Dr. Sugandhi Unnikrishnan | on Instagram: "Labour room staff will know how much information lives inside that CTG sound. CTG is like an ECG, but for the baby inside the womb. It's placed around the mother's belly like a belt when needed THE CTG machine prints a strip of paper called a trace. This trace is what we read to know how the baby is doing. By studying the trace, we can see whether the baby is handling the stress of labour well. If the baby’s heart rate goes fast or slow outside the norm