Judging fetal heart rate patterns alone may not be sufficient in helping doctors decide whether or not to perform a C- section. "We're trying to create a better a road map for labor," says Marc ...

While fetal heart tracing is one way to track fetal heart rate, not all heart rate tracking involves tracing. Tracing ...

To test the effects music can have on fetal heart rate, the group of researchers recruited 36 pregnant women and played a pair of classical pieces for their fetuses.

The fetal heart rate patterns were classified as category I nearly 78% of the time, as category II patterns 22% of the time, and as category III rates only very rarely, 0.004% of the time when ...

ACOG promotes a full description of findings (e.g., "repetitive late decelerations with loss of variability and fetal tachycardia in the 170s") and interpretation of fetal heart rate patterns as ...

This study highlights the potential of heart rate variability as an early indicator of gestational diabetes, facilitating ...

Mar. 23 -- FRIDAY, Nov. 16 (HealthDay News) -- Checking on fetal heart-rate patterns can offer insight into how a child's nervous system will develop through its toddler years, a U.S. study finds ...

After the music ended, fetal heart rate patterns became more predictable and regular. There was a significant increase in determinism, line length, and trapping time from the PRE to POST stage ...

Prof. Abarca-Castro said: “Our results suggest that these changes in fetal heart rate dynamics occur instantly in short-term fluctuations, so parents might want to consider exposing their ...

Response to music on the nonlinear dynamics of human fetal heart rate fluctuations: A recurrence plot analysis. Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science , 2025; 35 (2) DOI: 10.1063 ...