Sentences with phrase «fetal baby heart»

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I became concerned after noticing a loss of fetal movement and asked my midwife to check the baby's heart rate.

This monitors fetal heart rate and movement to be sure that the baby is getting enough oxygen and that the nervous system is responding.

if this family had chosen a hospital for their baby's birth, the labor would have been monitored using a fetal heart monitor.

Test Leads to Needless C - Sections A 2006 analysis found that fetal heart monitoring failed to reduce the risk of a baby's dying late in pregnancy, during birth, or shortly after birth — and increased cesarean section rates and forceps deliveries, compared with listening to a baby's heart rate intermittently.

If you could have found out that your baby had a critical aortic stenosis when it was an 18 - 20 week fetus, and had a fetal catheterization done to make sure that the left side of it's heart was able to grow, wouldn't you want that?

There's no physiological requirement whatsoever to have pain in labor, unlike a baby's need to inflate its lungs after birth with a vigorous cry, and negotiate the change between fetal and infant blood circulation via a different route through the heart and pulmonary vessels.

The fetal heart rate monitors are only as good as the people using them... midway through my pushing with my first child the baby's heart rate really slowed compared to where it should be.

This patent - pending Healthy Hip Positioner keeps baby's legs and hips aligned, and the unique arm pockets hold baby's arms in the fetal «hands to heart» arm position.

A fetal doppler monitor is what your health care provider uses to hear your baby's heart rate at your prenatal appointments.

Fetal heart monitors place no stress on your baby so they are safe to use during your pregnancy.

A fetal doppler is a hand - held, ultrasound device used by some practitioners to hear your baby's heart beat at prenatal appointments.

Your baby's normal fetal heart rate will also vary naturally, just as your heart rate does.

Fetal heart rate monitors are able to help you listen to your baby's heartbeat at all times.

Post-term babies may also show signs of fetal distress such as a slowed heart rate, and may inhale meconium, the first bowel movement.

If cord prolapse occurs and the cord is compressed, the baby will develop heart rate abnormalities that show up on fetal monitoring.

If there are any sudden changes in your baby's heart beat, electronic fetal monitoring will help to keep your physician well - informed.

It is often very difficult to hear your baby's heart beat using a fetal doppler.

A fetal doppler is a small, handheld device that monitors and displays the number of heart beats your baby experiences every minute.

I also know Attachment Parenting moms who feel confident knowing (via Fetal Heart Rate Monitors) that baby is doing great and they can just focus on laboring.

Your physician or midwife will analyze your baby's heart rate and activity for roughly 30 minutes with the help of a fetal - monitoring belt or belts around your abdomen.

You can hear the baby's heart thumping in your tummy with a Fetal Doppler.

I liked the idea that Ceal would monitor the baby's heart rate every 5 to 15 minutes during labor, and every 5 to 10 minutes while I was pushing, rather than strapping a fetal monitor on me and leaving it there, as is standard in the hospital.

If you are not feeling movement under those guidelines, your doctor may ask you to come in for fetal heart monitoring to make sure that your baby is okay.

Fetal monitors: used in late pregnancy and during labor to monitor baby and heart level.

While it's not likely, it's possible that your doctor will contribute baby's increased heart rate with fetal distress and opt for a c - section.

(She'll keep a close eye on the fetal heart monitor, which tracks your baby's heartbeat and your contractions.)

The display will tell you your baby's current fetal heart rate (FHR).

So a 34 year old primagravida with no past medical history other than allergic rhinitis and wisdom tooth extraction (with excellent hemostasis after the procedure), who is a vegetarian, exercised regularly throughout pregnancy, had normal glucose and blood pressure throughout pregnancy, good fetal heart tones, a singleton head down baby, no family history of significant birth issues, no alcohol or drug use at all, and a 7 - 8 pound estimated fetus at term is someone you'd take on as a home birth client?

When the baby's heart rate pattern demonstrates a lack of oxygen (fetal distress) it is necessary for the baby to be born immediately.

The biggest problem being cesarean surgery and operative vaginal births increase when the electronic fetal monitor is used, but the babies don't do any better than babies who had their heart rate measured every 15 minutes with a stethoscope.

Some medications can speed up labor pains and lead to fetal distress in babies by slowing down their heart rate.

A recent study published in Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy found no correlation between a baby's heart rate early in pregnancy and gender, but this doesn't necessarily mean it isn't true.

I'm just going to repeat why the c - section rate is going up, up, up: VBAC bans, too many inductions, too much reliance on fetal heart monitoring (even though ACOG agrees it doesn't do much good for predicting which babies are actually in fetal distress), obesity, etc..

To assess the frequency and length of your contractions as well as your baby's heart rate, you'll need to have continuous electronic fetal monitoring during an induced labor.

Rita: Okay, so in labor and delivery, yes, they're on the monitors and it's what we call continuous fetal monitoring, which means during the entire labor we're monitoring baby's heart rate and mother's contractions and how they relate to each other.

He points out that babies still die or are damaged because of intrapartum hypoxia and that focusing entirely on the fetal heart rate without taking account of other relevant risk factors «may create a lack of situational awareness and lead to adverse outcomes.»

Nevertheless, the researchers suggest that maternal ill health during pregnancy might compromise fetal health by disrupting normal physiological processes, potentially leaving the developing baby vulnerable to subsequent heart disease.

The fetal heart fails and the baby is usually stillborn, showing a swelling of the entire body called hydrops fetalis.

Finally, once you are in labor, a fetal heart rate monitor will be used to assess the baby's condition.

It's well known that smoking while pregnant carries numerous serious health risks for the unborn baby which includes premature birth, low birth weight, fetal mortality as well as various serious birth defects like heart problems, club foot and cleft palate.

With intermittent auscultation, the care provider listens to the baby's heart rate for about 60 seconds using a fetal stethoscope (fetoscope or Pinard) or a hand - held Doppler ultrasound device.

In Steineback (Litigation Guardian of) v Fraser Health Authority, a pregnant woman delivered a baby who suffered from cerebral palsy resulting from a complete placental abruption right before the birth.6 The court found that the nurse failed to assess fetal heart rate and the doctor failed to call for an obstetrical consult before the delivery.

Penn State Hershey states that the fetal heart rate monitoring system has the ability to «monitor the baby's heartbeat in the uterus, including during labor.»

Misinterpreting or failing to monitor fetal distress signals such as the baby's heart rate can also be grounds for a medical malpractice lawsuit.

Problems with fetal heart rate or breathing, for example, may require emergency intervention to save a baby's life.

If the baby is showing distress on the electronic fetal heart rate monitor, reasonable care requires the nurse to discontinue the use of Pitocin.

Monitoring — Your doctor should have used a fetal heart monitor to keep a close watch on your baby's heart rate to find out if the prolapsed cord is affecting your baby's blood flow