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.
In one high - profile Missouri case, sheriff's deputies who had gotten word
of a
delivery by a midwife raided the home
shortly after the healthy
baby was born, confiscating bloody sheets and a video
of the birth as evidence.