Using a model torso, Labor and Deliver Nurse Lt. Kristin Berndt, assigned to U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa, helps nurses in Yokosuka learn advanced techniques in fetal monitoring.

U.S. Naval Hospital Yokosuka, Japan (Jan. 21, 2003) Using a model torso, Labor and Deliver Nurse Lt. Kristin Berndt, assigned to U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa, helps nurses in Yokosuka learn advanced techniques in fetal monitoring. This includes judging how the baby is doing by palpating, or feeling, the mother's abdomen. Lt. Berndt came to Yokosuka to teach advanced fetal monitoring as part of Naval Medicine's Family Centered Care Initiative, ensuring families have the best possible and safest delivery of their newborns. Nearly 600 babies are born in Yokosuka each year, where the hospital serves the forward-deployed U.S. Seventh Fleet and their families. U.S. Navy photo by Tom Watanabe. File# 040121-N-0000W-123