ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021
Childbirth Care among SARS-CoV-2 Positive Women in Italy.
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- Neonatal outcomes among pregnant women with COVID-19: a systematic scoping review and meta-analysis.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Pooled it
- Parental experiences with changes in maternity care during the Covid-19 pandemic: A mixed-studies systematic review.Women and birth : journal of the Australian College of Midwives · 2023Pooled it
- Breastfeeding Practices for COVID-19-Infected Mothers: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2024Review
- Perinatal care in SARS-CoV-2 infected women: the lesson learnt from a national prospective cohort study during the pandemic in Italy.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Born into an isolating world: family-centred care for babies born to mothers with COVID-19.EClinicalMedicine · 2023Article
- From global recommendations to (in)action: A scoping review of the coverage of companion of choice for women during labour and birth.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
- Glycation-Driven Inflammation: COVID-19 Severity in Pregnant Women and Perinatal Outcomes.Nutrients · 2022Article
- COVID-19 in pregnancy-what study designs can we use to assess the risk of congenital anomalies in relation to COVID-19 disease, treatment and vaccination?Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology · 2022Review
- Literature Review of Mothers Diagnosed With COVID-19 and the Impact on Breastfeeding Their Newborns.Nursing for women's health · 2022Review
- Perinatal outcomes of pregnant women with severe COVID-19 requiring extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO): a case series and literature review.Archives of gynecology and obstetrics · 2022Review
- Obstetric-Neonatal Care during Birth and Postpartum in Symptomatic and Asymptomatic Women Infected with SARS-CoV-2: A Retrospective Multicenter Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Observational
- The Psychological Impact of COVID-19 among Women Accessing Family Care Centers during Pregnancy and the Postnatal Period in Italy.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- SARS-CoV-2 infection among hospitalised pregnant women and impact of different viral strains on COVID-19 severity in Italy: a national prospective population-based cohort study.BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology · 2022Article
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Abstract
The new coronavirus emergency spread to Italy when little was known about the infection's impact on mothers and newborns. This study aims to describe the extent to which clinical practice has protected childbirth physiology and preserved the mother-child bond during the first wave of the pandemic in Italy. A national population-based prospective cohort study was performed enrolling women with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection admitted for childbirth to any Italian hospital from 25 February to 31 July 2020. All cases were prospectively notified, and information on peripartum care (mother-newborn separation, skin-to-skin contact, breastfeeding, and rooming-in) and maternal and perinatal outcomes were collected in a structured form and entered in a web-based secure system. The paper describes a cohort of 525 SARS-CoV-2 positive women who gave birth. At hospital admission, 44.8% of the cohort was asymptomatic. At delivery, 51.9% of the mothers had a birth support person in the delivery room; the average caesarean section rate of 33.7% remained stable compared to the national figure. On average, 39.0% of mothers were separated from their newborns at birth, 26.6% practised skin-to-skin, 72.1% roomed in with their babies, and 79.6% of the infants received their mother's milk. The infants separated and not separated from their SARS-CoV-2 positive mothers both had good outcomes. At the beginning of the pandemic, childbirth raised awareness and concern due to limited available evidence and led to "better safe than sorry" care choices. An improvement of the peripartum care indicators was observed over time.
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