skill on fetal heart monitoring. Also requires effective communication as well as the ability to listening carefully, counting the sound and interpret what is heard (Robyn, 2012). In developing countries intermittent FHR monitoring using Pinard’s fetoscope is the only main way of monitoring fetal heart rate during labor.
Several studies done by Albers, Feinstein & Trepaniq, (2000, 2012), said that intermittent auscultation of FHR during labor is regarded as the safe and effective method of fetal monitoring