Method of autonomously monitoring the movement activity of a fetus

A system for automatically monitoring movement activity of a fetus, the system comprising:

• at least one sensor for detecting overall movements of a pregnant female, said overall movements comprising a combination of movements of the pregnant female and movements of the fetus;
• at least one sensor for detecting at least one second physiological signal of the pregnant female;
• and
• an analyzing device for determining the movement activity of the fetus by analyzing the detected overall movements of the pregnant female and analyzing the at least one second physiological signal of the pregnant female;
• said analyzing device comprising a discriminator for discriminating movements of the pregnant female from independent movements of the fetus depending on the analyzing results.

A computer program embodied on a memory and executed by a processor of a computer, for automatically monitoring movement activity of a fetus, said computer program comprising computer instructions to determine the movement activity of a fetus by:

• analyzing previously detected overall movements of a pregnant female, said overall movements comprising a combination of movements of the pregnant female and movements of the fetus;
• analyzing at least one previously detected second physiological signal of the pregnant female;
• and
• discriminating movements of the pregnant female from independent movements of the fetus depending on the analyzing results.