Intermittent Auscultation (IA) of fetal heart rate (FHR) is widely practiced across the world and its scientific validity is important for perinatal safety. United Kingdom has led in the field of ‘IA’ and the guidelines by National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) are emulated world over. The NICE, the so-called ‘Intelligent Intermittent Auscultation (IIA)’ and ‘Physiological IA’ guidelines insist that the fetal heart sounds must be actually counted for one minute after contraction even when using a hand-held Doppler device (ignoring the digital display) and documented as a single number. On the other hand, a practical regime of ‘Advanced Intermittent Auscultation (AIA)’ disbands the (mistaken) ideological commitment to actually counting the fetal heart sounds and thereby amplifying the ability of midwives to detect the all-important temporal variations in FHR while using Doppler monitors. This article re-analyses an investigation disseminated by “NHS Resolution” in 2020 following many cases of severe birth asphyxia, which categorically assigned full accountability on the midwives for not following the NICE guidelines. The highest level of evidence of mathematical facts in real clinical cases proves that it was the unsafe methodology of NICE and IIA which was primarily and largely responsible for these severe fetal hypoxemic encephalopathies. The midwife was forced into serious errors because of the methodology by NICE and similar regimes. The article shows how even today the babies remain systemically exposed to serious harm and midwives to unfair blame and distress due to unscientific NICE, IIA and similar guidelines. When pointed out that a count over one minute gives a random average figure, not representative of anything when there has been an acceleration or deceleration; the IIA recommended an obsolete multiple-count method (adopted by K2MS^TM) which was practiced in 1980s before Doppler devices were available. This method is inaccurate / suboptimal, very difficult in first stage and almost impossible to practice in the second stage.