Gentle Expectations » hospital http://diversecultures.com/blog The blog of a doula and childbirth educator, in a town where nearly every birth has an epidural. Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:35:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Frightening New Technology http://diversecultures.com/blog/2008/08/06/frightening-new-technology/ http://diversecultures.com/blog/2008/08/06/frightening-new-technology/#comments Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:59:31 +0000 Administrator http://diversecultures.com/blog/2008/08/06/frightening-new-technology/ Wow. So someone showed me this new birth technology- BirthTrack. Just when I thought continuous fetal monitoring couldn’t get any worse… it does.
See for yourself. BirthTrack
This machine clips onto the cervix with an electrode that screws into the baby’s head. A lot of women already have internal pressure catheters to monitor contractions, and many also have internal fetal monitors, which they are told is something that is “attached” (screwed in) to the top of the baby’s scalp to monitor their heartrate. I cannot explain it well enough, what this company thinks, so I will just link to a blog that explains it all for me.

Blog on BirthTrack

What it boils down to is this:
This machine will be a defense for a doctor who is sued for malpractice, as it is SUPPOSED to show each change in the womans cervix and the baby’s heartrate. I have no doubt that this will only increase the rising c-section rate.

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