Obstetrics specialists, Edward Mullins and Christoph Lees, at Imperial College London say that failure to
use continuous electronic fetal monitoring «amounts to a misguided blinding of the clinician to the clinical state of the fetus.»
In addition, they are typically healthy and wish to avoid routine hospital interventions or non-evidenced based practices such as being confined to a bed, not being allowed to eat or drink in labor,
continuous electronic fetal monitoring, routine IV fluids, non-medically indicated (pitocin) induction, episiotomy and other common birth interventions.
People generally choose to birth at home because they feel more comfortable there, they believe they are healthy and wish to avoid routine hospital interventions or non-evidenced based practices such as
continuous electronic fetal monitoring, routine IV fluids, and non-medically indicated induction and other common birth interventions.
And
continuous electronic fetal monitoring has been routine in most hospitals for decades.
Had the mother had
continuous electronic fetal monitoring, the baby would almost certainly be alive today.
You will need IV fluids and
continuous electronic fetal monitoring, making you less mobile.
Women who have a CNM with them during labor and delivery have fewer interventions, such as
continuous electronic fetal monitoring, epidurals, and episiotomies, without any difference in the outcomes for women or their babies.
For those who are expecting, births overseen by CNMs usually have less intervention — such as
continuous electronic fetal monitoring, epidurals, and episiotomies — often with better outcomes for women and their babies.