Image Credit: Northwestern University Innovative, wireless soft sensors have been developed by a team at Northwestern University and the University of Carolina. They are the first to have the capabilities of comprehensively monitoring pregnant women without cumbersome wires. The system comprises three flexible, soft, wireless sensors that are built to allow for movement as well as registering more accurate data. The innovation offers low-cost, advanced technology that will likely transform maternal-child health outcomes and help the technology used for women’s health catch up with other areas of medicine. Technology for Women’s Health Lags Behind Technology for women’s health and pregnancy monitoring is lagging. For decades, women have been offered the same technology to help monitor them while giving birth. While the technology used in other fields of medicine has vastly changed over the decades, women giving birth today are likely using similar equipment to their mothers.