1. A computer method for evaluating fetal well-being and predicting fetal outcome, said method comprising: a) obtaining simultaneous recordings of fetal heart rate and maternal uterine pressure; b) calculating one or more parameters: i. cross-correlation of the fetal heart rate and the uterine pressure, ii. Lomb periodogram of the fetal heart rate, iv. sample entropy of the fetal heart rate, v. sample asymmetry of the fetal heart rate, and vi. one or more of: second, third and fourth higher moments, and percentiles of interest of the fetal heart rate; and c) determining heart rate characteristic of fetal distress by comparing one of said parameters to a predetermined threshold or mathematical model.