A decrease in cesarean sections and labor inductions among Swedish women by awareness of fetal movements with the Mindfetalness method
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth Oct 07, 2020
Akselsson A, Lindgren H, Skokic V, et al. - Researchers examined if cesarean sections and labor induction increase by increasing women’s awareness of fetal movements through Mindfetalness. In addition, they investigated perinatal health after implementing Mindfetalness in maternity care. They conducted a cluster randomized controlled trial allocating 67 maternity clinics to Mindfetalness or routine care. In the Mindfetalness group, women were distributed a leaflet instructing to focus on the character, strength and frequency of the fetal movements without counting each movement by the midwives. They were instructed to do so for 15 min daily when the fetus was awake, from gestational week 28 until birth. A total of 13,029 women were included in the Mindfetalness group and 13,456 women were included in the Routine-care group. They observed reduction in the rate of cesarean sections, labor inductions and small-for-gestational age babies in correlation with raising awareness about fetal movements through Mindfetalness.
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