What is internal monitoring? Is it necessary

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I guess it depends on the person I personally won’t be using any monitoring. I’ve personally never had to use internal monitoring but when I give birth this time I will only be using a fetal Doppler

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My babies heart rate was dipping during contractions so they used internal monitors to accurately Mesa use how strong my contractions were and what exactly his heart rate was doing! It was totally necessary in my situation and I was honestly very thankful to get the bands of my belly (they kept adjusting them allll day and I was a bit itchy from the epidural)!

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They usually only do it if there's some risk or if the monitor on you tummy was suspicious. I only had it done during the end of labour with my first. I was already in active labour for three days, it was the fourth day and babies heart rate seemed too be dipping blower than mine. They weren't sure if she was just moving and it was actually mine that kept being picked up. So they did the internal monitoring for literally just two minutes and then we went straight to have an emergency csection. It went so quick, she was born within 15 minutes. With my other two no internal monitoring was needed. The second labour "only" took two days. I gave myself the timeline to either delivery within two days or have a "planned emergency csection" it was still noted as emergency csection because if failure to progress, but everything went much slower and calmer as it was a calculated decision by my doctor and me. The third was a planned csection, so no monitoring at all .

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If you mean while getting read to to give birth than yes. It’s when they can’t hear your baby using the outside monitor. My baby wouldn’t stay still. They reached inside and put a little electrode in his head and took it out after he was born.