Expectations related to home-based telemonitoring of high-risk pregnancies: A qualitative study addressing healthcare providers' and users' views in Norway.

Introduction: A pregnancy can be evaluated as high-risk for the woman and/or the fetus based on medical history and on previous or ongoing pregnancy characteristics. Monitoring high-risk pregnancies is crucial for early detection of alarming features, enabling timely intervention to ensure optimal maternal and fetal health outcomes. Home-based telemonitoring (HBTM) is a marginally exploited opportunity in antenatal care.

Intrapartum pudendal nerve block analgesia and childbirth experience in primiparous women with vaginal birth: A cohort study.

Background: A negative childbirth experience has short- and long-term consequences for both mother and child. This study aimed to investigate the association between intrapartum pudendal nerve block (PNB) analgesia and childbirth experience.

Methods: Primiparous women with a singleton cephalic vaginal live births at term at Oslo University Hospital from January 1, 2017, to June 1, 2019, were eligible for inclusion.

Intrapartum pudendal nerve block analgesia and risk of postpartum urinary retention: a cohort study.

Introduction And Hypothesis: Pudendal nerve block analgesia (PNB) is used as pain relief in the final stage of childbirth. We hypothesized that PNB is associated with higher rates of postpartum urinary retention.

Methods: We performed a cohort study among primiparous women with a singleton, cephalic vaginal birth at Oslo University Hospital, Norway.

The provision of epidural analgesia during labor according to maternal birthplace: a Norwegian register study.

Background: The provision of epidural analgesia during labor is ideally a shared decision between the woman and her health care provider. However, immigrant characteristics such as maternal birthplace could affect decision-making and thus access to pain relief. We aimed to assess disparities in the provision of epidural analgesia in planned vaginal birth according to maternal region of birth.