Baby Monitor

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You can start taking care of your baby today. Even before you’re pregnant. . . . you should get enough folic acid every day if there’s any chance you could get pregnant. Because by the time you know you’re pregnant, your baby’s brain and spine are already formed.

–National Center for Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, CDC

Home uterine monitoring is a technique wherein a pregnant patient wears a belt around her which . . . is discriminating enough to record uterine contractions (contractions of the womb). This information is collected by the belt for an hour a day and recorded into a small electronic device. A telephone can then be laid on the recorder, a toll-free number dialed, and with a push of a button all of the information is transmitted within a few moments.

–www.gynob.com