A fetal movement monitoring method that limits the ultrasound radiation to safe levels and conforms to the ALARA principle is disclosed. The disclosed method of monitoring fetal movements by Doppler ultrasound comprises accumulating the time for which ultrasound is radiated into a subject comparing the accumulated time with a first reference total time counting the number of fetal movements in the subject comparing the number of movements with a reference number deciding at least one of a further action of the device and an action to be recommended to the subject and conveying at least one of a further action of the device an information to the subject about the counted fetal movements and an action recommended to the subject. A Doppler ultrasound device for monitoring fetal movements in a subject is also disclosed.
