A device used during childbirth to measure and indicate a length of time at predetermined intervals from the setting time; this being when the baby is born. The time intervals are typically 1, 5 and 10 minutes. It is used to determine the physical health of a newborn infant and its response to birth and life outside the womb according to a weighed score named after the name of the inventor, Virginia Apgar, who devised the Apgar score, which commonly transpires as: Appearance (colour), Pulse (heartbeat), Grimace (reflex), Activity (muscle tone), and Respiration/breathing (APGAR). The total numerical score is 10.
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