Childbirth experience and practice changing during COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study.

Aim: To evaluate mothers' satisfaction with childbirth experience in a cohort of women who delivered during COVID pandemia and to compare them to a pre-COVID cohort.

Design: We performed a cross-sectional study in a low-risk Maternity Unit.

Methods: Women who delivered during COVID-19 pandemic were compared to a pre-COVID cohort recruited in 2018 in the same setting.

Effect of oxytocin during labor on neonatal acidemia.

Objective: To assess the factors affecting neonatal acidemia, including occurrence of tachysystole/hypertonus in fetuses exposed to oxytocin during labour and with continuously-monitored fetal heart rate (FHR) tracings.

Methods: Prospective observational study of all women with term pregnancies who received oxytocin for induction/augmentation of labour. FHR tracings were prospectively classified using ACOG classification.