Machine To Monitor Contractions

Electronic fetal monitoring isn t painful.

Machine to monitor contractions.

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. When the machine prints out graph paper you ll see the fetal heart rate to the left and the contractions to the right. 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. I did but one felt like gas and another i thought was baby kicks so it depends on your body to know.

That said some moms to be find it somewhat uncomfortable to have the transducers strapped to their belly during labor. The monitoring strip in the labor room will also be visible from a bank of monitors at the nurses desk which lets staff watch the monitors without having. The tocodynamometer marketed as koala toco was approved in. An inexpensive disposable external medical device can now be bought and used by clinicians to monitor contractions in pregnant women.

They may also insert a pressure catheter into your uterus to monitor your contractions. Sometimes it s easier to read printouts by looking at them sideways.