There are many women out there having monitoring though. If you have medication of any form you will be told you need it for your and baby's safety. If you have an induction you will be told to have it, if you have an epidural you will be told to have it, if you want a VBAC you will be told to have it - there are stacks of women having epidurals and slow labours and things happening to result in monitoring, of course in most establishments they like to monitor you when you get in and intermittently as standard practice unless you explicitly refuse. And who is going to say no when they have no information, no access to study and research showing how innaccurate they can be (one very popular private midwife told me around 50% and often give false readings) and you are told your baby or you could be in danger? Of course they are going to freak out and agree.

Sadly, I think that making monitoring any more easier is not a good thing and I know many midwives agree. There is a Cochrane Review on it - they compared intermittent vs continuous monitoring for high AND low risk women and found increased caesareans and instrumental deliveries as a result, with no improvement in neo-natal morbidity or mortality to show for it.