Machine To Monitor Contractions

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Machine to monitor contractions.

Sometimes it s easier to read printouts by looking at them sideways. Electronic fetal monitoring isn t painful. If you or your partner is interested ask your nurse or practitioner how the machine works and how to tell when it registers a contraction. They may also insert a pressure catheter into your uterus to monitor your contractions.

That said some moms to be find it somewhat uncomfortable to have the transducers strapped to their belly during labor. I did but one felt like gas and another i thought was baby kicks so it depends on your body to know. Cardiotocography ctg is a technical means of recording the fetal heartbeat and the uterine contractions during pregnancy the machine used to perform the monitoring is called a cardiotocograph more commonly known as an electronic fetal monitor efm. Movement can disrupt the signal and prevent the machine from getting an accurate reading.

I went to hospital the day before having my love and was hooked up to a machine to monitor heartbeat during contractions and there were a few when the nurse asked if i even was feeling the contractions. Fetal monitoring was invented by doctors alan bradfield orvan hess and edward hon a refined antepartal non invasive beat to beat version.