Understanding Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring || Terminology, NSTs, and MORE!

Hello all you beautiful birthing people! Today, I wanted to give y'all a quick tutorial and understanding on what your providers are looking at when they are interpreting continuous fetal heart rate monitoring. If you are delivering in the hospital you will more then likely be recommended to have at least some small portion continuous monitoring to assess fetal wellbeing in labor. This is something I like to go over with birthing people and support people when they come in in early labor or for an induction. I hope you find it helpful! Did you have continuous fetal monitoring in your labor? Did this video help answer some questions that monitoring brought up in your labor? Let me know down below!

Also, an important side-note that I say often, but didn't include in this video specifically: just because continuous monitoring might be recommended based on your clinical picture (Pitocin induction, epidural, etc.) it DOES NOT mean that you have to or should be lying on your back in the bed. Changing positions in important for the descent and rotation of the fetal head and for your comfort! Movement in labor in important, and continuous monitoring can be done is such a way to accommodate this too!

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