The Bottom Line

Abstract

cesarean rate without improving long-term neonatal outcomes, it remains the most widely used routine obstetric intervention. According to the 2013 Listening to Mothers III survey of U.S. women’s experiences in childbirth, 80% of laboring women were monitored continuously for all or most of their labors.1 In 2017, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists joined with almost all other national and international maternity care organizations in recommending intermittent monitoring for low-risk, healthy laboring women. The Bottom Line: Continuous EFM