Patient's question:
Last night I stayed up too late, which will result in today's poor fetal monitoring score. I've never had this happen before, I'm a bit scared. Right before going to bed last night, the baby kept moving quite strongly, and the fetal heart monitoring acceleration was 0 points. Is that serious?Doctor's answer:
Simply using the fetal heart monitoring pattern to judge whether there is fetal hypoxia and acidosis is often prone to overdiagnosis. When making a judgment, it is necessary to combine the frequency and duration of abnormal patterns, and make a comprehensive judgment based on monitoring. An acceleration score of 0 in fetal heart monitoring may be because the baby is just sleepy when the monitoring is being done, sleeping, not very active, or playing too actively inside. In addition to fetal heart monitoring, mothers can also count fetal movements themselves. If the fetal movements are similar to usual, there is no need to worry too much.