Causes Of Fetal Heart Rate - Articles
Fetal Monitors Produce Inaccurate Results – FDA warning
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Sheridan Ripley
... ing. I wonder how many unneccessary cesareans these machines caused. How many more will they cause if hospitals don’t get these models replaced or fixed?September 7, 2009 — Fetal monitors made by Philips Healthcare, Avalon Models FM20, FM30, FM40, and FM50 and ultrasound transducer, may produce inaccurate readings, the US Food and Drug Administr ...
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Hearing the Fetal Heartbeat
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Sharon LaMothe
IP's have asked me questions regarding the fetal heart beat and what is 'normal' and if the heart rate can indicate to us if the baby is a boy or a girl. I came a crossed this very informative article by Marjorie Green ...
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Old Wives' Tales
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Meredy
... of the child - an increase in progesterone (a steroid hormone secreted by the placenta and ovaries) and the melanocyte-stimulating hormone (which regulates skin pigmentation) causes dark areas of the body to become more pronounced in most pregnant women. Nipples, birthmarks, moles, or beauty marks may appear darker during pregnancy. A dark line als ...
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Exercise and Pregnancy: Good for You and Your Kid
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Jeremiah D.
... there were significantly lower heart rates among fetuses that had been exposed to maternal exercise. The heart rates among non-exposed fetuses were higher, regardless of the fetal activity or the gestational age.* at each stage of gestation the differences between the fetal heart rates of the two groups were statistically significant (p<0.05 using ...
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How is a Non-Stress test administered? (NST)
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Sharon LaMothe
... on-Stress test administered? (NST) The NST is another way of externally monitoring your baby. The NST can be done as early as the 27th week of pregnancy, and it measures the Fetal Heart Rate (FHR) accelerations with normal movement. For this test, you will sit with knees and back partially elevated with a cushion under the right hip, which moves y ...
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Seven Months Pregnant!
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Kathryn H.
... a class that I will be teaching before the baby is born. I continue to attend prenatal visits with my midwife and am becoming quite confident in my blood pressure taking and fetal heart rate counting skills. Palpating baby is becoming easier as well though it is quite an art. I am happy to report my baby is head down. I palpated the head on my ...
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