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internal fetal labour monitoring – where an electrode is inserted through the vagina and placed on the baby’s scalp to record the baby’s heart rate during labour.

QD (or qd) – a short hand term for medication dosing that means ‘once-daily’.

See also q24H.

maternal-foetal microtransfusions are when small amounts of infected blood from the mother leak from the placenta to the baby during labour (or other disruption of the placenta).

CSF – cerebral spinal fluid – the fluid that circulates around the brain and spinal column.

pulmonary – relating to the lungs.