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Home birth monitoring

Structured observation during a planned home birth to track maternal wellbeing, fetal wellbeing, and labor progress.

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Monitoring mother and baby during home birth

Monitoring mother and baby during home birth

What monitoring means at a home birth Monitoring during a planned home birth is not simply taking numbers. It is a cycle of observing, recording, interpreting, and planning care with the labouring woman and her support team. The World Health Organization’s approach to labour monitoring emphasizes regular assessment of the woman and baby, documentation of […]