New monitors at Burnley hospital will keep check of baby's heart rate in womb during labour New monitors at East Lancashire hospital will keep check of baby's heart rate in womb during labour Two monitors that will be used to keep an eye on a baby's heartrate in the womb during labour have been donated to Lancashire Women and Newborn Centre. The mobile telemetry monitors, worth more than £16,000 have been donated through East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust’s official charity, ELHT&Me. They are waterproof too, allowing the parent-to-be to move around the birth room and use the birth pool, without being restricted by wires or cables from a monitor.