Stop Press! Continuous fetal monitoring in labour doesn't change outcomes for the baby! So stop it!

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Continuous monitoring doesn't change outcomes for the baby!

It does raise the rate of major abdominal surgery for the woman though. It also affects the infant's microbiome via surgical birth.

Stop tying women down in labour.

Intrapartum cardiotocograph monitoring and perinatal outcomes for wome... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187151921930825X

Here's a riveting blog post about the fascinating back story to the paper, written by the author of the paper.