Women’s Quality-of-Life Trajectories During Pregnancy and Postpartum Periods by Mode of Birth: A Prospective Cohort Study
Alayna Carrandi, Yanan Hu, Maria Forslund, Jenny Gamble, Debra Creedy, Emily Callander, Valerie Slavin · 2026
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Alayna Carrandi and six co-authors follow women's quality of life from late pregnancy through the first weeks postpartum, comparing paths by birth mode. It reuses data from a Queensland cohort of nearly twenty-nine hundred pregnant women. Each woman rated her quality of life at thirty-six weeks of pregnancy and again at six and twelve weeks after birth; ratings were converted to a standard utility score.
Scores rose on average from late pregnancy to twelve weeks after birth, whatever the birth type. Women headed for a planned caesarean reported lower quality of life late in pregnancy than women headed for a natural birth, even after accounting for social and economic traits. After birth, though, no clear differences by birth type appeared at either check. The authors call for work on supporting women at risk of low quality of life around birth.
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| CREATOR | Alayna Carrandi, Yanan Hu, Maria Forslund, Jenny Gamble, Debra Creedy, Emily Callander, Valerie Slavin |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 30 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |