EBB 30 - Fetal Monitoring
Evidence Based Birth®
Rebecca Dekker
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2018
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Did you know there are different ways to monitor the baby's heartbeat during labor and birth? Continuous electronic fetal monitoring (EFM) is common but not without its drawbacks. We discuss the pros and cons of EFM and its alternative, hands-on listening with a fetal Doppler or fetal stethoscope.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone in today's podcast we're going to talk about our newest |
| 0:03.4 | evidence-based-bir signature article the Evidence on Fetal Monitoring. You're going to. Hi everyone. I'm so excited to welcome you back to another episode of the |
| 0:40.8 | Evidence-based Birth Podcast. |
| 0:43.0 | We're taking a little break in our pain management series |
| 0:45.6 | to turn to an important article that was just published |
| 0:48.6 | at Evidence-based Birth, and that is the evidence on fetal monitoring. |
| 0:53.0 | Fetal monitoring was one of the first topics |
| 0:55.4 | that I looked at the research for |
| 0:57.2 | when I started evidence-based birth in 2012. |
| 1:00.3 | I wrote an informal blog article |
| 1:02.4 | about the evidence on fetal monitoring and this year with the help of my research assistant Anna Bertoni |
| 1:08.0 | We took that article updated it and put it through the signature article process to turn it into a peer-reviewed |
| 1:14.0 | article that's available on the evidence-based birth website at eB birth.com |
| 1:19.0 | slash fetal monitoring. Today I want to give you an overview of this article and I also want to talk about |
| 1:26.1 | the challenge that we're doing. So for the next 30 days we are doing a free challenge that you can |
| 1:31.2 | participate in. We have a free |
| 1:33.0 | private Facebook group that challenge participants can join |
| 1:36.0 | and you also get access to the full-length printer-friendly |
| 1:40.0 | PDF of the signature article on fetal monitoring. |
| 1:44.0 | Basically what we're asking everybody to do is to share the evidence, |
| 1:48.0 | to share this printer-friendly PDF with someone that they know |
| 1:52.0 | and we're trying to spread the word about |
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