How to Keep Your Baby's Heartbeat from the Scan Forever

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There is a specific kind of stillness that happens in a sonogram room. The lights are low. The screen is grainy and unfamiliar. And then the sonographer moves the probe and suddenly there it is — a sound so fast, so small, so entirely its own — and you realise you are hearing another person's heart for the very first time.

Most parents describe that moment as the one where everything became real. Not the positive test. Not the growing bump. That sound. That particular rhythm, already completely theirs before they had a name or a face or a place to sleep.

What happens to the recording

If you were quick enough, you held your phone up in that dim room and captured it. A few seconds of audio, slightly muffled, slightly imperfect, completely irreplaceable. Then you walked out into the daylight, shared it with the people you love, and it settled somewhere in your camera roll — between a grocery list photo and a screenshot you don't remember taking.

It doesn't get deleted. You'd never delete it. But it doesn't really have a home either. It lives in a folder, waiting for a day that never quite arrives.

What it deserves instead

A heartbeat from a scan is the very first sound your child ever made in the world. It existed before their name did. Before their room was ready, before anyone had held them, before any of the photographs that will fill the years ahead — there was this.

With Always Keep Me, you upload that recording and we turn it into a beautiful, frameable keepsake with a QR code built into the design. Anyone who scans it with a phone hears the heartbeat play instantly. No app to download. No account needed. Just the sound, exactly as it was recorded in that room.

You frame it. You hang it in the nursery. And from the very first day they come home, their heartbeat is already there waiting for them — on the wall, part of the room, part of the story of how they arrived.

The nursery detail most people haven't thought of

Parents spend a long time on nurseries. The colour of the walls, the mobile above the cot, the little details that make the room feel like it was made for exactly this baby. And it usually is — except for one thing. The sound that started everything is nowhere in it.

A heartbeat keepsake changes that. It's a piece that belongs in the room in a way that nothing bought from a shop quite can, because it isn't designed or manufactured or chosen from a catalogue. It's theirs. Literally. The rhythm of their heart, weeks before they were born, displayed on the wall they'll wake up to every morning.

As they grow up

The nursery becomes a toddler's room. The toddler's room becomes a child's room. The keepsake moves with them, or stays where it is, or gets handed down the hallway — but the sound inside it doesn't change. When they're old enough to understand what a sonogram is, you can show them. You can hold the phone up, let them scan it, and say: that's you. Before you were born. That's your heart.

There aren't many things you can give a child that are that specific to them, that early, that permanent.

The gift that nobody else will think to give

If you're looking for a gift for someone who is pregnant or has just had a baby, this is it. It's not a blanket. It's not a voucher. It's the one thing that comes directly from the most overwhelming moment of the whole experience — and it gives that moment somewhere to live.

You don't need the recording yourself. If they've shared the heartbeat audio with you — a voice note, a video clip, anything — you can create the keepsake from that. It takes minutes. It costs less than a bouquet that will be gone by the weekend. And it will still be on the wall in twenty years.