The most important number in childbirth is basically a guess
The number used to monitor nearly every labor in the world is measured by two fingers and a guess, and it’s been wrong about half the time since at least 1989.
Sharing what I've learned the hard way — fixes for the stuff that breaks, shortcuts for the stuff that shouldn't take as long as it does, research I've dug into deeper than I probably needed to, and the tools that actually earn a spot in my workflow.