20 weeks then only occassionally.  I got a really inexpensive one that didn't return a heart rate or anything...just the sound via headphones which was all I needed.  You can find really inexpensive ones on Amazon or eBay...the important thing is to make sure it's actually doppler and not some kind of "prenatal listening device".  Those don't work.

In my opinion, you should wait a couple more weeks before you get one because it's going to be hard for you to find the heartbeat now and it might just cause you more stress. 

I wanted to get one but I'm an OCD chronic worrier and it would've just added to my stress and anxiety which was already high! DH and my therapist didn't think it was a good idea because there would be times it would be hard to find a HB and my mind would take it to the extreme worst possible situation because that's just what my mind does.
I'd panic between appointments and then get freaked out when it would take them a few min to find baby's HB at the appointment. I have more belly fat so it would take them a few to find it which I know if I were doing it at home would send me through the roof! 
If you trust yourself and have DH or someone to make sure you aren't freaking out or overusing it and making it a source of worry, go for it!
It would have been an added stress for me so I opted not to get one.