Listening to babies during labour

In this episode Rachel & Katie discuss all things listening to babies during labour. 
Rachel walks us through:

• The Herstory of listening to the baby’s heart rate during labour. 
• The interesting and scary history of the inventer of the pinard trumpet. 
• Rachel’s “heart beat” impression! 
• Rachel’s ‘under water’ pinard story! 
• We discuss pinards and doppler listening devices. #bringbackthepinnard  
• What is the evidence for fetal heart rate monitoring in labour. 
• The current guidelines on intermittent auscultation. And the one piece of evidence a lot of guidelines are based off. 
• The normal and expected changes in a full term healthy baby’s heart rate during labour.
• Rachel gives tips on how to navigate working in the hospital environment with consented or declined auscultations. 
• Katie looks for sponsorship from Kendall mint cake, you have to listen to know what we’re on about with this one! 
• And last but by no means least, CTG monitoring and what the research says about outcomes for women and infants.

LINKS:
Rachel's blog post
  

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